2015.11.04 Class 5

1) To start off class today, we revised your summaries of Mind the Gap, which you wrote in class last week and which I made a few corrections on. I suggested the following as a model summary and we considered the fact that sometimes you have to summarise when writing, for example, a review for Writing part 2.

This short film is about an elderly woman who visits an underground station every day. At first, we don't know why. Then, one day, when the voice of the announcer that says 'Mind the gap' changes, she begins to cry. We discover at the end that the woman went to the station every day to listen to the announcement, which had been recorded by her late husband.

2) We then watched Tick Tock again, but not backwards:



I asked you to think about Emit's regrets and/or the regrets the palliative nurse found among the terminally ill (in the article we read in Class 4). We use forms such as the following to express regrets:

Emit wishes he had done X.
He was sorry he had called his mother stupid (or: for calling his mother stupid.)
Many older men regret having done Y (or: doing Y).

You then wrote summaries of Tick Tock, mentioning some of his regrets.

3) You did a quick vocabulary quiz on the Miscellaneous - Classes 1, 2, 3 list. Those who studied did well; those who did not, didn't.

4) I then announced that we'll be having a Practice Test (Reading & Use of English part only) on 18 November (=Class 7).

So as to be familiar with all the parts in the R&UE, we continued working in the book on pp.14-15 (R&UE Part 6) and p.17 (R&UE Part 3).

5) We ended class with an informal speaking task about traveling.

Homework:

1. Study the Miscellaneous - Classes 4 & 5 (regrets) vocabulary list for another quiz in Class 6.
2. Read and do the exercises on the short story Two Peas in a Pod. (If you missed class, click on the link to get the story.) You can also listen to the story.