Fri Mar 6

Objectives:

- Review gerund and infinitives.

- Complete viewing of movie.

After last Wednesday's fiasco I feel a bit traumatised about having to show videos. Thankfully today the Play Station worked and the subtitles worked and the rest of the movie was shown without mishap.

The journal writing topic today was taken from Roberto's contribution to the blog: the quote "Remember that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."

I asked the sts to write their thoughts and opinions about this quote. I asked a few to share what they had written afterwards, and a number didn't precisely agree with the quote, which made for interesting discussion.

We then checked the homework from the workbook and listened to the answers. I am happy to see that the majority do their homework and are eager to check their answers. Those who don't end up sitting uncomfortably during that period of time without much clue of what is going on, but I think it also makes them try harder to do their homework next time.

After completing the movie watching I gave the sts the details about the following task (a speaking one, based on p. 91). They had to choose either one of the articles from the textbook or else look for one on the internet (or The News), read the article carefully and take notes on it, create an oral summary of it and give their opinion about the information. This homework is due for next Wednesday's class. The sts seemed happy to do this. I let them go early (being Friday) but they'll have time in next Monday's class to prepare some more for this. Their homework was to bring in an article to Monday's class if they were going to use an external one.