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Oliver Twist: Chapter 2

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oliver at Mr Sowerberry’s workshop

SUMMARY

Oliver is sent to work in a coffin shop. He works for Mr Sowerberry. The first night Oliver slept in a room full of coffins. He was afraid and all alone in a strange place. He had no friends.

The next day he met a boy called Noah, who became his enemy. Mr Sowerberry gave Oliver a special black hat and dark jacket. Oliver became a mourner at many funerals.

One day he hit Noah and Noah told everyone that he tried to kill him. Mr Sowerberry was very angry and put Oliver in a dark room. Oliver wasn’t afraid when Mr Bumble came. Mr Bumble told them to stop giving him meat. That night Oliver fell to the floor and cried all night.

Early the next morning he put a few clothes in a handkerchief and he quietly left Mr Sowerberry’s shop.

VOCABULARY

Adjectives: alone (sol), jealous (gelós), afraid (espantat), dark (fosc), courageous (coratjós), furious (molt enfadat), hit (colpejar).

Nouns: meat (carn), mourner (ploraner), handkerchief (mocador), tears ( llàgrimes), clothes (roba), anger (ràbia).

Verbs: hear (sentir), pull ( estirar), beat (pegar), cry ( plorar), lock ( tancar amb clau), call (cridar), become (convertir-se en).

TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS (portfolio activity 2)

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Write 10 sentences about yourself and your feelings. Include 5 images or drawings referring to some of your sentences.

You can use the following expressions:

RiallaI like it when people…

CritI hate it when ….

PetóI love it when….

Indec?sI don’t mind when…

EmprenyatI find it boring when…

Fer l'ulletI find it interesting when…

Ficada de potaI am worried when…

PlorI am sad when…

CritI am furious when…

activity 3 (desdoblaments): Dictation race and workbook

dictation

What did we do?

1. We organized two teams to play the dictation race

2. We held a competition to see which team was the fastest to dictate a whispered text from one corner to the other of the room.

3. Both teams had a reader, who saw the text, and a writer, who had to copy it on a paper sheet, and, of course, six or seven speakers, who had to send the message from one to another as clearly as possible.

4. Once the text had been written, the whole team gathered around the paper and corrected what ever mistakes they found and agreed on a definite version of the text.

5. The winner was the fastest and the most accurate text.

6. We all had the text dictated on our notebooks

7. all the time left, students had to work on their exercise book.

Halloween

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jack o’lantern

el dia 31 vam parlar molt sobre què i com celebrem la nit del 31 d’octubre. Aquí és la nit de la Castanyada i als països de cultura anglosa organitzen la festa de Halloween. Per poder ajudar-te amb el resum que has de preparar, et recordem algunes de les paraules que vam sentir més sovint en aquella conferència.

Halloween vocabulary

Fruits: apple (poma), chestnuts (castanyes), sweet potatoes (moniatos), pumpkin (carbassa)

Festivities: celtic culture (cultura celta), druid (druida),beginning of autumn (inici de tardor), harvest (collita), Christianity (cultura cristiana) all souls’ day (tots sants)

Traditions and activities: trick or treat (“truco o trato”), bob the apple (agafar pomes amb la boca), jack o’lantern (carbasses decoratives amb espelma a dins), costumes (disfresses)