Friday, October 20, 2006

Money, money, money … Summary 17 October 2006

After two weeks of holiday everybody was full of enthusiasm and curious about the evening. As usual we learnt lots of interesting and useful things. I will note the most important points.

At the beginning we made a brainstorming about weather words and expressions such as “a cloud on the horizon”, “to be snowed under”, “to freeze your buns off” and more. Then we could hardly wait to talk to each other about our absolutely marvellous and awesome holidays. Illya listed a few expressions for the reason that we could not only talk about our “nice holidays” but also about our incredibly enjoying time we had.

After that we continued with a class activity which consisted of a very ordinary but useful topic: time and money. Every student got either a comment or an answer and everyone had to look for his or her partner. As all had found each other we got a work sheet which we answered with our partners.

Before doing the listening part in our books (p. 18) we made an oral exercise. The task was to compare three pictures (which were taken about 50 years ago) with the present. Then the very interesting listening exercise followed, it was about time capsules. The text was quite funny, it was unbelievable what a particular Dr Thornwell Jacobs put in his time capsule for our posterity (e.g. kitchen utensils, a Donald Duck doll, fruit made of papier maché or beer).

At the end we got to know useful things about how to write a formal or an informal letter. We had to put together two dissected letters and try to find out which one the informal and the formal letter was. In order to not forget these differences we noted the most important expressions in our notebooks (e.g. I’m writing to ask you a favour. è informal / I have a further request. è formal)

Homework:

- Writing task: complete the formal letter (B) on the worksheet about Timson’s Historical Tours and finish both letters. Write it on the backside of the sheet.

- Book p. 20: Language focus 1: study the meaning of tenses

- Book p. 23: Reading: check your speed rate (section 1: ca. 178 words)

- If you have enough time: book, p. 27

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