вівторок, 19 лютого 2019 р.

Revision of tenses + Ted video on Happiness

Homework check:

1) Tense Revision
 In pairs compare your answers to the home exercises. Questions?
Submit your handouts to me for checking.

2) Submit your written homework on Happiness (essay + sentenses with impersonal constructions based on the text "Happiness") 

3) Ted video on Happiness 
Get in pairs. Try to come up with your translation of the words below: 

Words

millenials 
life goal
young adult 
achieve 
wealth 
fame
relationships
social connections
loneliness 
community
quality of relationships
brains
memory

Translate the main message of the video: Good close relationships are good for our health and well-being. 


Answer the Questions based on the information from the video: 

1. What do young adults want to achieve in their lives? / What do they think can make them happy? 
2. What study was done by Harvard Adult Development Program?
3. What were the main findings of the study? / What makes people happy throughout their lives? 
4. What practical advice (tips) did the presenter give to the audience? How to lean to relationships? What should we all do to make our relationship with family, friends, community work better? 

Did you guys like this video? Would you like to watch more videos like that in English? For your self-development? 

www.ted.com - Watch - Ted Talks - Filters/Settings (Topics, languages, durations, etc.)

4. Step 31. p.2, Ex. 31.2

p. 3 - useful expressions - let's go over them open-class

5. Practice the useful expressions from p. 3 - saying sentence by sentence with the expressions from the chart, make up  a connected story. 

6. Constuction "Know + how + to + V..." 
Practice sentences 31.2 

Give your recommendations on the following: 
- how to learn a foreign language.  
- how to travel around the world without much money.
- how to make friends. 
- how to be a well-organized person
- how to surf the Internet 
- how to save money
- how to remember important dates
- how to have fun 
- how to win the competitions 

Start with the following phrase: (In order) to learn a foreign language you should / need / could / might ...

Extra practice on modal verbs of probability / making deductions: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/intermediate-grammar/modals-deduction-present 

H/w.: 

1) p.3 - with the expressions in column 1 - write a short story using infinite constructions that we learned. 
with the expressions in column 2 - write a dialogue using as many expressions as you can (10 would be great!) and don't forget to use infivintive coinstructions in your dialogue as well! 

2) Read a Chapter from your book. Write out some new words. Make a plan that will help you retell your chapter at the next lesson. 


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