Unit4 day1

Unit4 day1

• 1.
  Unit 4 (1)- stories
• 2.
  a favourite scene What kinds of TV shows did you use to like when you were younger?  What about now?  Do you enjoy watching comedies? Why/why not?  Have you ever watched any British or American sitcoms? [A sitcom is a light and amusing television series about a set of characters.]  If so, which one(s)?  What’s it about?  Have you heard of the British comedy series, Fawlty Towers, starring John Cleese?  If so, what do you know about it?
• 3.
  Fawlty Towers Fawlty Towersis a series set in a hotel by the English seaside. The plot is set around a tense, rude and stressed hotel owner (Basil Fawlty), his bossy wife (Sybil), a relatively normal chambermaid (Polly) and a disorganized Spanish waiter (Manuel), who are attempting to run the hotel in improbable circumstances with a variety of demanding and eccentric guests.  What kinds of humorous situations do you think could occur?
• 4.
  Vocabulary: a hearing aid– an electronic device worn by hearing-impaired people to amplify sound grumpy – bad-tempered and easily annoyed to mime – to act using gestures but no speaking to get your own back (on s.o.) – to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something unpleasant to you  p. 53, #3A – Listen and answer the questions  #3B – check the phrases you hear  Try to summarize the funny scene described by the woman.  Watch the scene that the woman described. Is it as you imagined?  #3C & D – think of one of your favourite scenes from a TV show or movie.  Tell your partner about it, using the phrases from 3B.