C1 UNIT 2 CITIES

TOPIC 2: HOUSING, CITIES, URBAN ISSUES

Cecilia Ros - C1

Index

1. U2 song + collocations

2. The Weeknd song + vocabulary (describing cities)

3. Giving Emphasis and Exaggerating

01 Learning English Through Songs: U2: City of Blinding Lights

Listen to the song and do the exercises in the worksheet. Then, look at the pictures below. Why are they related to the song? Where would you prefer to live and why?

Which of these collocations would you use to describe these cities? Click here to see the collocations.

01 Learning English through songs part 2: 14 years later...

Blinding Lights (The Weeknd) - Take 1

U2's song was released on June 6, 2005. The Weeknd's on November 29, 2019. Watch the video. Circle the words in the chart that describe the city displayed in it.

01 Revise vocabulary: describing cities

Blinding Lights (The Weeknd) - Take 1

01 Listening for detail (optional activity)

Blinding Lights (The Weeknd) - Take 2

Watch the video / listen to the song again. From the options given, choose the one that you hear.

01 Listening for detail (optional activity)

Blinding Lights (The Weeknd) - Take 2

Check your answers here What is the video trying to express by comparing the dark Sin City with The Weeknd's feelings?

02 GIVING EMPHASIS & EXAGGERATINGWork in pairs/groups. Study the information in this slide and then, do exercise 7 (p.9).

EXTREME ADJECTIVES

REPETITION

Learn some extreme adjectives from your textbook. Play a game online.

Check this website for some common expressions in English which entail repetition of words, sounds, etc. These expressions are known as binomials.

SIMILES WITH LIKE

INTENSIFYING ADVERBS

Remember similes with like? Read the expressions in exercise 7, section 3, page 9. Think about other expressions with like you'd use to describe a city.

See some examples of typical intensifying adverbs collocations.

02 GIVING EMPHASIS & EXAGGERATING

EXTREME ADJECTIVES

These adjectives include the meaning of very: dreadful, enormous, filthy, packed, fascinating, stunning... Notice! Intensifying adverbs collocate with extreme adjectives. Apart from adjectives, other words can be used: crawl, stink

REPETITION

Really, really vibrantLoads and loads of people It's getting more and more shadowy, soon it will be night Time after time Over and over Hand in hand

SIMILES WITH LIKE

INTENSIFYING ADVERBS

The place was like a war zoneIt was like Buckinham Palace It was like the Artic in there I sweated like a pig there It's like talking to a brick wall

Unbearably humid; incredibly lively. Learn some collocations with intensifying adverbs.

02 Giving Emphasis & Exaggerating

Speaking

Work in pairs / teams. - Team / student A will describe the picture at the top. - Team / student B will describe the picture at the bottom. Use all the vocabulary you've learned, together with as many emphatic expressions as you can.

THANK YOU!

See Topic 2 on Google Classroom & Unit 1 Outcomes Advanced