18 Cultural Differences Between the USA and EUROPE

Watch the video and write down notes on the different points mentioned. Do you agree with Drew Binsky’s ideas of Europe?

1 Toilets
2 Water
3 History
4 Driving
5 Sports
6 Food portions
7 Smoking
8 Clothes
9 Languages
10 Recycling
11 Coins
12 Toilets and buttons
13 Electric cars
14 Trash cans
15 Street signs
16 Dinner time
17 Outdoors
18 Vacation

Kids Tell Their Parents A Long-Held Secret & vice versa

What is the secret the children tell their parents?

Speaker 1:

Speaker 2:

Speaker 3:

Speaker 4:

How do parents feel after knowing their children’s secrets?

Parent 1:

Parent 2:

Parent 3:

Parent 4:

What is the secret the parents tell their children?

Speaker 1:

Speaker 2:

Speaker 3:

Speaker 4:

How do children feel after knowing their parents’ secrets?

Child 1:

Child 2:

Child 3:

Child 4:

Inversion for Emphasis

 

Inversion after negative adverbials

An explanation of inversion with negative advervials

Practise inversion

More practise

Vincent Van Gogh

 

Read these sentences about Vincent’s life and try to predict if they’re true (T) or false (F). Then watch the video to check your ideas.

1. The Van Gogh Museum is located in Paris. ___

2. Vincent’s mother suggested that he become an artist. ___

3. When he lived in Paris, Vincent learned how to use colour from other artists. ___

4. Vincent realised that he could paint the sea using many different types of blue.___

5. Vincent made many beautiful paintings when he was ill in hospital.___

6. Towards the end of his life, he gave up painting completely. ___

Read the questions. Can you remember the answers? Watch again to check.

1. Was Vincent famous in his lifetime?

2. Why was his painting "The Potato Eaters" typical of his work?

3. How did he use balls of wool in his work?

4. What were two reasons why he decided to leave Paris?

5. Vincent had a lot of arguments with people before the terrible event when he cut off his own ear.

What were these arguments about?

6. What can we learn from Vincent’s life?

Don McLean - Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night

"Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)"–Don McLean flowers    darkness    eyes Portraits  clothes    beautiful  sight   colors  clothes  sanity(x2) Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the ________in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In __________on the snowy linen land Now I understand What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your ______ And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now Starry, starry night Flaming __________that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's ______of china blue Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Now I understand What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your _________ And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now For they could not love you But still your love was true And when no hope was left in _______ On that starry, starry night You took your life, as lovers often do But I could've told you Vincent This world was never meant for One as __________as you Starry, starry night _________hung in empty halls Frame-less heads on nameless walls With eyes that watch the world and can't forget Like the strangers that you've met The ragged men in ragged ____________ The silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Now I think I know What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your ________ And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will

“Vincent (Noche estrellada, estrellada) Estrellada, estrellada noche, Pinta tu paleta azul y gris Escrutando un día de verano con ojos que conocen la oscuridad que hay en mi alma. Sombras en las colinas, Esbozo de los árboles y los narcisos, Plasmas el helado viento con los colores del nevado suelo de lino. Y ahora puedo entender lo que trataste de decirme,  Como sufriste por tu cordura,  Como trataste de liberarlos. No te oyeron, no supieron cómo. Tal vez oyerán ahora. Estrellada, estrellada noche, Llameantes flores que brillan y se iluminan Nubes espiraladas con un haz violeta se reflejan en los claros ojos azulados de Vincent. Colores cambiando de matiz, Campos matutinos de granos dorados, Rostros ensombrecidos por el sol, arrugados de dolor, Son suavizados por la amorosa mano del artista. Y ahora puedo entender lo que trataste de decirme,  Como sufriste por tu cordura,  Como trataste de liberarlos. No te oyeron, no supieron cómo. Tal vez oyerán ahora. Aunque no podían amarte, tú los amabas sinceramente. Y cuando no quedó esperanza en esa estrellada, estrellada noche, Te quitaste la vida, tal como los amantes suelen hacerlo; Pero pude haberte dicho, Vincent, que este mundo nunca fue hecho para alguien tan hermoso como tú. Estrellada, estrellada noche, Cuadros colgados en pasillos vacíos, Cabezas sin cuerpo en muros sin nombres, Con ojos que miran el mundo y no pueden olvidar. Como el extraño que has conocido, El harapiento hombre en harapientas ropas, La espina de plata de la sangrienta rosa Yace aplastada y rota en la pulcra nieve. Y ahora creo que sé lo que trataste de decirme, Cómo sufriste por tu cordura,  Cómo trataste de liberarlos. No te oyeron ni lo hacen ahora,  Tal vez nunca lo hagan.

