This is a good song for revising some of the grammar studied so far.
It Must Be Love
Madness 1981
I never thought I'd miss youHalf as much as I doAnd I never thought I'd feel this wayThe way I feelAbout youAs soon as I wake upEvery night, every dayI know that it's you I needTo take the blues away
It must be love, love, loveIt must be love, love, loveNothing more, nothing lessLove is the best
How can it be that we canSay so much without words?Bless you and bless meBless the beesAnd the birdsI've got to be near youEvery night, every dayI couldn't be happyAny other way
It must be love, love, loveIt must be love, love, loveNothing more, nothing lessLove is the best
As soon as I wake upEvery night, every dayI know that it's you I needTo take the blues away
It must be love, love, loveIt must be love, love, loveIt must be love, love, love...Repeat
GRAMMAR
a) MODAL VERBSFind 4 examples of modal verbs
Which ones express:
A possibilityA deductionAn obligation
b) REPORTED SPEECH“I never thought I’d miss you”
What did he think in the past?
I have missed youI wouldn´t miss you I won’t miss you
c) TIME CONJUNCTIONS“As soon as I wake up”:
What is the correct translation?
En cuanto me despiertoTan pronto como me despertéMe despierto pronto
d) RELATIVE PRONOUN1) “I know that it’s you I need”
Is this relative clause defining or non-defining?What is relative pronoun that hasn’t been included?
2) “the way I feel about you”
Is this relative clause defining or non-defining?What is relative pronoun that hasn’t been included?
e) VOCABULARYWhat is the correct translation of“bless”
HerirBendecirCuidar
domingo, 22 de julio de 2007
viernes, 20 de julio de 2007
Defining and Non Defining Relative Clauses
At this stage they should only have a brief introduction to this.
NEED IDEAS FOR PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
Used these two example sentences, got them to discuss in pairs what they thought was the difference in meaning:
My brother, who got married last year, is coming to visit me.
My brother who got married last year is coming to visit me.
1 Non Defining Clause
My brother, who got married last year, is coming to visit me.
The info between commas is EXTRA. It's not necessary information and could be omitted and the sentence would make sense.
2 Defining Relative Clause
I have more than one brother and I specify which one by saying that he got married last year.
I drew three men on the board with ????
Which brother is coming?
The one who got married last year.
____
Then we did these examples from Rising Star:
These shoes are the ones which I always wear to school
Reeboks, which are my favourite trainers, are very expensive
Defining Relative Clause
These shoes are the ones (which) I always wear to school
Subject = I
Object = Shoes
Verb = wear
which and be omitted or replaced with "that" informally, when the relative pronoun refers to the object.
Non Defining Relative Clause:
Reeboks, which are my favourite trainers, are very expensive
Relative Pronoun is necessary and cannot be replaced by "that".
EXERCISE
NEED IDEAS FOR PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
Used these two example sentences, got them to discuss in pairs what they thought was the difference in meaning:
My brother, who got married last year, is coming to visit me.
My brother who got married last year is coming to visit me.
1 Non Defining Clause
My brother, who got married last year, is coming to visit me.
The info between commas is EXTRA. It's not necessary information and could be omitted and the sentence would make sense.
2 Defining Relative Clause
I have more than one brother and I specify which one by saying that he got married last year.
I drew three men on the board with ????
Which brother is coming?
The one who got married last year.
____
Then we did these examples from Rising Star:
These shoes are the ones which I always wear to school
Reeboks, which are my favourite trainers, are very expensive
Defining Relative Clause
These shoes are the ones (which) I always wear to school
Subject = I
Object = Shoes
Verb = wear
which and be omitted or replaced with "that" informally, when the relative pronoun refers to the object.
Non Defining Relative Clause:
Reeboks, which are my favourite trainers, are very expensive
Relative Pronoun is necessary and cannot be replaced by "that".
EXERCISE
I got this idea from the British Council website:
I describe a student and they have to say which one it is:
The girl wearing purple shoes : Vicky
Then each student has to refer to someone and the rest have to say who it is.
DEFINITELY NEED MORE PRACTISE IN THIS. NEED IDEAS!!!
martes, 17 de julio de 2007
Timothy Evans Story - Crime Vocabulary
Adapted from wikiepedia
The Trial of Timothy Evans
Timothy John Evans (November 20, 1924 – March 9, 1950) was a young man, possibly mentally retarded, who was hanged in the United Kingdom in 1950 for the murder of his infant daughter. Events subsequent to his execution, including a book proclaiming his innocence and a pardon for his daughter’s murder, helped to get capital punishment abolished in Britain
Evans was a native of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. On September 20, 1947, Timothy married Beryl Susanna Thorley. In Easter 1948, the couple moved to Notting Hill, London. Their daughter Geraldine was born in1948.
It was well known that Evans was prone to tell elaborate lies about himself – lies which tended to be a way of showing off to defend a rather fragile ego. He and Beryl were also known to have loud rows which could be heard by the neighbours. They had financial difficulties and at the end of 1949 Beryl announced that she was going to have another baby.
On 30 November 1949, Evans went to the police in Merthyr Tydfil and confessed to killing Beryl and disposing of her body down the drain outside the apartment building. He said that he had given his wife something contained in a bottle and that she died after ingesting it. He told the police that afterwards he had made arrangements to have his daughter Geraldine looked after, and had returned to Wales.
When police examined the drain outside the front of the building they found nothing and also found that the weight of the drain cover required the combined strength of three Police officers to lift it. When re-questioned, Evans told a different story. He now claimed that his neighbour and fellow tenant, John Reginald Halliday Christie, who was a doctor, had come to visit Beryl and when he arrived from work, Christie told him that she had died.
During a search of the house in Notting Hill the police found the bodies of the wife and child in the back area of the building. When Evans was asked whether he was responsible for their deaths, he replied with a simple “Yes.”
Evans went on trial at the Old Bailey in January 1950. The court heard evidence related to both killings, although Evans was officially charged only with the killing of his daughter. During the trial, he reverted to his story that his neighbour Christie was the actual killer. The jury found Evans guilty of his daughter’s murder and he was hanged on 9 March 1950.
Three years later, a new tenant in Christie's flat, Beresford Brown found the bodies of three women (Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina Maclennan) hidden in the kitchen cupboard. Christie was convicted and hanged in 1953 after confessing to having murdered Beryl Evans.
______________________________________________________________
WORKSHEET
Timothy Evans Worksheet:
Match the words to the correct definition:
Abolish To go back to
Actual Accused of
Prone to doing Throw away
Execution Have the tendency to do
Dispose of Plans
Arrangements Real
Charged with Putting a condemned person to death
Revert To get rid of
Comprehension Questions:
Why did Tim tell lies?
What kind of problems were there in Tim’s marriage?
What was name and occupation of Tim’s neighbour?
How many people confessed to the murder?
What evidence showed that the story which Tim told the police wasn’t true?
Grammar
Find examples of the following in the text:
The passive
Relative clause
Reported Speech with the past perfect.
Reported question
Gerund after a prepostion
SONG:
Fill in the gaps with a word from the box below:The Ballad of Tim Evans
Christy Moore (1975)
Screws (slang for prison guards) Deaf Crime Hangman Prison Condemned Appeal Murder Guilty Cell
Tim Evans was a prisoner,
Down in his _________cell
And those who read about his crimes,
____________his soul to hell,
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
For the killing of his own dear wife
And the __________ of his own child
The jury found him ___________
And the hangin' judge, he smiled.
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
They took Tim Evans from the dock
And they led him to the _________
They closed the door behind his back
Saying “damn your soul to Hell”"
Go down, you murderer, go down.
" Tim Evans walked around the yard
And the _________, they walked behind;
And he saw the sky above the wall
But he knew no peace of mind."
Go down, you murderer, go down.
" The governor came to his cell
With the chaplain by his side,
Saying “your __________has been turned down,
Prepare yourself to die”
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
They took Tim Evans to the place
Where the _____________did prepare
They tied the rope around his neck
With the knot behind his ear
“Go down, you murderer, go down."
A thousand lags were cursing
And a-banging on the doors;
But Evans couldn't hear them,
He was _______for ever more.
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
They sent Tim Evans to the drop
For a ________ he did not do.
It was Christie was the murderer
And the judge and jury too.
