Key Reading: A pistol shot (photocopies 28th Nov)

READING: Worksheet 2
A
1) On a farm, near a gravel pit (also possible: In Lincoln County, in the USA) in the early 1920s.
2) Three men loading gravel, a dead farmer called LLoyd Wilson, Wilson's uncle Fred, his two boys, the elderly housekeeper, the undertaker and assistant.

B
a9 b6 c5 d7 e8 f1 g2 h4 i3

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: Worksheet 3
A
1 were forbidden 2 I took this to be a literal statement of fact 3 shortly before daybreak 4 he was not aware that 5 the household at that time consisted of 6 he was in a cheerful mood 7 a man he had engaged 8 he had been stricken with heart failure

B
1 boys under sixteen (paragraph 1) 2 a man in his late sixties (paragraph 3)
3 boys aged six and nine (paragraph 3)

C
1 a woman in her early thirties 2 girls over 16 3 men aged 40 4 a man in his mid-fifties
5 a woman under 20 6 a man in his late eighties

Key Grammar Bank 2A past: narrative tenses, used to and would

2.had been living/had lived 3.looked 4.used to frown/would frown/frowned 5.used to wash/would wash/washed 6.was playing 7.remembered 8.had told 9.jumped 10.was passing/passed 11.had made 12.was awaiting/awaited 13.heard 14.always got off/would always get off/always used to get off

Key Grammar Bank 1C: Pronouns

a) 2.It's 3.themselves 4.it's 5.you 6.you 7.there's 8.their 9.themselves 10.one another
11.they 12.there's

b) 2.there 3.they 4.one 5.It 6.you 7.they 8.yourself 9.they 10.you 11.there 12.it

Multitasking

Professor Daniel Willingham looks at multi-tasking and concludes that even though kids today may like to multi-task, there's no reason to think that they are different than previous generations; they don't *need* to multi-task to be engaged and, like everyone else, kids today can't do two things at once as well as they can do one.

Multitasking: The Brain Cannot Multi-task

Here's what happens when you attempt to multi-task. Learn more in John Medina's new book, "Brain Rules." http://www.brainrules.net/

Post your comment. Do you agree with Tim Jenkins?

Michael Jackson's Thriller

Have a go!!! Watch the video again and complete the lyrics, filling in the gaps and ordering the paragraphs. Then check it and see how it went for you. Enjoy!

Thriller – Michael Jackson

It's close to midnight
something evil's lurkin' from the dark
under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As terror looks you right between your eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
And no one's gonna save you
From the beast about to strike
You know it's killer
Thriller night
You're fighting for your life
Inside a killer
Thriller tonight, yeah

You hear the door slam
And realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand
And wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes
And hope that this is just imagination
Girl, but all the while
You hear a creature creepin' up behind
You're outta time

'Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
There ain't no second chance
to count the thing with the forty eyes, girl
(Thriller)
(Thriller night)
You're fighting for your life
Inside a killer
Thriller tonight

Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life

They're out to get you
There's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you
Unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time
For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night
I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

That this is thriller
Thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul would ever dare try
(Thriller)
(Thriller night)
So let me hold you tight
And share a
killer, diller, chiller
Thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul would ever dare try
(Thriller)
(Thriller night)
So let me hold you tight
And share a
(killer, thriller)

I'm gonna thrill you tonight

[Rap]
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'all's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell

I'm gonna thrill you tonight
(Thriller, thriller)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
(Thriller night, thriller)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Ooh, babe, I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Thriller night, babe

[Rap]
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
for no mere mortal can resist
the evil of the thriller