Animal phobia and describing people

20 Março 2019, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

1) Checking homework: “My extreme Animal Phobia”, B1.2 Workbook, pages: 27-28

Post-Reading activity: Reading comprehension questions followed by free discussion on the topic.

2) Vocabulary and speaking, group work activity: Describing people: character

Finding expressions and their synonyms, and defining meaning:

A) Intellectual abilities: intelligent, smart, clever, brainy, etc.

B) Attitudes towards life: pessimistic, optimistic, introverted, extroverted, practical, sensible, sensitive, etc.

C) Attitudes towards other people: sociable, argumentative, reliable, etc.

D) Positive and negative characteristics:

‘determined’ versus ‘obstinate’

‘innocent’ versus ‘naïve’

‘economical’ versus ‘mean’

3) Sts defined themselves using the new adjectives they learnt.

4) Vocabulary and speaking, pair work activity: Exercise 34.1, 34.2, 34.4. 

Source: Pasta 3, pp 7-8, Michael and Felicity O' Dell. Vocabulary in Use. Upper-Intermediate & Advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 68-69.

Homework: 34.3, 34.5, 34.6, 34.7. Pasta 3, p. 8.