People we admire

Google search

 1. Victor Vescovo

2. Mother Theresa

3. Albert Einstein

4, Helen Keller

5. Malala Yousafzai

6. Volodymyr Zelensky

7. Nelson Mandela

8. Jeff Bezos

9. Greta Thunberg

10. Lionel Messi

11. Oprah Winfrey

12. Julia "Butterfly" Hill

13. Marie Grosholtz

14. Diana Nyad

15. Millie and Christine

16. Gitanjali Rao

17. Michael Jordan

18. Angelina Jolie

Create:

*  a title slide (name of the person, your name, date, school) 

 * Take notes: general and interesting facts about his/her childhood, achievements

* add only photos or images to your slides

optional: include a 1 min-long video (must be relevant to the topic, in English or with English subtitles  and educational)

Class composition / essay

1st paragraph: What makes people admire somebody? What do you personally admire others for?

2nd paragraph: Think of a person you admire. Write a description of that person (personal qualities, achievements etc). Add information how you met / got to know him/her. 

3rd paragraph: Describe the person you have found information about on the internet.  Include your opinion about his/her achievements or influence. 

*as the essay is about admiration, try to use synonyms for "to admire somebody"

* pay attention to capital letters, punctuation, short forms ("I")

* divide your ideas into paragraphs

* you should write at least 200 words (I notebook page)

Photo Description

 1) What and who can you see? 

Use different sentence structures: I can see..., There is/are..., In the background / in the foreground / in the middle / on the left / on the right

2) How do things or people look like? What are they wearing? What have they got? Choose one or a few things to describe in details. 

3) Find similarities and differences in the photo. 

4) What is happening in the photo? What are the people doing? 

5) Talk about the time. Make speculations: probably, maybe, it seems, it's likely (that), I tend to think, perhaps etc.  What's the weather, season, place, country etc? 

6) How do they feel? Why do you think so? 

7) What were they doing before the photo was taken? 

8) What do you think they will do next?

9) If you still have some time left, add your opinion. Have you been in a similar situation? Would you like to be there? 

Try to speak 2 minutes and cover all 8 (9)  parts! 

Intensifiers and Strong Adjectives

 Intensifiers / boosters:

utterly

absolutely

completely

entirely

totally

genuinely

exceptionally

incredibly

surprisingly  (suprisingly Am.E)

breathtakingly

remarkably

excessively

immensely

particularly

much

rather

partially

quite

somewhat

fairly

a little

pretty

unusually

Strong adjectives

1) very dirty

2) very important

3) very clean

4) very happy

5) very sad

6) very tired

7) very scared

8) very interesting

9)  very pleased

10) very good-looking

1) filthy, 2) crucial, 3) spotless, 4) ecstatic, 5) heartbroken, 6) exhausted, 7) terrified, 8) fascinating, 9) delighted, 10) gorgeous

Exercises

5A, 5C-D: Phrases

Group 1: 5A

 1) take fewer risks

2) seventeen-year-olds / 17-year-olds

3) the latest theories

4) brain chemical

5) cause the feeling of enjoyment

6) adolescence

7) make a surprising discovery

8) go through physical changes

9) frontal cortex

10) make good decisions

11) impress your friends

12) look at statistics

13) wear seat belts

14) trampolining

15) make sensible decisions

Group 2: 5C-D

1) public speaking

2) injections

3) fear of heights

4) preserve historic buildings

5) native people

6) supply of food / food supply

7) old explorer's boots

8) hard-working and ambitious

9) push sb to the limit

10) an amazing achievement

11) apart from penguins

12) motorized sleds

13) return journey

Retelling the story with the following keywords:

1) scientist

2) preserve

3) base camp

4) driest, 6 months, penguins

5) native people

6) inside the hut

7) Scott and Amundsen

8) dogs / sleds

9) turned back

10) Norwegian flag

11) return journey

12) supply of food

13) explorer's boots

14) gave up

Video: Scott / Amundsen

Video: Scott's Hut