Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Verb patters : Ing / To Inf


1- What's the song about?

2- Discuss the meaning of these lines and the menaing of the highlighted words:

I guess you'd call it cowardice 
But I'm not prepared to go on like this 

You can call it lack of confidence 
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense 

But you'll be sorry when I'm dead 
And all this guilt will be on your head


I guess you'd call it suicide 
But I'm too full to swallow my pride


3- Complete this pattern with your own ideas.

I can't stand .......................................


4- Watch the video and complete these lines 

DON’........................ LIKE DANCIN’, .....................’
EVEN IF I FIND NOTHIN BETTER TO DO
DON’T FEEL ............................... DANCIN’, DANCIN’
WHY’D YOU BREAK DOWN WHEN I’M NOT IN THE MOOD?
................................ FEEL LIKE DANCIN’, DANCIN’
RATHER BE HOME WITH NO ONE WHEN I CANT GET DOWN WITH YOU


5- Complete tis pattern with your own words .

I don't feel like ...........................................


Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Confessions - Reported Speech practice


Confessions 

1-Watch the first part of the video ( up to 0.48'') and decide if these statements are True or False.

  • Dominic works at a five-star hotel.
  • Video Games celebrities go to his bar to have a drink.
  • Bartenders are used to hearing people's secrets.
  • He didn't know who Lara Croft was.
  • When Lara Croft came in he noticed she looked different.

2-Listen and decide who says what:  B bartender - LC Lara croft

Did you anyhting to your hair?
There is something different.
What is it different?
I got a breast reduction.
What convinced you to do such a thing
I never wanted it anyway.

3-Turn the sentences above  into reported speech.

4-Describe Lara's look before the video makeover.

5- Turn these sentences into direct speech.
they said that she needed to be improved.
they said she had to be enhanced.
they told her that with every game her breast had to become bigger.

6- Choose the correctoption 

  • By the first / second / third game her breasts looked gigantic.
  • After the reduction they had a normal size/ very small size
  • By the last game she had got a terrible size/ decent size
  • The smaller the breast were the less / more successful the games were.
  • Lara felt destroyed by  cruel publcity/ poor success