18th March

Reading: Page one  and   Page two

Vocab:  expressions with time

Writing: Watch the video on TED Talks. Take notes. What does Cardini suggest?
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Do you agree?
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Grammar: Like or as?


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Is Multi-Tasking a Myth?

Listen to the report and fill in the blanks: Click here

Researchers at Stanford University in the United States divided a group of over _______ students into light or heavy _______   _______. Light multitaskers _______   ___ just one or two sources at a time - listening to music while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles, and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would _______ the way their brains work.

Clifford Nass: "You would think that people who are multitasking with all these media at once would be great at _______  information. However we discovered they are suckers for irrelevant information, so they're much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the irrelevant."

Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at organising and _______ information, and worse at _______ from one task to another. The findings have left the scientists with something of a mystery - why do people multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly _______ work environment, expecting staff to be constantly available by email and instant message whilst doing their jobs may actually mean that _______ falls.

Speaking: Present the pros and cons of multi-tasking in our everyday lives

SENTENCE STRESS

Sentence stress is another golden key for speaking and understanding English. With sentence stress, some words in a sentence are STRESSED (loud) and other words are weak (quiet). Look at the following sentence:

We want to go.

Do we say every word with the same stress or force? No. We make the important words BIG and the unimportant words small. What are the important words in this sentence? Yes, that's right: WANT and GO.

• We WANT to GO.
• We WANT to GO to WORK.
• We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.
• We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK at NIGHT.

Now that you know that word stress exists, you can try to learn more about it.

You should KNOW that SENtence and WORD STRESS are VERy imPORtant !!!

Pronunciation quiz: http://www.englishclub.com/esl-quizzes/pronunciation-quizzes.htm

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Grammar:  Order of adjectives


Grammar Pratice:

1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
  dirty old flannel
  flannel old dirty
  old dirty flannel

2. Pass me the ________ cups. 
  plastic big blue
  big blue plastic
  big plastic blue

3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher.
  handsome new American
  American new handsome
  new handsome American

4. I used to drive ________ car.
  a blue old German
  an old German blue
  an old blue German

5. He recently married a ________ woman.
  young beautiful Greek
  beautiful young Greek
  beautiful Greek young

6. This is a ________ movie.
  new Italian wonderful
  wonderful Italian new
  wonderful new Italian

7. She is a ________ supermodel. 
  beautiful slim Brazilian
  Brazilian beautiful slim
  slim Brazilian beautiful

8. It's in the ________ container.
  large blue metal
  blue large metal
  blue metal large

9. He sat behind a ________ desk. 
  big wooden brown
  big brown wooden
  wooden big brown

10. She gave him a ________ vase. 
  small Egyptian black
  black Egyptian small
  small black Egyptian