Hesitantly patriotic – pronunciation work:

Listen to the passages from the video and decide of the pronunciation of each <o> sound.

Help: the sounds of English

In your books, write: pronunciation work <o>

copy the words and indicate their pronunciation: /ɒ/, /ʌ/, /ɔː/, /əʊ/, /u:/ or /ə/

passage 1: reason, love, so, born

passage 2: to, slowly-formed, stroppy

passage 3: don’t, know, to, do

Practice saying the following sentences:

1) The reason I love it so much is because this is the island on which I happen to be born.
2) And thanks to my slowly-formed caffeine dependency, if I don’t drink it, I get stroppy.
3) I don’t know what else to do.

 

 

UK vs Great Britain

Do the British council activity (prep + watch the video and check your understanding)

Then, fill in the grid I gave you, use the internet to find the missing information.

The UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

COUNTRY        
INHABITANTS        
NATIONALITY        
CAPITAL CITY        
PARLIAMENT        
EMBLEM      

Stick it in your notebook (write the date in English and the title « UK vs. Great Britain)

 

By the end of the week, you should have downloaded Quizlet and Seesaw on your phone + always come to class with your earphones.

Wakestock: listening

Here is your work for today

 

SPEAKING: recap in your groups. I will ask one person per group to give me their oral recap.

PRONUNCIATION: can you pronounce 3 key words from the document?

 

CHECK everything you know: fill in the blanks

 

Win a week end at Wakestock: tweet about the festival and post your tweet here

 

TREAT: if you have finished early, you can watch a video about Wakestock

 

Using articles in English: a, the, and zero article

Remember, you will have a short test on the beginning of the chapter on Monday.

You need to know:

countries of Great Britain + capitals + emblems + flags

vocab and places from video about London & England

adjectives to describe British people

vocab + lesson about « Home, Sweet Home »

 

 

Watch the 3 videos: each lesson in 90 seconds long only!

Take notes in your books: make a mindmap or a bullet point list.

I also put the link with the lesson and a quiz to test yourself.

Article: Zero article

Lesson and quiz

Article: THE

Lesson and quiz

Article: A

Lesson and quiz