Revising Unit 3

- Progress worksheet & Review and practice (p. 46)
- Telling a story in groups: "The new Goldilocks"
- Reminding stories (in groups)
- Getting ready for Unit 7!
- "Ironic" by Alanis Morrissette. Check the ironic situations A. Morrissette talks about at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccAs0hgLgYU

An old man ______ ninety-eight
He won the ______ and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a _____ row, pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you thinkIt's like rain on your _____ day
It's a free _____ when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it ______Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his ____ goodbye
He waited his _____ damn life to take that flight
And as the plane _____ down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your _____ dayIt's a free _____ when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it ______
Well life has a funny way of ______ up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of ______ you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything _____ up In your face
A traffic _____ when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand ______ when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you thinkA little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...
It's like rain on your _____ dayIt's a free _____ when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't takeWho would've thought... it ______
Life has a funny way of _______ up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

Homework

- Review and practice (p. 46)
- Revise Units 1 & 3 (progress test)

3.3. Jokers

- Reading: “King of the Jokers: Groucho Marx” (p. 40)
Interesting vocabulary: stroke, painted-on moustache, a poll, run away.

- Grammar: Present and past participle clauses (p. 41)
. present participle: after conjunctions and prepositions; as the subject of a sentence
After suffering a stroke, Sarah died.
. past participle: adds extra information
Returned to national prominence, Groucho embarked on his solo film career.
. having + past participle: shows the cause of a second action
Having been left behind, Groucho had to work his way back home.

- Vocabulary: Humour
Revise expressions in p. 42: race, puns, cartoons, black humour, surreal, irony, exaggeration, satire.

- “Telling jokes”: listening and speaking (p.42)

- Vocabulary: Metaphors
Revise expressions in p. 43: following someone’s steps, dead-end situation, take off, reach a crosswords, feeling under the weather, having one’s sights set on something.

- Jokes and Idioms / Adjectives and Idioms (not in the book)
. “I once knew an acrobat who fell head over heals in love”
. “My mother-in-law keeps fit by jumping to conclusions”
. “If your wife insists on learning to drive, don’t stand in her way”
. “When Jenny saw the tombstone with the inscription: ‘Here lies the body of a politician and a honest man’ she wondered how they managed to get two people into the same grave”.

- Video listening (not in the book): "Beyond a joke"
Did you know that rats are also ticklish?

Homework

- Describe a person you know or admire. (Deadline 19th November)
Proposed planning
. introduction: who is he/she - how you met
. main body: physical appearance and main personality traits.
. conclusion: how do you feel about that person/ why you admire him/her

3.2. A good read

- Class discussion about books and reading: (p.37)
What sort of books do you like reading? What three books would you take to a desert island?



- Vocabulary & Listening (p. 37)
What book would you define as a best-seller / quite moving / a page- turner?
Would you consider yourself an avid reader or a real bookworm?
Have you ever been hooked by a novel?


- Reading (p. 38)
We introduced some interesting compound adjectives such as hell-raiser, hollow-cheeked, self-concious, hot-headed.


- Compound adjctives (p.39)
Useful compound adjectives to describe personality: single-minded, self-sufficient, thick-skinned, stand-offish, level-headed, absent-minded.


- Video watching: Heroes (Chapter 1, Season 2)

Unit 3. Tales

- Revising Unit 1 (p. 18)

- Unit 3. Tales
. How much do you know about fairy tales? Do the following names ring a bell? Cinderella, Pussy with Boots, Little Red Riding Hood…
. What’s the difference between…a plot and a biographical sketch / a fake and a myth / a tall store and a fairy tale?
. Useful vocabulary: tell a white lie, a bit of a gossip, spreading rumours, an elaborate hoax.


- Working with a fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood

- Video Listening: “Small Talk”
Useful expressions related to the topic: networking, pregnant pause.

- “Hoaxes that fooled the World” (Reading p. 34)

- Grammar: review of narrative tenses (p. 35)
Past simple: to describe a sequence of events in chronological order.
Past Continuous: for actions in progress when something else happened.
Past Perfect Simple: for actions completed before other events in the past.
Past Perfect Continuous: for progressive actions that started before other events in the past.

- Speaking: tell a story about something that has happened in your life. (p. 35)

- Homework: synonyms (p. 36; ex. 8 & 9)