Thursday, July 24, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
The Last Supper
Ask your partner
1.Which food have you just eaten?
2. What culture/s does it connect to?
3. Did it come in a wrapper?
4. Are you hungry right now?
5. What will you eat for lunch today?
What do you like to have on toast?
I can't stand it
I can't help eating more and more
It tastes a bit odd
It's fresh
It's healthy and wholesome
It's flavoursome
It's bland
It's quite dry
It's too hot
It's an acquired taste
It's full of carbs
It's helps you sleep
It's refreshing
It's high in sugar
It's high in protein
The meat is tender
The meat is touch
You can tell it's been made from a packet
You can tell it's been prepared with care
It's my secret recipe
It's unbelievable spicy
It burns your tongue
It's scrumptious
It's a good quick fix
It's convenient
It's very satisfying
It melts in your mouth
It smells better than tastes
It's low in fat
It's high in fat
It's not the real thing
It makes me want to throw up
It needs to cool down first
It needs to cool down first
It's very filling
It's a bit bland
It's too sweet
Ask your partner
1. How many eggs do you eat per week?
2. What kind of sauces go best with eggs?
3. What are eggs called in your first language?
4. Which of your favourite foods include eggs in the ingredients?
5. Could you ever give eggs up completely?
Ask your partner
1. Do you have access to a kitchen at the moment?
2. How much of your day do you usually spend in the kitchen?
3. Do you enjoy doing the dishes? What makes it more fun?
4. Have you ever smashed a plate of a glass on purpose? Why?
5. Which appliance in the kitchen is the most important?
the fridge
the stove and oven
the dishwashing machine,
the hot water jug.
the toaster
the microwave
the blender
10 Kitchen idioms
1. Everything but...
2. Hey! ...?
3. That's the way
4. my head is on5. One big
6. I have a memory
7. don't put all your ... in one ...
8. too many cooks
9. I have too / so many things
10 I have to put that idea on the
like a sieve
kitchen sink
spoil the soup
chopping block
eggs (basket)
like a sieve
kitchen sink
spoil the soup
chopping block
eggs (basket)
the kitchen sink
back burner
what's cookin'
cookie crumble
on the boil
melting pot
back burner
what's cookin'
cookie crumble
on the boil
melting pot
Favourite sauces, dressings, and toppings
vinegar. soy sauce, mustard. maple syrup, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, jalapeno sauce, salsa verde, chipotle, hollandaise, teriyaki, wasabi mayo, aioli. sriracha, chili sauce, Thai sweet chili, olive dressing, chocolate sauce, strawberry sauce, balsamic vinegar, cheese sauce (white sauce), custard, gravy...
What do you like to put on....
lettuce
vanilla ice cream
crackers
sausages
steak
salmon
french fries
pancakes
asparagus
Arrange a dinner party together. It's the last meal of your lives.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Narrative tenses review
Kahoot (advanced)
- Past simple
- Describes the main events of the story
- Describes sequences of events
- It is the 'standard' narrative tense. If in doubt, go for past simple.
- Past continuous
- Describes unfinished actions, especially around a certain time
- Describes longer actions interrupted by shorter ones
- Is often used for describing background actions
- Is sometimes used to make the actions in a story seem more immediate, especially with the word now
- Past perfect
- Describes actions which took place before the main actions in the story
- Past perfect continuous
- Describes longer continuous actions which took place before the main actions in the story
- Is sometimes used to explain the condition of people or things at the time of the main events in the story.
- Is sometimes used after words like "discovered" or "realised" (these are often verbs of mind)
Two other things to worry about!!
Past habits: used to +inf and would + inf
Future in the past: was -ing / was to inf / would + inf
feel
meal
door
saw
grin
in
cried
right
bite
feel
meal
yelping
helping
air
here
hat
that
hair
chair
red
said...
