• an outing to the Statue of Liberty

• a visit to a famous art museum

• a night out to see a Broadway musical

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  Writing

  inner at a authentic local restaurant

1. Write an article about 180-250 words on the theme “Student life: Problems and Solutions”.

Article writing tips:

Structure

1. Heading: think of an interesting title.

2. Introductory paragraph linked to the title: to make the reader interested in the topic, try to use a question.

3. One or two more paragraphs: develop your main points.

4. A final paragraph: summarize the main points and give your concluding opinion or express your feelings.

Useful phrases

Rhetorical phrases:

Have you ever ........?

What do you think about ........?

Are you one of those people who thinks that ......?

Are you one of those people who .......?

What would life be like if ......?

Will the future bring us ..... ?

Introducing your first point:

Firstly

In the first place

First of all

The first thing to consider is

One thing to consider is

To begin with

Introducing more points:

Secondly

Another consideration

Yet another consideration

Another thing to consider is

Added to that

Apart from that

In addition to this

Introducing your final points:

In conclusion

To conclude

To sum up

So

Introducing your opinion:

I think

In my opinion

Personally I believe that

In my view

If you ask me

To my mind

WORK IN MULTIMEDIA ROOMS

1. Look at the opening pictures:

• What do you see?

• Can you give your own definition for each item?

• W hat is multimedia?

Listening

Pre-listening activities

1. Read the words and word combinations and discuss in pairs how these words can be related to the theme “e-books”.

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While-listening activities

1. Listen to the text and fill in the gaps.

If you are _________ and you like studying English, you might just be interested in _____________ of the Hollywood movie studio Warner Brothers. The company has released _____________of its classic movies as eBooks. _________ are full of images, diagrams and facts in addition to the conversations and dialogues from the films. Now English students can read up __________ and read along while they watch it. The digital scripts also give English teachers ____________to use in the classroom. Many students like to learn English via movies. The eBooks are currently ________on Amazon.com at around $8. The books can be downloaded on Apple's iBookstore and ___________for the Nook eBook reader.

So far only a small selection of ___________has been released. These include An American in Paris, Ben Hur, Casablanca and North by Northwest. President of Warner Brothers digital distribution Thomas Gewecke explained why he thinks _________will prove popular: "People love movies because of the stories they tell," he said. "Now we can give fans rarely seen details of how these stories came together and take their enjoyment of films to a whole new level," he added. Mr Gewecke said the eBooks are just for _________at the moment but that books for ________will be released in the future. It will be some time however before the eBook coincides with______________.

Post-listening activities