Garlic Day

Rihanna's Disturbia

• What are the first 3 lines of the song?
• What's the pronunciation of the following words?

1. insane

2. thief

3. disease

4. might

5. twice

6. faulter

7. disturbia

8. faded

9. curse

10. struggling

• What's the word that appears hidden "s***"?

Ahmed the dead terrorist

Have a look at this video and answer the following questions.

The first one to answer them correctly will get an extra help for our next exam.

1. What's the terrorist's recurrent expression?

2. What's the other character's name? The one who is inside a suitcase?

3. How many virgins do muslims hope to have once they are in paradise?

4. How did Ahmed die?

Different People

Both have been presidents of the United States.

Bush has just left the White House and Obama has just become the new president of USA.

However, they are very different.

Can you compare them?

Use comparative and superlative forms and add the sentences as a comment to this post.

Agony Aunt

According to the Wikipedia, an Agony Aunt is an advice columnist, that is, a person who gives advice to readers' problems in a newspaper or magazine.

The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt".

Have a look at the following problems related to addiction:


1) Spendaholic fears rejection:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/agonyaunt/question2275.html

2) Addicted, in debt and engaged: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/agonyaunt/question2270.html

Now, it's your turn to become an Agony Aunt:

1. First, click on this webquest site: http://www.xtec.cat/eoiterrassa/Departaments/MyAgonyAuntWebquest/index.htm

2. Click on "Process and Resources" and think about the questions from Activity 1.

3. Move on to Activity 2, read the letters and fill in the vocabulary sheet with the highlighted expressions.

4. Write a letter describing a problem you have. You can choose from the following topics:

• I can't stop thinking about him/her.



• I'm in love with a guy/girl but he's going out with my best friend.



• I'm a shopaholic / workaholic / alcoholic / chocaholic / sexaholic.



• I don't get on with my parents. We are always arguing.

5. Follow the models you have already seen and the model letter you can find in your book, page 38.

6. Write:

• from 80 to 150 words.



• use idioms and phrasal verbs (underline them).



• use at least 5 different modal verbs (underline them)



• don't forget connectors, paragraphs, margins and indentations!
  

7. Hand in your final work. It must contain:

1. The answers to the questions from Activity 1.


2. The vocabulary sheet with the expressions in their correct column.


3. The letter.


4. Agony Aunt's advice.

Some modal verbs

What about Spain?

Imagine you are writing a tourist guide,

think about 10 useful tips for tourists to Spain

and add them as a comment to this post.

Don't forget to write your name!