- 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?
