Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely time over the festive period! Today we will start off class with some general discussion about our breaks, and also New Year’s resolutions. This will include how they started, some of the most typical resolutions, and if we have made any.
We will also revise the future perfect simple and continuous, and the future continuous using the following Bamboozle
Moving on, we will then start a new topic on page 62.
We will begin by discussing how to define beauty, and what makes a person beautiful.
- What makes a person beautiful?
- What are the most important features when determining someone’s beauty?
- Do you think that different cultures think about beauty differently?
- In general, do we have a more negative perception of our own beauty? Why might this be?
- Do you think we are conditioned by advertising to think what is beautiful and what is not?
We will also compare two portraits, which we will see for the first time during the class.
We will watch the following video: Real Beauty and discuss the message of the video, and also some of the criticism it came in for.
We will then turn our attention to the book and look at adjectives to describe people. We will also complete the listening on page 63.
To finish the class we will look at the vocabulary on page 64 to help prepare students for the homework.
Homework:
- Complete the two activities related to the future tenses
- Complete the RUoE Part 5 task on pages 64-65
- Complete the Writing task (see below)
Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense (future perfect simple or continuous.)
- By 2018 we (live) in Madrid for 20 years.
- He (write) a book by the end of the year.
- (finish, you) this novel by next week?
- He (read) this book for 15 days by the end of this week.
- They (be) married for 40 years by the end of this month.
- (be, she) pregnant for three months this week?
Then write 9 sentences about what you hope to have achieved by the end of the year and what you’ll be doing at various points in the year, using the future continuous and future perfect (Simple and continuous).
