Introduction - Love actually
Love Actually is the title of a film that is often shown at Christmas time. In this section we look at family celebrations and a condition called hypercopresence. You’ll have the opportunity to find out more about this condition, and to find out if you, or anyone in your family suffers from it!
This fifth section contains 7 steps. Work them through step by step.
Step
Activity
1 Speaking
Discuss romantic places with a class mate.
2 Words
Pronounce words and match their definitions in the exercise.
3 Watching
Watch a video and fill in the gaps.
4 Reading
Read the text, choose the best situation. Answer the questions.
Write down your ideas.
5 Writing
Write down your thoughts about Christmas day with family.
Discuss with classmate.
6 Grammar
Grammar desk and exercises about Superlatives of Adjectives.
Speaking
Choose which of the places are romantic places and write down your idea of three romantic places.
Train stations ..........
Parks ..........
Your living room ..........
Airports ..........
Playground in your town/village ..........
Football ground ..........
..........
..........
..........
Now click on the link to open ‘A romantic story’.
First read loud the sentences yourself. Click on the microphone to hear the sentence pronounced. Did you pronounce it correctly?
Words and their meaning
In this step, you are going to do exercises with adjectives. In the first exercise are you looking for the right description or explanation.
In the second exercise, you have to put the correct word in a sentence.
Match the following words to their definition.
1. Hatred
a.
Something you do to someone who is bad to you.
2. Revenge
b.
When you feel unhappy and sad for the future.
3. Gloomy
c.
Interesting enough to be on the news.
4. Sneaky
d.
A very strong feeling of dislike.
5. Newsworthy
e.
Doing something especially when you don’t
tell anyone, or you shouldn’t do it.
Words and their meaning
Apply these words and their definitions in the next exercise: newsworthy - hatred - gloomy - revenge - sneaky
We had a .................... look at the presents under the Christmas tree.
Janine is so unhappy: she’s really .................... about the exams next week.
It’s clear that the teacher has a strong .................... of our music!
The boy said he would get .................... against the man who attacked him.
Nothing .................... ever happens in my town! It’s so boring!
Step 3 - Watching
Watching
You’re going to watch the beginning of the film Love Actually.
Fill in the gaps with one of the following words. There is one word you do not need.
hatred
revenge
gloomy
sneaky
interestingly
newsworthy
dignified
Whenever I get .....[1]..... with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport. General opinion is starting to make out that we live in a world of .....[2]..... and greed. But I don’t see that. Seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it’s not particularly .....[3]..... or .....[4]..... but it’s always there. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the twin towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or .....[5]..... . They were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a .....[6]..... feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.
Step 4 - Reading
Reading
Do you have regular family get together? Or does your family meet just once a year?
Do you suffer from hypercopresence? Do you know what that is?
Read the sentence and choose the best situation to illustrate hypercopresence.
Quickly read the first paragraph and check your answer.
Everyone comes to our house at Christmas – it’s such a lovely time spending time with my family.
We usually go to Grandma’s for Christmas. We have a big family and it can be really stressful. There are lots of people, and lots of noise and then Mum always argues with Uncle Brad. Every year!
Christmas is a time of giving and that is what I love most about it. Everyone giving something to someone else. It’s really great.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
Words UNJUMBLE the words to complete the sentences.
My brother Sam is ..........: he’s different to anyone else I’ve met. iiuvdlnaiiicstd
The football coach talked .......... to the team before the game. tatcsci
Mum and I always .......... over my mobile phone. orw
That’s a .......... question and I don’t know how to answer it. yirktc
Julie’s dad has to travel a lot and so they spend a lot of time ........... . raatp
Sue and I like to .......... in our school play. rmoeprf
Answers
B5 Love actually
Step 2 Words
= d
= a
= b
= e
= c
= sneaky
= gloomy
= hatred
= revenge
= newsworthy
Step 3 Watching
= gloomy
= hatred
= dignified
= newsworthy
= revenge
= sneaky
interestingly = not needed
Step 4 Reading
b. We usually go to Grandma’s for Christmas. We have a big family and it can be really stressful. There are lots
of people, and lots of noise and then Mum always argues with Uncle Brad. Every year!
It’s a stressful time and people are forced to live closely with lots of others. This is not the way that people
live for the rest of the year.
Family members
They want to get away, they lose their autonomy.
Sitting at the meal table, playing a computer game – anything that people usually do on their own and
don’t need to wait for someone else, or someone else to interfere with them.
Talk to relatives throughout the year – not just once a year. Allow people to go off and do their own thing.
Have a flexible schedule and give different people different responsibilities for different things.
Young people do need them to stay in touch with their friends, and that isn’t something that older
generations did. But young people should also be respectful and so it’s a good idea to agree on when
mobile phones can be used.
Step 6 Grammar
If the adjective has one syllable: add –est
If the adjective ends in ‘y’: add –iest
If the adjective has more than two syllables: add most + adjectiv
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