Showing posts with label intensifying expressions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intensifying expressions. Show all posts

Sep 28, 2013

Gambit: Intensifying Expressions - Indeed x At All (Adverbs)

 This is one of the funniest scenes on this blog. I also loved the movie and Firth's performance is awesome. I hope you enjoy it, just  like my students did.





 





Indeed - really or certainly, often used to emphasize something:

Indeed, it could be the worst environmental disaster in Western Europe this century.

Evidence suggests that errors may indeed be occurring. We live in strange times indeed.

Mainly UK - Many people are very poor indeed.



At All -  (used to make negatives and questions stronger) in any way or of any type:  

He's had no food at all. 

I haven't been at all well recently.  

I'm afraid I've got nothing at all to say. 

Is there any uncertainty at all about the way she died?  

Why bother getting up at all when you don't have a job to go to?



 

I. Watch the segment and complete the sentences with at all or indeed.

1. He wasn't expecting to be locked inside the storage room __________________.

2. He thought that going out the window was very scary _________________.

3. When she saw him on the Savoy Hotel wall, she could not understand what was going on __________________.

4. The vase he stole was _________________ very valuable .

5. The guest lady had no idea that there was a stranger in her room ________________.
Answer key:

He wasn't expecting to be locked inside the storage room at all.

He though that going out the window was scary indeed.

When she saw him on the Savoy Hotel wall, she could not understand what was going on at all.

The vase he stole was indeed very valuable.

The guest lady had no idea that  there was a stranger in her room at all.

Aug 5, 2011

Fearless: So x Such


This is an intriguing film. I used this scene to practice the use of so x such, activity which is adapted from the awesome blog If the Ship Sinks, We Have the Survival Kit, by Vania Rodrigues and Vinicius Lemos. Thank you, Vania and Vinicius, for providing us with such great and creative activities.

Vânia Rodrigues has been an EFL teacher for 20 years, 15 of which at a Binational Center in Brazil, Casa Thomas Jefferson. She has been a teacher, a Course Supervisor and is currently a Deputy Academic Coordinator at CTJ. She holds an M.A in Applied Linguistics from the Universidade de Brasília. Vinicius Lemos has been an English teacher for 15 years. He holds a B.A in Letras-Inglês (English Language and Literature) from Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and has been an EFL teacher at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil, for 9 years. He was a presenter at the 2010 TESOL Conference in Boston, USA and the 2011 ABS International Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay.



I. Imagine that you are in the plane accident that you see in the movie segment. Work in groups of three students. Somehow you know you will survive and be lost on a desert island with the other students in your group. Select 6 objects that you see in the airplane to carry with you to help you survive on a desert island. Choose the objects wisely.







II. Now that you have chosen the 6 objects, you have a surprise. You will not be able to use these objects for what they were originally designed for. So, it means you will have to find new uses for them in order to survive. Your objective is to convince your teacher that you are the ones who will survive. Use so or such to describe the object and its new use.

Ex: Glasses.


Glasses can be so useful that we can use the lenses to start a fire. / We may use glasses to start a fire in such a dangerous situation.


III. Your teacher will decide who will have more chances of surviving with the choses objects and how you will use them. The winning group gets a chocolate bar.


WORKSHEET. - Be careful - the worksheet may give away the surprise of the exercise.

MOVIE SEGMENT DOWNLOAD - FEARLESS

Aug 30, 2009

Bedtime Stories: So x Such

This is one of the best scenes of this lovely movie. The translation scene is great and very funny. The acting is hilarious. The students will love it. I selected this scene to practice using so x such in a contextualized manner.



Watch the segment below. Then rewrite the sentences with both so... that... and such..... that....

Make all the necessary changes to make the sentences correct.




Skeeter








Kendall










1) The night was cold. The girl in the party needed a towel.
Ex: The night was so cold that the girl in the party needed a towel.
It was such a cold night that he girl needed a towel.


2) There was an unexpected accident with a bee. Skeeter screamed very loudly.

3) Kendall's presentation was corny. The audience was speechless.

4) Skeeter's tongue was swollen. He couldn't speak.

5) Skeeter's friend's translation was perfect. He was invited to go to the stage and help with the presentation.

6) Skeeter's presentation was moving. He won the competition.


Answer Key:
2. Such an unexpected accident / the accident was so unexpected.
3. such a corny presentation / the presentation was so corny

4. such a swollen tongue / tongue was so swollen
5. such a perfect translation / the translation was so perfect

6. such a moving presentation / presentation was so moving



WORKSHEET

MOVIE SEGMENT DOWNLOAD - BEDTIME STORIES

How to prepare your own video activity:

- Select a scene in which the characters perform certain activities that you can atribute adjectives (great, awkward, funny, intelligent, weird)

- Write two sentences with information that can be interconnected, including the adjectives above)

- Have students combine both sentences with so + adj and such + adj + noun.