"Go down, you murderers, go down."
The Trial of Timothy Evans
Timothy John Evans (November 20, 1924 – March 9, 1950) was a young man, possibly mentally retarded, who was hanged in the United Kingdom in 1950 for the murder of his infant daughter. Events subsequent to his execution, including a book proclaiming his innocence and a pardon for his daughter’s murder, helped to get capital punishment abolished in Britain
Evans was a native of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. On September 20, 1947, Timothy married Beryl Susanna Thorley. In Easter 1948, the couple moved to Notting Hill, London. Their daughter Geraldine was born in1948.
It was well known that Evans was prone to tell elaborate lies about himself – lies which tended to be a way of showing off to defend a rather fragile ego. He and Beryl were also known to have loud rows which could be heard by the neighbours. They had financial difficulties and at the end of 1949 Beryl announced that she was going to have another baby.
On 30 November 1949, Evans went to the police in Merthyr Tydfil and confessed to killing Beryl and disposing of her body down the drain outside the apartment building. He said that he had given his wife something contained in a bottle and that she died after ingesting it. He told the police that afterwards he had made arrangements to have his daughter Geraldine looked after, and had returned to Wales.
When police examined the drain outside the front of the building they found nothing and also found that the weight of the drain cover required the combined strength of three Police officers to lift it. When re-questioned, Evans told a different story. He now claimed that his neighbour and fellow tenant, John Reginald Halliday Christie, who was a doctor, had come to visit Beryl and when he arrived from work, Christie told him that she had died.
During a search of the house in Notting Hill the police found the bodies of the wife and child in the back area of the building. When Evans was asked whether he was responsible for their deaths, he replied with a simple “Yes.”
Evans went on trial at the Old Bailey in January 1950. The court heard evidence related to both killings, although Evans was officially charged only with the killing of his daughter. During the trial, he reverted to his story that his neighbour Christie was the actual killer. The jury found Evans guilty of his daughter’s murder and he was hanged on 9 March 1950.
Three years later, a new tenant in Christie's flat, Beresford Brown found the bodies of three women (Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina Maclennan) hidden in the kitchen cupboard. Christie was convicted and hanged in 1953 after confessing to having murdered Beryl Evans.
______________________________________________________________
WORKSHEET
Timothy Evans Worksheet:
Match the words to the correct definition:
Abolish To go back to
Actual Accused of
Prone to doing Throw away
Execution Have the tendency to do
Dispose of Plans
Arrangements Real
Charged with Putting a condemned person to death
Revert To get rid of
Comprehension Questions:
Why did Tim tell lies?
What kind of problems were there in Tim’s marriage?
What was name and occupation of Tim’s neighbour?
How many people confessed to the murder?
What evidence showed that the story which Tim told the police wasn’t true?
Grammar
Find examples of the following in the text:
The passive
Relative clause
Reported Speech with the past perfect.
Reported question
Gerund after a prepostion
SONG:
Fill in the gaps with a word from the box below:The Ballad of Tim Evans
Christy Moore (1975)
Screws (slang for prison guards) Deaf Crime Hangman Prison Condemned Appeal Murder Guilty Cell
Tim Evans was a prisoner,
Down in his _________cell
And those who read about his crimes,
____________his soul to hell,
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
For the killing of his own dear wife
And the __________ of his own child
The jury found him ___________
And the hangin' judge, he smiled.
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
They took Tim Evans from the dock
And they led him to the _________
They closed the door behind his back
Saying “damn your soul to Hell”"
Go down, you murderer, go down.
" Tim Evans walked around the yard
And the _________, they walked behind;
And he saw the sky above the wall
But he knew no peace of mind."
Go down, you murderer, go down.
" The governor came to his cell
With the chaplain by his side,
Saying “your __________has been turned down,
Prepare yourself to die”
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
They took Tim Evans to the place
Where the _____________did prepare
They tied the rope around his neck
With the knot behind his ear
“Go down, you murderer, go down."
A thousand lags were cursing
And a-banging on the doors;
But Evans couldn't hear them,
He was _______for ever more.
"Go down, you murderer, go down."
They sent Tim Evans to the drop
For a ________ he did not do.
It was Christie was the murderer
And the judge and jury too.
"Go down, you murderers, go down."
lunes, 16 de julio de 2007
Gerunds and Infinitives Upper Intermediate
DAY 1
1) Used English File Upper Intermediate file 6 A as introduction. Started with brainstorm about crime vocabulary and then started on page 138.
2) Adapted exercise where verbs had to be put into categories (come before) "go, going, to go" by printing them out and getting students to stick them onto the white board in two teams as a competition. Monitored and removed all verbs that were in the wrong column so students could put them in the right place.
The verbs were:
Be able
Can
Choose
Decide
Enjoy
Expect
Fancy
Hate
Keep on
=continue
Imagine
Let (me)
Love
Make (me)
Manage
May
Might
Don’t mind
Miss
Must
Need
Plan
Practise
Promise
Refuse
Seem
Should
Stop
Tend
Want
Would like
(c) English File Upper Intermediate
3) English File listening, story about the thief who left pictures of himself in the car.
4) Debate about whether the police in Catalonia were strict enough. Gave them time to prepare and then divided board into two halves and wrote each sides points on each side. It worked well, many issues came up, such as immigration, racism, police abuse, the right to peaceful protest. In the end it was a draw.
DAY 2
Start the day with a song: get the song here:
http://faragotheband.bebo.com/
(this song is full of different uses of infinitives)
Farago - Save me
Match the sentence halves
I’m waiting in the corner of your mind take me to your house,
And nothing’s going to change only time will tell.
Even if it had worked out save me,
Chance it and hope for the best, miles and miles of love,
Waiting, I want you to just to see your face,
You give me want you to stay.
I want you the way I feel at this time or place,
Take me, to stay.
We'll make love until it's dawn, would it still be good?
Correct the incorrect word
It kills me to see that now you're gone it’s because of me,
I wonder if it had turned out would we still be free,
Eager to express, eager for you to phone me.
Nothing's going to happen,
Nothing will set me free.
Waiting, I want you to help me,
You give me kilometres and kilometres of love,
I want you to know.
Fill in the missing word
I only wanted you to see that I can’t _______without you.
I only wanted you to see that I can’t _______ without you.
Repeated lines don’t do anything
Eager ________________________
Nothing's ___________________
Nothing __________________________
I only ___________________________
I only _____________________________
FARAGO SAVE ME COMPLETE LYRICS
Farago – Save Me
I’m waiting in the corner of your mind just to see your face,
And nothings going to change the way I feel at this time or place,
Even if it had worked out would it still be good?
Chance it and hope for the best, only time will tell.
Waiting, I want you to save me,
You give me miles and miles of love,
I want you to stay.
Take me, take me to your house,
We'll make love until it's dawn, want you to stay.
It kills me to think that now you're gone it’s because of me,
I wonder if it had worked out would we still be free,
Eager to express, eager for you to comfort me.
Nothing's going to change,
Nothing’s going to set me free.
Waiting, I want you to save me,
You give me miles and miles of love,
I want you to stay.
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you.
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you.
Eager to express, eager for you to comfort me,
Nothing’s going to change nothing’s going to set me free.
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you,
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you,
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you,
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you.
Waiting I want you to save me.
GRAMMAR
“Waiting, I want you to save me”: Gerund or Present Continuous?
Find 2 examples of the third conditional
Find one example of a modal verb followed by an infinitve without “to” (bare infinitive)
Find one example of an infinitive (to + inf.) which comes after an adjective.
Find all the examples of verb + infinitive (to + inf)
EXTRA:
Because the band Farago are from Derry it would be good to do something about Northern Ireland, I've started putting little maps indicating where bands are from on the worksheets. This would be a good lead in to an interesting political activity, I just havent decided exactly what yet...
1) Used English File Upper Intermediate file 6 A as introduction. Started with brainstorm about crime vocabulary and then started on page 138.
2) Adapted exercise where verbs had to be put into categories (come before) "go, going, to go" by printing them out and getting students to stick them onto the white board in two teams as a competition. Monitored and removed all verbs that were in the wrong column so students could put them in the right place.
