Students in team C (blue)

Please all students in team C blue read these two articles for Tuesday 12h and write two questions about them.
1. Starbucks cups controversy

Ellen on one of the already traditional Starbucks cups controversies

2. Should we say Father Christmas?

Key environment

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Native Americans

These are the videos we watched in class last week. 

REEL INJUN

Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema.

The Oscars
 Sacheen Littlefeather refusing to accept the Best Actor Oscar® on behalf of Marlon Brando for his performance in "The Godfather" - the 45th Annual Academy Awards® in 1973. Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore presented the award.

 CNN on Event honoring Native American veterans

Crime vocabulary

B burglar C committed    Ddealer    E evidence    F fraud   G guilty    H hacker   I innocent   J jury
K kidnapped   L let   M mugger   O offence   P pickpockets   Q question   R robberies   S stalker
T theft   V verdict    W witnesses

Thanksgiving

This is the video we watched in class on Thursday.

and this is the key of the crossword

1. American
2. Pilgrims

This is a call for all the students in Team D (pink)

These are the texts that you need to read for this week. Don't worry much about all the new vocabulary in the second text, just try to get the gist. Students in Team D (pink)
Texts

Key Grammar future perfect and continuous

The exercises on the articles will be corrected in class on Tuesday.


1.       Won’t be thinking

2.       Will still be working/will have been promoted

3.       Will have left

4.       Won’t be using mine

Chinua Achebe

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-21898664
Who was Chinua Achebe? Why is he such an important writer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHF_w0gkyiI
When was Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart" published? In the 50s (1958)
Who told almost exclusively the story of Africa for many years? When did this situation start to change? European writers. 1950s as African countries became independent.
"Things fall apart" has became a (4 words) classic of world literature.
How many copies did it sell? 11 million copies
How old was Chinua Achebe when he wrote this book? just 28
Where are most of his books set? Post-colonial Africa
When and how was he partly paralysed? In a car accident in Nigeria in 1990
Where did he live his last years? In NY

Key articles

 

1. a, a the
2. a, the
3. -, -, -

Key future

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