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• TV report about the best 100 films between 1960 and 2000
  • Films considered the greatest ever
  • AFI’s (American Film Institute) 100 movies
  • The best asian films of all times

• Song: Verdi cries (Natalie Merchant) Video – Lyrics
• Homophones
• Ways of walking
• Body movements
• Book “Total English”
• • Exercise 4 “Who did it first?” (page 10), and exercise 8 (page 11)
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Learn English by watching videos at “yappr.com”

• Boomtown rats, Bob Geldorf 1979   Video –Youtube – Lyrics This  song song was  inspired in a real fact
• Ways of looking
  • frown – stare – peep – wink – glance – blink – peer – glare – gaze – glimpse
  • “Peeping Tom”, the legeng
• Homonyms: homophones and homographs
• Passive voice: “problem areas” and some grammar rules
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Writing exercise: write a formal letter claiming the rights of a member of your family or an acquaintance who was imprisoned during the Spanish civil war.  Narrate what happened (use as many passives, inversions, etc. as possible), and state exactly what you are claiming: money, a pension, public admitttance of lack of guilt….)

• Song:   Lloyd Cole and the commotions: Grace Video – Lyrics
• Exercise: “Human sounds”
• Personality test: “How moral are you?”
• Adjectives: use four adjectives to describe
  • your favourite colour
  • your favourite animal
  • an empty room
  • your favourite body water (sea, lake, river, ocean…)
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The animals: don’t let me be misunderstood Video – Lyrics

The animals: the house of the rising sun Video – Lyrics

Game: quiz about the Passive Voice

• In 1984 the League was won by Barça with T.Venables as coach:
• Mole is eaten in Mexico
• A Formula-1 car was being driven by Ayrton Senna when he died
• Prince Charles is going to be crowned as the king of England
• “flu” can’t be caught at the North Pole
• Singapur has been called the “Switzerland” of Asia
• Jane Wyman had been married to Ronald  Reagan before he came president of the US
• The “House of spirits” was written by Isabel Allende
• Morse code is sent with “dots” and “dashes”
• “???” is the most popular Xmas carol of German origin to be sung with

The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks, or pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as “dots” and “dashes” or “dits” and “dahs”.

• Song: Blondie, “Picture this” Video – Lyrics
• “Parts of the body” expressions
  • How could you be so heartless?
  • I stuck my neck out and told the truth about…
  • What a brainwave, your brilliant idea of selling goldfish on the internet…
  • We see eye to eye on almost everythin
  • your ex-boyfriend was a real pain in the neck
  • You must be out of your mind if you think I’m paying that…
  • The Gaudí Center in Reus is a real eyesore
  • That’s right: you’ve put your finger on it
  • “Don’t be cheeky!” told me, but I was only trying to be nice, not to flirt…
  • Mind your business, nosy little person…
  • That’s a seriously hair-raising ride
  • I really put my foot in it…she didnt know anything yet
• Find out about me (Student A / B)
• Song: Counting Crows Holiday in Spain  Video – Lyrics
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•  (ISBN Total English 978-84-983-7035-5)
• Leo Sayer:  “When I need you” Video – Lyrics
• Exercise: “Join up the sentence halves”
  • to be impressed by – there was a conspiracy against... – …imprisoned for spying for the Russians – …pleaded for leniency – …participate in all the activities… – …sheltered   from all contact… – …you are labouring under a false impression – …lord it over…- …credited with a lot of money -…suspected  of taking money…- access to the information – …strike for reduced working hours – …obsessed with his new car – …angry with the secretary – …a study of early lexicography – …an international protest against the invasion… – he kept aloof from… – …made a dreadful impression on the committee – …exercise control over the work-force – …argument between…
• Total English, page 9. Exercise 1
  • 1-I haven’t a clue (pista) 2– I don’t know off the top of my head (without thinking about it for very long) 3– I’m pretty sure 4-I’ve never heard of him 5-I know it like the back of my hand 6-I don’t know offhand (así, de pronto) 7-I know it by heart  8-I know it inside out (every detail of it) 9-I know next to nothing 10-I haven’t the faintest idea 11-I’m fairly positive 12-I’m certain
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• For tuesday: Total English, page 10 “Who did it? and read text page 13

• Song: Rod Steward: “I was only joking”
• Study: how would you speak if you…?” (synonims of “say, speak”
  • exclaimed – fumed – pleaded – snapped – reiterated – drawled – bawled – asserted – mumbled – protested – moaned – burst out – demanded – enquired – affirmed – swore – recited
• Colloquial language: some idioms
  • it was a write-off – it’s a bit of a sore point – it wasn’t to be sniffed at – it was a humdinger – it was a bit airy-fairy – it’s a doddle – it was a bit dodgy – it seemed a bit fishy
• Book “Total English”. Page 8, ex. 11
  • 1. succeed in – 2. opt for sth – 3. stem from – 4. lack of – 5. riddle with – 6. distinguish sth from – 7. appeal to – 8. bother about – 9. to be nervous about – 10. benefit from
  • 1c – 2f -3i – 4h – 5e – 6a – 7d – 8b – 9j – 10g
    
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• Song: Elvis Costell0  “Peace, Love and Understanding” Video – Lyrics
• Proverbs
• Telephone endings
• Consonants: words beginning with the letter -s
• Song: Bruce Springsteen “My best was never good enough” Lyrics   – Video
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