Tuesday, September 6, 2022

(Intermediate) Optimism and Pessimism

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Discuss












Your ideal day.













Your ideal night.














Your ideal job.












Your ideal you.













Your ideal love life. 












Your worst fear.












The worst thing about your country.








The worst thing about last year.









The worst thing about this year.








The worst thing about next year.







Vocabulary - are these words optimistic or pessimistic?





dark
comforting
desperate
discouraging
disheartening
bleak
cheerless
romantic
utopian
visionary
fatal
hopeful
rosy
upbeat
gloomy
reassuring
favorable, 
encouraging, 
heartening






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14.58 - 18.28

Watch the speech and discuss it.



Listening and speaking



General questions

What is a 'bubble'?

How did speaker and her friends create positive bubbles in Russia?



watch again


True or false?

1. We create bubbles when we do bad things 

2. Bubbles can be negative or positive

3. There are more negative bubbles than positive bubbles

4. The speaker often feels awkward in social situations

5. The speaker found Russian culture familiar

6. The students enjoyed their trip to Russia

7. Bubbles can easily pop.
















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