lesson 17/2017 »

6 Minute English: Honesty
6 Minute English: Invisibility

Guardian: Crinkly plate

Film: 12 Beers
Film: Worst Case Scenario
 

practise

12 Beers

https://vimeo.com/218722020


Before you watch

1. Usually in Britain people discuss important/daily/funny/urgent/family/private/important/not so important matters over tea. How do you do it?
   

While you watch

1. Complete the following:
   

They say that love is like a ___________ that ____________ your taints.

2. Complete the following:
   

• The way you sneeze makes me…
  
• My sister had to wear headgear…
  
• I love living with you but…
  

3. What's the man's sleep disorder?
   

4. What happened as a result of his disorder?
   

5. What crazy thing do the two do?
   

After you watch - watch the video and complete the text -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWqCzru5zk

Hello, and welcome to another episode of "How to be English". In today mag- My name is Charles and today I'm going to be show you the ancient English art that is making a cup of tea. Ha ha ha.

Firstly, you will need to get your tea-making equipment This consists of a kettle complete with water, a mug, a tea spoon, milk (I prefer __________ milk), sugar (for those of you with a _________) and, least but not last, teabags. Now that you have all your equipment, we can get started.
(put this and that away)

First, take your kettle and fill it with water. Then plug the kettle into the plug and boil the water. While the kettle is boilling we can prepare the cup for tea-bagging. Take the mug, remove the spoon, and insert one teabag into the mug. If you wish to have sugar in your tea, insert the sugar at this point. I have a sweet too, so I prefer two sugars in my tea. Now the cup is ready for the water, so we will wait for the water to boil.

It's ready! Take your kettle with boiling water and pour the water into the cup. Then, we stir. Then you take the teabag and you press it against the side of the cup and remove the teabag. __________ the teabag. Aaah.

Now, the tea is ready for the milk. I like my tea quite milky. There!. And once again, stir the tea. You must stir the tea quite a lot to make sure that the sugar is dissolved and that the infusion of the tea leaves combines with the water. And now the tea is ready to drink. Ah, delicious!

• English people are very particular about how they make tea. Do you have a particular method too?
  
• Do you prefer tea bags or loose tea?
  

Do you use any of the following?

• Tea cosy
• Tea strainer
• saucer
  
• Teapot
• sieve

Worst Case Scenario

https://vimeo.com/219462485



Before you watch

1. How would you describe yourself?
   

• Optimist - pessimist - realist - dreamer - opportunist
  

2. What are the pros and cons of each?
   

While you watch

1. What does Ryan have a degree in?
   
2. What's his job title?
   
3. What example does he give?
   
4. Why did the woman invite Ryan to her house?
   
5. How many questions were there?
   
6. What's the situation with the baseball?
   
7. And with the geese?
   
8. What happened to the woman who asked Ryan to do an investigation?
   
9. What happened when he worked out the probabilities again?
   

After you watch

Take the personality test:
http://365tests.com/personality-tests/optimist-or-pessimist-personality-test/

What were the results of your test?

Questions, problems

It's up to you
It depends on you
It's down to you
(it's down to the context)
It relies on you

At age of 18 ...
I had no car.
I didn't have a car.
I hadn't got a car.

and now
I've got a car.
I have a car.

I have
I also have
I've got
I've also got - is this good?

repeat:
Is it true?
Do you think, it's true?
What do you think, is it true?
It's true, isn't it?


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