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