WHAT TO STUDY FOR THE EXAM IN JUNE.

VOCABULARY to make sentences

Pointless

helmet

basement

bribe

ban

fancy

sign up

spokesperson

cliffs

shrink

overpopulation

water shortage

oil spills

endangered species

guesthouse

graduate

debt

affordable

computer-literate

hitchhiking

stunning

breakthrough

overcome

personal trait

fingerprint

stubborn

net

nest

pie in the sky

yob

loiter

reign

To fill in gaps

idioms page 9 + 25

phrasal verbs page 13 + 17+ 33 + 53

false friends page 45

PALETTE (MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES GROUP ACTIVITY)

DESING A HOLIDAY

Groups of 4 students who will act as travel agents.

In your role-play you have to promote a holiday plan in which you visit one or more locations.

Be convincing. You have to sell your plan.

Make sure your location or itinerary contains at least one evironmentally-friendly landmark.

You have to prepare a power point presentation, which has to include a diagram. pictures, prices (for hotels, transport, excursions), distances, , timetables., currency, etc.

Make sure you include some music . It has to be related to the places you work on or the feelings they may express.

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Once all the presentations are over you have to write a few lines about which holiday you prefer and  why it’s your choice.

PERSONAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

STORIES FOR READING CIRCLES

"BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE" QUESTIONS

                    BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE by Michael Moore

  1. What do you get if you open an account at North Country Bank?

  2.  How does he define Michigan?

  3. Who is the president of the National Rifle Association?

  4. What did Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who had atended the Michigan Militia meetings,        do in 1995?

  5. What law has the town of Virgin (Utah) passed?

  6. How much money did CIA give Obama and his fellow terrorists in the 1980’s?

  7. In 1998 Clinton bombed a “weapons factory” in Sudan, but it wasn’t making weapons. What was it making?

  8. How many people Eric and Dylan kill in Columbine high school in Littleton?

  9. Matt Stone grew up in Littleton. Who is he?

  10. After the Columbine shooting people overreacted. Why was Virginia high school student expelled for a month?

  11. Who did the media blame for the shooting? (Mention 5)

  12. “Black man suspect” is repeated on the news every day. Why?

  13. Crime in general has decreased but gun possession has increased. Why?

  14. Why don’t they have murders in Canada?

  15. What did he check in a Toronto neighbourhood?
  16. What happened at Buell Elementary?

  17. What was George Bush’s number 1 priority?

  18. Who Richard Castado and Mark Taylor? What do they achieve at Kmart headquarters?

  19. What happens when Michael Moore visits actor Charles Heston?

  20. Did you like the documentary? Why?

DESCRIBING A PICTURE

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES