27 April 09 - 3ºC and 3ºI

• File 5B - Can you remember?
• Vocabulary (2) - Word building

Nouns: improvement - happiness - discussion - admiration - patience

Verbs: modernize - shorten - terrify

Adjectives: enjoyable - useful - impersonal - unforgettable - hopeless - possessive

Adverbs: gradually - apparently

• Reading - Anyone can do it...(Can you?)

B.

his background: hopeless at school /failed exams / left school with no qualifications / father left home when he was six / brought up by mother and stepfather

his present job: fireman / fire-fighter

why he's become famous: he's in the Guiness Book of Records for memorizing 22,500 digits of pi

who he was inspired by: Dominic O'Brien (five times world memory champion)

his technique for remembering:

1. phone numbers: he associates numbers with a person

2. names and places: he links them to an image

what he's doing now: he is teaching memory training and speed-writing at Huddersfield University

C.

1. b
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. b
7. a
8. b
9. a
10. b

• Grammar - Quantifieres: all, any, every(body, etc.), no, none.

1. all the cases
2. was
3. Everything
4. all
5. all women
6. no
7. Every
8. None

• Listening - Childhood memories...
• Pronunciation ei / ie

BIKE: neither - height

TREE: believe - field - ceiling - handkerchief - receipt - receive

TRAIN: neighbour - weight

EGG: friend - leisure

• Speaking

A.

1. embarrasing
2. disappointed
3. exciting
4. exhausted
5. fascinating

• Writing - 8

B

1. most memories
2. favourite
3. in my teens
4. on holiday
5. there were a lot of people
6. they used to
7. I met a girl
8. a Brazilian
9. every day
10. all these years

HOMEWORK

Grammar Bank - p. 139. 5B

Workbook - pp. 47-49.