Are you Worried About your Health?

Wednesday 20^th May

Hi girls! How are you doing?

We finished talking about obligation and prohibition in our last class.(At least for the moment).

Is there anything you have to do today?

What don’t you need to do?

What can’t you do?

·         I have to do the shopping! My husband told me there’s no milk!

·         I must wash my hair. It looks awful!

·         I don’t have to water the plants. My husband watered them yesterday.

·         I mustn’t forget to tell the kids to finish their homework. They have to do it!

Then, we started talking about our worries.

How important is it for you to keep fit (do exercise)?

How worried are you about your health (the opposite of ill)?

  According to the questionnaire we did in pairs, we don’t seem to be very worried about our health. It’s OK with you because you’re young, but I should! I’m getting on in years (getting old)!

Some of you are desperately worried and unable to sleep about being fat! Don’t do that! It’s equally (the same) worrying being too thin!

You aren’t worried at all about watching too much TV or eating too much junk food.

I’m not sure if it’s because you don’t watch TV or eat fast food, or because you just don’t care!

These are the useful expressions we learnt:

1.    I’m not worried at all about …

2.    She’s a bit worried about …

3.    He’s worried about …

4.    They’re very worried about …

5.    We’re desperately worried and unable to sleep about 

These served us to learn quantifiers.

Study the chart below:

		Big Quantities	Small quantities
Singular / uncountable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Little /(very)little
	-	much
	?	How much?
Plural / countable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Few/ (very) few
	-	many
	?	How many?

“Much” and its compounds for singular; “many” and its compounds for plural.

·           “Too” before an adjective. He is too young to drive. He’s only 16.

·           “Too much” singular/uncountable nouns. There’s too much milk. Don’t buy more. It’ll go off!

·           “Too many” plural/countable nouns. There are too many chairs in this room. Take two to the other room, please.

·           “enough” before nouns. Are there enough photocopies for everybody?

                   After adjectives. Are you hot enough? Shall I turn the heating up?

“very”, just an opinion. “too”, often with a negative connotation.

·         That boy is very tall.

·         That boy is too tall. If he continues growing up like that, he may have problems with his bones in the future.

click here for exercises.click here for exercises too much/ too many/ enough

And we finished with the song ‘Shower’ by Becky g

Remember that this is an example of ‘slang.’ This way of speaking is colloquial. This is how young people and teenagers speak among them or at home but it isn’t correct.

Why did you laugh when I said ‘tira pa’ llá’ in Spanish and didn’t you laugh at ‘outta’ which is ‘out of’? So, use the ‘English’ you learn in songs with caution (care)!

Remember to prepare some material for ‘Flipped class’, where you become the teachers and we swap (change) with other groups. The topic is ‘summer’. Prepare some materials or games. NO CROSSWORDS OR WORDSEARCHES! You can explain the students what ‘Midsummer’s night’ is and how it’s celebrated in the UK. You can teach them vocabulary related to summer and holidays. You can teach them how to write a postcard to a friend from their holiday resort etc.

And that was it!!!!

                 GAME 6                                                                                                             

Player 1	---
Player 2	7
Player 3	8
Player 4	7
Player 5	8
Player 6	9

See you on Wednesday