Catholics and Protestants from the point of view of Monty Python

Just hilarious!



PRE-WATCHING
1. Answer these questions in pairs or small groups.
a) Have you got a big family? How many brothers and sisters have you got?
b) Is the size of your current family smaller or bigger than the one of previous generations?
c) How big would you like your family to be?
d) Is your idea of your will-be family influenced by religion or culture?

WHILE-WATCHING
2. Are the statements below true (T), false (F), or we just don't know (?):
1 Dad is going home. A seagull flies above it and drops a baby down the chimney.
2 Dad is happy about having another baby.
3 Mum asks about fifteen of her children to go to bed because it isn’t their turn for tea time.
4 Dad reports his children that he’s going to sell them all for scientific experiments because
that’s the only way to earn a great deal of money.
5 Dad asks his children to blame the Catholic church.
6  A child suggests castration to his Dad.
7 Mr Blackitt is Jewish.
8 He despises his Catholic neighbours. 
9. Mrs Blackitt is aware of the differences between Catholics and Protestants.
10. Mr Blackitt usually buys contraceptives.

AFTER-WATCHING
3. Answer individually or in pairs.
a) What title would you give to the song in the film? 
b) Why does Mrs Blackitt look so confused after the comparison between Catholics and Protestants.
c) Quote the funniest sentence.

GRAMMAR
4. Both Catholics and Protestants are mocked in the sketch. 
a) Make some statements abouts the two communities. Most of them will have to be made in the present simple.
b) Can you make some more sentences with the verbs like, hate, enjoy... + V-ing?

READING
5. Read and choose the funniest quotation.

6. Read the full script of the scene and make some questions.

Reported Speech

Have a look at José Antonio Cárceles worksheet on reported speech, and practise.

STATEMENTS:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?03
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?04

QUESTIONS:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?05
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?06

REQUESTS:
A) AFFIRMATIVE: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?07
B) NEGATIVE: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?08

MIXED TYPES:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

What's your intelligence like?

INITIAL EVALUATION TASKS: presenting the topic
1 In pairs, answer these questions:

• What’s an intelligent person?
• What can an intelligent person do?
• According to the abilities you have noted down, how many types of intelligences do you think there are?

BEFORE WATCHING THE FILM TASKS
2 Look at the pictures and try to guess what kind of intelligence they are about. Compare your answers with your partner's.

WHILE WATCHING THE FILM TASKS for the 1st time
3 Write down the types of intelligence under the correct picture.

WHILE WATCHING THE FILM TASKS for the 2nd time
4 Watch it again and check your answers. How has your partner done?

AFTER WATCHING THE FILM TASKS
5 Group work. Each group has got a poster on the wall with as many empty columns as types of intelligence. You are only given the name of the intelligence. Complete the poster with the missing information:

a) definition

b) skills

c) possible compatible jobs

You will find the missing information in different coloured cards. Stand up and finish your poster!

6 Check your matchings with the other groups’. Contrast your guessings especially for those columns you have doubted. Now you have got the last chance to make changes.

7 Check your answers and write them down in your notebook.

8 Can you already say what type of intelligence is yours? Do you like any of the jobs suggested for that type of intelligence?

9 Do the online Multiple Intelligences test provided.

TEST 1- http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsitest1.html
TEST 2 http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsitest2.html

10 Do you agree with the tests? What about your classmates? Ask ten of them what their prevalent type of intelligence is? Take note and present the information in a pie or bar chart. Then explain the results and describe the most suitable types of English tasks for your class in small groups.

EXTENSION: Make a second chart with the jobs your classmates would like to have. Are there any mismatchings?

FOLLOW-UP
11 In pairs, open your portfolio each. What do you think it is? What must it be useful for?

12 Individually, fill in the questionnaire tittled “Activities carried out in English”. Then do the same with the “Aims and reflections on the English learning”

13 Now you all have enough input to start with “My learning diary section”

The passive for emphasis

The passive is used for emphasis. What's emphasized? Watch the video and answer.

Pay careful attention to the explanations in Chinese!!!


Watch this second video. There are examples of passive sentences, basically in the present and the past. How do you know what the tense of a passive is?


Do you need a more contextualised presentation of the passive? Have a look at these.




EXTRA PRACTICE on the passive voice: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Reported Speech

1st versus 2nd conditional

Watch the two videos. The first one is about a musician. The second one is a scene of Fiddler on the roof, where a poor man talks about his life and expectations.

1. Which video is related to a hypothetical, improbable situation?
2. Which one is related to a probable consequence?
3. Can you write down a model sentence from each video and analyse their structure, as follows:

If + Subject + ...

4. Send a comment with your 1-3 answers.

In case you need some practice on: the 1st conditional: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; the 2nd conditional: 1 2 3 4 5