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Good morning!

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Theme: ask about local customs• Practice speaking and reading skillsTheme: Explain wedding traditions• Identify and describe vocabulary ‘Getting married’• Practice speaking, writing and reading skills• Discuss controversial issues politely- Identify and use verbs followed by objects and

infinitives.- Listening practiceTheme:Propose solutions to global problems- Reading and speaking practice

GE8

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8/30Activity: Grammar. Answer the following exercise.

Exercise: Adjectives clauses

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adj1.htm

Wish someone a good holiday

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8/30Activity: Speaking. Watch the video and read the information and discuss about it.

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_low_intermediate.php?id=14769

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/jun/level-b/reading-comprehension-table-customs-in-thailand/

Ask about local customs

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8/30Activity: Vocabulary. Define the following words or phrases.

Getting marriedThe events

An engagement (get engaged)A (marriage) ceremony (get married)A receptionA honeymoon

Explain wedding traditions

The peopleA fiancéA fiancéeA brideA groomThe newlyweds

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8/30Activity: Speaking. Read the following saying or proverb about weddings and marriage Discuss what they mean.

Explain wedding traditions

Italy: “ Marry off your son when you wish. Marry off your daughter when you can.”

Ireland: “Marriages are all happy. It’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.”

South Africa: “Marriage is just friendship if there are no children.”

Poland: “The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.”

United Kingdom: Advice to the bride: “Wear something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

Explain wedding traditions

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8/30Activity: Writing: Make a list of wedding traditions in MexicoReading: http://www.livescience.com/16810-10-world-wedding-traditions.html

Explain wedding traditions Before the wedding

At the wedding ceremony

After the wedding

Explain wedding traditions

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HW

Investigate about a holiday from another country and read the information. You will share it with your classmates next class.

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8/30Activity: Vocabulary and Grammar. Look at the vocabulary on p. 102. Then choose one and give your opinion about it. Another student will tell you if

he/she agrees or disagrees with you using the expressions below.

Agreement and DisagreementAGREEMENT:

I agree with you on that one.I couldn’t agree more.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.That’s exactly what I think.

DISAGREEMENTI guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

Really? I have to disagree with you there.Do you think so? I’m not sure I agree.

Well, I’m afraid I don’t agree.No offense, but I just can’t agree.

Discuss controversial issues

politely

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Bring up a controversial topic

Verbs followed by objects and infinitivesThere are some verbs that are followed by an infinitive, but some verbs must be followed by an object before an infinitive:

Examples:

1.The deputies agreed to lower the driving age even though the people were against it.2.The newspaper reminded all 18-year-olds to vote

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8/30Activity: Grammar. Choose a verb from the list below. Think if the verb needs to be followed by an object before the infinitive and write a

sentence.

Verbs followed by objects and infinitives

Bring up a controversial topic

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Exercise p. 103 and Activebook

Reading p. 104

Bring up a controversial topic