English 10 - Lesson 8

English 10 - Lesson 8

by Jamie Furlong

​Last Lesson

​Summary practice & effects.

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​Wrote a journal about a balloonist.

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​Read a text about dishwashing (exciting!)

​Today

​- Talk about marriage.​

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​- Read about marriage.

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​- Write about marriage.

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​- Learn vocab about marriage.

Is marriage important? Why?​

You have 5 minutes to prepare an answer. You will speak for 1 minute.​

​Important because...

​1. Teaches us to become more selfless.

​2. We gain a teammate — someone who will always be on our team through any difficulties in life.

​3. Create a family and a more fulfilling life.

​4. Experience love.

​5. Pay less on your taxes (in some countries)

Read Passage B, page 69, Workbook​

​Complete Exercise 11

​Put the events into the correct order.

​Vocab

​Find the following vocab in the text. Provide synonyms or phrases which have a similar meaning.

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​To propose

​Dare devil

​Scaling

​She lit up

​Hesitant

​Wobble

​To pop the question

​A common phrase used to mean, "to ask someone to marry you".

​Complete 9a & 9b

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