Third year English at the Orientale

Taboo & Issues – here’s a list of the topics we have covered which might be included in the written / oral papers.

How do you feel about using animal organs in humans?

• Death (1)
• Taboo topics (4)
• Sex for Sale (7)
• Torture (9)
• Children who kill (13)
• Gays & jobs (14)
• Animal Rights (15)
• Nobody needs a gun (17)
• Sale of human organs (18)
• Telling Lies (20)
• National stereotypes (22)
• Cheating on your partner (23)
• Are you happy with your body (24)
• The right to die (28)
• Big borther is whatching! (30)
• Anxiety and depression (31)
• Turning other cheek (38)

General Pet Care Advice:
Child Animal Abuse Intervention

YOUR OPINION:
Write a short paragraph -
Your niece or nephew is being violent towards their pet. What would you do? What advice would you give their parents?

When a child kills, who you think is responsible? WHy?

How can we prevent such horrors?

Look at http://warchild.org/ and share one thing you learnt or feel is important for others to know about.

Would you register to be a donor? Why / Why not?
Share your views below.

Learning new expressions can be hard, check some online reference tools and use the expressions to describe something about your life.
Share your sentences below!

few and far between

Use Google search with :define after the expression to compare your ideas with online definitions.

Try this for your key words in the Google search bar
leaps and bounds:define

Do you know anyone you is a pain in the neck? How do you cope?
What advice would you give someone who has to share a flat with someone who is “difficult”?

Personal Development:
How To Deal With Difficult People

Which “Personality” idiom to like best? Why?
Which idioms describe your character or the character of people you know?

When is it OK to lie?
How honest are you?

What does cheating on your partner me? Look at page 23 in Taboos & Issues and share your answers to the questions in the Discussion section.

Choose a page from Taboos and Issues. Find a nice reading text.
Write 5 answers and share these below (comment/reply to this post) so that another student can write the questions. Clearly indicate the page and title of the text. Also post 5 words for another student to define.

When you’ve finished, look at the answers that another student has posted and write the questions. Share these with the student who posted the answers.

Don’t forget to watch the DVD that comes with your book. Check out the film bank at the back of Total English.

When you’ve finished and want to check your answers, you’ll find the DVD key and transcripts here http://www.pearsonlongman.com/totalenglish/resources/