A Tourist Attraction

 Padlet: Tourist attractions

Poetry

1) Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

2) William Shakespeare "Seven Ages of Man"

3) Emily Dickinson "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

4) Robert Frost "The Road not Taken"

5)  E.E Cummings "I carry your heart with me"

6) Walt Whitman "I hear America singing" 

7)  Walter D. Wintle "Thinking"

8) Rudyard Kipling "IF"

9)Maya Angelou  "I know why the caged bird sings"

10) Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"

Writing a poem

1) Things that make you happy, lifted, positively emotional / things that make you sad, angry, upset

2) What is the general topic or issue?

3) What is the place? 

4) What's the time? Determine whether your poem is written in the past, present, future or it has mixed tenses. 

5) Write 5 important nouns needed for your poem. Find at least one rhyming word for each. 

6) Write 5 important verbs....

7) Write 5 important adjectives .... 

8) Description (Choose => describe the feeling, place, nature, weather etc.)

9F: measures and dimensions

 1) How high is the highest mountain? 

2) How deep is the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?

3) How tall is the tallest building in the world?

4) How long is the longest river?

5) How long is the longest country in the world?

6) How deep is the deepest lake in the world?

7) How narrow is the narrowest street in the world?

8) How long is the longest bridge / viaduct in the world? 

9) How many centimetres is one foot?

10) How many centimetres is one inch?

Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Danyang-Kunshan grand bridge

1. 8,848.86 m; 

2. 10,911 m; 

3. 828m; 

4. 6,650km; 

5. 4,395; 

6. 1,620m; 

7. 31 cm; 

8. 164,851m / 16,5 km

9. 30.48 cm; 

10. 2,54 cm

Gerund or Infinitive (to do / doing)

 Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task 4 

Task 5

Task 6

Extra tasks: Agendaweb

Conditionals 2

Task 1: Which type?

Task 2: Match the parts of the sentences

Task 3: Multiple choice

Task 4: Game

Task 5: Multiple choice 2

Task 6:  Mixed conditionals 

Task 7: Mixed conditionals 2

Task 8:  Test

Unit 8 KEY

 SB ex 2/119

1) T, 2) F, 3) F, 4) T, 5) F

SB ex 3/119

a) Helen spent 10 years at school in Boston and New York (improving her communication skills).

b) She decided to apply for university.

c) She graduated from the college and became the first deaf-blind person to gain a degree.

d) Anne died.

e) Aged 81, Helen suffered a series of strokes.

f) Helen died.

SB ex 4/119

1) To learn to speak

2) Harvard didn't accept women at that time.

3) Helen wrote her autobiography.

4) She was a socialist, feminist, pacifist and fought for the rights of disabled people as well as women's rights. 

5) She was nearly 88 years. 

WB ex 1-5/92

WB ex 6-9/93

A Narrative

 1) Write a narrative that involves a mobile phone or a phone conversation. It can be a true story or fiction. The main character can be you or somebody else. 

2) Divide your story into 4 paragraphs: a) set the scene, b) lead-up to the main event, c) the main event, d) the ending. Your paragraphs should be quite equal in length. 

3) Use at least 2 comment adverbs (What are they? - WB p 91)

4) Use at least 4 different time expressions (What are they? - WB p 91)

5) Use both direct and reported speech. Don't forget to use quote marks!

6) Pay extra attention to the use of capital letters, apostrophes and punctuation.