IELTS exam skills - describing changes
add
build
construct
create
develop
expand
move
plant
1. _____________________ has/have been added
2. _____________________ has/have been
3. _____________________ has/have been
4._____________________ has/have been
5._____________________ has/have been
6. _____________________ has/have been
7._____________________ has/have been
8._____________________ has/have been
Introductory sentence:
The two maps
show_______________________________________________________________
Overview:
We can
see______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Concluding sentence:
So it is clear
that_________________________________________________________________
Monday, July 21, 2025
Grandma's Hands
core understands hand spank swell piece church tambourine
snakes mother picked
handy heaven
Grandma's hands
Clapped in _________ on Sunday morning
Grandma's hands
Played a __________ so well
Grandma's hands
Used to issue out a warning
She'd say, Billy don't you run so fast
Might fall on a _________ of glass
Might be ___________ there in that grass
Grandma's hands
Grandma's hands
Soothed a local unwed ________
Grandma's hands
Used to ache sometimes and _______
Grandma's hands
Used to lift her face and tell her
She'd say, Baby, grandma __________
That you really love that man
Put yourself in Jesus' hands
Grandma's hands
Grandma's hands
Used to _________ me piece of candy
Grandma's hands
_______ me up each time I fell
Grandma's hands
Boy, they really came in ________
She'd say, Matty don' you whip that boy
What you want to __________ him for?
He didn' drop no apple ____________
But I don't have grandma anymore
If I get to ____________ I'll look for
Grandma's hands
Hmm-mmh
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Life Stories
One minute life story
try telling your whole life story in one minute!
Come up with some questions to ask someone about
Early Childhood
Elementary School
Middle/High School
College / University / Higher Education
Family
Career
Love
Travel
Political / historical events
General
Which of these questions would be likely to open your subject up?
Which might close them down?
Which questions might require sensitivity?
Childhood
When and where were you born?
Do you recall any interesting stories regarding your birth?
What is your earliest memory?
Who was the most influential person to you as a child?
What adjectives would you use to describe your childhood? Why?
How would your parent(s) describe you as a child? Why?
Did you have any pets as a child? What kind?
What did you do during the summertime?
What was your favorite game?
Who was your first best childhood friend?
Did you have any nicknames? Why were you called that?
What were you most afraid of as a child?
Do you recall any interesting stories related to you by any of your elder relatives that you have never forgotten and you think are worth telling to this audience?
Describe you parents. What were they like when you were young? Are they still the same?
What did they do?
What is your strongest image of your father?
Did your mother have a job?
What is your favorite memory of her?
Describe your grandparents.
What did you enjoy the most about them as a child?
Look at these questions. Decide which would be best to ask your subject.
High school
Where did you attend high school?
Who was your best friend?
Are you still in touch with them?
What was your favorite subject to study?
Did you play on any sports teams?
What was your favorite sport?
Were you involved in any school clubs?
Did you participate in your student body government?
Is there a teacher that you remember having been particularly influential?
How would you describe yourself as a student, both socially and academically? What did you like most about school? Least?
What sort of extracurricular activities did you participate in as a teen?
Did you earn any honors or were you recognized for any achievements?
Did you have a teen idol? If so, who was it and how did they spark your interest?
Who was your first boy/girlfriend?
What was your favorite music/band/dance in high school?
What would people you know find surprising about you as a teen?
University / higher education
Have you attend college? If so, which one? If not, why?
How were you able to attend college?
Did you put yourself through school, or were you supported by your parents?
Did you live in a dorm?
Who was your most memorable roommate?
Are you in touch with any?
Why did you decide to attend college?
What subject(s) did you study and why?
Did you get a degree? In what?
What generation of your family were you to receive a degree?
Was your family supportive of your decision to attend college? How so?
How did your college experience prepare you for your later years?
If you could do it again, would you take a different academic path, or are you satisfied with the route you followed?
Did you go on to receive an advanced degree?
If so, what was it and have you used it in your professional career? What on-campus activities did you participate in?
