Yesterday

Level: Intermediate
Grammar: past simple
Listen to the song carefully and fill in the missing words.Use your dictionary and give the meaning of the words in bold.
Find at least one synonym.


Yesterday Lyrics

Beatles
___________
All my troubles _______ so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh, I believe in _______. Suddenly, I'm not half the man I ______ to be, There's a shadow hanging over me, Oh, ________ ______ suddenly. Why she ______ to go I don't know, she wouldn't say. I _______, Something wrong, now I long for _____. ______, Love _____ such an easy game to play,Now I need a place to hide away, Oh, I believe in _______. Why she ______ to go I don't know, she wouldn't say. I ______, Something wrong, now I long for yesterday. Yesterday, Love was such an easy game to play, Now I need a place to hide away, Oh, I believe in yesterday. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.

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Manal Abbas

Brick in the Wall- Teaching a song

Level: intermediate.
Grammar: present simple, (do, don't).
Listen to the song carefully and fill in the missing words.
Use your dictionary and give the meaning of the words in bold.

Another Brick in the Wall
Pink Floyd

We_______ no education
We _______ no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
____________ the kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave the kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We _________no education
We _________no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
_________ ____ the kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave the kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!""If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can youhave any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?""You! Yes, you behind the bike sheds, stand still laddy!"

Rewrite the sentences in Italics in a positive way.
Remember! Use the present simple.
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Why do you think we need an education?
__________________________________________________________________
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Find two words in colloquial English:_________ ,___________

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Good luck!
Manal Abbas

Words

Good to know!

The longest common word
"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45)6
The two longest one-syllable words in English
"screeched" (9)2, "strengths" (9)2.
words which contain all five (or six, if you append "ly") vowels in alphabetical order
"facetious"1, "abstemious"4, "annelidous"5, "arsenious"4
words which contain all five vowels in reverse alphabetical order
"duoliteral"5, "subcontinental"5 "uncomplimentary"5
words which contain the longest strings of consonants14
"bergschrund" (6), "borschts" (6), "eschscholtzia" (6), "latchstring" (6), "weltschmerz" (6)
longest word with no repeated letters
"uncopyrightable" (15)4
sentence containing seven spellings of the [i] ("ee") sound
"He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas."
sentence containing nine ways the combination "ough" can be pronounced
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughmanstrode through the streets of Scarborough;after falling into a slough,he coughed and hiccoughed."
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with left hand9
"desegregated" (12), "desegregates" (12), "reverberated" (12), "reverberates" (12), "stewardesses" (12), "watercresses" (12)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with right hand10
"homophony" (9), "homophyly" (9), "nonillion" (9), "pollinium" (9), "polyonomy" (9), "polyphony" (9)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with alternating hands11
"dismantlement" (13)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the top row ("qwertyuiop")7
"rupturewort" (11)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the middle row ("asdfghjkl")8
"alfalfas" (11), "hadassah" (11)

Semantics

words with two synonyms which are antonyms
"cleave" ("adhere" and "separate")4

"cover" ("conceal" and "expose")13

"sanction" ("approve" and "prohibit" (colloquial))12

"transparent" ("hidden" (jargon) and "known" (jargon))15

"trim" ("garnish" and "prune")16
seemingly contradictory synonyms
"flammable" and "inflammable""toxicant" and "intoxicant"

Useful Links

Teaching Vocabs
http://www.middlesmoor.com/teachers%202001/06%20teaching%20vocabulary.htm

Arthur Miller`s All my Sons
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/drama/allmysons.htm

Using Film and TV
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/PRTGusingfilmtv.pdf

Developing Listening Skills
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/listeningskills.pdf

Placement Tests
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/placementtest.pdf

Graded Readers
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/PRTGgraded_readers.pdf

Tongue Twisters

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

There was a fisherman named Fisherwho fished for some fish in a fissure.Till a fish with a grin,pulled the fisherman in.Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

Bobby Bippy bought a bat.Bobby Bippy bought a ball.With his bat Bob banged the ballBanged it bump against the wallBut so boldly Bobby banged itThat he burst his rubber ball""Boo!"" cried BobbyBad luck ballBad luck Bobby, bad luck ballNow to drown his many troublesBobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.


Enjoy !

Manal

Segev Shalom School