1&2 Revise and Check

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Online Shopping

Useful language to order things online.

There's a mistake at the beginning of the script: Didn't you found? It should be: Didn't you find?

Read a text about the pros and cons of online shopping.

 How to speak about online shopping



a  Watch the video and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). 
1 Tim is the person who has shopped online the longest. 
2 Pete decides what he’s going to buy before he looks at a shopping website. 
3 Sam only does his food shopping online. 
4 Pete once ordered the wrong item. 
5 Fauzia decided to return an order she wasn’t happy with. 
6 Derek has never had any problems with online shopping. 
7 Eloise often shops for things she can wear. 
8 Tim wasn’t satisfied with the last thing he bought online. 


b  Watch the responses to the third question (2:00–4:18) and complete the sentences with the correct words. 
1 When you _____________ it _____________  , you have to be in your house to receive it. 
2 Once I  _____________ quite a large  ____________ from an online sari shop. 
3 When I ordered it, it didn’t  ____________  anything  ____________ the picture. 
4 It would have been too much of a hassle to ____________  it  ____________  . 
5 For example the payment might not   ____________ properly. 
6 Occasionally the ____________ has been delivered. 
7 Their customer  ____________ are quite good at helping you, and rectifying the ____________ .

Check your answers in "comments".  

Activity taken from onestopenglish.com

Ethical shopping

Listening activity

Do the preparation activity first. Then listen to the audio and do the task. You can also read the script.

Clothes and Fashion- Speaking

How to talk about clothes and fashion. You can listen to and read some examples. 

Example 1

Example 2 

Clothes Vocabulary

Vocabulary: click here and look at the vocabulary posted in the blog last year. 








Click here to do a listening activity with vocabulary about clothes shopping.

Would / Used to

Click here to read about this grammar point. 

Watch this video with some examples of "used to" and "would" to talk about repeated actions in the past talking about childhood.

Now watch this one and see if you would have won the fantastic prize in this gameshow.



Click here to do a quiz. 

Grandparents 2

Listen to a conversation between a man and a woman and answer the following questions. Click here to see the script.


1. Where was the woman?
2. How is his grandmother doing? 
3. Why did he see his grandparents very often when he was a kid?
4. What did his grandma use to do?
5. Why didn't she have the same relationship with her grandparents?
6. What did he stopped seeing his grandparents so often?
7. What was common in the past (former generations) according to him?
8. What was he reminiscing with his grandma about?
9. What would they do every Sunday afternoon?
10. What would his grandma do?

A poem

WARNING by Jenny Joseph

Watch the video and fill in the gaps. You'll need between one and three words in each gap. Click on the author's name to see the answers. 

  When I am an old woman I shall ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____________________ (1)
  With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me ____________________ (2).
  And I shall spend ____________________ (3) on brandy and summer gloves
  And satin ____________________ (4), and say we've no money for butter.
  I shall sit down on ____________________ (5) when I'm tired
  And gobble up samples in shops and press ____________________ (6)
  And run ___________________ (7) along the public railings
  And make up for the sobriety of ____________________ (7).
  I shall go out in ____________________ (8) in the rain
  And pick flowers in other ____________________ (9)
  And learn to spit.

  You can wear ____________________ (10) and grow more fat
  And eat three pounds of ____________________ (11) at a go
  Or only bread and pickle ____________________ (12)
  And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and ____________________ (13).

  But now we must have ____________________ (14) that keep us dry
  And pay ____________________ (15) and not swear in the street
  And set a good example for the children.
  We must have friends to dinner and ____________________ (16).

  But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
  So people who know me are not too ____________________ (17)
  When suddenly I am old, and start to ____________________ (18). 

 Jenny Joseph

Grandparents

Watch Moonbot Studios' Emmy-nominated short film inspired by the life and heritage of Antonio Pasin, inventor of the Radio Flyer wagon. A small boy's day with grandpa transforms into an epic adventure.




