- How has your week been? Have you done anything interesting or relaxing?
- Talk about something that has made you smile.
- Show your partner a photo of a special moment from the past week or year (or just describe an event). Talk about why this photo is special and what the event was.
- What kind of things do you like to take photos of?
- Did you do anything special for the first of Advent?
- What new vocabulary did you learn in the lesson last week? Did you find out anything interesting about your classmates?
- Christmas hymns = Christmas carols
- Christmas songs (= Mariah Carey)
- We put up the Christmas lights and Christmas decorations
- Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (for example) = fairy tales
Vocabulary review
It’s the rush hour. Commuters a commuter train on foot
Misty morning – foggy morning – a department store
A shopping mall – a shopping centre
Cross country skiing
isolation insulation isolated insulated
- The walls aren’t insulated enough, so the house loses heat quickly in winter.
- During the pandemic, many people felt isolated at home and missed social contact.
- During the winter, it is important to have good insulation in your house to keep the heat inside.
- Technology, like video calls, helped reduce the feeling of isolation during the COVID pandemic.
TED talks
- What TED talk did you choose and why did you choose it?
- What was it about?
- What was the most interesting fact that you picked up?
- Was there anything that surprised you?
- Was there anything you disagreed with?
- Will you do anything differently in the future based on what you learned?
- What new vocabulary did you learn that you think you might use in the future?
- Do you have any questions for each other?
Julbord = a Christmas buffet
When you’ve finished reading, put the book back in the bookcase / on the bookshelf
I drank coffee late yesterday and so I couldn’t fall asleep/ sleep /sleep well.
I was kept awake by my roommate’s snoring.
She works as an interpreter/ a translator from Japanese to English.
A rotary phone
A cell phone, a mobile phone
A brick phone
A smartphone
A landline (Home phone)
We have both a landline and mobile phones.
A fax machine
Are you home tomorrow? Otherwise I will call you next week.
My son’s son= my grandson
My grandmother’s mother = my great-grandmother
My mother’s sister
My niece, my nephew
A piggy bank