Plastics!
Listening Skills - note taking
Reading Skills - opinion/attitude/register
Vocabulary Skills - informal phrases
Language Skills - cohesion: substitution and ellipsis
Below: Emma Watson at the Met Ball on Monday in a dress made of recycled plastic bottles. See: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/style/2016/05/03/emma-watson-met-ball-dress-orig.cnn
Below: Emma Watson at the Met Ball on Monday in a dress made of recycled plastic bottles. See: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/style/2016/05/03/emma-watson-met-ball-dress-orig.cnn
Taken from Language Leader Advanced (2010, Pearson/Longman pp. 124 - 125)
Homework
Question 10 - rewrite the sentences using the 5 different substitution techniques we looked at today.
Vocabulary
Cruel chance
Disparaging (words, remark etc) - speech that's intended to belittle or reproach
Demeaning (behaviour etc) - something that debases, degrades or lowers in dignity.
To decompose
To get caught up in
Teeming with
Untold numbers of
Rant (verb and noun)
To spout
To wheel out
To bother to do something (cf. To bother someone)
To be bothered
Going further
Language Practice
Language reference notes and extra practice
Reading
Stan Carey: There's nowt wrong with dialects, nothing broke ass about slang.
Listening/Viewing
"Lauren" The Catherine Tate Show
Am I bovvered?
Note the non-standard pronunciation of
Note the non-standard pronunciation of
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