4A 30 · Thursday 16 January 2014
Hiya! Here’s our usual summary of our latest class. On Thursday 16 we started with some practice on the use of so and neither/nor to express coincidence with what one just heard. We played a domino game in which we had to use both forms of agreement (and forms of disagreement too), and then we projected a few pictures and tried to find things in common between them. On Dropbox you can find worksheets for both activities:
- the ‘so do I’ dominoes (now it’s a worksheet for you to provide responses to agree or disagree with each of the sentences), and
- the exercise in which we tried to find things in common between a saucepan and a coin (e.g. a saucepan is metallic, and so is a coin), between the Sphinx and a pyramid, between a car and a pram (see picture), etc.
After this, we corrected half of the questions in the worksheet with sets of words that you had to put in order. We’ll finish correcting that on Tuesday, and we’ll probably use a few of those questions to do some speaking practice in pairs.
During the second half of the class, we did the exercises on the first page of unit 1C, on humour. Rob was with us and help us explain the meaning of the new words and expressions in those exercises, and then played us this video of a beer commercial (we’ll probably watch it again next week):
(You can find a selection of funny quotes from this commercial here and here. Some of them are really funny!)
For homework, you have to do a listening exercise from page 13 (exercise 3): you have to listen to 3 different jokes (audio files on Dropbox) and match them with the pictures in that exercise. When you’ve finished, please rate the jokes from ‘very funny’ to ‘I didn’t get it’ 🙂 . You can also read the text on the next page (‘Sense of humour failure’): on Tuesday we’ll discuss it in class.
That’s all, friends, see you next Tuesday!
Regretably, I have to say that the accent of our friendly and sympathetic American friend is almost incomprehensible for me. Surprisingly, I am terrible sorry to say that it is hard to figure out what he means. Last Thursday I couldn´t laugh with his joke and his video. Now I am really dissapointed and stressed. His accent are driving me crazy.
Hello. Jesús, I have looked though on Dropbox to see the copy about the domino game in which we had to use both forms of agreement “neither/nor and so”, but I have not found it. Where is it?
Thank you. See you tomorrow.
Hi M José! I put it in the ‘worksheets’ folder. Have you tried there? I modified it a little, but the sentences are the ones we used in the dominoes. Hope this helps, cheers!