Conversational strategies

Today's class: presentations, speeches, conversational strategies (face2face book p.57, #5,6).

Homework:

• prepare a one-minute speech with the idea of creating some kind of emotional impact on your audience--make them laugh, cry, beg, shout--you get the picture (in your own words, or from any source).
• read through Harper's index--does anything catch your attention? surprise you? seem unbelievable?vocabulary/grammar questions?
• face2face p.58 #1a & Junior Apprentice reading at the bottom of the page, then p.59 #5 writing.

That's all folks!

Is it Andreu or David Attenborough?

Dramatic Speeches

Notebook 1 p. 65
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Handguns

Today we:

• Read and discussed handgun classes offered in the state of Texas.
• Prepared and gave speeches from famous films.  The text of the speeches are given on p.25 (extra photocopies).
• Face2Face book: vocabulary on page 56.

The video files from youtube are below.

Homework:  

• Read and practice a one-minute speech to be given next class (any topic).
• p.57 Conversational Strategies

Video files:

Alec Baldwin

Clint Eastwood

Cher

Mel Gibson

Audio notes from last class (graph explanation)

Notebook 1 pp. 50~52
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Book Audio Files

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New Year's Resolutions

Today's vocabulary:

new year's resolutions	Propositos de Año Nuevo
overwhelming	abrumador
deck	cubierta
deal a card	tratar una tarjeta de
ban	prohibición
red herring	pretexto falso/pista falsa
spurious relation	relación espuria
spurious connection	relación espuria
healthy, weatlthy, and wise	saludable, weatlthy y sabio
culprit	culpable