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Lead In:
- What is it that you expect from this year?
- What differences do you think there are between B1 and C1?
- What's the best way to achieve a satisfactory oral level?
- Fluency
- Accuracy
- Range
- Level
- What would " a sinergetic blend" between grammar and vocabulary? (what do I mean?)
REMEMBER,.... MOUNTAINS CAN BE MOVED!!
- Do you think Philippe Petit would get a C1 certificate? why?
- Stages of his career as a magician
- Key words in his professional life
- mumur-chill-sway-flop-grab-encouragement
- How would you describe a magician?
- Which of these verbs describes best what the audience experience at a magic show?
- they are TRICKED, CHEATED, DECEIVED?
- Can you describe the beginning of the video?
- What does he mean by cheat?
- What does SHRINK THIS LIFETIME TO 18 MINUTES mean?
- what did he get for Christmas when he was 6?
- What could he do at the next step of his learning process?
- What's the meaning of DEXTERITY?
- What about the next stage?
- And the icing of the cake?
- How does he describe the previous moments on the top of the World Trade Center?
- What happened with the dove?
- Which words does he trace on the virtual board?
The Magical Cocoction for English
- PASSION (3:47
- TENACITY (5:30)
- INTUITION (7:05)
- FAITH (10:01)
- IMPROVISATION (13:26)
- INSPIRATION (18:02)
The Magic Trics in English (which help create an atmosphere and paint a vivid picture of the speaker's reference, playing with connotations, implications, irony...)
- CONVERTING - TRANSFIGURING (mixing vocabulary from different semantic fields to exploit the connotative power of the word) (the dancing flames) (herds of students)
- VANISHING - (big picture, abstraction, generalization) (card manipulation) (the rate of unemployment rather than a lot of unemployed people)
- EMBODIMENT (the impossible) (the poor) (rather than poor people)
- SHADES OF COLOUR (ways of doing the same action) (grab the dove) (rather than took the dove)
- ZOOM IN (specific little actions that lead to a result, specific elements, components...) (I gripped the steering wheel, leaning on it and peering at the road ahead through the curtain of pouring water that covered the windscreen, until I reassuringly caught a glimpse of the city lights) (rather than I drove to the city, it was raining a lot)
- BRIGHTENING (comment adverbs, etc.) (to make the meaning more vivid and rich; adverbs that add extra info about the character rather than manner - inherent to the word) (proudly showed; thoughfully strode out) (rather than he walked fast out and he was very worried thinking about it)
- CLUSTERING (collocations) (I strongly recommend... )
- SELF-CONVERSION (converting oneself into a native speaker by using idiomatic expressions, which do not necessarily have to be idioms) (the installation of solar panels on the Himalayas was certainly a game-changer) (there's more to life than work) (there are 5 of us)
Lead In (speaking) (Social misconduct)
- Why do you think sexual harassment has been an endemic social issue?
- What's the profile of the sexual predator?
- Who are the most vulnerable preys?
- Why do you think some victims (f.ex. actors) choose to play the game?
- Why is it that some victims feel daunted and keep silence?
- Has the situation changed?
Questions
- Ways of expressing sexual harassment
- Ways of expressing that Weinstein is only one out of many
- Ways of expressing the fact that some people make it easier for him to abuse his victims
- Ways of replacing the word people
card game - METAPHORS
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK
Upgrade the following sentences
- If a country gets poor, the people who live in it get poorer
- Families used to have few children but now they have even fewer
- Scientists say that rich people get depressed
Upgrade the following sentences
- If a country gets poor, the people who live in it get poorer
- Families used to have few children but now they have even fewer
- Scientists say that rich people get depressed
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