Class: 24^th/25^th January

Unit 9: Icons

Can-Do Objectives: Discuss an icon

    Talk about what something represents

    Present arguments and counter-arguments

    Give and respond to criticism

Pages: 92 -93, 95 & 96

Grammar: Modifying a sentence

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm

Vocabulary: goggles, knockoff, stall, counterculture, resonant, mainstream

Homework: Workbook – pg. 62 ex 8a & b, ex 9; pg. 63 (for ex.12b limit the number of words to 250)

Also: Someone I admire but unfortunately is not considered an icon is Rita Levi-Montalcini. Here is a link to her obituary in the newspaper The Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini

Here is also a link to a TED Talk which I don’t expect you to understand as it is in Arabic but the speaker tries to make the point that one should care for one’s own language. I’m sure we all agree with her.

 

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

http://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_talhouk_don_t_kill_your_language.html

I’ve included the video below on the B2.2 blog for different reasons but I believe it is also very apropos on this blog.

Nelson Mandela On Oprah Winfrey Show

Class: 17^th/18^th January

Unit 9: Icons

Can-Do Objectives:       Discuss icons

Identify critical language in a text

Pages: 90 – 91; 97

Grammar: Review

Vocabulary: coinage, rip-off, mob, dismissive, dismal, seething, contemptuous, dreary, smother, deem, render, hem in, asphyxia, prop, bash, lexicon, jargon, vogue, tiresome

Homework: Workbook – pg. 59 ex b; pg. 60 ex 3; pg. 61 ex 5a & b; pg. 65

Also: Check out some icons –

Pop’s 20 Greatest Female Artists

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9124443/Pops-20-greatest-female-artists.html?frame=2159484

Top 10 Political Icons of All Time (PHOTOS)

http://www.ibtimes.com/top-10-political-icons-all-time-photos-705969

Top 10 Most Iconic Buildings in the World

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-iconic-buildings.php

The following are about the Iconic Vespa. You don't have to watch the whole thing. 

Quadrophenia final scene

Roman Holiday Trailer

Nanni Moretti on Vespa

Class: 10^th/11^th January

Unit 9: Icons

Can-Do Objectives: Speculate about images and objects

    Interpret and respond to a story

Pages: 88 – 89, 94, 96

Grammar: It’s no…; verb + ing or verb + to or verb + that; each other vs themselves

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verblist.htm

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/verbs_with_infinitive.php

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerinf.htm

Vocabulary: to splurge, flabbergasted, neatly, the apple of my eye, Adam’s apple, to lust, lewd, surge, vegetable garden

CONSIDER AS http://www.just-the-word.com/show_examples.pl?triple=consider_V+padv+as_ADV

Homework: Workbook – pg. 59 ex 1a; pg. 60 ex 2; pg. 61 ex 4a & b; pg. 62 ex 6 & 7; pg. 64 ex. 1, 2 & 3.

Also: Here is some additional trivia about what we saw in class.

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/collection_pages/northern_pages/PD_20_1961/TXT_SE-PD201961.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple

Please watch this TED Talk. It is pertinent to what we did in class in at least a couple of ways. I also find its message to be fundamental.

 

Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela

http://www.ted.com/talks/boyd_varty_what_i_learned_from_nelson_mandela.html