UNIT 1 : An anecdote/story
Telling a story or an anecdote
English Skills: How To Tell An Anecdote in English (Plan de ideas y expresiones útiles) by Shanthi Streat | 18 Feb, 2016
Telling an anecdote (onestopenglish): Plan y expresiones útiles
An anecdote: How we met
To tell a story you need to think about:
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USE
Tenses:
- when + past simple and while + past continuous
- The sun was shining and I was walking back home...
- While I was walking, cars were passing.
- Suddenly I came across an old friend. We greeted and chat for a while.
- While we were chatting, a car bumped into another car.
- Then, the police arrived and asked us about the acctident.
- Past simple and past perfect
- It took me one hour to arrive home, so when I arrived, my parents had finished lunch, my brother had done his homework and our dog had taken a good nap.
Adverbs of sequence: First(ly), Second(ly), then, later (on), finally, eventually, (por fin, ...)
Adverbs of feelings and others: actually (= realmente), sadly, amazingly, happily, (unfortunatelly), surprisingly, suddenly...
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PODCAST + TRANSCRIPT + CLOZE
https://teacherluke.co.uk/2009/11/12/mystery-story-narrative-tenses/
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Travel phrasal verbs
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READINGS
The Readings in your texbook are based in true stories. Here you have some videos about their them.
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Saroo's amazing story
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TEXTBOOK READING: Echolocation
READ and WATCH: What is echolocation?
What is echolocation? Which animals use it?
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(born 1966 in Montebello, California)[1] is an American expert in human echolocation and the President of World Access for the Blind (WAFTB), a California-registered nonprofit organization founded by Kish in 2000 to facilitate "the self-directed achievement of people with all forms of blindness" and increase public awareness about their strengths and capabilities.[2] Kish and his organization have taught a form of echolocation to at least 500 blind children around the world.[3]
Daniel Kish expands the perceptual toolbox of both blind and sighted humans by teaching echolocation — the ability to observe our surroundings via sound.
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Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to "see" using a form of echolocation. ... READ AND WATCH THE VIDEO