Post CPE Lesson 11

Class

1. David Bowie and Popular Culture

Discussion
Listening & Note-taking Skills 

From Wired's pop culture podcast "Monitor"  19:20 - 34:00
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/culture-podcast-33/
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/remembering-david-bowie-always-one-step-ahead-of-the-rest-of-us/

Vocabulary

Note the use of a multi-word verb from last week's lesson - to come of age

Get a glimpse (of something/someone)

Prescient mind

Chameleon quality

Gender identity

To break boundaries

A voice of reason

Features of (American) informal spoken English

Uptalk - rising pitch at the end of assertions.

Use of like and so, just sort of, you know (what I mean) as fillers

Vague terms e.g. stuff

Informal and metaphorical expressions: blow your mind, uncork the bottle, switch it up, push back against (an answer/argument/view)

2. Style and Correction Task

Identifying different writing genres from CPE ariting tasks (report, newspaper article, magazine article, argumentative essay, review) and correcting errors in style, vocabulary (e.g. collocation) and grammar. Taken from Gold p. 185.

Homework

A magazine has asked you to write a personal tribute to David Bowie. In 250 - 250 words describe the moment you discovered Bowie and the impact he had on you personally and on pop culture in general. 

Going Further

• More on David Bowie

Mojo writer Keith Cameron celebrates pop's finest artist and greatest loss.http://podcast.tunetribe.com/song/Bowie-Mojo-writer-Keith-Cameron-celebrates-pops-finest-artist-and-greatest-loss-99?&aid=37

"And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear" an interesting tribute to David Bowie from a local newspaper in New Zealand: http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/01/13/new-zealand-paper-takes-local-angle-david-bowie-tribute/

• Accents - James Corden and Adele play carpool karaoke:

• Alan Rickman