ANIA Group 8 C2 Lesson 5

Class

1) Speaking - European Identity discussion continued

Language features of the article

Word complementation:

Can't help + something/doing something

(Little/great) enthusiasm for soemthing/doing something

A (long/great) tradition of something/doing something

Idiom: 

To hang out to dry = abandon in a time of need, to leave to take the blame

2) Different Sentences/Same Mistake

Error correction exercise

N.b. The unintentional mistake in sentence F - shouting at each other. 

Corrections

Critic point x

Criticism

Mandatory (note stress on the first syllable)

Homework

Finish the Different sentences/same mistakes exercise (a copy of the exercise is available blow, click on the image to enlarge)

Going Further

Song of the week - Unfinished Sympathy http://seansstudypage.blogspot.it/2016/02/song-of-week-all-groups-unfinished.html

Accents - Eva Green, the French actress who has mastered a number of accents including R.P. in the series Penny Dreadful

Reading:

• Is the refugee crisis eroding Europe's humanitarian values?http://www.debatingeurope.eu/2016/02/17/refugee-crisis-eroding-europes-humanitarian-values/#.VsZWZzZOVQQ
• "I don't take my mandate from the European people" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-didn-t-think-ttip-could-get-any-scarier-but-then-i-spoke-to-the-eu-official-in-charge-of-it-a6690591.html
• Why native English speakers are not being understood... in English https://theconversation.com/why-native-english-speakers-fail-to-be-understood-in-english-and-lose-out-in-global-business-54436
• Secret anti-languages http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160211-the-secret-anti-languages-youre-not-supposed-to-know

Listening:
Around the Horne - in the Julian and Sandy sketch (at 24:30) you can hear an example of Polari, one of the secret anti-languages mentioned in the article.

Humour:
The world's most unhelpful phonetic alphabet