Home and away!

Discussion

• Do you have any experience of moving away from home? Talk about the details.
• What's the difference between living at home and at a dorm?
• What do you miss from your hometown the most?
• What difficulties may the foreign students face when they come to Taiwan?

Group Task

• Find 1 slang/ informal English
• Try to explain it and have an example sentence

Group Task

• Use the slangs you learned from your classmates to write one short conversation with your partners

junky

bumpy

Find colloquial words from social networking sites and explain them!

What tenses can you think of?

Questions

• Which sentence means that Diego was born and brought up in Mexico?
• Which sentence asks about something that started before the accident, and was in progress during it?
• In which sentence does the speaker sill live in Singapore?

Questions

• 4. Which event happened before they arrived, and which happened after?
• 5. In which sentence does dinner start at 8:00? In which sentence does it start before 8:00?

Questions

• 6. In which sentence is I’ the teacher/ student?
• 7. In which sentence is ‘you’ the decorator/ the house owner?
• 8. Which sentence refers to a temporary way of being/ a permanent characteristic?

Mountain ridges

Drive-thru ATMs

Humbling

Polling station

Absentee ballot

Upbeat

pomegranate

Modesty

Sludgy

Insecure

Sweeper

Vast

Tongue

Notorious

Slum

Beggar

Orphanage

Weathered

To get the better of sb.

To venture

Hordes of people

Fend for himself

Put up for

Shabby

Struck gold

Blankly

Grasping

Foul play

Bookrest

Tealight

Airbag

Doorway

Open house

Fire bell

make headway

Head office

Headrest

mug (v)

get the travel bug

lethal

staggered

pristine

dumped

flecks

soiling

clogging

swamped

swirling

gobbled

impose

'make' & 'do'

make

• producing sth. : make a dress
• plans: make a decision
• speaking and sounds: make a comment
• food and drink: make coffee

do

• not specified action, often used with 'what, nothing, anything': What are you doing?
• a task when no object is produced: do the dishes

do away with

could do with sth

do sth over

do without sth

make sth up

What do you make of sb?

make up for sth

make off with sth

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Answers

• The pyramids of Giza
• Berlin
• The mall in Washington, DC
• The Taj Mahal in Agra

Suite

Efficiency villa

Wind turbines

Spoil

Group Task - trip planning

• The expressions in exercise 1 and 4 on p.17 ( two of each) to describe your place.
• your company's name, target customer (age, gender, education, etc) , price
• Why are you better than your competitor?
• Draw on a poster and present to class!

Group Task

• Plan an itinerary and a budget for a two-week trip
• Use the expressions in exercise 1 and 4 on p.17 ( two of each) to describe your place. Make up a name for your company!
• Who is your target customer?
• Why are you better than your competitor?
• Design a poster and present to the class!

Group Task

• Ecotourism Holidays
• Wildlife and Nature Holidays
• African Safari Holidays
• Luxury Tailor Made Honeymoons
• Wellness & Spa Holidays
• Cultural Holidays
• Family Holidays
• Cruise Holidays

In which sentence...

• did the reader finish the book?
• gives the action in order? did the speaker start serving the hors d'oeuvres before the last guests arrived? were they already served?
• did they miss the start of the movie?
• did he steal repeatedly?
• was the car repair finished?

tycoon

crowbar

paramedic

gash

gaze

Answer

• 1.The story takes place in a town. “The balcony was on the tenth floor of the high-rise block next to his” ou “His flat was on the ninth floor”. 2. Two characters actually appear in the scene, Lydia Simpson, a girl trying to kill herself (commit suicide) and a man who called the police. 3. The story takes place early in the morning. “It was half past six in the morning” “he had awakened “ “he had gone out of bed to look” “This sunrise time”

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Detailed comprehension

• 4. What did the man see when he looked out of the window? 5. What were his two first interpretations of the scene? 6. a) Pick out three words from the text to justify the second interpretation. b) Pick out three expressions showing that the situation was really serious. c) “The girl was not even a real girl but a dummy”. Choose the correct definition of the word “dummy”. Is it a stupid looking person? An object that looks like a person? A man dressed like a girl?

vanishing

deserted

Answer

• 4. The man saw a figure hanging from a balcony / clinging from a balcony / a woman trying to kill herself. 5. First he thought he was dreaming because he had just awakened and he couldn’t believe it. Then he thought it was a scene in a film (probably a stunt). 6. a) a stunt, a scene in a film, a whole film unit b) “clutching its anchorage more tightly, more desperately” “The girl was trying to kill herself” “She was trying to stay alive” c) a dummy is an object that looks like a person

clutching

nerve

ultimate

Detailed comprehension

• 7. After the event , how did the neighbours behave towards the man? (2 arguments) Why ? 8. Right or wrong? Justify your answer by quoting the text. a) The man enjoyed people’s reactions very much. b) Other people did their best to help the girl. c) He hadn’t expected her to be untroubled. 9. Explain in your own words what the girl has come for. (20 words)

alert

wear off

Answer

• 7. He became a hero because he had saved the girl’s life. They talked about him, pointed at him, and congratulated him. 8. Right or wrong? a) wrong “He was a modest quiet young man and disliking the limelight “ or “ he was relieved when the talk began to die away”. b) wrong “But no one else did” c) right “She was calm and tranquil, not at all his idea of a failed suicide” 9. She came to thank him because he had saved her. She must have realized she didn’t really want to do it, so she was grateful to him.

