ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Groups - Lesson 3

Lesson 3
12:30pm C1
Class
Verb Structure
Verb + gerund
to suggest doing
to imagine doing
to fancy doing
to contemplate doing
to involve doing
to consider doing

Verb + infinitive
to guarantee to do
to be forced to do
to pretend to do
to refuse to do
to volunteer to do
to hope to do
to agree to do
to yearn to do

Source: Advanced Expert CAE (old edition) p. 98
For more notes and examples go to: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/25080022/Verb%20Structure

Homework
Look back at the verbs in exercise 3 on the handout and write down two examples for each of the verbs tested: verb + infinitive, verb + gerund
e.g.
 to go on
a) He went on talking for ages.
(He continued talking)
(b) After the financial report he went on to talk about the problems facing the company. 
(After the financial report he started talking about something else)

Corrections
To date with someone

Podcast
Future Continuous & Be + Infinitive http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05v1bnk



2:00pm C2
Class
Listening & Discussion
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05yffxb

(1) The wealth of Mr Darcy – (5’10”) The male love interest of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is supposed to be fabulously wealthy. Is he? How do you work it out in 2018 money? Do you simply adjust for inflation or calculate his share of the national income?

Vocabulary

• heartthrob
• love interest
• estate (several meanings are appropriate here: D'Arcy's legal estate and his real property)
• to be flush with money

(2) Gender in literature – (22’15”)How are women depicted in books? Author Ben Blatt does an analysis.

Vocabulary

• the mind boggles
• to rack your brain(s)

Homework
Listen to the podcast again noting any new vocabulary or fixed expressions

Going Further

1. More on Mr D'Arcy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05p3th7
2. More on Ben Blatt and the numbers in literature http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05lftnw
3. Measuring Worth https://www.measuringworth.com
4. Nabokov's Favourite Word Is Mauve https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753786nabokov-s-favorite-word-is-mauve
5. Try to or try and ?(See the video above from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
6. Different from/to (U.K.)/than(U.S.)