Class: 5th /20th December 2014
Unit 7B/C: Not guilty!
Pages: 72 - 74
Grammar: Connecting words - condition
Vocabulary: to
cram, the next of kin, pre-nuptial, inheritance, god-forsaken, bias, penchant,
to pile, intimacy, to lose your marbles, wet behind the ears, to swarm, to nip
out, to stash
To review definitions given in class
and see further examples, click on the following link:
OR
simply look them up in Google.
Homework: Workbook – pg. 38; pg. 86 ex. 12 – 14; and, Review for the test
Extras, if you have time:
Hubertus Knabe: The dark
secrets of a surveillance state
BBC News - Why people change the way they speak
Read the Wikipedia entry for the expression "Nanny State". In general this expression is used in reference to policies where the state is characterized as being excessive in its desire to protect, govern, or control particular aspects of society or groups of people.
ResponderEliminarThey be more oppressive or more lenient with people yet it sometimes goes unnoticed that we all live in a Nanny State.
This video reminds me of Aznar speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent when he was in the USA... I laughed my head off
ResponderEliminarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCApXTDdoEA
Come on!!! Aznar can also speak Italian!!! To be honest, his English accent speaking Spanish is pretty good!!! ;-)
ResponderEliminarWhen they talked about Tony Blair and how he is trying to speak with Cockney accent (he is Scottish for god sake!!!), it remind me of a really funny British sitcom: Misfits. One of the characters has a very strong cockney accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wgcOsTY1iY
The first two seasons are fantastic!
I just came across with this Ted talk, related to the way we speak. I hope you enjoy it!
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english#t-79741
It seems that we change our natural way of speaking when we pretend to appear someone different from who we really are.
ResponderEliminarWhy we do this: to deceive, to take advantage or is it simply a personal evolution?
Who knows? In the video there some examples and everybody knows someone who does that.