Pluses and minuses

Example Jonny Depp

Pluses	Minuses
+ handsome + great actor + Pirates of the Caribbean + Alice in Wonderland + a musician, too + own island	- married - 52 years old - lives in Los Angeles - no Oscar

Task 1. Think of as many pluses and minuses as you can for:

Granny

	Pluses	Minuses
	+ + + + + +	- - -

Task 2. Compare your ideas with other pairs: name both pluses and minuses using some language of contradiction, e.g. Jonny Depp is handsome, but he’s married. He has no Oscar even though/ despite the fact that he’s a great actor.

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Example Jonny Depp

Pluses	Minuses
+ handsome + great actor + Pirates of the Caribbean + Alice in Wonderland + a musician, too + own island	- married - 52 years old - lives in Los Angeles - no Oscar

Task 1. Think of as many pluses and minuses as you can for:

Learning English

Pluses	Minuses
+ + + + + +	- - -

Task 2. Compare your ideas with other pairs: name both pluses and minuses using some language of contradiction, e.g. Jonny Depp is handsome, but he’s married. He has no Oscar even though/ despite the fact that he’s a great actor.

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Example Jonny Depp

Pluses	Minuses
+ handsome + great actor + Pirates of the Caribbean + Alice in Wonderland + a musician, too + own island	- married - 52 years old - lives in Los Angeles - no Oscar

Task 1. Think of as many pluses and minuses as you can for:

Having a dog

Pluses	Minuses
+ + + + + +	- - -

Task 2. Compare your ideas with other pairs: name both pluses and minuses using some language of contradiction, e.g. Jonny Depp is handsome, but he’s married. He has no Oscar even though/ despite the fact that he’s a great actor.

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Looking on the bright side

The world’s luckiest unlucky man

ZACHARY DAVIES BOREN The Independent

Sunday 09 August 2015

The 29-year old Tsutomu Yamaguchi had been on a three-month assignment for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and was going to leave the city on the morning of August 6, 1945.

But something happened at 8:15. When a US B-29 bomber launched the world's first ever nuclear attack, the sky burst into a light like that "of a huge magnesium flare".

Yamaguchi, who was less than two miles from that actual explosion, was severely burned, temporarily blinded, and rendered permanently deaf in his left ear.

Somehow the city's train station was still operating. He and two colleagues spent one last night in the ruined city before making their way home. Bridges had been ripped to shreds, and so Yamaguchi had to swim across a river filled with dead bodies.

But he made it home. To Nagasaki.

His friends could not recognise him, such were his injuries and his trauma. His mother thought he was a ghost. But still he persisted, and somehow made it his Mitsubishi office three days after enduring the horror of Hiroshima.

At around 11 in the morning on August 9, as he recounted to a company director just what had happened, the next bomb was dropped.

"I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima". Though this atomic bomb was more powerful than the last, Yamaguchi was not badly hurt. His wife and son also survived the attack, but their home was destroyed.

Though he suffered from severe radiation poisoning that would last years, Yamaguchi would live until he was 93, dying in 2010 of cancer.

In his later years, he would talk publicly about his experiences, and advocated for nuclear disarmament.

In 2006, standing before the United Nations, he said: "Having experienced atomic bombings twice and survived, it is my destiny to talk about it."

Though there are thought to be 165 survivors of both bombings, Yamaguchi is the only one to be recognised as such by the Japanese government — only in 2009.

He told the Mainichi newspaper in the last year of his life: "My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die. I could have died on either of those two days. Everything that follows is a bonus."

The language of comparison

13.3. Spot the lie (PW)

Material: cards with examples of comparison language

First divide the cards so that each student has the same number. (If the number is uneven, the rest of the cards can be given to fast-finishers if there is such necessity). If they are not sure what the structure means they can turn to the Grammar reference p. 162.

Students have to write a sentence for each card. (E.g. for No + comparative adj: Singing is no easier for me than dancing. Or for comparative adj: I’m taller than my elder sister). The sentences should be about themselves and can be true or false.

When they finish, they work in pairs and try to spot the lie of their partner. A student with the biggest amount of spotted lies wins.

comparative adj/adv	superlative adj/adv	no + comparative adj
the + superlative + of + pl N	the + superlative + N + imaginable/possible	as/so… as
the + comparative word/phrase + the	comparative adj + comparative adj	expressions with better
more/most + pl count N	more + uncount N	most of the + uncount N
less + uncount N	fewer + pl count N	A lot/ slightly/ (quite) a bit/ a great deal/ even/still/ yet/ by far

Unit 14

Comment adverbials

14.1. Snap, or Getting rid of phrases (PW)

Material: cards with comment adverbials, a blank card for each student (to write a theme)

The idea has been taken from a seminar at TTC by Ekaterina Sharuda

Each student writes a topic on a blank card (sport, weather, English, etc.). All the cards are put in one pile and shuffled. (Or you can take the theme of the unit; or it can be done as a feedback)

All students are given the same amount of cards with comment adverbials. They choose a card with the topic and speak on it, using the given phrases. The aim of the game is to get rid of the cards quicker than the partner, using them naturally in speech. Make sure that the students take turns allowing their partner to speak.

certainly	definitely	possibly	in all likelihood
undoubtedly	without a doubt	in theory	surprisingly
frankly	personally	unfortunately	to my surprise
in my opinion	quite honestly	generally speaking	strangely
cleverly	kindly	mistakenly	foolishly

Emphasis

14.2. Newspaper editors (PW)

Material: worksheet for each pair; (red pens)

The news has been taken from BBC.com

Tell the students that they got the chance to become editors. Ask them what the duties of newspaper editor include (e.g. making the news attractive for the readers, highlighting the most important parts – emphasizing). Let them choose an article and add as much emphasis as they can (for fronting, cleft sentences, using adverbs and other ways of emphasizing they can turn to the Grammar reference p. 163).

The winner is the pair with the biggest amount of corrections for the sake of adding emphasis.

14.2.1. Variation (PW)

As an extension or an independent task they can make up news of their own. Set the amount of sentences and the time limit, then they exchange the news and try to make their partner’s news more emphatic.

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