C1.2 Unit 5: Language

Aims for the week:

1. Increase awareness of word choice, style and register

2. Pronounce and spell multisyllabic and onomatopoetic words. 

3. Move with ease between different registers and regions of vocabulary. 

5. Increase awareness of eloquence and differently cultivated uses of English.

Project:

Produce a diary in an engaging, expressive and effective style. 

A Masterpiece of Love

Some of the supplementary materials we'll be looking at:


Literally and Figuratively - adapted reading

Stephen Fry on Langauge - kinetic text

Why we're not in the land of the white long cloud - radio interview

What Sign Language Can Do That Spoken Language Can't - adapated reading

Mandela Memorial Impostor - short talkshow clip

One woman, 17 British accents (short clip) EF Class: Varieties of English

How languages evolve - TED Lesson

Why Bad Words Are Bad - vSauce video

A Teenage Polyglot - EF PPT
Whose Language? NEF Reading
Experiences of highly fluent L2 English speakers - NEF Listening


Some of the vocab - separate the words


impostertexturesee-sawanticipatezig-zageloquentoriginateoverturndifferretellingadeptdetailedinnate
underscoreoriginalityconsideratepedantconventiondelight

Money and Finance

bailoutdipintoforkovergetbylayoutputasiderunup(debt)scrapebytideover













advancing ologychten













insihrnkg job market












nagig population













pnsioen fund















rresogsivpe tax














jteusdad gross income












niummim wage












income ridtioistbun















net













a rainy day












gross












frugal















approval













fork out














tide over














run up


















scrape













Comprehensive review of phrasal verbs from C2.1






Conditionals that don't follow the rules


Every day we hear another story blaming advancing technology for the shrinking job market. Yet(1) ____________ these advances in technology not occurred, how many of today’s jobs would not exist? If robots are replacing (2) ____________ only menial jobs, but middle class jobs good enough to provide pension funds, insurance plans, and house mortgages, then surely (3) ____________ means we are closer to a society that is completely automated and digitized. (4) ____________ that is the case, then we are (5) ____________ more efficient, improving productivity, and generating more wealth and more intelligence; as a result, ultimately, emphasis (6) ____________ shift from generating wealth to distributing it. Yes, there will always be jobs. If it wasn’t (7) ____________ the march of technology, jobs like web designer or app developer (8) ____________ not exist. It is likewise thanks to technology that the aging population is growing, which brings (9) ____________ back to the question of wealth distribution. Typically employees in health care and social support sectors receive the lowest wages. If governments are (10) ____________ meet the needs of the technologically advanced society they have created, then they need to reassess where the money goes. 

C1.2 Unit 5: Language - vocab review

I googled an image using a word from this week - can you guess which word?

Get them to say this word without saying it yourself...











imposter












texture















see-saw















anticipate
















zig-zag












eloquent














originate















overturn














differ












retelling














markings












fossilise












peninsula











adept













detailed











innate













underscore














originality













considerate













pedant












convention














delight


















When we use words not in their normal literal meaning or in a way that makes a description more impressive or interesting, the correct word, of course, is “__________.”

















In a fascinating study lead by UK academic and researcher Sabaji Panda, it was found that if you put two deaf people in a room, who have no shared language, it’s only a matter of hours before they find a way to ____________ (imagine trying that with hearing people.)













Many prominent leaders from around the world went to Nelson Mandela's memorial service in South Africa and, as is often the case at big events like this, they had a sign language interpreter there to translate for the hearing _________.

I think what offends examiners and employers when confronted with extremely informal, unpunctuated and haywire _________ is the implication of not caring that underlies it.

Storytelling is more engaging and detailed in visual languages. Because they are visual-spatial, signed languages are particularly ______ at describing space and movement.

The _________ of Neanderthals, in the form of skeletons, tools and decorative adornments, reach back more than 120,000 years in the region.

Unlike __________, that failed international spoken language, International Sign has taken off since the advent of social media. 

The claim to be defending language for the sake of clarity almost never, ever holds _____.














The discovery overturns the widely-held _______ that modern humans are the only species to have expressed themselves through works of art.