Work
What was your first job?
What's been your best job?
What's been your worst job?
What is the longest amount of time you have ever stayed with one company?
What was your position there?
In addition to being paid money, how else has your career created value in your life?
Do you have any regrets regarding your career path?
What is your most significant accomplishment as a professional?
Were you ever fired for unjust reasons? Have you ever lost a job?
Have you ever been unemployed?
What do you consider to be the best possible work environment?
Who was the biggest influence in your career?
What would be your ideal job?
Family
Do you have children? If so, how many and what ages/sexes?
What is your goal as a parent?
What does the word “family” mean to you?
Do you have any regrets regarding the way you raised your children?
In what way have you influenced your children the most?
How would your children describe you as a parent?
How do you describe yourself as a parent?
In what ways have your parents influenced you the most?
Which of your parents do you most similar to and why?
Do you wish you had been raised differently? How so?
What is your relationship with your parents like today?
What role do you play in your family?
How has manner in which you were raised affected the way in which you parented your own children?
Do you have siblings?
How many, are they older or younger, and what are their sexes?
How are your relationships with your siblings?
Would you change anything about your relationships with them?
Who are you closest to in your family?
Who do you admire most in your family and why?
Were you raised in a broken home? If so, who were you raised by and how did this affect you?
Have you lost any family members to death? If so, what was your relationship to them and how did their death affect you/your family?
Pets?
Love
Who was your first love?
Have you had your heart broken?
Have you broken any hearts?
Have you ever been married? To whom and for how long?
Describe your courtship.
How did you and your spouse first meet?
How did you propose/accept?
Describe your wedding/honeymoon.
Do you believe in love at first sight?
Have you ever been divorced? D
escribe your worst break-up.
Who was your biggest crush?
What role do you play in your marriage/relationships?
Do you have any regrets regarding your love life?
What was the most special way you’ve shown someone that you loved them?
Political or historical events
What do you consider to be the most significant political event that has occurred during your life?
What do you consider to be the most significant political event that has occurred in all of human history?
Which political figure do you most admire?
Which political figure do you least admire?
Other than the present, which historical era would you like to have lived in?
What do you consider to be the most important war fought during your lifetime? In all of history?
What do you consider to be the least important?
Have you ever fought for a political cause?
What social movements have affected your social conscience and how?
What would you like to see change in the current political/social atmosphere?
Are you politically active?
If you had to choose, what one political/social cause would you give your life for?
If you could meet any historical icon, of the past or present, who would it be and why?
General
What is your definition of “happiness”?
What was your worst injury?
What celebrity would you most want to meet?
What is your most memorable travel experience?
What’s the farthest from home you’ve ever been?
What is the funniest thing that’s ever happened to you?
What was your most rebellious moment?
If you had to choose, what is the one thing you regret about the way in which you’ve lived your life?
What is your happiest memory? Your saddest?
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
How do you hope to be remembered?
How do you think people will remember you?
Who is your biggest fan?
Whose biggest fan are you?
What do you like to do in your spare time?
When asked, what’s the one question you always answer with a lie?
What do you want the epitaph on your tombstone to be?
What is your most embarrassing moment?
If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
What is your greatest fear?
What is your greatest hope?
What are you really bad at that you’d love to be great at?
What do you think happens after death? What place does religion have in your life?
If there is a heaven, what do you imagine it to be like?
If you were re-born as an animal, what would you want to be?
If you could be anyone in history, who would it be?
Do you have any phobias?
What’s your favorite joke?
What are the main lessons you’ve learned in life?
She's leaving home
She’s Leaving Home
Wednesday morning at _____ o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her ________ door
Leaving the _____ that she hoped would say more
She goes ___________ to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the __________ key
Stepping outside she is _____
She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (__________ most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money ______ buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's _______ there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband "Daddy our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so ________________?
How ______ she do this to me?"
