Newsletter October 2014

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Welcome one and all!

And a very happy October to each and every one of you!This month we kick off with some traditional “Doctor, doctor!”jokes, and then plough head first into the wonderful world oftime!Our classroom activities include learning to tell time for veryyoung learners, and then some useful language to talk abouttime for teens.We finish with a classic heart-warming song from John Lennonthat should provoke some discussion in your classroom!See you next month!

A-CETThis year we will once again be working with theAfrican Children's Educational Trust, donating moneyfor every show we do to helping develop educationalprojects in Africa.For more information visit their website atwww.a-cet.org

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Doctor, Doctor, I've got wind! Can you giveme something?Yes - here's a kite!

Doctor, Doctor, everyone keeps throwing mein the garbage.Don't talk rubbish!

Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a pack of cards.I'll deal with you later.

Doctor, Doctor, will this medicine clear upmy spots?I never make rash promises!

Doctor, Doctor, my baby's swallowed a bullet.Well, don't point him at anyone until I get there!

Doctor doctor!Tell us a joke!

Down1. The building where you go to watch a play.2. The story of a film or a play.4. What you watch in a theatre.5. How actors sometimes feel before a play.6. The paper with the words of a film or play.7. The people watching a film or a play.

OFF TO THETHEATRE!1. Can you

complete thecrossword withwords abouttheatre?

A2 Vocabulary:theatre!

Across3. Making noise with your hands to say“very good!”7. A woman who acts in a play or film.8. A man who acts in a play or film.9. The part of a theatre where the playhappens.10. Something that makes you laugh.11. To shout and make noise to say “welldone!”12. The things that open and close in a theatreor on the windows in your house.

2. Complete the text with the words from thecrossword.

Yesterday I went to the to see a

called “Chocolate!”. There was an who

was very - he made lots of jokes and

used different voices. There was an

who talked to us - she told us what was

happening in the .

I thought the was very clever. And I

thought the actors were very brave! I can’t

imagine being on in front of a big

. I think when the opened at

the start of the play I would be very !

At the end of the play we all started to and

because we liked it so much!

A1 Classroom activity:Telling the time

Can you tell the time?

1. Put numbers 1 to 12 on the clock face.2. Where would you add “quarter”?Where would you add “half”?3. Look at the clocks below. Can youchoose the correct time for each one?

to past

a. Half past two.b. Ten to six.c. Ten past six.

a. Fifteen to threeb. Quarter to threec. Quarter past three

a. Four o’clockb. Four hoursc. Half past four

a. Half past nineb. Twenty-five to ninec. Twenty five to ten

4. Draw hands on these fourclocks and ask your partner totell you the time.

5. Work with a partner. Taketurns to ask and answer thequestions in the box below,then ask somebody else in yourclass!

1. What time is it now?2. What time do we have a break?3. What time does the class finish?4. What time do you wake up?5. What time do you usually havelunch?

6. What time do you usually havedinner?7. What time do you usually go tobed?8. What time does school finishtoday?

B1 Classroom activity:Talk about time

1. Complete each sentence with a word from the box below.a. I a lot of time at weekends with my friends.b. I a lot of time using social networks when I could do something better.c. I am usually of time in the mornings - I’m always in a rush.d. It can me a long time to get ready in the morning - about an hour!e. I only see my grandparents time time because they live very far away.f. I try to time every day to do sports or exercise.g. I never arrive time to meet people. I’m usually late!h. It’s better to your time doing things and do them well than to do themquickly but badly.

from make on to take waste spend short

2. Work with a partner. Say if the sentences in activity 1 are true for you or not.

3. Use the questionnaire below to talk todifferent students about time.

1. When you go shopping,do you like to buy things asquickly as possible or preferto take your time?

2. Which things you have todo do you think are a wasteof time? Why?

3. On a typical weekdaymorning are you usuallyshort of time?

4. How much time do youspend every day doing yourhomework?

5. How long does it take youto get from your house toyour school?

6. Do you think everybodyshould play sports from timeto time?

7. Does it annoy you whenpeople aren’t on time to meetyou?

Song

John Lennon - Imagine

1. Listen to “Imagine” by John Lennon and completethe lyrics with the words from the box.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8

Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today...

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one

Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will live as one

easy hell countires peopleliving only kill religion wonderpeace hunger sharing dreamer

heaven someday world possesions brotherhood greed

2. Look at the sentences below. Which do you thinkis the one that best describes “Imagine”.

a. John Lennon wrote Imagine about being a day-dreamer - a person who often imagines fantasticsituations and doesn’t like reality.b. Imagine is a song about trying to imagine a betterworld where people don’t fight and have wars overreligious beliefs or money.c. John Lennon wrote Imagine about the problemof homeless people and to tell people to share theirpossesions with each other.

FACT FILE!John Lennon wasborn in the cityof Liverpool inEngland, andwas one of theBeatles - themost successfulpop band ever - inthe 1960s and 70s.He had many hit songsalone after the Beatles split up, and is consideredone of the most influential singer-songwriters ever.He was shot and killed in New York in 1980.