The verbs were:
Be able
Can
Choose
Decide
Enjoy
Expect
Fancy
Hate
Keep on
=continue
Imagine
Let (me)
Love
Make (me)
Manage
May
Might
Don’t mind
Miss
Must
Need
Plan
Practise
Promise
Refuse
Seem
Should
Stop
Tend
Want
Would like
(c) English File Upper Intermediate
3) English File listening, story about the thief who left pictures of himself in the car.
4) Debate about whether the police in Catalonia were strict enough. Gave them time to prepare and then divided board into two halves and wrote each sides points on each side. It worked well, many issues came up, such as immigration, racism, police abuse, the right to peaceful protest. In the end it was a draw.
DAY 2
Start the day with a song: get the song here:
http://faragotheband.bebo.com/
(this song is full of different uses of infinitives)
Farago - Save me
Match the sentence halves
I’m waiting in the corner of your mind take me to your house,
And nothing’s going to change only time will tell.
Even if it had worked out save me,
Chance it and hope for the best, miles and miles of love,
Waiting, I want you to just to see your face,
You give me want you to stay.
I want you the way I feel at this time or place,
Take me, to stay.
We'll make love until it's dawn, would it still be good?
Correct the incorrect word
It kills me to see that now you're gone it’s because of me,
I wonder if it had turned out would we still be free,
Eager to express, eager for you to phone me.
Nothing's going to happen,
Nothing will set me free.
Waiting, I want you to help me,
You give me kilometres and kilometres of love,
I want you to know.
Fill in the missing word
I only wanted you to see that I can’t _______without you.
I only wanted you to see that I can’t _______ without you.
Repeated lines don’t do anything
Eager ________________________
Nothing's ___________________
Nothing __________________________
I only ___________________________
I only _____________________________
FARAGO SAVE ME COMPLETE LYRICS
Farago – Save Me
I’m waiting in the corner of your mind just to see your face,
And nothings going to change the way I feel at this time or place,
Even if it had worked out would it still be good?
Chance it and hope for the best, only time will tell.
Waiting, I want you to save me,
You give me miles and miles of love,
I want you to stay.
Take me, take me to your house,
We'll make love until it's dawn, want you to stay.
It kills me to think that now you're gone it’s because of me,
I wonder if it had worked out would we still be free,
Eager to express, eager for you to comfort me.
Nothing's going to change,
Nothing’s going to set me free.
Waiting, I want you to save me,
You give me miles and miles of love,
I want you to stay.
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you.
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you.
Eager to express, eager for you to comfort me,
Nothing’s going to change nothing’s going to set me free.
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you,
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you,
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you,
I only wanted you to see that i can’t live without you.
Waiting I want you to save me.
GRAMMAR
“Waiting, I want you to save me”: Gerund or Present Continuous?
Find 2 examples of the third conditional
Find one example of a modal verb followed by an infinitve without “to” (bare infinitive)
Find one example of an infinitive (to + inf.) which comes after an adjective.
Find all the examples of verb + infinitive (to + inf)
EXTRA:
Because the band Farago are from Derry it would be good to do something about Northern Ireland, I've started putting little maps indicating where bands are from on the worksheets. This would be a good lead in to an interesting political activity, I just havent decided exactly what yet...
martes, 10 de julio de 2007
Reported Speech Upper Intermediate teens
POSSIBLE SONGS
The Lenny Kravitz song, there's potential to turn it into an exercise to put the verbs in the right tense....
Lenny Kravitz My Mama Said
My mama saidThat your life is a gift
And my mama saidThere's much weight you will lift
And my mama saidLeave those bad boys alone
And my mama saidBe home before the dawn
And my mama saidYou can be rich or poor
But my mama saidYou can be big or small
But I'm always on the run
My mama saidThat it's good to be fruitful
But my mama saidDon't take more than a mouthful
And my mama saidThat it's good to be natural
And my mama saidThat it's good to be factual
But I'm always on the run
My mama saidBaby don't ride that crazy horse
And my mama saidYou must push with much force
And my mama saidGo get all that you're after
And my mama saidThat love's all that matters
But I'm always on the run
Ive decided to go with this one:
The Killers Somebody told me
Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
Ready? Let's roll onto something new
Taking its toll and I'm leaving without you
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
Pace yourself from me
I said maybe baby please
But I just don't know now
When all I wanna do is try
[x3]
Somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidentialI've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
WORKSHEET
KILLERS LYRICS Somebody Told Me
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS
Blink Close Miss Tonight Seventeen Breaking Breaking Moonlight
_______________my back just to know your name
___________ tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm _________my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't _________ in a place like this
Anything goes but don't________ you might ________
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down __________
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my __________
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
Chorus
You had a boyfriend
I've got potential
Who looked like a girlfriend
It's not confidential
Well somebody told me
That I had in February of last year
CORRECT THE INCORRECT WORD
Ready? Let's roll onto anything new
Taking its toll and I'm going without you
Cause hell ain't close in a place like this
I said hell ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down now
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my night
Chorus
Well somebody told me
…..
A rushin', a rushin' around
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
But I just don't know now
I said maybe baby pleaseWhen all I wanna do is tryPace yourself from meChorus x 3
Which is the correct translation of the chorus?
Alguien me dijo que tenías un novio que se parece a una chica.
Alguien me dijo que tenías un novio que se parece a mi ex–novia.
Alguien me dijo que tenías una novia que se parece a un chico.
ALIBI - SIMULATION OF A POLICE INTERROGATION WITH DISCUSSION AT THE END ABOUT WHAT WAS SAID IN ORDER TO FIND OUT IF SOMEONE WAS LYING.
Not sure if this is good for teens but they do seem to joke about Bush quite a lot so I'll give it a go.
The Lenny Kravitz song, there's potential to turn it into an exercise to put the verbs in the right tense....
Lenny Kravitz My Mama Said
My mama saidThat your life is a gift
And my mama saidThere's much weight you will lift
And my mama saidLeave those bad boys alone
And my mama saidBe home before the dawn
And my mama saidYou can be rich or poor
But my mama saidYou can be big or small
But I'm always on the run
My mama saidThat it's good to be fruitful
But my mama saidDon't take more than a mouthful
And my mama saidThat it's good to be natural
And my mama saidThat it's good to be factual
But I'm always on the run
My mama saidBaby don't ride that crazy horse
And my mama saidYou must push with much force
And my mama saidGo get all that you're after
And my mama saidThat love's all that matters
But I'm always on the run
Ive decided to go with this one:
The Killers Somebody told me
Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
Ready? Let's roll onto something new
Taking its toll and I'm leaving without you
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
Pace yourself from me
I said maybe baby please
But I just don't know now
When all I wanna do is try
[x3]
Somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidentialI've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
WORKSHEET
KILLERS LYRICS Somebody Told Me
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS
Blink Close Miss Tonight Seventeen Breaking Breaking Moonlight
_______________my back just to know your name
___________ tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm _________my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't _________ in a place like this
Anything goes but don't________ you might ________
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down __________
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my __________
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
Chorus
You had a boyfriend
I've got potential
Who looked like a girlfriend
It's not confidential
Well somebody told me
That I had in February of last year
CORRECT THE INCORRECT WORD
Ready? Let's roll onto anything new
Taking its toll and I'm going without you
Cause hell ain't close in a place like this
I said hell ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down now
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my night
Chorus
Well somebody told me
…..
A rushin', a rushin' around
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
But I just don't know now
I said maybe baby pleaseWhen all I wanna do is tryPace yourself from meChorus x 3
Which is the correct translation of the chorus?
Alguien me dijo que tenías un novio que se parece a una chica.
Alguien me dijo que tenías un novio que se parece a mi ex–novia.
Alguien me dijo que tenías una novia que se parece a un chico.
ALIBI - SIMULATION OF A POLICE INTERROGATION WITH DISCUSSION AT THE END ABOUT WHAT WAS SAID IN ORDER TO FIND OUT IF SOMEONE WAS LYING.
Copy and paste the below article inserting 2 student's names into the spaces.
Gaudi’s Guell Park lizard vandalised
More bad news from Spain. The fabulous mosaic lizard/dragon/salamander at the entrance to the Parc Guell was vandalised on Tuesday evening this week. The damage was apparently done by 2 people, using an iron bar. Police would like to question two local students of English concerning the incident; -----------------and ------------------------------. More details from el Periodico (in Spanish) showing damage to the head…
The last time the sculpture was assaulted like this was probably when it was made. Gaudi reportedly kicked it to deform the metal armature into the shape he wanted…
Proceedure:
Students read the article:
Divide class into 10 students, 2 suspects (A and B) and 2 teams of 4 policemen(C and D) , make the suspects stronger and well-behaved students.