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We ______ hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)
Friday morning at ____ o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the ____________ she made
__________ a man from the motor trade
She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (_____ is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always _______
For so many years (Bye bye)
She's leaving home
She's leaving home
Silently closing her ________ door
Leaving the _____ that she hoped would say more
She goes ___________ to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the __________ key
Stepping outside she is _____
She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (__________ most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money ______ buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's _______ there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband "Daddy our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so ________________?
How ______ she do this to me?"
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We ______ hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)
Friday morning at ____ o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the ____________ she made
__________ a man from the motor trade
She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (_____ is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always _______
For so many years (Bye bye)
She's leaving home
She's leaving home
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Describe a friend
Describe a friend
Describe a friend
1. What is _____ name?
2. ____ old are they?
3. Where ____ they live?
4. How _____ have you known them?
5. Where and when ____ you meet them?
6. What do they look _____? ____ they attractive?
7. What clothes do they like ____ wear?
8. Do they ____ a special style?
9. What ____ of hair do they have? Do ____ look after their
hair?
10. _____ are their interests?
11. What do they love to get up _____?
12. What _____ their personality like?
13. Do you trust this person ____ every situation?
14. _____ they sociable? Shy?
15. Are they _____-working? lazy?
16. _____ do you like this person?
17. Do they _____ any strong opinions? About anything (food?
music? other people?)
18. Is there anything _____ them you don't like?
19. Have you ever ____ a disagreement or fight with this
friend?
20. What do you ______ your friend will be like in 20
years?
Check
What is their name?
How old are they?
Where do they live?
How long have you known them?
Where and when did you meet them?
What do they look like? Are they attractive?
What clothes do they like to wear?
Do they have a special style?
What kind of hair do they have? Do they look after their hair?
What are their interests?
What do they love to get up to?
What is their personality like?
Do you trust this person in every situation? If you lent them money would they pay you back? If you told them something private would they keep to themselves?
Are they sociable? Shy?
Are they hard-working? lazy?
Why do you like this person?
Do they like animals?
Do they like going out?
Do they like dancing?
Do they have any strong opinions? About anything (food? music? other people?)
Is there anything about them you don't like?
Have you ever had a disagreement or fight with this friend?
What do you think your friend will be like in 20 years?
Task
Log in here to practice describing people. The AI will try to make a drawing from your description. Give as much detail as you can.
I've been everywhere
I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road,
When along came a semi with a high and canvas-covered load.
"If you're goin' to Winnemucca, Mack, with me you can ride."
And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside.
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand.
And I said, "Listen, I've traveled every road in this here land!"
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma,
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma,
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,
Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana,
Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,
Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa,
Tennessee to Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika,
Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica,
Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport,
Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport,
Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina,
Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean-a.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, Colorado,
Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Dorado,
Larimore, Admore, Haverstraw, Chatanika,
Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika,
Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City,
Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been everywhere.
