Friday, September 8, 2023

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




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