2016.11.16 - Class 6

Unit 2 - Wild

To start off class today, we reviewed your homework, which included some grammar exercises inside a text about survival on p.25. I also asked you to tell your parents that next week (23 November) I'll be available to meet with them from 16:00 to 17:15 at school. I'd be happy to meet them and answer any questions they may have. This means that next week we will have a short class, until 15:00 only.

Continuing with the theme of survival, we talked about the topic a bit and then did a listening exercise based on a short video featuring survival expert Bear Grylls:


This exercise was similar to Listening part 2 of the FCE, but actually a bit harder because of the vocabulary and Bear's way of enunciation.

Then, expanding on the topic of survival a bit, we talked about other possible situations that we might have to survive in and did a short quiz at the New York Times, based on research on how people react in natural disasters or similar situations in the US.


Finally, before the break, we looked at a few words to prepare for a story that we started after the break.

Story: The Hand That Feeds Me

We read through part 1 of the story together, working on pronunciation and vocabulary. If you lose your copy of the story, you can also get it here.

Homework

• Finish reading The Hand That Feeds Me.
• Select vocabulary in the story that you think you need to learn. You can also study the vocabulary list in Quizlet that I already created for the story. We'll add some of your vocabulary to it later on.
• Find the trick in the story, which has to do with the narrator. Find a few sentences in the story that struck you as odd or revealing.