Monday 1 April 2024

HOMEWORK for Monday 8 April 2024

 Read the text using this link. Below pls find the words to be explained.






Wednesday 20 March 2024

HOMEWORK for Monday 26 March 2024

 Read a short story using this link. See the words to be explained below.


DISCUSS GHOSTS AND SUPERSTITION

1.     Do you believe in ghosts?

2.     Have you ever seen a ghost?

3.     Do you believe people who claim that they have seen a ghost?

4.     Do you believe that houses can be haunted? Have you ever been to one?

5.     Do you believe your ancestors are watching you?

6.     What are some superstitions?

7.     What are some things that are considered unlucky?

8.     What are some things that are considered lucky?

9.     Do you read your horoscope? If so, do you believe it?


Wednesday 6 March 2024

HOMEWORK for Monday 11 March 2024

Read a short story called Driftwood using this link. It is with audio, so you can also listen to it. Answer these questions:

    1.    What was Jim's first reaction, when the lights went out?
    2.    How did he think the dogs had got into the garden?
    3.    Why did Jim decide to go over to the dunes?
    4.    Why did he not take a torch with him?
    5.    What did he see beyond the dunes, when he got to the top?
    6.    Why did Tom come over to the Dunes?
    7.    How did Tom know that Jim was on the Dunes?
    8.    Why did the two men go back to Jim's house?
    9.    What did they do when they got there?
    10.    What happened to the Dutch barque mentioned by Tom?

 

The words to be explained:



Friday 9 February 2024

Friday 2 February 2024

HOMEWORK for Monday 5 February 2024

Read the text about unusual adjectives (informal adjectives) using this link. Below pls find the words to be explained.



Listen

listen 

discuss art

 


3 words game

 


What is Art?

Friday 26 January 2024

HOMEWORK for 29 January 2024

Read a text about unusual adjectives using this link. You can also listen to the text. Pls find the words to be explained below.




Conversation Activities

1. Why do you think slang exists?
2. Give some examples of informal words or slang in Finnish?
3. How do you think slang is learned?
4. Why are informal words easier to learn than formal ones?
5. Will new informal words be added to language in the future?


This or that

 


Listen

listen 

John Denver - Annie's Song

Debate: love

 


Friday 19 January 2024

HOMEWORK for Monday 22 January 2024

LIFE: Read the text 3c Appropriate technology on page 39 and answer the questions 2, 3 and 4 on page 38. Below please find the words to be explained.

Appropriate technology is an ideological movement that involves small-scale, labor-intensive, energy efficient, environmentally sound, people-centered, and locally controlled projects.


GRAMMAR
: Future tenses handout - do the first 10 sentences.



KEY FOR TENSES HANDOUT:





Appropriate technology. The Geographer’s Dictionary.

Stephen Sanchez performs 'Until I Found You' | The One Show - BBC

Friday 12 January 2024