The Sentinel
______ ______ ____ ____ ____ _____
Walking on the moon
___ _____ ___ ____ _____ ______
Walking on the moon
____ ______ ____ ____ _____
Walking on the moon
____ ______ _____ __________
Walking on, walking on the moon
_______ ______ _____ ______ _______
Walking on the moon
_______ ______ ______ ______ _______
Walking on the moon
______ ______ _______ _______ ____ ________
Walking on the moon
____ ______ ______ _________ _______ _____ _________
Walking on, walking on the moon
Some may say
___ _________ _______ _______ _______
No way
___ ____ _____ ____ _____ ___ _____
Some say
________ __ _________ _____
You stay
___ _____ ____ ______ _____
Walking on the moon
___ _____ ___ ____ _____ ______
Walking on the moon
____ ______ ____ ____ _____
Walking on the moon
____ ______ _____ __________
Walking on, walking on the moon
_______ ______ _____ ______ _______
Walking on the moon
_______ ______ ______ ______ _______
Walking on the moon
______ ______ _______ _______ ____ ________
Walking on the moon
____ ______ ______ _________ _______ _____ _________
Walking on, walking on the moon
Some may say
___ _________ _______ _______ _______
No way
___ ____ _____ ____ _____ ___ _____
Some say
________ __ _________ _____
You stay
___ _____ ____ ______ _____
Intro:
Aliens:
Aliens
Quizlet:
24 things
Use the words in the gaps
crust diameter turret moisture nightfall crevasses delta transfigures overconfidence
Pre listening - read through these terms:
freighter (spaceships for freight)
crevass (deep gaps in the mountains)
skirting the foothills (exploring only the edges of the hills)
stupendous cliffs (very tall)
searing sunlight (very bright)
nightfall (the arrival of night)
pressurized tractors (with oxygen)
rugged landscape (rough hills)
capes and promontories (steep hills stick out over flat areas)
a vast delta (flat land where water runs)
uplands (hills)
a galley (kitchen)
terrestrial (from Earth)
imperceptible haziness (not easy to see far)
molten crust (hot lava under the ground)
ramparts (steep slopes)
iridescence (brightness)
the observation turret (observation tower)
just enough to tantalize me (make me curious)
elusive (difficult to identify)
enigma (mystery)
presently (soon)
the laughing-stock (a fool)
degenerate ancestors (primitive)
folly (foolishness)
completely unscalable (impossible to climb)
ledge (shelf of rock)
our plan of ascent (plan to climb)
exhilaration (excitement)
had scarcely begun (only just)
many-faceted (with lots of different sides)
moss (grows on rocks etc)
a shrine (sacred structure)
the plateau (flat land high up)
ceaseless bombardment (non-stop hitting)
irrevocably doomed (without any hope)
apparition (ghost, mystery)
a single token of its existence (token = sign)
overexertion (trying too hard)
a sentinel (guardian, watchman)
the emissaries are coming (people on a special mission)
1. When and where is the story set?
2. Why was the narrator there?
3. What was the narrator's profession?
4. Who is Louis Garnett? Who is Wilson?
5. What happens while the narrator is cooking sausages?
6. Can you draw the object the narrator discovers?
7. Why did the narrator begin to laugh?
8. What happened in the end?
9. Who were the People of the Dawn?
10. What was the purpose of the Sentinel?
Link to audio book:
The Sentinel
Aliens:
Aliens
Quizlet:
24 things
Discuss these extracts from the story:
"there are times when a scientist must not be afraid to make a fool of himself."
"You must understand that until this very moment I had been almost completely convinced that
there could be nothing strange or unusual for me to find here. Almost, but not quite; it was that
haunting doubt that had driven me forward. Well, it was a doubt no longer, but the haunting had
scarcely begun."
"the old are often insanely jealous of the young"
Put this sentence in order
on a perhaps a across hundred I plateau was standing feet
Check
I was standing on a plateau perhaps a hundred feet across.
Put this sentence in order
nothing hazardous exploration or particularly there even is exciting about lunar
Check
There is nothing hazardous or even particularly exciting about lunar
exploration.
Use the words in the gaps
crust diameter turret moisture nightfall crevasses delta transfigures overconfidence
1. Three hundred miles in __________, and almost completely surrounded by a ring of magnificent mountains, it had never been explored until we entered it in the late summer of 1996.
2. Luckily, most of the Mare Crisiurn is very flat. There are none of the great ________ so common and so dangerous elsewhere, and very few craters or mountains of any size.
3. Over the land which we were crossing, the tideless ocean had once been half a mile deep, and now the only trace of _______ was the hoarfrost one could sometimes find in caves which the searing sunlight never penetrated.
4. We had begun our journey early in the slow lunar dawn, and still had almost a week of Earth-time before ________.
5. The whole southern curve of the Mare Crisium is a vast _______ where a score of rivers once found their way into the ocean, fed perhaps by the torrential rains that must have lashed the mountains in the brief volcanic age when the Moon was young.
