V4 Living life to the full

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OA unit 2: Living life to the full

Objectives:       Listening:  Tedtalk assignment

                           Speaking:  Discussing what living life to the full entails and the                                                              ingredients of living a happy life.

                           Writing:      Writing a letter

                           Grammar:  Dependent prepositions

                           Reading:     CAE reading and Use of English part 2

Living life to the full

• What do you think 'living life to the full' is about?
• Look at the photos on the next slide. Does this generate more ideas?
• What's your bucket list? What would you want to do in order to live life to the full? Think of at least 5 activities and exchange your ideas with you neighbour. Take 3 minutes to do so.

• So, what's the catch? Why would people aspire to live life to the full?

What makes a good (happy) life?

• What do you think makes people happy? What are the ingredients to a happy life?
• You are going to watch a TedTalk about what makes people happy. 'Lessons from the longest study on happiness'. 
• But, before we start, write down what you think you will be hearing in this TedTalk.

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• Check your predictive notes. Were they correct? Discuss your ideas and the TedTalk with your neighbour.
• Do you agree with the conclusion of the study discussed by Robert Waldinger in the TedTalk? Can you relate to it?

Objective Advanced

Do:

Dependent prepositions: ex. 1 + 2 + Corpus spot on page 17

This class: writing a letter

Formal writing

• The tone is polite, but impersonal
• Avoids using contractions and slang
• Avoids  using abbreviations
• Maintains a serious tone
• Uses proper punctuation and capitalisation
• Sentence structure tends to be varied and includes lengthy and complex sentences
• Word choice tends to be precise or technical

Informal writing

• The tone is more personal
• Freely uses contrations and slang
• Freely uses abbrevations
• May use humour and more casual tone
• Uses proper punctuation and capitalisation
• Sentence structure tends to be shorter and has the character of spoken English
• Word choice may be more vague, colloquial phrases may be used

Or:

Dear Mr Taylor

Dear Mrs Taylor

Dear Miss Taylor

Dear Ms Taylor

Yours sincerely

<<Name in full!!!

Writing folder 1

• As a warm-up exercise: do ex. 1 - 4.
• Then examine exercise 5. What do you think should be the tone (or register) of this letter? Informal, neutral or formal?
• Examine exercise 6 and start writing a draft of your letter. Before you start, think about how many paragraphs you're going to write and what the content of each paragraph should be. Bring your letter to school tomorrow!