ART. Describe the images and the feelings they inspire

 

Here you can see a description and a bit of the history of some paintings:

Prepare a presentation of your favourite piece of art. Use the expressions and vocabulary in the handout and watch the video which will be useful to organise your presentation. Your presentation should not be longer than 3 minutes.

Feelings - ed/ing adjectives

 

Watch the T.V ad and talk about how the girl felt... [use the adjectives and expressions in your handout]

1. When she came out of the school.
2. When she gave her dad the talent show leaflet. 
3. When her dad answered the call.
4. When she rehearsed at home, in the street...

Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket

Step  1.Pre-Listening.  Before  listening  to  the  song  try  to  fill  in  the  gaps  by 

    1.reading the clues in brackets

    2.guessing the transcribed word .

Step 2. Listen to the song and check your answers.

Step  3.  Listen again and answer the questions in the chorus. 

Hands in my Pocket by Alanis Morissette

I'm broke, but I'm ________ (opposite of sad)

I'm poor, but I'm  _________ (opposite of unkind)

I'm short, but I'm _________ (opposite of sick), yeah

I'm high, but I'm grounded

I'm sane, but I'm overwhelmed

I'm lost, but I'm __________ (opposite of hopeless), baby

 

And what it all comes down to

Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine

'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket

And the other one is _________________ (what is the other hand doing?)

I feel drunk, but I'm ______________ (opposite of drunk)
I'm young and I'm ______________ (opposite if overpaid)
I'm tired, but I'm working, yeah
I care, but I'm ____________ (synonym of fidgety)
I'm here, but I'm really gone
I'm _____________ (opposite of right) and I'm sorry, baby

And what it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other is _________________ (what is the other hand doing?)

And what is all comes down to

Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet

'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket

And the other one is giving _____________(what is the other hand doing?)

I'm ______________ (/fri:/), but I'm focused
I'm __________ (gri:n), but I'm wise
I'm ____________ (/ha:d/), but I'm friendly, baby
I'm sad, but I'm __________ (la:fiŋ/)
I'm __________ (/breiv/), but I'm chicken shit
I'm sick, but I'm pretty, baby

And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
Well, I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is ______________ (what is the other hand doing?)

What it all comes down to, my friends, yeah
Is that everything's just fine, fine, fine
'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing ___________ (what is it hailing?)

FEELINGS

Formal Complaint

 Some tips to write a formal complaint

More tips and examples of formal complaints

-ed/-ing adjectives

 

An explanation of -ed / - ing adjectives

Ed-/-ing activities for all levels

Little Red Riding Hood

 Little Red Riding Hood

Retell the story together using these expressions:

• Once upon a time
• one day
• on the way
• having reached
• once inside
• to their surprise
• at last
• and for all I know
• to cut the long story short
• and they lived happily ever after

Now watch the final scene of Shrek. Can you identify the tale creatures and the stories they are linked to?

Tell one of the tales.

US Politicians

 

 

The most important century in human history

 

Other ways of expressing the future: BE ABOUT TO, BE ON THE POINT OF, BE TO...

 

PRACTISE: 

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/ways-express-future/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/ways-express-future/2/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/ways-express-future/3/