Class: 14^th/15th February

Unit 10: A Sense of Belonging

Can-Do Objectives: Persuade other to take action

                                 Describe an organization

    Explore strategies for analyzing authentic text

                                 Present something in the best possible light

Pages: 100 – 101, 102 & (105) (107)

Grammar: Inversion

Vocabulary: evict, repossess, mortgage, shelter, pledge, claim, swapping, tear-jerking, distress, flee, fleeting, shanty, idle, ailment, thump, turnstile, ensconced, scope

Homework: Workbook – pg 68 ex 5&6; 70 – 71

Also: Here are a few interesting links for you to click on that relate to the topic of our unit.

http://www.homelessworldcup.org/news

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

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

THE LIST: The greatest rivalries in club football, Nos 10-1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1214200/THE-LIST-The-greatest-rivalries-club-football-Nos-10-1.html

Class: 7^th February

Unit 10: A Sense of Belonging

Can-Do Objectives: Giving opinions with various degrees of emphasis

                                 Talk about rivalries

Pages: 103, 107

Grammar: Inversion

Vocabulary: rivalry, hoard, clique, mob, gang, team, crew

Homework: Workbook – pg. 66 ex. 1a, b, and c; pg. 67 ex. 3; pg. 69 ex. 7

Also: Here is a Ted Talk that will be useful for our next class.

Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters

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

Class: 31^st January/1^st February

Unit 10: A Sense of Belonging

Can-Do Objectives: Describe groups and membership

    Describe feelings about belonging

Pages: 98 – 99, 104, 106

Grammar: Inversion

http://fullspate.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/efl-advanced-grammar/

http://usefulenglish.ru/miscellany/inversion

Vocabulary: Demonstration, cult, sect, fencing, monk, novice, orphanage, sponsor a child, AA, YMCA

Homework: Workbook – pg. 66 ex 2a, pg. 67 ex b, pg. 68 ex 4a & b, pg. 69 ex 8, pg. 72 (ALL)

Also: Please do watch this TED Talk as it will help you with ideas for our next class’ activity.

 

Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes

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

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

Class: 21^st/22^nd December

Unit 8: Brand Awareness

Can-Do Objectives: Talk about advertising and marketing

    Describe an advert

    Talk about the image and quality of a product

    Use advertising language

Pages: 80 – 82; 85; 87

Grammar: Verb agreement; Multi-word expressions

Vocabulary: edgy, backdrop, to endorse, to untangle, to unravel, knot, to tap, to bug, bride and groom, seedy, peer, grafter, conman, to peddle, drawback, pump, upholster, souped-up, to double as, to chair, resourceful, hyphen, root beer

Number sign

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

Homework: Composition – Dining venue advert (70 – 100 words); Workbook – pg. 53 ex 4 & 5, pg. 54 ex 9a; pgs. 55 – 58

Also: I absolutely recommend this TED Talk. The speaker talks very fast but… you can read the talk. It’s not only funny but extremely interesting.

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

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