Fri May 8

Objectives:

- Become familiar with vocabulary related to influenza in English.

- Review future forms and Blade Runner movie

Journal writing topic: "Do you agree with the measures the government took with regard to the influenza scare?" Opinion was fairly guarded on the whole; some said yes; others said no; but no-one was adamant either way. 

A lot of people had not read any information about A/H1N1 in English, so while the information given in the Power Point Presentation was mostly very familiar material, reading it in English was helpful for many.

We then went to revision of what we'd been doing since before the forced break. Most of the sts (who had been at class) were able to recall the future forms. We also took time to discuss the movie. Some people understood and offered a lot of information; others a few things that they remembered; and some none at all, even when called upon. I broke the class into small groups to get them discussing the "old" and "new" items they remembered seeing on the video or had written down. This went well and they then put on the board (breaking a number of newly-written hygienic laws by doing so) items onto the list. This went well.

Finally we used this list of items to discuss the future according to the movie. According to Blade Runner, by the year 2019 the world will (be ----ing) (have -------ed); people on Earth will (be ------ing) (have -------ed) etc. The sts made up a sentence or two each and this exercise worked very well. Here, even those who hadn't come to the movie were able to contribute because the information was on the board. Some even gave negative sentences (People will be smoking as much as now). This activity was a very useful consolidation and I think it was a good choice according to the timing and grammatical learning of the module.