Halloween (click here to find some classroom materials)

October 31st

First of all, here is an excellent "recut trailer" of Mary Poppins, very appropriate for Halloween:

A SONG: This is Halloween, from Nightmare Before Christmas

and

A WITCH, or so they say (by Monty Python)

Vocabulary: stroke. The British F.A.S.T. campaign

Here is a very effective campaign to help people identify the symptons of a possible stroke on another person and make them act FAST. Click on the image to go to the site.

Here is another campaign, this time to help you identify the symptoms of a heart attack in yourself and act on them before it's too late.

Unfinished crossword (personality adjectives):

Here are the definitions for the crossword we could not finish in class.



Help: you completed many of the definitions in class.
Handicap: these are dictionary definitions and that means that the vocabulary and structures used in them are more complex than those used in class.

1 DOWN: painfully desirous of another's advantages / suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival.
2 DOWN: Treated with excessive indulgence; having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention;
3 ACROSS: having or displaying warmth or affection
4 DOWN: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering / causing suffering and pain.
5 DOWN: having or showing good spirits / pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
6 DOWN: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
7 ACROSS: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others.
8 ACROSS: not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent / habitually speaking the truth.
9 DOWN: combining clever conception and facetious expression.
10 DOWN: characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.
11 DOWN: marked by independence and creativity in thought or action.;
12 ACROSS: possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching.
13 ACROSS: disinclined to work or exertion.
14 ACROSS: pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.
15 DOWN: responsive to physical stimuli / being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others.
16 DOWN: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield.
17 DOWN: enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance.
18 ACROSS: expressing or feeling or resulting from compassion or friendly fellow feelings / having similar disposition and tastes.
19 ACROSS: acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed.
20 DOWN: willing to give and share unstintingly / not petty in character and mind.
21 ACROSS: showing lack of care for consequences.
22 ACROSS: dependable - worthy of trust / worthy of being depended on.;
23 ACROSS: having an unreasonable dislike of or preference for someone or something.
23 DOWN: showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc. / marked by refinement in taste and manners.
24 ACROSS: showing a brooding ill humor / subject to sharply varying moods.
25 ACROSS: inclined to or conducive to companionship with others.
26 ACROSS: favorably disposed; not antagonistic or hostile;
27 DOWN: lacking civility or good manners.
28 ACROSS: marked by simplicity / having a humble opinion of yourself / free from pomp or affectation.

(Note: click on the picture for more crosswords)

Opinion article

Write an opinion article of a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 200 words on one of the two following topics:

1) Psychics, believe it or not.

2) Reconsider Columbus Day. Watch the following video and write an article for a magazine expressing your opinion:

On page 49 in your books you will find some help about the structure of this composition. Deadline: Wednesday 20th October.

Me too / So do I

We introduced in class the structures "so do I" and "neither do I" to replace "me too" and "me neither".

If you need to revise how this structures work, click on the following link and read section

2. So/Neither do I, I do, I don't., etc.

If you don't know or you are not sure about when you can use "me too" and when you should use "so do I", here is the answer from the BBC Learning English site to this question:

Finally, here are some exercises about the structure "so/neither do I":