Actividad 2 Del Pifle.
Actividad 2 Del Pifle.
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THE CITY THROUGH MY EYES,
YOUR EYES, THEIR EYES
THEMATIC UNIT: PEOPLE TO KNOW
THEMATIC CONTENT: HEROES AND VILLAINS
Context: A contest has been announced to award somebody for his/her actions in the city.
GOALS:
• To show comprehension of specific information in an oral-text.
LANGUAGE FOCUS
Dates: When is your birthday?. My birthday is on June 17th, Yesterday, it was
November 3rd.
Feelings and Emotions: I feel stressed, I am overwhelmed. He is great. I am so
2 thankful.
Countries and Nationalities: Where are you from?. Have you visited any other country different
from Colombia?. What is your favorite country?
-ed and –ing Ending Adjectives: I am puzzled. The class is boring. This report is amazing,
Tenses: Simple Past, Past Continuous and Present Perfect (Affirmative and Negative): I wrote
an essay. I did not finish the task. I was carrying out an interview. I was not developing the
project. I have read an academic article. I have not completed the bio-statement.
Expressions: How long, For, Since: How long have you studied your program? I have lived in
Medellin for 15 years. I have worked since last semester.
Community Places: I was in the school for 13 years. I will visit the hospital to conduct a study, I
have been to the bank to get cash.
Shapes Vocabulary: This is a triangle. Those are pyramids.
Sizes Vocabulary: The team is big, the teacher left us a huge amount of work. The universe is
enormous.
Materials: My pencil is made of graphite. Glass is used in labs.
Prepositions of Place (around, in front of, behind , between, on the corner) The research center
is between the coffee shop and the library.
Currency The dollar exchange rate is 3.000 pesos. The Euro went up yesterday.
Simple Past, Past Continuous and Present Perfect Questions: What has been your greatest
achievement in college? What was your favorite course last semester? What were you doing at
the lab?
Pronunciation
ACTION ONE: Choose a person important for you and fin d out some
biographical information about him or her. Write a tribute speech and deliver it to your 3
class.
PRE:
I. Before watching the video: David Bowie is honoured with BRITs Icon Award | The BRIT
Awards 2016, discuss with a classmate the questions in the box below. Then, share your opinion
with the group.
II. Watch the video: David Bowie is honoured with BRITs Icon
Award | The BRIT Awards 2016. Complete the missing spaces with
the words you hear from the tribute speech.
Minute 1:10
“For me, it’s ______________
almost impossible to mention Bowie’s name in the past tense. Everything
he ______________
represented as an artist was and always will be ______________
vital and incredibly present.
cutting edge artistic ______________,
As a ______________ genius he continues to live on through his music.”
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Minute 2:30
“There was no one and nothing else like him. He was truly ______________.
unique A quintessential,
______________,
visionary pushing the limits of his shape-shifting persona, the ultimate iconoclast:
______________,
gracious ______________,
dangerous and ______________.
legendary The ______________
legacy of his extraordinary
sound and vision will be loved and ______________
rebirth for as long as the earth still spins.”
Minute 5:48
“‘Music has given me over 40 years of extraordinary experiences. I can’t say that life’s pains or
more tragic episodes have been ______________
diminished because of it, but it has ______________
aloud me so
many moments of companionship when I have been lonely and a ______________
sublime means of
communications when I have wanted to touch people. It has been both my ______________
doorway of
perception and the house that I live in.’”
Minute 6:23
“Over his career, David ______________
challenged and ______________
changed our understanding of the medium,
whether in music or in life, he emphasised originality, experimentation, exploration, and in his
very unique way, he also ______________
reminded us to never take ______________
ourselves too seriously.”
What Annie Lennox says about David Bowie… What Gary Oldman says about David Bowie…
POST:
LANGUAGE FOCUS
Read the following text and complete it using the verbs in the appropriate 5
tense
______________
was born (be born) David Robert Jones in Brixton, South London, England, on January
8, 1947.
David ______________
showed (show) an interest in music from an early age and ______________
began (begin)
(become) the focal point of Bowie’s later song, “Jump They Say.”
After graduating from Bromley Technical High School at 16, David ______________
started (start)
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working as a commercial artist. He also ______________
continued (continue) to play music, hooking up
with a number of bands and leading a group himself called Davy Jones and the Lower Third.
Out of fear of being confused with Davy Jones of The Monkees, David ______________
changed (change)
young artist. For several weeks in 1967 he lived at a Buddhist monastery in Scotland. Bowie
later ______________
started (start) his own mime troupe ______________
called (call) Feathers.
______________
married (marry) on March 20, 1970, and ______________
had (have) one son together, whom
they ______________
nicknamed (nickname) “Zowie,” in 1971, before divorcing in 1980. He is now known
ACTION TWO: Read about a controversial person in the city or world. Identify the actions
that make him or her controversial and discuss them in class.
I. Take another look at the text called David Bowie: Early Years, answer and discuss the following
questions with a mate
PRE:
• Where was David Bowie born? Where is he from?
• Why was David Bowie called a ‘chameleon’? Give examples
• What kind of demons could have inspired his musical persona?
• What were the kind of actions that made him an important artist in
the entertainment world?
II. Read the following excerpt from David Bowie’s biography. First, underline the unknown
words: there will be a space below where you can write them down and their meaning. Second,
identify in the box (on the right side of this page) the facts (actions or events) that triggered
David Bowie’s inspiration to become a ‘chameleon’.
and that summer released the single “Space musician. With every song he proposed a new to
Oddity.” Bowie later said the song came to him
after seeing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space understand the dialog between music and plastic arts.
Odyssey. “I went stoned out of my mind to see the
His identity was an oddity. As he said, when he
movie and it really freaked me out, especially the
trip passage.” watched for the first time Kubrick´s Odyssey, he would
The song quickly resonated with the public, never be the same. This movie changed his way to see
sparked in large part by the BBC’s use of the
single during its coverage of the Apollo 11 moon the life, and his music talked about that. To David the
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III. Write 5 questions from the previous text. Use expressions such as for, since
and how long.
1. As for the publication years of David Bowie´s albums, which decade do you think
2. Since David´s stardom arrived so quickly, do you think that affected his music?
3. If suddenly David see finished his career, what part-time job do you think would
he take?
4. Nowadays, what kind of astronomical event David´s music can join it?
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5. For how long the chameleon will be one of the most iconic rock music personalities?
If you were alexander´s father or mother, would you support him in his decision?
What do you think that is the most difficult thing about being a man or a woman?
BILL GATES was the richest person in the world for many years.
Give more examples.
As for these controversial people that caused a commotion in my town, I must say
I think they are necessary in our day-to-day. Without them, our days would be the
same since characters as María put some happiness on the Carmen de Viboral
streets. As for Eduardo, the crazy dog’s man, without him we would probably
not understand what is the value of be kind with our pets. Each of them is
fundamental in the town life, since these controversial people teach us about
singularity. When our kids play soccer with Armando, Bruno and Clarita, they
come home with a smile in their faces and happiness in their hearts. So,
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if we think about strange people, we quickly realize that they are part of our families.
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