Students go outside and decide on their story while police decide on their interrogation questions.
C interrogates A while D interrogates B
D interrogates B while C interrogates B
A and B come together again and discuss what they were asked and when they said. Should be using reported questions and reported speech
e.g. "they asked me what I was wearing and I said that I was wearing a t-shirt."
Split and mix C and D, so that they can compare questions and answers given, also using reported speech.
e.g. I asked her what she was wearing and she said that she was wearing a T-Shirt.
Not sure if this is good for teens but they do seem to joke about Bush quite a lot so I'll give it a go.
source: http://www.thedigitalbeat.com/2007/04/10-dumbest-george-w-bush-quotes.html
THE TOP 10 “BUSHISMS”
Put the quotes into the following categories
a) International politics and geography
b) Life in America
c) Public relations
d) Being the president of the USA
e) Iraq
1."You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." (Bush speaking to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005)
2. "Yes, Peter. Are you going to ask that question with sunglasses on?... I'm interested in the sunglasses look, seriously.... For the viewers, there’s no sun." (Bush making fun of partially blind reporter Peter Wallsten, June 14, 2006)
3. "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake." (Bush describing the highlight of his time in office to a German interviewer, May 7, 2006)
4. "The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany." (Bush in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006)
5. "I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure." (Bush in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004)
6. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." (Bush in Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004)
7. "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." (Bush in Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004)
8. "Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling." (Bush in Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004)
9. "I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world."(Bush in Islamabad, Pakistan, which is not part of the Arab world, on March 3, 2006)
10. "You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone." (Bush in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006)
Choose three Bushisms and re-write them as reported speech:
Example: Bush asked the divorced mother of three if she worked three jobs. He said that it was fantastic that she was doing that.
The New Cutting Edge Intermediate resource pack has an exercise called survivor that I might try out as well.
The Cutting Edge Intermediate chapter on reported speech made it very clear, there was a story about twins separated at birth and how they were reunited.
__________
lunes, 9 de julio de 2007
3rd conditional - Upper Intermediate teens
We have been covering the 3rd conditional using English File Upper Intermediate chapter 3B which was a good introduction to the form. It worked well because the story is interesting and on each question I took a class vote on what they would have done if it had been them.
Afterwards we watched the whole documentary "Touching the Void". Before beginning I realised that there were a lot of references to imperial measurements that were crucial to understanding so I got them to match the measurements while I tried to work out how the dvd player worked (!) There were comprehension questions to answer while they were doing it, the video is in sections; day 1 day 2 etc so I stopped and checked if they understood. They were really interested in the story, more than I expected, although the only vocabulary question I was asked was "what does c*nt mean?!" Cant blame the man for swearing, he crawled 4 days in the snow with a broken leg....
Match the metric to imperial measurements:
1 inch (length) 91 cm
1 foot (length) 2.54cm
1 yard (length) 1609 m
1 mile (length) 568 ml
1 pint (liquid) 453g
1 ounce (weight) 6.3 kg
1 pound (weight) 30cm
1 stone (weight) 28.35 g
I was checking the web for songs to use in teaching the 3rd conditional and I came across this one at http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/wish.htm#wsong
James Blunt Tears and Rain
How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
Instead I've found no meaning.
I guess it's time I run far, far away;
find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same:
it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say,
but I'm not here for trouble.
It's more than just words:
it's just tears and rain.
How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I would save my soul.
I'm so cold from fear.
I guess it's time I run far, far away;
find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same:
it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say,
but I'm not here for trouble.
Far, far away; find comfort in pain.
All pleasure's the same:
it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words:
it's just tears and rain.
__________________
I got this biography from Imdb
James Blunt Biography
Read the text about the artist James Blunt and answer the questions TRUE OR FALSE
James Blunt used to be in the army
He went to a boys-only school
He learned all his songs from his father.
The song “goodbye Mr Lover” is about a girlfriend who died.
He is successful in America
The song “You’re beautiful” is about his current girlfriend.
He had planned to be a musician after he saw an older boy playing the electric guitar it inspired him to become one too.
He was in the army for four and a half years. He spent six months in Kosovo as part of the peace keeping force. He recorded his memories of his time in the army in 'No Bravery, the closing track of his album, 'Back To Bedlam'.
He attended Harrow, a large, well-known public school for boys. His music was never appreciated in school as it was too emotional for the teenage boys in his class. Despite these set backs, he continued to practice everyday.
He plays the guitar and the piano. He also writes all of his own lyrics and music.
Wrote the song "Good-bye My Lover", for an ex-girlfriend (who is still alive despite rumors that she passed on). He considered her to be the woman he wanted to marry before she left him.
Wrote the song "You're Beautiful" after seeing another ex-girlfriend on the London Underground with her new boyfriend. He claimed on the BBC concert that aired on BBC1 on the 9th of December 2005 at 11:3s GMT that "our eyes met for a second but we re-lived an entire lifetime of memories".
Won 2 prizes at the 2006 Brit Awards for "Best Pop Act" and "Best British Male" (15 February 2006).
Was on duty for the funeral of the Queen Mother (9 April 2002).
His song "You're Beautiful" became a US number one single, making him the first UK artist since Elton John in 1997 to top the US singles chart. [1 March 2006]
Match the words or phrases that have the same meaning
SURRENDER WHEN AN ANIMAL LOSES HAIR
SHED THE IMMATERIAL PART OF A PERSON
I GUESS HIGH-PITCHED HUMAN CRY
SCREAM TO GIVE UP
TROUBLE EN VOZ ALTA
NEED TRIANGLE, SQUARE, RECTANGLE
SOUL NECESSITY
OUT LOUD DIFFICULT SITUATION
SHAPE I SUPPOSE
LISTENING TASK:
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
Instead I've found no meaning.
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS
(CHORUS)
I guess it's time I run far, far away;
find _________ in pain,All pleasure's __________:
it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true __________, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for ___________.
It's more than just__________: it's just tears and rain.
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
I'm so cold from fear.Hold memory close at hand,
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
How I wish I would save my soul.
Help me understand the years.
(CHORUS)
POST LISTENING TASK
Find all the examples of conditional sentences in the text.
(will have to point out that I wish + would/could and infinitive or I wish + past perfect are 2nd and 3rd conditionals)
Which ones refer to the past and which ones refer to the present?
Which ones are 2nd conditional and which are 3rd?
Afterwards we watched the whole documentary "Touching the Void". Before beginning I realised that there were a lot of references to imperial measurements that were crucial to understanding so I got them to match the measurements while I tried to work out how the dvd player worked (!) There were comprehension questions to answer while they were doing it, the video is in sections; day 1 day 2 etc so I stopped and checked if they understood. They were really interested in the story, more than I expected, although the only vocabulary question I was asked was "what does c*nt mean?!" Cant blame the man for swearing, he crawled 4 days in the snow with a broken leg....
Match the metric to imperial measurements:
1 inch (length) 91 cm
1 foot (length) 2.54cm
1 yard (length) 1609 m
1 mile (length) 568 ml
1 pint (liquid) 453g
1 ounce (weight) 6.3 kg
1 pound (weight) 30cm
1 stone (weight) 28.35 g
I was checking the web for songs to use in teaching the 3rd conditional and I came across this one at http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/wish.htm#wsong
James Blunt Tears and Rain
How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
Instead I've found no meaning.
I guess it's time I run far, far away;
find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same:
it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say,
but I'm not here for trouble.
It's more than just words:
it's just tears and rain.
How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I would save my soul.
I'm so cold from fear.
I guess it's time I run far, far away;
find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same:
it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say,
but I'm not here for trouble.
Far, far away; find comfort in pain.
All pleasure's the same:
it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words:
it's just tears and rain.
__________________
I got this biography from Imdb
James Blunt Biography
Read the text about the artist James Blunt and answer the questions TRUE OR FALSE
James Blunt used to be in the army
He went to a boys-only school
He learned all his songs from his father.
The song “goodbye Mr Lover” is about a girlfriend who died.
