Film clip | All at C Main Activities Prediction, listening, grammar (wishes) and speaking. Suitable for Teens and adults, Pre-Advanced (B2.2) and above. TEACHER’S NOTES (Click here for a pdf of theTeacher’s Notes.) Put students into groups of three or four. Tell them that they’re going to see a short extract from a film. Show the film from 07:18 to 10:11. Then ask them to discuss the following questions: What’s happened to the woman? Get some theories from the groups and write them up on the board. Now see if anyone can answer this question: Which word did she use eight times? Ask them if they can remember any of the things she said using it. Show them the scene again, but don’t let them write as they watch. Let them decide if they’d like to see it one more time to check/improve their answers. Display or hand out the answers. Ask them to divide the sentences (except 3 and 4) into two groups with different meanings and forms. Now display the plot summary so they can see how close their theories were in step 3.
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How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston Aristotle, the student of Plato, taught first in Plato’s Academy and then tutored Alexander the Great, and finally established his Athenian philosophical school the Lyceum. The Lyceum is an amazing place to visit. Watch this video to learn more about the its remains here. In the fourth century BC, Aristotle compiled several of his lectures, two of which he wrote when he taught in Plato’s Academy and two later when teaching in his Lyceum, into the treatise, Rhetoric, which he used as a text. His teaching method differed from others; Aristotle was a peripatetic lecturer, which means he walked around as he spoke with his students instead of standing in the front of a room. Aristotle was not born in Athens and was not an orator like the sophists, and one of the most famous orators of the age, Cicero, were. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (1991), translated by George Kennedy, is the authoritative text of Aristotle’s treatise.
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170 Meet Nanju Todd: OK, Hello! Nanju: Hello! Todd: Hi, what's your name? Nanju: Yeah, my name is Nanju. Todd: Nanju. Nanju, how do you spell you name? Nanju: Yeah, my name is like N-A-N-J-U. Todd: Oh, OK. Nanju: I'm from Madras. Todd: Madras! Nanju: It's in India. Todd: Madras. Nanju: It's in the South India. Todd: South India. Nanju: South India. Todd: And how long have you been in Japan? Nanju: The past four months I am here and working in somewhere, working. Todd: OK, and what do you do in Japan? Nanju: It's normal, a software engineer. Todd: Software engineer. Nanju: No, nothing. Todd: Were you always good at computers when you were young? Nanju: Yeah, I might be, from the 12th standard. like 18th years.
ESL Yes 1,600 Free ESL Short Stories, Exercises, Audio ‘Aloud’ or ‘Out Loud’? | Grammar Girl To read out loud and to read aloud mean the same thing, but in the old days, aloud was the only cultured option. In the early 1900s, usage guide writers looked down their noses at out loud and called it “colloquial.” Today, out loud and aloud are both fine, although aloud still feels more high-brow and formal. Which word people use seems to vary depending on the context and the exact phrase. But even in published books, in some phrases, out loud is more common. The quick and dirty tip is that you can use either aloud or out loud—whichever sounds more natural to you—but if you want to be a stickler, aloud is probably better for solemn or formal occasions such as asking someone to “read aloud” in church. To continue following along with the podcast, open the next segment in a new window: How to Craft Strong Voice. Get more tips like this in Grammar Girl's 101 Troublesome Words You'll Master in No Time: Print: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s
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