🎄🎅These have been voted the best Christmas commercials in the UK for 2022, although some have considered them the most annoying. Which ones do you like (or dislike) the most? 🎄🎅
The book was first published on December 19, 1843, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By 1844, the novella had gone through 13 printings and continues to be a big seller today. For more on Charles Dickens, click HERE
(by Dr. Seuss, published in December 1957) is a story about the Grinch, a grouchy, solitary creature who tries to cancel Christmas by stealing Christmas gifts and decorations from the homes of the nearby town of Whoville on Christmas Eve. Miraculously, the Grinch realizes that Christmas is not all about money and presents. The story is narrated by Boris Karloff, a British actor, most famous for his roles in horror films, especially as the Frankenstein monster. 
We have been mispronouncing his name. It should be pronounced Zoice (rhyming with voice). A friend, Alexander Liang, wrote this poem about how people incorrectly pronounced Seuss.
You're wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn't rejoice
If you're calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice (or Zoice).
Everyone knows him as Dr. Seuss (Zeus), so if you were to call him Dr. "Zoice", no one would know who you were talking about.
Watch the video to learn what "Rocket Man" (1972) is about: Notice Elton's reaction at the end.
If you prefer reading:“In that book, there was a story called 'The Rocket Man,' which was about how astronauts in the future would become sort of an everyday job. So I kind of took that idea and ran with that.”
Elton himself, added: “Do you know, I never knew that?” (44 years later!)
Here is the official video:
LYRICS:Create a survey for the class on TV series and movies.
Take this Sample Survey
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Books that have been made into TV series on Netflix
Books becoming movies or TV shows in 2022
When you tell us about your survey results, use expressions like:
about / almost
half of the class / half the class
4 out of 8 students
50%
more / less than half the class
equally divided / split
an equal number of students
most of the class
the majority of the class
a slight majority
the most / least popular answer was___, followed by ___
just a few people
just a couple of students
very close
the same as
everyone
no one
all but one person / all except one
to be interested in
to have opposite ideas
verbs: answer, believe, choose, know, like, prefer, think
Pay attention to the pronunciation of regular verbs (ending in -ed). There are 3 different types: cooked (cookt) lived (livd) wanted (wantid/wanted)
Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer; best known for his first full-length adventure novel, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886; following the example of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and terror), and Kidnapped (1886).
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1850). His poor respiratory health led him to travel a great deal, which influenced his writings. Seeking just the right climate, he ended up in Vailima, Samoa, where he died of an unexpected hemorrhage in 1894.
He was the only son of a successful civil engineer, who specialized in lighthouses. To please his father, he first studied engineering then changed to law at Edinburgh University, but his true love was literature.
He rebelled against his father's Calvinist religion.
His Scottish stories reveal him as the heir of Sir Walter Scott (1771, Edinburgh, Scotland—died 1832 Scotland), a Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is considered the inventor of the historical novel (Romantic Period).
Study HELP: Brief presentation on Stevenson's life
For a deeper look at Stevenson and his work, watch this video:
Watch this video about The Strange Case of Drl Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A brief summary from your book:
There have been many songs over the years that have been about environmental problems. Here are some examples:
Listen to this song about the 3R's by Jack Johnson (2006). What do you think the three R's stand for? Some of you may recognize it from a commercial for
One of the most famous songs regarding the environment is Michael Jackson's "Earth Song" (1982). The video shows images of animal cruelty, deforestation, pollution, poaching, poverty and war. Jackson unites the world's people to sing "Earth Song" which summons a force to heal the world.
Earth Song by Michael Jackson
Check out these sites for more songs about the environment. Some may surprise you. How many of these are you familiar with?
Genntracks "30+ Songs about Nature, Earth, and the Environment in 2022"
Rolling Stone's "Earth Day: 15 Pro-Environment Songs
The Nature Conservancy's "7 Songs about Climate Change"
udiscovermusic's "Best Earth Day Songs: 30 Save the Environment Classics"
Do you know of any other songs or sites? Please share them in the comments section below.
See this site with 24 songs about art that paint beautiful pictures. Are you familiar with any of these songs?
One of Van Gogh's most famous works is The Starry Night (oil on canvas, painted in June of 1889), which depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence (France), just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1941.
Vincent (1972) is a tribute by American songwriter, Don McLean, to Van Gogh and this painting.
For more information on this inspiration, click here
Watch the video with the Italian translation.
From Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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Which adjectives would you use to describe the characters' responses to Oliver's request?
disproportionate / adequate / acceptable / fair (just) / unfair / merciful / harsh
Find expressions that describe the children's extreme hunger.
Watch the scene from Oliver, a film (1968) made from the Broadway musical .
Do you know what "out to lunch" means as an idiom? "
"too strange or confused to know what is really know what's happening"
2) Using your English sentence transformations1
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| How many of these words are you familar with? 1) nyctophobia = abnormal fear of night or darkness 2) sepulchral = pertaining to burials 3) berserk = crazy, deranged 4) thanatopsis = a poem about death 5) perdition = loss of the soul 6) trepidation = sense of fear that makes you tremble (get goosebumps or get the shivers / get chills up and down your spine) 7) lycanthrope = wolfman 8) arachnophobia = an irrational or disproportionate fear of spiders.  | ||
| What words (nouns, verbs, adjectives) come to mind when you think of scary things? Make lists. You can also write them below in the comment section.
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Answer the questions tabout the Video Halloween History below.
