Week 6: Novembre 23rd & 25th- Film Festival

Peter Brookes, The Times

-We warmed up with recommendations about a place.
- We did the listening on China and revised The Times cartoon on Jeffrey Hill's blog and the NPR listening on China.
- We also did a listening on Tommy McHugh, a builder who became a painter and practised speech units.
- We saw the trailers of the films in the Film Festival.
Inside Out and What we did on our holiday.

Homework: Film handouts, ex.7 page 19 and ex.2 page 20

Week 5: November 18th- Back from leave and Kim Peek.

- We warmed up with an account of "what have you been doing in the last two weeks? (past simple and past perfect practice).
- We went through reading A Genius Explains on page 16-17 and its reading comprehension activities.
- We saw the first six minutes of documentary Kim Peek: The Real Rain Man, prepared/revised the questions for our classmates, made those questions for them and tried to answer theirs.
- We revised relative clauses and saw how to do more and less formal versions with prepositions.
- We practised with a Rain Man exercise on page 18.

Homework: - Prepare a recommendation with structures like on page 24 to explain to your classmate in Monday's warm-up. Avoid names of places so that we make it a guessing game too.
- Writing from reading and writing portfolio 2 (workbook)
- Recording of the presentation on the above writing.
- Class B: less formal version of exercise. Ex. 3b page 18.