He is successful in America
The song “You’re beautiful” is about his current girlfriend.
He had planned to be a musician after he saw an older boy playing the electric guitar it inspired him to become one too.
He was in the army for four and a half years. He spent six months in Kosovo as part of the peace keeping force. He recorded his memories of his time in the army in 'No Bravery, the closing track of his album, 'Back To Bedlam'.
He attended Harrow, a large, well-known public school for boys. His music was never appreciated in school as it was too emotional for the teenage boys in his class. Despite these set backs, he continued to practice everyday.
He plays the guitar and the piano. He also writes all of his own lyrics and music.
Wrote the song "Good-bye My Lover", for an ex-girlfriend (who is still alive despite rumors that she passed on). He considered her to be the woman he wanted to marry before she left him.
Wrote the song "You're Beautiful" after seeing another ex-girlfriend on the London Underground with her new boyfriend. He claimed on the BBC concert that aired on BBC1 on the 9th of December 2005 at 11:3s GMT that "our eyes met for a second but we re-lived an entire lifetime of memories".
Won 2 prizes at the 2006 Brit Awards for "Best Pop Act" and "Best British Male" (15 February 2006).
Was on duty for the funeral of the Queen Mother (9 April 2002).
His song "You're Beautiful" became a US number one single, making him the first UK artist since Elton John in 1997 to top the US singles chart. [1 March 2006]
Match the words or phrases that have the same meaning
SURRENDER WHEN AN ANIMAL LOSES HAIR
SHED THE IMMATERIAL PART OF A PERSON
I GUESS HIGH-PITCHED HUMAN CRY
SCREAM TO GIVE UP
TROUBLE EN VOZ ALTA
NEED TRIANGLE, SQUARE, RECTANGLE
SOUL NECESSITY
OUT LOUD DIFFICULT SITUATION
SHAPE I SUPPOSE
LISTENING TASK:
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
Instead I've found no meaning.
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS
(CHORUS)
I guess it's time I run far, far away;
find _________ in pain,All pleasure's __________:
it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true __________, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for ___________.
It's more than just__________: it's just tears and rain.
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
I'm so cold from fear.Hold memory close at hand,
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
How I wish I would save my soul.
Help me understand the years.
(CHORUS)
POST LISTENING TASK
Find all the examples of conditional sentences in the text.
(will have to point out that I wish + would/could and infinitive or I wish + past perfect are 2nd and 3rd conditionals)
Which ones refer to the past and which ones refer to the present?
Which ones are 2nd conditional and which are 3rd?
jueves, 5 de julio de 2007
2nd Conditional Upper Intermediate
Lead In Song: Hoobastank If I were you
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
To rain on my parade
Instead of all that's right
You look for all that's wrong
Unless it's to complain
You seem to find the dark
Does it feel good to you
You never say a word
It's driving me insane
When everything is bright
CORRECT THE WRONG WORD
If I were Spanish
Holding the bicycle right in my hands
The last thing I'd do
Is thank the Buddha for all that I have
If I was you
FILL IN THE GAPS
Look what's _____________you now
More than you ever dreamed
Have you ___________________
Just how hard it used to be
So what's it ___________take
For you to realize
That it __________could go away
In one blink of an ___________
It happens __________the time
REPEATED LYRICS : DON’T WRITE ANYTHING
If I were ________________
Holding___________________
The ___________________
Is __________________
Tell______________
If ______________
If________________
If______________________
If____________________
So _____________________
For ______________
It all ________________
In ____________________
It __________________
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
Live the life that I wanted to
Holding the world right in my hands
Tell the ones I love
If I were you
The first thing I'd do
Take a breath and enjoy the view
Is thank the stars above
________________________________________
Write this sentence on the board
If I were you the first thing I'd do is thank the stars...
Elicit construction
2nd conditional
Elicit full form of the contraction I'd
Elicit form of 2nd conditional
If + past simple, would + infinitive
Students complete the following questionnaire in pairs
____________________________________________
Questionnaire:
What would you do if you saw a rich man drop 100 euros on the street?
1) I would give the money to him
2) I would keep the money
3) I would give the money to a poor person
What would you do if your best friend’s boy/girlfriend was cheating on them?
1) I would tell them
2) I would say nothing
3) I would talk to the person who was doing the cheating
What would you choose if you were forced to choose between being deaf or blind?
1) Deaf
2) Blind
3) Both
What would you do if your mother got a tattoo on her arm and a piercing in her mouth?
1) I would think it was cool
2) I would think she was too old but I wouldn’t say anything
3) I would leave home and never speak to her again
What would you do if you could be sent to prison for speaking Catalan?
1) I would speak it anyway and go to prison
2) I would only speak it in secret
3) I would start speaking Spanish all the time
If you had to share a prison cell with one of the following people, who would you choose:
1) Aznar
2) Osama Bin Laden
3) The presenters of Salsa Rosa
What would you do if your doctor told you that you only had one week to live?
1) I would hold up a bank and enjoy the money
2) I would get scared and stay in bed
3) I would spend my last week with my friends and family
What would you do if you saw your neighbour standing in the street naked?
1) I would call the police
2) I would go out and ask him if he was ok
3) I would laugh
PUT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE HALVES ON THE BOARD
Students have to write the other half of the sentence
If I was a member of the opposite sex………
If I won the lottery……………
If I had to choose between going to France or to China ……
If I was with a friend in a shop and she started stealing .........
I would sell my favourite possession if........
I would leave Barcelona if...........
I would be angry with my best friend if................
I would give money to a stranger if ...........
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
To rain on my parade
Instead of all that's right
You look for all that's wrong
Unless it's to complain
You seem to find the dark
Does it feel good to you
You never say a word
It's driving me insane
When everything is bright
CORRECT THE WRONG WORD
If I were Spanish
Holding the bicycle right in my hands
The last thing I'd do
Is thank the Buddha for all that I have
If I was you
FILL IN THE GAPS
Look what's _____________you now
More than you ever dreamed
Have you ___________________
Just how hard it used to be
So what's it ___________take
For you to realize
That it __________could go away
In one blink of an ___________
It happens __________the time
REPEATED LYRICS : DON’T WRITE ANYTHING
If I were ________________
Holding___________________
The ___________________
Is __________________
Tell______________
If ______________
If________________
If______________________
If____________________
So _____________________
For ______________
It all ________________
In ____________________
It __________________
PUT THE LINES IN ORDER
Live the life that I wanted to
Holding the world right in my hands
Tell the ones I love
If I were you
The first thing I'd do
Take a breath and enjoy the view
Is thank the stars above
________________________________________
Write this sentence on the board
If I were you the first thing I'd do is thank the stars...
Elicit construction
2nd conditional
Elicit full form of the contraction I'd
Elicit form of 2nd conditional
If + past simple, would + infinitive
Students complete the following questionnaire in pairs
____________________________________________
Questionnaire:
What would you do if you saw a rich man drop 100 euros on the street?
1) I would give the money to him
2) I would keep the money
3) I would give the money to a poor person
What would you do if your best friend’s boy/girlfriend was cheating on them?
1) I would tell them
2) I would say nothing
3) I would talk to the person who was doing the cheating
What would you choose if you were forced to choose between being deaf or blind?
1) Deaf
2) Blind
3) Both
What would you do if your mother got a tattoo on her arm and a piercing in her mouth?
1) I would think it was cool
2) I would think she was too old but I wouldn’t say anything
3) I would leave home and never speak to her again
What would you do if you could be sent to prison for speaking Catalan?
1) I would speak it anyway and go to prison
2) I would only speak it in secret
3) I would start speaking Spanish all the time
If you had to share a prison cell with one of the following people, who would you choose:
1) Aznar
2) Osama Bin Laden
3) The presenters of Salsa Rosa
What would you do if your doctor told you that you only had one week to live?
1) I would hold up a bank and enjoy the money
2) I would get scared and stay in bed
3) I would spend my last week with my friends and family
What would you do if you saw your neighbour standing in the street naked?
1) I would call the police
2) I would go out and ask him if he was ok
3) I would laugh
PUT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE HALVES ON THE BOARD
Students have to write the other half of the sentence
If I was a member of the opposite sex………
If I won the lottery……………
If I had to choose between going to France or to China ……
If I was with a friend in a shop and she started stealing .........
