Lesson MMS-5

Welcome! Please consider how your attitude affects your and other students' experiences of the lesson. 

Be respectful, come prepared, and show interest to have the best possible educational experience. 

Time for the activity: ~20-30 minutes

These exercies will improve your vocabulary, formality and grammar skills

Inversions repetition

You may work by yourself or together with classmates

1. On your whiteboard, write four sentences using adverbs to create inversions, one per type of inversion:

• a unique situation ➜ never, rarely, and seldom

• a short amount of time or almost not ➜ hardly, barely, no sooner, scarcely

• understanding a situation ➜ only when, only then or only as soon as

• not understanding a situation ➜ little

For example: I rarely watch tv ➜ Rarely do I watch tv (note: we had to add the helping verb “do”)

• Move a negative or limiting adverb (rarely) to the beginning of the sentence

• Add an auxiliary (helping) verb (do)

• If necessary, change the tense of the verb 

• Add a subject (I)

Time for the activity: ~20 minutes

This exercise develops your speaking and discussion skills

Discuss with your classmates:

• How often do you use your smart phone?

• Do you agree or disagree with the speaker? Do smart phones pose a danger to us?

• How would you feel if everyone around your spoke using their speakers?

Create a short speech as a group, where you warn your listeners and motivate them to action:

1. Decide on your own version of 'The Dangers of ...' What do you want to specifically address? Screen time? Sleep deprivation? Hate speech?

2. Follow MMS by writing at least 1 sentence per step: attention, need, satisfcation, visualisation and action

3. Next, include an inversion and new vocabulary in your script

4. Share your group practice speech with another group 

If you wish, use generative AI by copying the following prompt:

• Create a script for a motivational speech. The speech topic is 'The Dangers of [here, you enter your specific topic!]'.  Structure the speech according to the five steps from Monroe's motivational sequence: attention, need, satisfaction, visualisation and action. Limit the script to one sentence per step. Include at inversions to improve formality.

• Improve upon the text that the AI generated and make it your own.