Thursday, October 30

1C. Family

- Vocabulary: Personality adjectives (p. 146)
  • Watch the first 15 minutes of the film Four Weddings and a Funeral with Hugh Grant and define the main characters’ personality (Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Scarlett, the Scottish, the bearded man)
  • Pair crossword

- Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns (p.15)

  • They're looking at themselves. (Mary is looking at herself in the mirror; John is looking at himself in the mirror)
  • They are looking at each other. (one another)

- Listening & Speaking (p. 15): What’s your personality according to your position in the family?

- Listening (language laboratory): Agatha Christie and her mystery work.
Useful vocabulary: gloves, furniture, stormy night, flamboyant, absent-minded, well-manered.

- Extra point: Both ... and / Either... or / Neither... nor
Both of us / Both of them

Both Mary and Ann are nice. (or Both girls are nice)
Either Mary or Ann will get the prize.
Neither of us agreed with the President.