Week 11: December 21st, 2022- Good environmental news and Christmas!

 

- We exchanged our sentences connected to the film Don't Look Up and our present reality using speculative language.

- We saw a piece of good  news on biodiversity with the video How wolves change rivers.

- We moved on to a more Christmassy activity and we saw two different videos that we had to describe to the classmate that hadn'r seen them: Coca Cola Christmas Commercial and Mog's Christmas Calamity Sainsbury's Ad.

- We didn't have time for our Christmas Carol Deck the Halls.

Homework: 

- We're going to look for a piece of good environmental news (here you have a site you may want to check) or any other kind of news you find interesting. Remember: read or watch about it, get notes with the main facts and ideas you want to transmit and be ready to tell us on the first day after holidays.

- You can also prepare a presentation about the dangerous situation you have been into, paying attention to the use of narrative tenses and about the film we saw.

- You also have the grammar worksheet on future perfect and continuous with two exercises.

Very happy holidays and merry Christmas for all of you. Have a very happy New Year and receive my best wishes

Week 10: December 14th, 2022- Speculation with the film Don't Look Up

 

- We warmed up explaining our long weekend and the plans we have for the holidays.

- We saw the second vocabulary worksheet of the film Don't Look Up, with extracts from the script.

- We revised the grammar to speculate with some grammar explanation and exercises.

- We completed a gapped text of a video with Leonardo DiCaprio explainig the film.

Homework:

- I want you to use speculation modals (will, may, might, won't) and other language: bound to, probably... to talk about: comet, life on Earth, Bronteroes, the new planet (connected to the film) and temperatures, water, food production, energy use and pollution (connected to our reality)

Week 9: November 30th, 2022- Second part of Don't Look Up

 

- We talked about the different cards that we had read about: Space X, Blue Origin. allegory, Meta, rare earth elements... that were connected to the film.

- We had a look at a worksheet with some language from the first part of the film

- We saw the film's trailer that featured the song Don't Bring Me Down we had worked on in the last class.

- We saw the second part of the film and commented on it.

- Homework: you are going to think about the film and plan a review on it that you can record and send to me.

- If you're interested in some special part, here you have the script of the film.