Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Fairness (C1-U5)

PRISON BREAKS




  • Watch the video about Alcatraz.  While you watch, make notes and then use them to summarise the main ideas.

  • Explain what "institutionalised" means within the context of this scene from Shawshank Redemption.




RELATIVE CLAUSES: Video, explanation, practice

Join these sentences using a relative clause. If it is possible to omit the relative pronoun, write it in brackets. 

1 The man told me you were out. He answered the phone. The man 
2 The museum was shut. We wanted to visit it. The museum 
3 I didn't get the job. I applied for it. 
4 The party wasn't very enjoyable. We went to it. 
5 The storm caused a lot of damage. Nobody had been expecting it.
6 The postman was late this morning. He is always on time.



JOB SECTORS

MODAL VERBS: WILLINGNESS, OBLIGATION, NECESSITY


LISTENING COMPREHENSION


Watch the video and complete the expressions.

1 You’re staying with Emma at the moment, if my memory  __________ me correctly?
2 I was__________  the impression that you were writing another book?
3 No __________ you heard that from that guy from the radio interview.
4 What __________ out in my mind most is that that interview was a total disaster!
5 I’d __________ a guess that he hadn’t even read my book.
6 __________ , you’re a technician, like Emma’s boyfriend, right?
7 I think I __________ Emma saying that her boyfriend’s a technician at City FM.
8 __________ you’d known, would you still have agreed to meet with me?





LITERATURE

The Hitchhiker, Roald Dahl

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Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky


CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (2002 film trailer)