Monday, 9 January 2017
Friday, 2 December 2016
Black Mirror: Be Right Back
After watching the following episode of Black Mirror, read synopsis below and fill in the blanks with a suitable word. (There may be more than one possibility)
This hour-long 'film' is the story of two young _____________ - Ash is permanently ____________ to his mobile phone - something most Black Mirror viewers can relate to in this age of tweeting as an accompaniment to TV watching.
When Ash is killed in a tragic traffic ___________, his girlfriend Martha learns of a new service that examines traits from Facebook, Twitter, e-mails and other online profiles to replicate a lost loved one's ________________
Though she's reluctant to use the software at first, the revelation that she's ______________ sends Martha in a frenzy and soon she's embracing one upgrade after another.
She starts to communicate with him through instant messaging and informs him of the pregnancy. She then uploads ___________ and ___________ of Ash to the service's database, and the service duplicates Ash's voice to talk to Martha over the phone. Martha allows herself to believe that she is talking to her dead partner, and over the following weeks she talks to the artificial Ash almost constantly, keeping him ___________ regarding the pregnancy. Eventually, she upgrades to having a copy of Ash, walking and talking, at her side. But it's not really Ash - the android is hollow, without a soul - and so much of what made Ash the man he was, and the intricacies of his and Martha's life together, is lost in translation.
After an argument, Martha decides she can no longer live the life with the Ash android, taking it to the edge of a cliff and ordering it to __________ off. The android agrees to do so, but Martha becomes even __________, saying that the real Ash would not have willingly jumped. The android responds by begging for its own life, causing Martha to realise that she can't bring herself to get rid of it.
The scene cuts to several years later, and Martha is shown to have raised her __________, keeping the Ash android locked in the attic. She allows her daughter to see the android on weekends, but Martha's daughter persuades her to allow her into the attic on her ___________ to give the android a piece of cake. Martha's daughter reveals in her conversation with the android that she knows it does not need to eat, and she only did this so she could have an extra ____________ of cake. While her daughter is in the attic with the android, Martha waits at the bottom of the attic steps close to tears. Then, after regaining her composure, she climbs the ladder to join them.
Monday, 28 November 2016
Purple Hibiscus: The Historical Context
Follow the links below and, in your notebooks, record the ten most interesting facts that you learn about the Nigerian Civil War.
Monday, 21 November 2016
Reported Speech: Backshifting
In the end of term exam you will be tested on your ability to backshift verb tenses when converting a sentence from direct to reported speech. Follow the links below in order to practise doing this:
End of Term Exam: Reading Section Preparation
In order to be as prepared as possible for the reading section of the end of term exam, you should compete the reading tasks on the following pages of the Objective Advanced Workbook:
- p.4-5
- p.18
- p.22 - 23
Friday, 18 November 2016
Transcript Writing Exam: Some Common Errors
Each of the sentences below contains at least one technical error. Copy and paste the sentences into a Word document and write a correct version of each sentence underneath the incorrect version. Save the document in an appropriate area of your English folder.
1.It wasted me a
lot of time trying to create a pointless product.
2.I thought on creating a
more usefull type of
car.
3.The head
of Google is on the BBC studio.
4.Our new gps won
MySpace to the prize.
5.In a (near) future, Siri will be able to give even better advices.
6.In that moment I knew I wanted to
be an ingenier.
7.Everybody who worked in this project has helped to create a life-lasting security insurance.
8.Although the project is in it’s infancy, self-drived cars
are the future.
9.Could you explain how is your working life?
10.We have been working in a
new project and
are looking for any errors that might be
in it.
11.Do you think this could affect negatively some people?
12.New technology is being peole are doing less active things like hanging out with friends or do sport.
13.If you use it more
times it could be harmful.
14.One of the most efficient mobile phones company is
Orange.
15.It was so interesting what you’ve said.
16.Let’s start by knowing how it functions.
17.The reveal of the product will take
place next year.
18.The interest on it is huge.
19.They have a very good precision
20.The technologies are developing rapidly and we can know this by looking at the world around us.
Monday, 14 November 2016
Writing Exam Preparation: Google's Self Driving Car
Click on the above link and watch the short clip about the Google Self Driving Car. You should then produce a transcript interview with an expert on this new technology about its benefits.
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