Vovô

Vovô (2010) from Luiz Stockler on Vimeo.

This is the video we did in class (the first part). Try to do the second part (be aware it's a bit sad) and click here to check your answers.

One day, he called me into his room to _________________________ (1). I was busy, so I told him I'd be there _________________________ (2). I never went. And that night, he woke up, _________________________ (3) and told my grandma he needed to _________________________ (4). I didn't see him again until _________________________ (5). They dressed him _________________________ (6) and combed his hair. I watched him lying on the cushion. He looked _________________________ (7) than I remember. I wondered if he was _________________________  (8). I stared at his face for a while, his moustache neatly covering his _________________________ (9), and I held his hand. I wonder what it was he wanted to show me. I'll ask him _________________________  (10). He's just resting his eyes.

The elderly seen by millennials

Life's third act

Click here to watch a video in which Jane Fonda talks about the extra 30 years that have been added to our life expectancy and how we can re-imagine this new phase of our lives.
Listen and take notes. Then watch it again with the subtitles or click on the tapescript and check your ideas.

Life Stages / Getting old

Vocabulary

1. Click here to learn some vocabulary to talk about the different stages of life.

2. Watch this video and learn to talk about the signs of aging.



Listening

1. Here there's an intermediate level cloze test activity about the topic of getting older and happier. You should listen to it just once. 

2. In this unit you’ll develop your listening skills around the topic of age. You’ll practise listening to opinions as well as getting general and detailed information, while people discuss their attitudes to age and getting older. You’ll also be able to review ways of describing ages.

The listening includes the questions and answers for the different tasks.

3. Click here and listen to a podcast about "aging population". You can also get the script. 



Old people are rich :
they have silver in their hair,
gold in their teeth,
stones in their kidneys,
steel in their knees, 
lead in their feet,
iron in their knuckles,
sugar in their blood,
and gas in their stomach.

Medical tourism

1. To complete the information click here.
2. To listen to three people talking about it click here.

Nosebleed

Watch the video ‘How to treat a nosebleed’ and complete the gaps. Check your answers in "comments".
Noses can bleed for various reasons:
- a hit in the __________________ or ____________________.
-it can be really _________________________.
You have to call the doctor right away if:
-you suspect _______________ __________________
-if the bleeding is __________________ or _________________ coloured.
If it’s a less serious nosebleed you have to:
 -__________________ the __________________ part of your nose with your thumb and forefinger for___________________ minutes and lean _________________.
-If you lean back the blood can drain down your __________________ and can gag you, make you uncomfortable and you’ll _________________.
-If it’s still bleeding do the same. If after doing it twice more it doesn’t stop, you need to _____________ _________________ about that.
-If you suspect your nose’s been broken because it’s ________________ or it looks _______________, get it checked out.
-Afterwards you can put ice to your nose and ______________ to help with the ________________ and the ____________, but stay away from _______________ because it can make the bleeding worse.
-If you have other symptoms like confusion, _______________ or slurred _________________ or people not _______________ like themselves, especially after head trauma, call your doctor.

How healthy are you?

1. Click here to do a quiz and find out how healthy you are.

2. Click here to watch a video about being healthier. Take notes and check your ideas in the script below.

3. Listen to a podcast about how daily exercise leads to better health. Take notes and check with the script.

4. Click here and find out about your fitness personality.

5. Click here to listen to a short presentation about health and fitness.

HEALTH

Vocabulary:
1. Learn some vocabulary about illnesses and remedies. Listen to the words and look them up in a dictionary if you are not sure about the meaning.
2. Check this website if you want to learn more medical vocabulary. You have the definition and an example.
3. Learn the differences between: injure/ wound / hurt / harm / damage as verbs / adjectives / nouns.

Clothes Adverts- Group 18M

Click here to go to the padlet and post your ads.

CAMDEN FASHION: VIDEO UK - EXERCISES

Click here to watch the video and do the activities on the photocopy.
Click here to read the script and check your answers.