We usually start our time together talking about our (mainly) cultural experience in the previous week. We will also do some other warming-up activities.
‘Talking’ means just that – but also looking at the words you need, nicer words for the ones you think of – and so on. You can tell me what you would likte to do – and see if other people agree with you!
as well as for learning in such good moods during 2018!
I can already recommend the film RBG. We read about Ruth Bader Ginsburg last year and I also sent you an article about her.
You have all been looking at different short stories that are available in bilingual editions – so we’ll see which of them you recommend for reading when we meet on Jan 8th 2019.
I’ll be bringing with me Jack London’s ‘Call of the Wild’ a Penguin Active Reader called ‘Mysteries of the Unexplained’. The first is fiction and you’ve probably heard of it, the second is a bunch of articles about different phenomena which, despite our growing knowledge of science, are still unexplained – so it’s non-fiction. In the course if 2019 we’ll certainly read both.
In addition, you have the ‘Rebel Girls’ at home. Perhaps you would like to read and discuss a few more. After all this is where I first met RBG and Maria Reiche of the Nazca lines, which come up again in ‘Mysteries of the Unexplained’.
I’ll give you a sequence of numbers: 1,3,5,7 and ask you what is the next one.
The consequence of reading a lot is knowing about a lot of books.
Kids like consistent teachers. They only threaten with things they really also do.
Kids are well-served by consistent parents who always stick to the same rules.
If you practise most things consisently they you get better at them, sometimes more quickly than others.
If we consistently eat far too much the consequence is sure to be getting fat.
If we consistently practise a few words the consequence will be that most of you remember most of them.
What is the consequence of jogging consistently every morning?
What is the consequence of consistently eating only sweet stuff?
Discuss your answers in the big group: ……………………………….
a) She won a lot of money in the lottery so she is very …………….
b) She has met the man of her life so she is very …………….
d) They say that the people who live in Bhutan are the …………… st in the world.
f) The question is, who should have the ………………….., the government or the people.
h) In some countries men are more ………………… than women and in other societies is it the opposite.
I) It takes a ……………. will to train to swim from Calais to Dover.
m) Some people who are …………….ful have great strength of mind.
B U T you need a powerful engine in your car or your boat in order to be able to move very fast.
3. Chapter One of your book – questions and exercises!
4. Is there anyone out there?
This question is the subject of a 23-minute programme called ‘The Inquiry’ on the BBC World Service.
We’ll listen to the last two minutes.
21 11 pilosphical questions….There are even more esoteric questions to consider, too, he says.
“If we did discover alien life, what effect would that have on religion?
Well, no-one has any answers … (Who should get together?) Astronomers, philosophers, anthropologists, politicians together 22.01 …talking about these problems.
For next week (22nd ) please read chapter two – Do you know of any more examples?
It’s an old question, but despite many estimates …that our own Milky Way galaxy could contain up to a million alien civilisations, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence begun in 1961 has so far failed. This week on The Real Story we ask a panel of space scientists: are we any closer to finding extra-terrestrial life? What new approaches are showing promise? How will we know if we’ve found it? And what might that life be like?
that, after a 25-year pause, the US Congress will mandate NASA to spend ten million dollars a year, for the next two years, renewing the search.
For January 29th please read chapter three. We warmed up today with the story about Nessie – or not about Nessie. I’ll bring you the text you listened to, next week. Or post it here.
Of course if you want to contrast brave and ………………….. that is also different in German and English.
Which words do you know for the opposite of brave (Engl.) ………………………..
What about adventurous, daring and gutsy?
There is also confident, of course.
And the opposites: afraid, diffident, spineless, weak…..and many more.
dutiful = pflichtbewußt usw , and also prissy = zimperlich, brav, überkorrekt but I would have translated that as something like ‘far tooo good’ (horrible!) spießig.
For Feb 5th we are returning to the story of strange disappearances. Please read the photocpies of part of an Agatha Christie story that I gave you. We’ll start the last few pages together without a translation in class and then you can finish it yourselves at home.
The un………………. ones have to flee or migrate.
I used an impolite word to describe Bourbon whisky meaning it doesn’t taste good in the mouth. (Gaumen = palate). We might also say that we find it imp……………. to have certain parties in parliament or certain people as President of USA.
For March 5th you read chapters 5 and 6.
For March 12th we’ll be finishing off the whole book about Mysteries of the Unexplained – and possibly starting to talk about the gold rush and/or husky and other working dogs before starting to read and to listen to ‘Call of the Wild’ by Jack London (level three Oxford Bookworm).
You will work from photocopies but also listening to some chapters without reading (unless you want to).
NB no class on April 2nd Read chapters 1 – 4 of Call of the WIld. You can listen here: Each listening unit is one chapter.