How do you spend your leisure time?
Look at the activities in the box. Are you familiar with them?
3.en.09 Leisure
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Author Archives: mariantonia
1.en.05 Gender Stereotypes
Images used in the media to portray men and women are essential to build up our perception of gender stereotypes. Some brands have adopted new strategies such as challenging gender stereotypes brand themselves have contributed to build up. Building up women’s confidence and self esteem is part of their aim.
Always is a brand of sanitary pads. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess what their target group is. Recently, it launched a campaign that went viral. Have a look at the video. Do you think it is effective? Did it make you reflect? If you had been asked to run like a girl what would have been your answer?
1.en.04 Identity: Who am I? Stereotype? Stereotyped?
Do you find it easy or difficult to answer the question about who you are?
What are the elements that make you the way you are? What’s your IDENTITY?
Genes?
Education?
Family?
Environment?
Background? (més…)
1.en.02 Humans of New York (HONY): a mosaic of portraits and stories
In 2010, Brandon Stanton set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers. Seven years later, his photoblog is followed by more than 7 million people on social media. It has become so very popular among New Yorkers that now everyone in the city knows what the acronym hony stands for. Sometimes Brandon accompanies his pics with a caption, a quote or even a story.
Let’s look at one of his photos:
1.en.01 PLAYING WITH WORDS
Let’s start the year playing…
Close your eyes. What is the first image that comes to your mind when you hear the word PLAY?
Write it down and share your ideas with your partners.
Look at this dictionary entry of the word Play
- How many different uses of the word play can you think of?
- What about collocations with play? Phrasal verbs? Idiomatic expressions?
- Check in a dictionary the number of entries of this word.
Now watch the first part of this video. How many uses of play can you identify
Now watch the first part of this video. How many uses of play can you identify
Now we’ll watch the rest of the video.
- How many words ( at least 3 ) can you identify? How many uses of the word?
- What are the scenes that connect one word with the next?
- After discussing with your group choose a spokesperson and share your findings with the class
Homework: Use one monolingual and /or a collocation dictionary and write down 5 different examples of some of the word that appear in the video.
Here are some useful links to two dictionaries of collocations and a good monolingual one:
Collocations
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