I would sell my favourite possession if........
I would leave Barcelona if...........
I would be angry with my best friend if................
I would give money to a stranger if ...........
miércoles, 4 de julio de 2007
First Conditional - Prisoner's Dilemma - Upper Intermediate
PRISONER’S DILEMMA
2 guys hold up a bank and they are both arrested by the police and interrogated separately.
You have to decide whether you will stay silent or betray the other prisoner. You don’t know what the other prisoner is going to say, so you have to take a risk.
There are 4 possible results shown in the table below. (on the worksheet it is on a grid, so it's clearer) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner
Prisoner A Stays Silent
Prisoner B Stays Silent
Each serves six months
Prisoner A Stays Silent
Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A serves ten years
Prisoner B goes free
Prisoner A Betrays
Prisoner B Stays Silent
Prisoner A goes free
Prisoner B serves ten years
Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A Betrays
Each serves five years
Give out the sheet, read it and explain that there are 4 outcomes.
Write on the board
If prisoner A stays silent and prisoner B betrays, prisoner A will go to prison for 10 years and prisoner B will go free.
Elicit and analyse form
Get the students to write 3 sentences for the 3 other outcomes.
Students in pairs represent one prisoner and decide what they are going to do. Assign which pair is going to play against which other pair. Get them to write their decision on a paper with their names on it and then collect them and read out the verdict.
They all chose to betray........
______________________________
Lead in:
Short story about a bank robbery
Using ESL material from this website.
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/stories/story041.htm
Vocab, match the definitions:
Chuckle to analyse or observe closely
Circle esposas
Dummy without confidence
Examine estomago
Explode under the shadow of a tree or a building
Fake team
Grenade use a barrier to prevent entry or exit
Handcuff An immitation of a real object
Lobby Hall
Nervously To laugh
Robbery the noise a police car or a fire engine makes
Shade false
Siren the act of stealing
Squad cajero
Stomach a small bomb usually thrown by hand
Teller to burst violently as a result of internal pressure
Seal off to go around
Students match the definitions
Cut up the paragraphs of the story and
put the paragraphs in order
TEENS! We recycle paper when we can, so the order the paragraphs exercise was done on pages with a picture on the other side. They all turned it over and put the page in order according to the picture ... grrrr
Make a list of the following:
All the people mentioned in the story
All the noises that could be heard in the scene
All the evidence that the police can gather from the scene
Role play, police question the girl about what happened
Preparation time, A write the questions, B write notes about what happened.
2 guys hold up a bank and they are both arrested by the police and interrogated separately.
You have to decide whether you will stay silent or betray the other prisoner. You don’t know what the other prisoner is going to say, so you have to take a risk.
There are 4 possible results shown in the table below. (on the worksheet it is on a grid, so it's clearer) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner
Prisoner A Stays Silent
Prisoner B Stays Silent
Each serves six months
Prisoner A Stays Silent
Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A serves ten years
Prisoner B goes free
Prisoner A Betrays
Prisoner B Stays Silent
Prisoner A goes free
Prisoner B serves ten years
Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A Betrays
Each serves five years
Give out the sheet, read it and explain that there are 4 outcomes.
Write on the board
If prisoner A stays silent and prisoner B betrays, prisoner A will go to prison for 10 years and prisoner B will go free.
Elicit and analyse form
Get the students to write 3 sentences for the 3 other outcomes.
Students in pairs represent one prisoner and decide what they are going to do. Assign which pair is going to play against which other pair. Get them to write their decision on a paper with their names on it and then collect them and read out the verdict.
They all chose to betray........
______________________________
Lead in:
Short story about a bank robbery
Using ESL material from this website.
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/stories/story041.htm
Vocab, match the definitions:
Chuckle to analyse or observe closely
Circle esposas
Dummy without confidence
Examine estomago
Explode under the shadow of a tree or a building
Fake team
Grenade use a barrier to prevent entry or exit
Handcuff An immitation of a real object
Lobby Hall
Nervously To laugh
Robbery the noise a police car or a fire engine makes
Shade false
Siren the act of stealing
Squad cajero
Stomach a small bomb usually thrown by hand
Teller to burst violently as a result of internal pressure
Seal off to go around
Students match the definitions
Cut up the paragraphs of the story and
put the paragraphs in order
TEENS! We recycle paper when we can, so the order the paragraphs exercise was done on pages with a picture on the other side. They all turned it over and put the page in order according to the picture ... grrrr
Make a list of the following:
All the people mentioned in the story
All the noises that could be heard in the scene
All the evidence that the police can gather from the scene
Role play, police question the girl about what happened
Preparation time, A write the questions, B write notes about what happened.
martes, 3 de julio de 2007
Rammstein: Amerika video: Globalisation
- I was afraid that this topic might be too difficult for teens as this is something that 20 year olds are more likely to be passionate about. However it worked really well and it wasn't too advanced for them at all.
- I used this after the reading text from chapter one of Rising Star.
Elicit, which is the most dominant country in the world?
Then they brainstorm all the American elements in Spanish society, McDonalds etc.
Then they have to watch the music video it and write down all the American symbols that they see.
Focus on the chorus, why does he say "we are all living in America?"
Do you think it is positive or negative message in general?
No. why not? Because he says "this is not a love song".
Brainstorm the positive and negative aspects of globalisation.
Then we have a debate:
The local council has to decide whether to give planning permission for a new McDonalds or a family restaurant, both are interested in the same site.
So divide the class into 3 teams, McDonald's, family restaurant and the councillors.
Each thinks of reasons why their business would be better and the councillors think of arguments for and against both. Then McDonalds debates against the family business and the councillors judge and give their verdict.
The class really got into this and came up with some really valid points.
The next day I was accused of being a vegetarian hippie.
Rising Star: A Pre-First Certificate Course
Rising Star is the text book that I'm using currently with my teens.
I have some comments...
Advantages
Good idea to get them prepared for first certificate.
Interesting topics: Cloning
Disadvantages
Not interesting topics:
Chapter 4. Eclipses. It doesn't really give way to debate and is not really thought provoking.
Chapter 1 "the Global Teenager" Is this an ad for Benneton clothes? Why is there a picture of teenagers of different races all wearing Benneton clothes in different colours and then it says that Benneton respects individualism......??? To paraphrase the text: teenagers around the globe, we all have so much in common. Why does the book only focus on the positive aspects of globalisation? I turned it into a debate on globalisation.
Layout:
It takes on 3 or 4 tenses all at once, this is really confusing for the students.
You have to teach the tenses separately first before moving on to the book, otherwise you get a row of puzzled faces and a bombardment of questions.
Teaching the tenses beforehand means coming up with your own materials... which I don't mind doing but I would like to be able to rely on my book sometimes as well.
A lot of the grammar questions that come up such as gap fills give a certain tense in the teacher's book, but there are various possibilites depending on the context and of course no context is given. So you end up telling three different students that their different answers are right and they all get confused and don't believe you any more. Or you end up checking the teacher's book to see which answer they had in mind and the students pipe up "you don't know the answer!".
Layout 2
It all seems to be in the wrong order. The questions that you would tend to use as a lead in, which usually involve personalisation tend to be exercise 4, after the reading text, as in the reading on the global teenager.
The vocabulary section at the end of the reading text comes too late also, the difficult words are correctly predicted but to deal with them at the very end after comprehension questions is pointless because you will already have explained them to help them understand.
Context
Sometimes the book is following a theme and then all of a sudden you get a random gap fill sentence that has nothing to with anything.
Directed at teens?
Published in 2000, chapter two talks about a range of science fiction films, most of which teens have never heard of. One is Bladerunner, there is also Star Trek, and a reading about Gillian Anderson from the X-files.
I am aware that at the time of writing and publishing the X-files was popular but not any more. Students had never heard of it.
Other films could have been used, Bladerunner is from way long ago, the students didn't know it and they were bored stiff. Star Wars.. ok. Star Trek... not really their cup of tea I must say.
Unless they could think of films that will always be popular with teenagers maybe the theme isn't the best one.
LISTENING
I did the listening from chapter 6 today. Questions 1 and 2 were the gist questions asking the students opinions about tattoos and then asking how they would react if their partner got a tattoo or a piercing. Then they had to listen to the tape and compare their answers with the person speaking's answers. It was a very long script and the questions weren't relevant to the script - so what happened? The students switched off.