impending

curator

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• 10. What is the man’s state of mind during this conversation? Choose one adjective and explain in your own words. Use words from the text to support your explanation. (about 30 words) Delighted relieved uncomfortable scared scornful rude

a cliffhanger

weigh down

Echo questions

plugged in

curl up in bed

convert (n)

trailer

vibrate

cost a fortune

stream a movie

on a big scale

heavy

a stuffy room

frantic

Vegetarian

atheist

insomniac

dyslexics

pacifist

naturist

Lies

• A white lie
• A fib ( a small unimportant lie)
• A practical joke
• Get something off your best ( to tell sb sth has has worried you for a long time)
• Home truth ( an unpleasant true about yourself that another person tells you)
• A wrongdoer ( e.g. a sinner, a transgressor)

Studious

diehard

Make my blood run cold

Root for

scarred for life

Temptation

abduct

mussels

Au pair

Meekly

Be stranded

fiendish

buy into

fluttering

Describe a restaurant you've been to!

• the food
• the service
• the environment/ atmosphere
• the price
• the location

Reviews for the restaurant

• Please write a summary of the reviews
• You'll see many reviews from 'Google Map', 'TripAdvisor', etc.
• Use 'reporting verbs'!

snowdrift

hibernation

plunge (v.)

emaciated

scrape

hypothermia

elk

Question 1

• According to the expert, why could he survive?

igloo effect

• the insulation provided by walls of snow on a body due to the air pockets within it which keeps the temperature from dropping below zero degrees

Question 2

• How can igloo effect be applied to the real life?

fluffy ski jackets

Answers

• Who wrote it?
• What kind of book is it?
• What's it about?
• Where and when is it set?
• Who are the main characters?

Answers

• Has it been made into a movie?
• How does it end?
• Would you recommend it?
• What did the critics say about it?
• Has it won any awards?

Add at least 20 adverbs into the paragraph!

A story of my life begins with...

The clinging woman

Please predict how the story will end, and talk to another group.

Questions

• Does the story take place in a town ? in the country? Find two quotations from the text.
• How many characters actually appear in the passage? Who are they?
• What time of the day does the story take place? Find two elements from the text.

Answer

• The story takes place in a town. “The balcony was on the tenth floor of the high-rise block next to his” or “His flat was on the ninth floor” and “the car park, paved courts, grass spaces between the blocks"

Answer

• 2. Two characters -
• Lydia Simpson is a girl trying to kill herself (commit suicide)
• a man who called the police

Answer

• 3. The story takes place early in the morning. “It was half past six in the morning” “he had awakened “ “he had gone out of bed to look” “This sunrise time”

Questions

• 4. What did the man see when he looked out of the window?
• 5. a) What were his two first interpretations of the scene? Pick out three words from the text to justify the second interpretation.
• b) “The girl was not even a real girl but a dummy”. Definition?

Answer

• 4. The man saw a figure hanging from a balcony / clinging from a balcony / a woman trying to kill herself.

Slimmer and tapered pants

Taper

Answer

• 5. a) First he thought he was dreaming because he had just awakened and he couldn’t believe it. Then he thought it was a scene in a film, probably a stunt.

Bring in the shoulder,
button it up ( top button)

Answer

• 5. b) A dummy is an object that looks like a person.

Questions

• 6.After the event , how did the neighbours behave towards the man? Why ?
• 7. What's the girl's visit like?

Even shirt cuffs

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Answer

• 6. He became a hero because he had saved the girl’s life. They talked about him, pointed at him, and congratulated him.

Answer

• 7. The young man is uncomfortable . It is said “His embarrassment was acute” or “He said with a nervous smile” or “He said desperately”. He didn’t want the neighbours to hear or come out because he would be in the limelight again.

Discussion

• What's the genre of this short story?
• How do you feel about this story?
• Interview the author- Invent questions and answers that hopefully explain the reasons why the author created such work.

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Slimmer, tapered pants
( avoid wrinkles)

Tapered haircut

Being in the shoulder,
button it up ( top button)

Even shirt cuffs

Monstrosity

Slimmer tie (brown and blue tie), a tie bar

Antonyms in understatement

• Understatement - when the English speakers try to be tactful, or humorous and ironic.
• Responding and agreeing

Not too short, too slick hair

Examples

• That was a ‘boring’ movie.
• He’s a little ‘quiet’, don’t you think?
• Yes, he isn’t ‘ the most talkative’ person in the world.
• Yes, ‘I’ve met more polite’ people.

Lay off the bronzer

What are the prefixes for negative meaning?

List some examples with the following prefixes

• un-
• dis-
• il-
• im-
• ir-

Pokémon

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Which one to use with which adjective?

• un- the most common
• dis-verbs, nouns, adjectives
• il- adjectives beginning with ‘l’
• im-with ‘p’ or ‘m’
• ir- with ‘r’

Task

• The summary of the movie trailer-
• Predict the whole story of the movie

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Echo question