PASSWORD:

" The measure of a good goal is how determined you’re to meet it" 

B&B for next class:

• Listen and read ACT 5
• Bring information about a famous sports personality
• Discover the diphthongs in the homophones ( Look at Sound Focus below!)

SOUND Focus:

Homophones and Diphthongs:

rose / rows 

   hi / high 

   cereal / serial 

higher / hire  

  mind / mined  

  tire / tyre

 road / rowed   

bite / byte 

VOCABULARY Focus:

• on other people's shoes
• speak your heart out
• mingle
• gently
• stream
• merrily
• selfish
• moody
• mean
• polite
• easy-going
• hot-tempered
• careless
• cheerful

SONG:

PASSWORD after winter vacation:

" No matter how good you get,

 you can always get better 

and that is the exciting part"

Tiger Woods

B&B :

• Listen to Act 5.
• Complete activity 3 on page 29 of the manual.
• Look for the biography of your favourite sports star. 

( Suggestion: Click his /her name on "search" on the following web page http://www.biography.com/people )

Optional B&B for winter holidays:

• Revision of Modal Verbs:

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2229
http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal1.htm

• Revision of SPORTS: connected words and sport personalities

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5374

• Listening Exercises:

Watch video clips on health and exercise, hobbies and hiking. Then, answer the questions based on what you see and hear.

http://www.esl-lab.com/health/health-video.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/hiking/hobbies-video.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/exercise/exercise-video.htm

SOUND Focus:

Weak & strong forms from David Nicholson

MODAL VERBS:

VOCABULARY Focus:

Find the correct words to the pictures:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/free_time_sport/sports_disciplines3.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/free_time_sport/sports_disciplines4.htm

SONG:

Password for next class:

"The siesto or afternoon's nap of Italy would not have alarmed you so much,if you had recollected, that when we are at Rome,we should do as the Romans do"

 Pope Clement XIV ,1777 ( earliest version of the proverb: When in Rome, do as the Romans do!)

B&B:

• Read ACT 5
• Underline new words
• Solve activities on page 28 of the manual.

SOUND Focus:

http://www.multimedia-english.com/phonetics/beats_and_rhythm.php

VOCABULARY Focus:

• façade /fəˈsɑːd/
• "on the house"
• rehearsal
• loan
• 1998: nineteen ninety eight
• 2010: two thousand and ten
• keys /kiːz/
• kiss /kɪs/

SONG: