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The Movie : Mars Attacks
Your predictions : What kind of movie is it?
What will the movie be about?
What is going to happen in the movie?

Watch the clip then make predictions about what will happen next.



The movie : Big Fish

Your predictions : What kind of movie is it?
What will the movie be about?
What is going to happen in the movie?

Watch the clip then make predictions about what will happen next.

Tricky Riddles

A man lives on the 12th floor. He goes to work every day and takes the elevator down for it. When he comes back, he goes up to the 6th floor and takes the stairs to the 12th. But on rainy days he goes up with the elevator to the 12h. Why does the man do that?

Jerry's mom had 4 kids and the first boy's name was brown because he had brown eyes. The second boy's name was black because he had black eyes, and the third boy's name was blue because he had blue eyes. What was the fourth boy's name?

First Tracey threw away the outside. Then she cooked the inside. Then she eats the outside and threw away the inside. What did she eat?



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Take a look at the following list of stressed and non-stressed word types.
Basically, stress words are considered CONTENT WORDS such as
  • Nouns e.g. kitchen, Peter
  • (most) principal verbs e.g. visit, construct
  • Adjectives e.g. beautiful, interesting
  • Adverbs e.g. often, carefully
Non-stressed words are considered FUNCTION WORDS such as
  • Determiners e.g. the, a, some, a few
  • Auxiliary verbs e.g. don't, am, can, were
  • Prepositions e.g. before, next to, opposite
  • Conjunctions e.g. but, while, as
  • Pronouns e.g. they, she, us
Mark the stressed words in the following sentences. After you have found the stressed words, practice reading the sentences aloud.
  • John is coming over tonight. We are going to work on our homework together.
  • Ecstasy is an extremely dangerous drug.
  • We should have visited some more castles while we were traveling through the back roads of France.
  • Jack bought a new car last Friday.
  • They are looking forward to your visiting them next January.
  • Exciting discoveries lie in Tom's future.
  • Would you like to come over and play a game of chess?
  • They have been having to work hard these last few months on their challenging experiment.
  • Shakespeare wrote passionate, moving poetry.
  • As you might have expected, he has just thought of a new approach to the problem.
First, you need to be able to immediately distinguish between content and function words. Write down 'C' for content and 'F' for function. When you have finished click on the arrow to see if you have answered correctly.
Example: magazine (C) as (F) many (F)
  1. went 
  2. with 
  3. just 
  4. quickly 
  5. the 
  6. hard 
  7. next to 
  8. CD ROM 
  9. open 
  10. had 














Which Words?

Next, take a look at the sentences and mark the words that should be stressed. Once you have decided, click on the arrow to see if you have chosen the correct words.
Example: Jack (yes) went (yes) to the shop (yes) to grab (yes) some coke (yes).
  1. He had finished breakfast before I arrived. 
  2. Phillip ordered a huge steak for dinner. 
  3. They will have to stay up late if they are going to finish their homework. 
  4. It must have been something in the air that caused Jack to shout. 
  5. Could you please be more quiet? 
Notice how some of the shorter sentences actually have more stressed words than the longer ones (2 compared to 3). These shorter sentences can often take longer to speak than longer sentences with many function words!!!

Guess Who


Classroom English

Important Questions:
Can you repeat that please?
How do you spell ________?
What does __________ mean?
Can you give me an example?
How do you say _______ in (my Language)?


Wkst A
Wkst B




Student 1

Student 2


Ask eachother questions and then present your friend to the teacher.
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