Class: 28th November / 13th December
2014
Unit 7B: Every step you take
Pages: 69 - 72
Grammar:
Conditionals
Formal
Conditionals
Impersonal report structures
Vocabulary: footage, dumb down, water down,
stalker, tag,
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Homework: Workbook – pg. 36 - 37
Extras, if you have time:
TED Talk
Glenn Greenwald: Why
privacy matters
George
Orwell 1984 Telescreen Exercise
The
Lives of Others trailer
Unfortunately I think the world is not so different that the one in "1984".
ResponderEliminarI remember when I read the nobel that the last two pages where missing. I didn´t realize until a Sunday afternoon. So I had to wait until next day, when the bookstore opened, to have a new and complete copy of "1984".
One of the worst Sundays of my life!!! Waiting for a day to read the last two pages of "1984"!!
;-)
The Lives of Others.
ResponderEliminarI watched this German movie several years ago. The film reflects excellently the techniques used by a dictatorship to control people, and how its perverse effects were maintained for a long time, even when democracy was reestablished again.
This movie brought back memories of the time when I worked in Berlin at the end of 90's. Indeed, at these years, the city was being rebuilt and citizens were trying to get over what they had lived during the last four decades.
If you like historical detective novels set in Germany (during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War), I recommend you to read the trilogy 'Berlin Noir' ( March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem) by Philip Kerr. Nowadays I'm reading his novel: 'The One From The Other'.