6. On the Moon, of course, there is no loss of detail with distance-none of that almost imperceptible haziness which softens and sometimes _______ all far-off things on Earth.
7. Those mountains were ten thousand feet high, and they climbed steeply out of the plain as if ages ago some subterranean eruption had smashed them skyward through the molten ________.
8. But I was curious to know what kind of rock could be shining so brightly up there, and I climbed into the observation _______ and swung our four inch telescope round to the west.
9. The real danger in lunar mountaineering lies in _________
10. __________ I paused and waved to my companion, then I scrambled over the edge and stood upright, staring ahead of me.
Pre listening - read through these terms:
freighter (spaceships for freight)
crevass (deep gaps in the mountains)
skirting the foothills (exploring only the edges of the hills)
stupendous cliffs (very tall)
searing sunlight (very bright)
nightfall (the arrival of night)
pressurized tractors (with oxygen)
rugged landscape (rough hills)
capes and promontories (steep hills stick out over flat areas)
a vast delta (flat land where water runs)
uplands (hills)
a galley (kitchen)
terrestrial (from Earth)
imperceptible haziness (not easy to see far)
molten crust (hot lava under the ground)
ramparts (steep slopes)
iridescence (brightness)
the observation turret (observation tower)
just enough to tantalize me (make me curious)
elusive (difficult to identify)
enigma (mystery)
presently (soon)
the laughing-stock (a fool)
degenerate ancestors (primitive)
folly (foolishness)
completely unscalable (impossible to climb)
ledge (shelf of rock)
our plan of ascent (plan to climb)
exhilaration (excitement)
had scarcely begun (only just)
many-faceted (with lots of different sides)
moss (grows on rocks etc)
a shrine (sacred structure)
the plateau (flat land high up)
ceaseless bombardment (non-stop hitting)
irrevocably doomed (without any hope)
apparition (ghost, mystery)
a single token of its existence (token = sign)
overexertion (trying too hard)
a sentinel (guardian, watchman)
the emissaries are coming (people on a special mission)
1. When and where is the story set?
2. Why was the narrator there?
3. What was the narrator's profession?
4. Who is Louis Garnett? Who is Wilson?
5. What happens while the narrator is cooking sausages?
6. Can you draw the object the narrator discovers?
7. Why did the narrator begin to laugh?
8. What happened in the end?
9. Who were the People of the Dawn?
10. What was the purpose of the Sentinel?
Link to audio book:
The Sentinel
Discussion:
1. Why did the writer spend so much time establishing the scene before describing the ascent of the mountain?
2. Why do you think he chose to set it in the Mare Crisum?
3. It is often said that science fiction reveals more about the attitudes of the time it was written than it does about the future. Is this true of this story?
4. Why did the writer decide to have Wilson reach the plateau alone, instead of after or at the same time as his colleague?
5. Could this story have been extended into a novel?
6. Does the story have a message?
Language focus - modals
must have looked could play might never come would have been must have searched would be would be would be must have guessed
Theirs 1_____________ a loneliness we cannot imagine, the loneliness of gods looking out across infinity and finding none to share their thoughts. They 2_____________ the star-clusters as we have searched the planets. Everywhere there worlds, but they 3____________ empty or peopled with crawling, mindless things. Such was our own Earth, the smoke of the great volcanoes still staining the skies, when that first ship of the peoples of the dawn came sliding in from the abyss beyond Pluto. It passed the frozen outer worlds, knowing that life 4_____________ no part in their destinies. It came to rest among the inner planets, warming themselves around the fire of the Sun and waiting for their stories to begin. Those wanderers 5_________________ on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and _________________ that it was the favorite of the Sun’s children. Here, in the distant future, 6__________ intelligence; but there were countless stars before -them still, and they 7_____________ this way again.
Why are so many modals of deduction used in this section of the story?
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