Wednesday 19th November
Hello!
It seems you are rather lazy and you don’t look on the blog!
You wrote the questions for the quiz but not all
of you took the time to find the questions and the answers. Do you think these
questions: Where’s ‘moussaka’ typical from? Where’s roast beef from? Where’s ‘chili
con carne’ from? etc.
Are suitable (appropriate) for a Pre-intermediate
level?
And what about the second part of the homework?
Who’s writing the story? Except Noelia, nobody
did. I’m afraid you aren’t working very hard…
Don’t expect to get points for this!
We corrected the questions you wrote for the quiz.
Then, we did a communication activity in pairs.
We are going to study English abroad. We can
choose among four different places where English is spoken: New Zealand, the
USA, the UK and South Africa.
We had four advertisements describing the kind
of journey or holiday we would have. In pairs you decide on the
country and type of journey you wanted to have. We had to talk about advantages and disadvantages of the
different courses. You could use sentences like these:
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I would like to go to New Zealand because doing bungee jumping, skiing
and rafting sound fun; but whale watching sounds boring.
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I wouldn’t like to go to New Zealand because I think the best English is
spoken in the UK.
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I agree.
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I don’t agree with you. I think you have to learn to understand different
accents and different people.
Expressions for Agreeing and Disagreeing
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Stating an opinion
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In my opinion...
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According to Lisa...
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As far as I'm concerned...
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If you ask me...
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Asking for an opinon
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What's your idea?
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Do you have anything to say about this?
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What do you think?
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Do you agree?
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Expressing agreement
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I agree with you 100 percent.
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I couldn't agree with you more.
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That's so true.
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That's for sure.
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(slang) Tell
me about it!
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You're absolutely right.
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Absolutely.
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Exactly.
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(agree with negative
statement) Me neither.
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Expressing disagreement
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I don't think so.
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(strong) No way.
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(strong) I
totally disagree.
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Not necessarily.
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That's not always true.
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Interruptions
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Can I add something here?
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Sorry to interrupt, but...
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(after accidentally interrupting someone) Sorry, go ahead. OR Sorry,
you were saying...
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(after being interrupted) You didn't let me finish.
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Settling an argument
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I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.
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(sarcastic) Whatever you say./If you say so.
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Noelia played the audios from her group of ‘WhatsApp’
and we tried to understand what they were talking about. I had to translate for
you!
We finished the class watching
a video on the history of ‘Thanksgiving Day’, although ‘Thanksgiving’ is next
Thursday 27th this year!
GAME 8
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Player 1
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4
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Player 2
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6
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Player 3
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3
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Player 4
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6
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Player 5
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3
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Player 6
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3
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Player 7
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4
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I hope somebody continues the story…
…have a nice weekend!
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