Falcons March 21st/25th

Hello Guys!!
How was your weekend?!

OK, here's the schedule for this week (sorry, I know today's monday)

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Grammar: -PPC (Present perfect continuous) Form and examples. -Homework review & questions. *Extra, PaPC/FPC.	-Movie!  (final part of Lolita)  -Review of both Simple & Continuos present during the movie and discussion	-Grammar: Present Perfect Usages and examples.	-Conversation Club #2 Horror and Action movies. Vocabulary below!!	:)

If you like scary movies about ghosts, monsters and crazy killers (El santo vs las momias jajaja), you're a fan of horror movies. Many early horror movies were based on old stories about scary creatures like vampires. Classic horror movies like 1922's Nosferatu and 1931's Dracula were based on Bram Stoker's vampire novel Dracula. Like all vampires, Count Dracula terrifies his victims by biting their necks and drinking their blood. We see him again in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, but in 1994's Interview With the Vampire we see stylish vampires played by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt who are more handsome and youthful than Dracula, but just as deadly.

Some of the scariest creatures in horror movies are flesh-eating corpses called zombies (like my mother in law). One of the first zombie films was 1932's White Zombie, but it was George A. Romero's zombie classics Night of the Living Dead andDawn of the Dead that set the pattern for later zombie films like 2003's 28 Days Later and for Frank Darabont's popular TV series The Walking Dead.

Films about supernatural beings like ghosts and spirits and movies about spooky places like haunted houses can be very scary as well. The classic horror movie The Haunting is an early example, and more recent examples include The Babadook and 1408 in which a writer of books about haunted houses is driven crazy by a hotel room's evil power. These movies use sound effects like banging doors and sudden screams to scare us, and they often use spooky music as well. Some of the finest music in a horror movie score can be heard in 1977's Suspiria in which young dancers are terrorized by evil witches who run a ballet school.

In recent years many of the scariest horror movies have been made in Asia. They include paranormal thrillers like Ringu (el aro) and Pulse in which evil forces travel through television signals and telephone lines, supernatural thrillers like Thailand's Shutter and Japan's Ju-On: The Grudge, and shockingly violent movies about psychopaths and serial killers like Japan'sAudition and Confessions and South Korea's A Tale Of Two Sisters and I Saw the Devil. If you're brave enough to watch these movies, at least make sure you're not alone...

Hehehehe! 

Anyway, here's this week's VOCABULARY!! 

angle (noun): the position of the camera in a shot - The angle allows the viewer to see something the victim can't.

close-up (noun): a shot taken from very close to the subject - There's a close-up of her eyes while she's screaming.

corpse (noun): the body of a dead person - That scene of a corpse rising from the grave is really scary!

creature (noun): anything that's alive except for people and plants -The scariest creatures I've ever seen are bird-eating spiders.

demon (noun): a powerful evil spirit - A demon was crawling along the ceiling, snarling and hissing like a snake.

edit (verb): to combine different shots when making a movie - I love the way they edited that scene.

evil (adjective): extremely bad or wicked - They think there's something evil in the house.

exorcism (noun): a ritual that forces a spirit to leave a possessed person - Priests don't still perform exorcisms, do they?

found footage (noun): footage of real events, or footage that looks real - We're making a found footage horror movie.

ghost (noun): the spirit of a dead person - Have you ever seen a ghost?

haunted (adjective): occupied by ghosts or evil spirits - The house could be haunted, you know.

horror movie (noun): a movie that frightens and shocks people - You'll have nightmares if you watch too many horror movies.

mentally-ill (adjective): having an illness that affects a person's mind -Her mentally-ill mother did some terrible things to her.

paranormal (adjective): strange and unexplained by science - It's about people who investigate paranormal events.

possessed (adjective): controlled by an evil spirit - They don't really think she's possessed, do they?

psychological (adjective): related to or affecting the mind - His problem's psychological, so he needs to see a therapist.

psychopath (noun): a person with a mental illness that makes them violent and cruel - I think my boss is a psychopath.

scary (adjective): frightening or causing fear - We sat around the campfire telling scary stories.

serial killer (noun): a psychopath who often kills people - On the news it said that the serial killer has already murdered four young business women.

shot (noun): a view of something in a movie - The films opens with a shot of children playing in a park.

slasher film (noun): a film about a very violent psychopath - I’m terrified of chainsaws because of a slasher film I watched as a child.

sound effects (noun): recorded sounds used in films, TV shows, etc -Spooky sound effects like footsteps and creaking doors are often used in horror movies.

spirit (noun): a supernatural being without a physical body - In Thailand they build little houses for spirits to live in.

spooky (adjective): makes you think of scary things like ghosts - He told us a scary story about a spooky old house.

supernatural (adjective): related to an invisible world of ghosts and spirits - They think he has supernatural powers.

terrify (verb): to make someone feel very frightened - The thought of being buried alive terrifies me.

terrorize (verb): to use threats or violence to keep someone scared -The kidnapper terrorized his victims, so they didn’t try to escape.

twist (noun): an event that changes a story's meaning - Don't tell us what the twist is. You'll spoil the movie!

vampire (noun): a scary creature that bites necks and drinks blood -It's about a vampire who lives in an old castle.

witch (noun): a person who uses magic or supernatural powers - There was a coven of witches living in the apartment building.

zombie (noun): a dead body that comes alive - After a week of studying for exams with no sleep, we all looked like zombies.

Of course there'll be some unknown words during the Conv.Club but we'll get to that. 

 HOMEWORK!!!

This week’s HomeWork is going to be very special: We are reviewing…… Modals!! 

1) Choose the correct answer for each gap below (obviously with MODALS) 

Sofia: If I win the ten million dollar lottery jackpot, I _____________________  afford to quit my job and travel the world.

Israel: Where__________________  you go if you had that much money?

Sofia: I don't know, I ______________ choose to spend a year in Paris 

 or perhaps I _____________ go to Kenya.

Isra:  How often do you buy lottery tickets?

Sofia: Never... I guess if I want to win the lottery, I _____________ try to buy some tickets.

Isra: That _________________ help.

2) Select the correct modal or modal form to fit the sentence.

I didn’t feel very well yesterday. I ..... eat anything.

*cannot

*couldn’t

*must not

You ..... look at me when I am talking to you.

*could

*should

*would

I was using my pencil a minute ago. It ..... be here somewhere!

*can

*could

*must

*would

3) using These words (Click), make 3 sentences in Present perfect, Past simple, present continuous, and present simple*.
*Must be at least 10 words long with at least one adverb or Object pronoun.

As for the Extra work, I'll be posting it tomorrow! 

See you around!!