SWB1T1L2

Let's be together forever...

Workshop 2

English B1. T1. L2 © 2024 by Abdón Tobarias Ruiz is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Let's break the ice...

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Real facts. Class discussion

How do you think people usually get to know new friends and partners nowadays?

1) At school or University (college) 2) At a bar, club, etc. 3) Through friends 4) At work 5) Online (e.g., on forums, social networking sites, etc. Is it necessary to be in a relationship nowadays? In other words, do you think people really need to find a partner and go out together?

Speaking practice

Strategies 2, 3 and 4

In pairs or small groups, discuss these ways of meeting a new partner:

1. Starting a conversation with a stranger .
2. Taking up a new activity. E.g., hobby, sport...
3. Attending a social event for single people.
4. Go on a blind date organised by a close friend.

Which situations are more effective to get in touch with new people and become friends, or something else..?

Guess the endings!

Read the beginnings of two stories. Then, try to guess what happened next. Tell your partner how you think their story ends and see how close you were! Then, find things in common in both stories.

TEXTS

KRISTINA

TIFFANY

Do the two stories have something in common? Who proposed to whom? Did they just become a couple or they became fiancés and got married? Did any of them break up and lose touch? In other words, is there any ex in the stories?

Grammar time!

Flipped

Comparatives and Superlatives

HOW MUCH DO YOU REMEMBER????

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A bit... // Much...

Speaking practice

In small groups, compare which profiles could match and which ones are incompatible. Explain why! USE COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES!!!!

AMBITIOUSFRIENDLY HONEST SENSITIVE

RELIABLEMATURE SENSITIVE KIND

NACHO

JOE

IMAGINATIVEKIND DISORGANISED MATURE

TIFFANY

RESPONSIBLE UNIMAGINATIVE ORGANISED OUTGOING

KRISTINA

SOCIABLETIDY IMPATIENT HONEST

SARAH

Who would be a good match for you? Approach a picture! USE COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES!!!!

Pronunciation time!

Vowel sounds

PLAYBACK!!!

PRACTICE

Monologue...

Challenge: Compare them

Include the following COMPULSPORY ITEMS in your monologue:

• 4 adjectives of personality learnt in the last session
• 2 time expressions or Frequency Adverbs
• At least 1 present continuous

Explain the two people who are significant to you (sister, nan, neighbour, your bestie...)

• Introduce them in general terms
• Describe what you like about their personality and why
• Describe what you don't like so much and why

2 min. approx.

Think of two possible explanations to the creepy phenomenon shown in the picture:

• Bride collapses when she's walking down the aisle

• They drive her to the hospital but dies hours later from a heart attack

• She's buried in the churchyard
• Widower lays a bunch of flowers on his wife's grave every year.

• A bouquet of flowers turns up every year on the grave even after widower's death.