English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hey,
today we first did a quick warm up about facebook. Here is what we said about it:
# WARM UP ! - Facebook
(to) stalk someone on the Internet
(to) create a facebook account
(to) display / expose your personal information on the Net
(to) chat with people
For Samira, Facebook is like a second life.
Then we continued speaking about the text and I asked you what your reactions would be if you saw a unicorn in your garden. Here is what you said:
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# THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN
If I saw a unicorn in my garden, I would :
- think I'm crazy
- call my parents to reassure myself
- want it to give me its power
- believe I'm dreaming
- try to ride it.
Finally, we continued reading the text and we analysed the moods / behaviours of the characters. Here is what we said about them:
"to be written by Romane"
You also had to take all the dialogue parts out and add / replace verb speech to express better the feelings of the characters and the way they speak:
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* "There's a unicorn in the garden" he screamed.
* "Eating roses" he yelled.
* "The unicorn is a mythical beast" she replied in a grumpy voice.
* "Here, unicorn" begged the man in a quiet / soft voice.
* "The unicorn ate a lily" said the man in a convincing voice.
* "You're a booby" she said emotionlessly.
* "and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch" she said clearly.
* "We'll see about that" he said in a cold voice.
* "He had a golden horn in the middle of his forehead" he added.
HW: you need to finish upgrading the last cues from the first half of the text with enhanced speech verbs and expressions (2 expressions minimum per sentence)