Today We Will…

• Review contrastive stress in pronunciation exercises

• Practice using formal and informal language to ask for, grant, and deny permission

• Review practice exercises for Unit 3 Test

• Preview Unit 4 Theme: Child’s Play

Contrastive Speech in Speeches

• “A Few Good Men”• The Situation: Lieutenant Kaffee questions Colonel

Jessep’s decision to call “code red.”

Directions:• Listen to the clip for gist.• Now listen to the clip and decide what

pronouns carry stress. Circle the pronouns.

• What is Colonel Jessep’s tone?

Asking for, Granting, and Denying Permission

Directions:• Textbook, page 27

– Read the strategies for asking for, granting, and denying permission

• How would you ask your boss permission to borrow a pen?

• How would you ask your friend permission to borrow a pen?

Permission and Request MingleDirections:• Using the index cards as prompts, practice asking permission by

talking to as many people in the class as you can.• Practice using the phrases and expression on your worksheet.• You decide if the situation is formal or informal.• Tick marks GRANT permission• X marks DENY permission

• Example 1:(The card says: “turn on the TV”)Student A: Is it OK if I turn on the TV?(The card has a tick mark on the back)Student B: Yes, of course.

• Example 2:(The card says: “call a taxi”)Student A: Could I call a taxi?(The card has an X on the back)Student B: No, I’m afraid not.

Phrases and ExpressionsDirections:

• With your partner, look as the phrases in the envelop.

• Decide whether the language is formal or informal.

• Then decide whether the phrase asks for permission, grants permission, or denies permission.

• Write your answers on the worksheet.

Create a DialogueDirections:• Look at the picture.

• With a partner, create a dialogue based on what you see.

• Practice using 2 of the following:– Obligation– Privilege– Permission– Request– Order

Unit 3 Test

• NP + to + verb

• Have, make, let

• Contrastive Stress

Preview Unit 4

• Theme of the unit is: Child’s Play

• What does child’s play mean?

• Listen to the song, “Pinball Wizard,” by The Who.

“Pinball Wizard”Background: • The song appears on the 1969

album, Tommy, by the British rock band, The Who.

• Tommy is a rock-opera about a young boy who becomes a pinball sensation.

• Tommy was made into a movie in 1975

• Elton John plays the former pinball champion and sings the song, “Pinball Wizard,” in the movie version of Tommy

Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive

• Read the directions on your worksheet.

• How are the past perfect and past perfect progressive formed?

• Why is time important?– when, by the time, before, after, never

• Complete the remaining questions on the “Pinball Wizard” worksheet.

Forming the Past Perfect Tense• Past Perfect Tense

• Had + past participle

• Used to show a past action happened before another past action

• By the time John got home, Sue had already gone to school.

• She had taken Biology classes before she enrolled in college

• Negative Sentences

• Had + (not) + past participle

• She had not finished her homework when her mother came home.

• Question Formation

• Had she seen that movie already?

Practice Forming Present Perfect Tense

Directions:• Textbook, page 35

• Read “The Past Perfect Tense”

• Complete Exercise 1 and 2

Forming the Past Perfect Progressive

• Past Perfect Progressive

• Had + been + verb –ing

• Used to talk about an action that was happening before or up to a specific time in the past

• She had been looking for an apartment for 2 months when she found a studio on West 86th Street.

• Negative Sentences

• Had + (not) + been + verb –ing

• I hadn’t been sleeping well this past week.

• Question Formation

• Had they been going to the gym all this time?

• Had you been waiting long before the taxi arrived?

Practice forming the past perfect progressive:

Directions• Textbook, page 36

• Read “The Past Perfect Progressive”

• Complete Exercise 3 and Exercise 4

Form the past perfect progressive for the situation below:

He had been looking for a room for 3 to 4 months when his friend offered him a room.

Form the past perfect progressive for the situation below:

She had been working on her Master’s degree for 4 years when she got engaged in 1999.

Wrap up

• Homework:– Bring in a timeline for your favorite celebrity. – The timeline should have at least 5

accomplishments.

– Workbook, page 27, Practice 6– Workbook, page 28, Practice 7