In today's workshop, we have read an article from "Breaking News English" (breakingnewsenglish.com) called "The most unfortunate names in Britain." To read the article online, click on the cartoon below. If you wish, you may also listen to the article, and you have plenty of exercises for reading and listening comprehenshion, together with the key at the end!
The text deals with SILLY NAMES in Britain and in the U.S. Click on the baby photo to check the thebabywebsite.com site for some examples of "unfortunate" names in English.
In this particular worshop we also created a WORD BANK with those words from the text the students didn't know. We made a list of "unknown" words from the text, and, with the help of a dictionary, we looked for their pronunciation and their meaning in the text. In this way, we can expand our vocabulary when reading any text of any length. So it is a good practice, don't you think?
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