I have some comments...
Advantages
Good idea to get them prepared for first certificate.
Interesting topics: Cloning
Disadvantages
Not interesting topics:
Chapter 4. Eclipses. It doesn't really give way to debate and is not really thought provoking.
Chapter 1 "the Global Teenager" Is this an ad for Benneton clothes? Why is there a picture of teenagers of different races all wearing Benneton clothes in different colours and then it says that Benneton respects individualism......??? To paraphrase the text: teenagers around the globe, we all have so much in common. Why does the book only focus on the positive aspects of globalisation? I turned it into a debate on globalisation.
Layout:
It takes on 3 or 4 tenses all at once, this is really confusing for the students.
You have to teach the tenses separately first before moving on to the book, otherwise you get a row of puzzled faces and a bombardment of questions.
Teaching the tenses beforehand means coming up with your own materials... which I don't mind doing but I would like to be able to rely on my book sometimes as well.
A lot of the grammar questions that come up such as gap fills give a certain tense in the teacher's book, but there are various possibilites depending on the context and of course no context is given. So you end up telling three different students that their different answers are right and they all get confused and don't believe you any more. Or you end up checking the teacher's book to see which answer they had in mind and the students pipe up "you don't know the answer!".
Layout 2
It all seems to be in the wrong order. The questions that you would tend to use as a lead in, which usually involve personalisation tend to be exercise 4, after the reading text, as in the reading on the global teenager.
The vocabulary section at the end of the reading text comes too late also, the difficult words are correctly predicted but to deal with them at the very end after comprehension questions is pointless because you will already have explained them to help them understand.
Context
Sometimes the book is following a theme and then all of a sudden you get a random gap fill sentence that has nothing to with anything.
Directed at teens?
Published in 2000, chapter two talks about a range of science fiction films, most of which teens have never heard of. One is Bladerunner, there is also Star Trek, and a reading about Gillian Anderson from the X-files.
I am aware that at the time of writing and publishing the X-files was popular but not any more. Students had never heard of it.
Other films could have been used, Bladerunner is from way long ago, the students didn't know it and they were bored stiff. Star Wars.. ok. Star Trek... not really their cup of tea I must say.
Unless they could think of films that will always be popular with teenagers maybe the theme isn't the best one.
LISTENING
I did the listening from chapter 6 today. Questions 1 and 2 were the gist questions asking the students opinions about tattoos and then asking how they would react if their partner got a tattoo or a piercing. Then they had to listen to the tape and compare their answers with the person speaking's answers. It was a very long script and the questions weren't relevant to the script - so what happened? The students switched off.
Future Will for Predictions - Quick Idea
Talk about:
Do you believe in horoscopes?
What starsign are you?
What are the characteristics of your starsign?
Now give out a copy of their horoscope from a previous day.
They read it and talk about whether or not it came true.
Now ask what form is used for making predictions?
WILL + INFINITE
Now ask them to write a prediction for another starsign.
I was surprised how much the teens enjoyed doing this, out of twelve students, three of them put "you will die"...
The book I'm using then moves on to compare will with other future tenses. By Upper Intermediate level there is no problem with the form, this is just to refresh on of the cases when "will" is used. No need to spend more time on it.
Later there will be exercises where they have to choose the correct form, this is easy for them during an exercise but the real test is whether they will remember to use it in the long term.
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As my book deals with the present continuous, going to and will for predictions I have included the next part of the lesson plan, but there could be different combinations of past tenses for camparison.
Present continuous
Ask the students to talk in pairs about what are their plans for the rest of the day. Put this on the board otherwise they won’t talk:
How are you getting home?
Who are you going to see?
What are you going to do the rest of the evening?
What time are you having dinner?
Highlight that we use the present continuous for definite plans and going to for intentions.
Give an example:
In August Im going to travel to Ireland
(but I don’t know exactly when and I havent bought my ticket yet)
In August Im spending a week in Asturias with some friends, we going camping.
(it’s a definite plan)
Brainstorm all the things you can do in BCN
Do the diary exercise:
Make a table with three columns DAY , ACTIVITY, WITH WHO
They have to make arrangements to meet a different person on each day and do a different activity.
If they are busy on that day they explain using the present continuous : "Sorry I can't, I'm going to the cinema with Juan..."
Feedback in o/c one or two, then talk in pairs about the plans they have made. Now move on to exercises where they have to choose either going to or present continuous.
Do you believe in horoscopes?
What starsign are you?
What are the characteristics of your starsign?
Now give out a copy of their horoscope from a previous day.
They read it and talk about whether or not it came true.
Now ask what form is used for making predictions?
WILL + INFINITE
Now ask them to write a prediction for another starsign.
I was surprised how much the teens enjoyed doing this, out of twelve students, three of them put "you will die"...
The book I'm using then moves on to compare will with other future tenses. By Upper Intermediate level there is no problem with the form, this is just to refresh on of the cases when "will" is used. No need to spend more time on it.
Later there will be exercises where they have to choose the correct form, this is easy for them during an exercise but the real test is whether they will remember to use it in the long term.
_________________________________________________
As my book deals with the present continuous, going to and will for predictions I have included the next part of the lesson plan, but there could be different combinations of past tenses for camparison.
Present continuous
Ask the students to talk in pairs about what are their plans for the rest of the day. Put this on the board otherwise they won’t talk:
How are you getting home?
Who are you going to see?
What are you going to do the rest of the evening?
What time are you having dinner?
Highlight that we use the present continuous for definite plans and going to for intentions.
Give an example:
In August Im going to travel to Ireland
(but I don’t know exactly when and I havent bought my ticket yet)
In August Im spending a week in Asturias with some friends, we going camping.
(it’s a definite plan)
Brainstorm all the things you can do in BCN
Do the diary exercise:
Make a table with three columns DAY , ACTIVITY, WITH WHO
They have to make arrangements to meet a different person on each day and do a different activity.
If they are busy on that day they explain using the present continuous : "Sorry I can't, I'm going to the cinema with Juan..."
Feedback in o/c one or two, then talk in pairs about the plans they have made. Now move on to exercises where they have to choose either going to or present continuous.
Future Perfect Simple and Future Perfect Continuous Lead in and discussion
Notes:
Discuss the items in the pictures and anything else you can think of that has changed, using the present perfect:
It has changed….
We have stopped ..ing ….
She has started wearing…
He/she/ithas become
(the pictures show an 80's television, an 80's mobile, computer, a picture of Madonna wearing a ridiculous hat and a group of friends in a bar. Next to it is a picture of a modern TV, mobile, PDA, Madonna now and a conversation on msn.)
After this they should discuss the following questions:
2) How has your life changed in the last 10 years?
How has your style of clothes and hair changed in the last 10 years?
How has your relationship with your parents changed? Do you have more freedom now?
Has your personality changed?
How has your taste in music changed?
Do you still have the same friends as you did when you were 5 or has this changed?
What things haven’t changed? What things have you been doing since you were little?
How long have you been doing your hobbies? How long have you known your friends?
Divide the white board down the middle and feedback their answers onto the board on the left had side. Make sure that they are in neat lines so that later on the right, you can put their future predictions adjacently.
e.g. Mobile phones have become smaller.
e.g. I have been playing the guitar for 8 years.
___________________________________________
Moving on to the future. Before giving out these questions for discussion give a couple of examples, adjacent and corresponding to their ideas that you will have put on the board:
e.g. Mobile phones have become smaller. ---- By the year 2020 mobile phones will have become microscopic
e.g. I have been playing the guitar for 8 years. ------ By the year 2020 I will have been playing the guitar for 21 years.
How will technology have changed?
How will mobile phones/fashion/television/meeting friends have changed?
Imagine what new gadgets will have been invented.
Now think about your life in the future.
By what year will you have graduated from university?
What work experience will you have already had?
Things that you do now:
How long will you have been practising your favourite sports and hobbies?
How long will you have known your current best friend?
How long will you have been learning English?
What things do you think you will be still interested in?
What other things will you have been doing for a long time?
Now feedback the rest of their ideas onto the board on the right hand side.
If they don't use the form, convert it before you put it up.
Elicit the form from their examples.
WILL + have been + past participle
WILL + have been + - ing
Now move on to the exercises from the worksheet in my previous blog.
