Post CPE Lesson 9

Lesson 9

• Discussion - Film Reviewers: Mark Kermode, Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael.
• Recommended Films: The Prestige, Memento, Boyhood, The Hours, Life In A Day

• Pet Peeves: New Vocabulary plight, conductor, validate your ticket, curb, chill out, chillax
• Letters To The Editor - Mobile Phone Use
• Writing Exercise

Corrections

• I noticed quite a few mistakes today with negative prefixes - especially the overuse of 'un' instead of incorrect, impolite, inappropriate.
• Verb suffixes: variate → vary
• Verb structure: make someone reasoning → make someone reason
• Countable/Uncountable: Money are is never enough

Homework

Next week's discussion is on how Christmas is presented in popular art and literature. What books, short stories, films or songs about Christmas are particularly resonant for you? Here are some suggestions to get you thinking: 

Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster from the film Smoke (Wayne Wang 1995)

A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Schulz (Bill Melendez 1965)

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (Frank Perry, 1966)

The Fairytale of New York by The Pogues & Kirsty McCall (1987)

For more song suggestions see: http://scarybradshaw.blogspot.it/2012/12/scary-bradshaws-christmas-playlist.html?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=38