Post CPE Lesson 2

Cricket, Mealworm and Chocolate Lollipop

Class

Grammar rules

In the article, Pinker mentions fused participles, dangling modifiers and serial commas.

1. Do you mind me asking you a question?

In the above example, which is very common in spoken English, the participle asking is 'fused' with the noun me. Do you mind my (possessive) asking (gerund) is the 'correct' form.

2. Hungry, the leftover pizza was devoured.

In this example, the modifier, hungry, is left 'dangling' because it is not clear what it modifies. Hungry, the guests devoured the leftover pizza has no such problem.

3. Serial commas (i.e a comma before a conjunction) are unnecessary and therefore usually eliminated. There is no need for the second comma in red, white, and blue for example. However, when conjunctions join words that constitute a single item in the list, the comma is necessary to avoid confusion, e.g. Can you be sure of what flavour cupcakes Molly bakes in the following sentence?

Molly was proud of her new cupcake recipes: blueberry, peanut butter and chocolate and coconut.

Phrasal verbs

What generalisations can you make from the particles up and down?

Adapted from New Proficiency Gold p. 84

The future of food

Jellyfish and Chips

Discussion, vocabulary and reading.
Link: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/13/future-of-food-what-we-eat

Presentation

When I Grow Up from the musical Matilda.

Listen again and/or read the lyrics and note all the uses of will e.g. part of a conditional expressing cerrainty, strong intention, prediction, assumption, promise. 

Note also how the phrasal verb, grow up, is adapted e.g. All grown up now.

Corrections

Since now x

Do you mean up to now or from now?

They try to short the time x

Short (adjective) shorten (verb)

A couple of friends which x

A couple of friends who

Evoluted x

Evolved

Obeys to the law x

Obeys the law

Bread growing x

Bread baking/rising

Pronunciation

tastes /s/ not /Iz/

Homework

1. Learn any new phrasal verbs which came up today e.g. free up, shoot up, step/stand down, break down. Make sure you record the type of multi-word verb it is (transitive, intransitive, separable, inseparable), an example sentence and a synonym or English definition.

2. Do the collocation exercise (question 4) from today's photocopy. For the last two questions you will need to find the missing words yourself. 

3. Go to the original article on The future of food and read a out some of the other topics. Do they discuss the same issues that we talked about today?