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Afterwards: these are four hour classes and they get tired.
What do you think are the best inventions of this decade? What are the features of these products i.e. why are they good?
In groups think of a brilliant invention that will have been created by the year 2020?
What is the name of your company?
The marketing department for this product wants to start advertising now.
Design a poster for your product, promising that by the year 2020 we will have invented "such and such " and all features that it will have. Draw pictures.
- Before embarking on the future perfect simple and the future perfect continuous, get them to revise the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. This not only gets them to revise the tense but also gets them thinking along the lines of how the world will change in the future which will be the task where they have to use the target grammar.
- I've made a worksheet and when I have time to work out how to put attachments on this thing I will include it, for the moment I will describe it.
- I've been working on this lesson plan for 3 hours now, after waking up from my nap that I took when I arrived home from work exhausted. One of my teen students told me: teaching is easy, you just have to photocopy ; )
- Worksheet: They will discuss these things in groups of three.
Discuss the items in the pictures and anything else you can think of that has changed, using the present perfect:
It has changed….
We have stopped ..ing ….
She has started wearing…
He/she/ithas become
(the pictures show an 80's television, an 80's mobile, computer, a picture of Madonna wearing a ridiculous hat and a group of friends in a bar. Next to it is a picture of a modern TV, mobile, PDA, Madonna now and a conversation on msn.)
- This is a teens class, maybe with adults we could include some political topics like the Cold War and compare it to the so-called "war against terrorism".
- With adults there are so many more possibilities as they have lived for at least 2 decades, teens are still a bit young to notice that the world is changing.
After this they should discuss the following questions:
2) How has your life changed in the last 10 years?
How has your style of clothes and hair changed in the last 10 years?
How has your relationship with your parents changed? Do you have more freedom now?
Has your personality changed?
How has your taste in music changed?
Do you still have the same friends as you did when you were 5 or has this changed?
What things haven’t changed? What things have you been doing since you were little?
How long have you been doing your hobbies? How long have you known your friends?
Divide the white board down the middle and feedback their answers onto the board on the left had side. Make sure that they are in neat lines so that later on the right, you can put their future predictions adjacently.
e.g. Mobile phones have become smaller.
e.g. I have been playing the guitar for 8 years.
___________________________________________
Moving on to the future. Before giving out these questions for discussion give a couple of examples, adjacent and corresponding to their ideas that you will have put on the board:
e.g. Mobile phones have become smaller. ---- By the year 2020 mobile phones will have become microscopic
e.g. I have been playing the guitar for 8 years. ------ By the year 2020 I will have been playing the guitar for 21 years.
- The problem with teaching this language is that we don't always use it in this context and it's hard to avoid being unnatural, for example I had written "mobile phones will be microscope, then changed it to will have become for the purpose of the exericse".
- This is language that isn't used very often so it's quite difficult to provoke conversation using it.
Now think about the year 2020.
How will technology have changed?
How will mobile phones/fashion/television/meeting friends have changed?
Imagine what new gadgets will have been invented.
Now think about your life in the future.
By what year will you have graduated from university?
What work experience will you have already had?
Things that you do now:
How long will you have been practising your favourite sports and hobbies?
How long will you have known your current best friend?
How long will you have been learning English?
What things do you think you will be still interested in?
What other things will you have been doing for a long time?
Now feedback the rest of their ideas onto the board on the right hand side.
If they don't use the form, convert it before you put it up.
Elicit the form from their examples.
WILL + have been + past participle
WILL + have been + - ing
Now move on to the exercises from the worksheet in my previous blog.
________________________________
Afterwards: these are four hour classes and they get tired.
What do you think are the best inventions of this decade? What are the features of these products i.e. why are they good?
In groups think of a brilliant invention that will have been created by the year 2020?
What is the name of your company?
The marketing department for this product wants to start advertising now.
Design a poster for your product, promising that by the year 2020 we will have invented "such and such " and all features that it will have. Draw pictures.
Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous Exercises.
Lesson Notes:
This is really difficult to teach for the first time because you think you understand it until the students start asking questions. It also doesnt help when the rules in the book are general and the gap fill exercises they give are full or exceptions and it-depends-on-the-context type examples. Let that be a lesson to myself ... always know your material before you start using it otherwise you end up being bombarded with questions you can't answer... the only text books that I really can trust in without checking first are English File (layout is sometimes confusing) and Cutting Edge - the grammar analysis always leads them down the right path.
Future Perfect: Finished action in the future.
Will + have + past participle
e.g By November 2007 I will have had a baby. (the baby will be born in October)
Future Perfect Continuous: To talk about how long an action will have been in progress at a certain date in the future.
Will + have been + -ing
e.g. By July 2008 I will have been living here for 3 years.
e.g. By Thursday you will have been studying at Merit School for 9 days.
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Choose the correct option:
1) In August I’m going on holiday in Asturias for one week.
By September:
a) I will have been being in Asturias for a week.
b) I will have been to Asturias
c) I will be in Asturias.
2) I started playing the guitar in December 2004
By December 2007:
a) I will have played the guitar for 3 years
b) I will have been played the guitar for 3 years
c) I will have been playing the guitar for 3 years.
3) I am going to visit Tibidabo in 2 weeks’ time.
In 2 weeks and one day:
a) I will have visited Tibidabo
b) I will have been visiting Tibidabo for 1 day
c) I will visit Tibidabo
4) I met my friend Elaine in February of 2007*
By February 2008:
a) I will have been knowing her for 1 year
b) I will have known her for 1 year
c) I will know her for 1 year
5) I have been watching television for an hour ( I am watching a 2 hour film)
In 20 minutes’ time:
a) I will have been watching TV for 100 minutes.
b) I will have watched TV for 100 minutes.
c) I will have been seeing TV for 100 minutes.
*Verbs that hardly ever form a continuous form:
abhor adore astonish believe desire detest dislike doubt forgive hate imagine impress intend know like love mean
mind perceive please prefer presuppose realize recall recognize regard satisfy suppose understand
We never say “will have been being” – we say “will have been” even if it will not be a finished action. e.g. I will have been on this planet for 28 years by my next birthday.
This is really difficult to teach for the first time because you think you understand it until the students start asking questions. It also doesnt help when the rules in the book are general and the gap fill exercises they give are full or exceptions and it-depends-on-the-context type examples. Let that be a lesson to myself ... always know your material before you start using it otherwise you end up being bombarded with questions you can't answer... the only text books that I really can trust in without checking first are English File (layout is sometimes confusing) and Cutting Edge - the grammar analysis always leads them down the right path.
Future Perfect: Finished action in the future.
Will + have + past participle
e.g By November 2007 I will have had a baby. (the baby will be born in October)
Future Perfect Continuous: To talk about how long an action will have been in progress at a certain date in the future.
Will + have been + -ing
e.g. By July 2008 I will have been living here for 3 years.
e.g. By Thursday you will have been studying at Merit School for 9 days.
______________________________________________________
Choose the correct option:
1) In August I’m going on holiday in Asturias for one week.
By September:
a) I will have been being in Asturias for a week.
b) I will have been to Asturias
c) I will be in Asturias.
2) I started playing the guitar in December 2004
By December 2007:
a) I will have played the guitar for 3 years
b) I will have been played the guitar for 3 years
c) I will have been playing the guitar for 3 years.
3) I am going to visit Tibidabo in 2 weeks’ time.
In 2 weeks and one day:
a) I will have visited Tibidabo
b) I will have been visiting Tibidabo for 1 day
c) I will visit Tibidabo
4) I met my friend Elaine in February of 2007*
By February 2008:
a) I will have been knowing her for 1 year
b) I will have known her for 1 year
c) I will know her for 1 year
5) I have been watching television for an hour ( I am watching a 2 hour film)
In 20 minutes’ time:
a) I will have been watching TV for 100 minutes.
b) I will have watched TV for 100 minutes.
c) I will have been seeing TV for 100 minutes.
*Verbs that hardly ever form a continuous form:
abhor adore astonish believe desire detest dislike doubt forgive hate imagine impress intend know like love mean
mind perceive please prefer presuppose realize recall recognize regard satisfy suppose understand
We never say “will have been being” – we say “will have been” even if it will not be a finished action. e.g. I will have been on this planet for 28 years by my next birthday.
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