A police officer pulled over a driver and informed the driver that, because he was wearing his seat belt in his car, he had just won $1,000 in a safety competition. ''What are you going to do with the prize money you have just won?'' the officer asked.
The man responded, ''I guess I'll go to driving school where I can learn to drive a car and get my license.'' At the moment when the man was telling this, the wife of the driver, who sat next to him, chimed in, ''Officer, don't listen to him. He's sarcastic when he's drunk.''
The conversation of the officer, the driver and his wife woke up the guy in the back seat of the car, who, when he saw the cop, blurted out, ''I knew you, your wife and me wouldn't get far in this stolen car.'' At that moment, there was a knock from the side of the trunk and a voice from that direction asked ''Are we over the border yet?''
Unit 7
Ways of linking ideas
Sorting out a joke (PW)
Material: Worksheet cut in cards for each pair
Ask the students work in pairs and arrange the cards in order so that they will have a complete joke. The first pair to sort it out (quickly and correctly) wins.
Ask them if there were some links between parts of sentences which helped them to arrange the lines properly. Students should find 5 examples of linking (relative clauses, etc.)
Key:
Two Polish guys who had never left Poland were taking their first train trip to Warsaw on the train. A vendor came down the corridor selling bananas which they'd never seen before. Each bought one.
The first one eagerly peeled the banana and bit into it just as the train went into a tunnel. When the train emerged from the tunnel, he looked across to his friend who hadn’t tried the fruit yet and said, "I wouldn't eat that if I were you."
"Why not?"
" Having eaten it, I went blind for half a minute, which was really scary "
Sorting out a joke
| Two Polish guys |
| who had never left Poland were taking their first train trip |
| to Warsaw on the train. A vendor came down the corridor selling bananas |
| which they'd never seen before. Each bought one. |
| The first one eagerly peeled the banana and bit into it just |
| as the train went into a tunnel. When the train emerged |
| from the tunnel, he looked across to his friend |
| who hadn’t tried the fruit yet and said, "I wouldn't eat that |
| if I were you." |
| "Why not?" |
| "Having eaten it, I went blind for half a minute, |
| which was really scary" |
Unit 8
Reported speech
8.1. Famous Quotes (PW)
Material: worksheets for each student
The idea has been taken from busyteacher.org
Students work in pairs and match the people with the pictures and discuss who they are.
They match the quotes with the people they think said them, and put them into indirect speech. Introduce some functional language: I believe/I suppose that it was … who said…because…
Tell the sts: You found a list of interesting quotes to post on your VK wall. But you are not sure about the authors, because such kind of information is quite often false on the Internet, and you don’t want to post it before you check them. Fortunately, you’ve just met your friend and you have the opportunity to discuss with him/her whom these quotations belong to.
Students discuss with their partner whether they agree with the quotes. They should also choose only 3 quotes which they consider to be the best/most meaningful, because in social networks nowadays nobody reads long texts. But they need to agree about these three quotes and prove their choice at least by giving three reasons.
Key:
Pictures: 1) i, 2) h, 3) a, 4) c, 5) f, 6) e, 7) g, 8) j, 9) d, 10) b.
Quotes: 1) e, 2) d, 3) g, 4) c, 5) f, 6) h, 7) a, 8) j, 9) I, 10) b.
8.2. Reporting the news (IW)
Material: worksheets for each student
The material has been taken from Developing Grammar in Context by Mark Nettle and Diana Hopkins, Cambridge University Press
Students work individually and rewrite the news using Reported speech.
The teacher was asked to submit an article for a school news bulletin But unfortunately something has happened to quotation marks on your keyboard, so you ask students to help you rewrite the news using Reported speech.
Variation (PW)
Material: worksheets for each student
The articles have been taken from http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
Students read the articles and retell their partner what they have found out, using reported speech: The reporter/witness said/claimed…
Your partner is very interested in news, but yesterday he/she had some problems with the Internet access, so he/she couldn’t read them on-line. And he/she never reads printed newspapers. Read the articles and retell to your partner what you have found out, using reported speech. As a feedback ask the students what they have found out from their friends.
Or it can be done as a whole-class presentation, when each students reports the news to the class and altogether they vote which story is the best, kindest and most positive.
8.2. Reporting the interview (IW)
Material: worksheets for each student
The material has been taken from Instant Lessons 3 Advanced by Peter Watcyn-Jones, Penguin Books, 2000
Students work individually and rewrite the article using Reported speech.
Comm purpose: You work as a camera man at local TV. Yesterday you witnessed a funny situation with the TV host and a guest and you want to share this story with your friend. But you don’t see him a lot and your mobile phone is broken. So you have to write him an email retelling the situation and using Reported speech. But you want to make the story more interesting, so you exaggerate it and add some facts.
Then the students send the letters to their friends - exchange the notebooks. It turns out, that they are already acquainted with the story as they’ve seen it on the TV. They read the letters and find out what information is false.
Famous Quotes
Task 1. Match the people with the pictures and discuss who they are.
| a. Honoré de Balzac b. Saint Paul (Bible) c. Buddha d. Winston Churchill e. Albert Einstein f. Mahatma Ghandi g. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe h. Friedrich Nietzsche i. Mohammad j. Nelson Mandela | 1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6. 
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Task 2. Match the quotes with the people you think said them. Put them into indirect speech.
1. “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.”
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2. “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
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3. “All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do.”
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4. “What we think, we become.”
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5. “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”
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6. “Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there”
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7. “It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to produce the occasional bon mot”
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8. “Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”
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9. “God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts”
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10. Be not righteous overmuch
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