Thursday, November 6

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)