TTO week 7 lesson 2

• Middelbare school

Food for Thought

Valentine's Day

Mass Consumerism or an expression of True Love?

The origins of Valentine's Day

Which two possible origins are given for Valentine's Day?

Sources: history.com/encyclopedia Brittanica

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Origins of Saint Valentine's Day

Pagan

Lupercalia was an ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral annual festival, observed in the city of Rome between 13–15 February to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Also called dies Februatus.

Christian

St. Valentine, (died 3rd century, Rome; feast day February 14), name of one or two legendary Christian martyrs

• Legend I: St. Valentine - a  Roman priest and physician martyred during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus about 270. 
  
• Legend II: The bishop of Terni, Italy, who was martyred in Rome.
  

Legends  

• St. Valentine signed a letter “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended and healed from blindness. He defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war.
  

Today's objectives

Movie Review 

Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous

Comparisons/Superlatives

Movie review

Swap movie reviews with a different group

Read each other's reviews

Discuss which movie you'd like to see & 

which review was the best

Present Perfect Continous

has/have + been + verb + ing

Used in the same way as the Present Perfect, but  emphasizes duration 

( i.e. I have been waiting for hours and he still hasn't showed up!)

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Vocabulary Unit 3

• Think of a good movie you watched in the cinema.
  

• Write a movie review and use as many words from SB Unit 3 as possible. 
  

• Comment about the setting, producer, main characters, music etc. 

• Use lots of descriptions (moving, predictable, entertaining etc.)
  

Comparisons/Superlatives

Adjective/Comparative/Superlative

I have a big house/His house is bigger than house/She has the biggest house

• One syllable -> adjective/ adj. + er / adj. + est (tall/taller/tallest)
  
• One or two syllables, einding in -y -> funny / funnier / funniest
  
• Two or more syllables -> adjective/more + adj. / most + adj.
  
• Irregular adjectives!  good/better/best - bad/worse/worst - far/further/furthest
  

NOTE!

• just as good as
  
• better than
  
• not good enough
  
• too good
  

Comparisons/Superlatives - TB 3.5

Do all exercises 3.5

Focus Review Unit 3

Do all exercises Focus review Unit 3