Here are some suggestions to exploit the story 'Invitation to Murder'http://sanchezbenedito.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/historias-y-humor-invitation-to-murder.html in the classroom for the students' benefit:
Role-play
Inspector Caulder and Sergeant Turner discuss the case.
Motives
State the motives each of the following characters in the story may have had to murder Lord Thumbleton:
Barton -
Borderlow -
Helen -
Miss Prescott -
Salford -
Synonyms
Find synonyms or near-synonyms for the following words and expressions:
a.- to do sb in -
b.- astonished -
c.- bewildered
d.- cunning
e.- to impersonate
f.- to take one’s own life
Antonyms
Find antonyms for the following words:
a.-comfortable
b.- to fail
c.- guilty
d.- harmless
e.- irrelevant
f.- needy
Partitives
Unless
Idioms
Complete the following sentences:
1.- If you want to adopt a child, you have to fill in a lot of forms. There’s a lot of .......tape
KEY
Role-play : students' own answers, taking the story as a basis
Motives: students' own answers, taking the story as a basis
Synonyms:
a.- to kill, to murder
b.- surprised, amazed, astounded
c.- baffled, puzzled, perplexed
d.- clever, astute, crafty
e.- to pass oneself off as
f.- to commit suicide, to kill oneself
Antonyms
a.- uncomfortable
b.- to succeed
c.- not guilty, innocent
d.- harmful
e.- relevant
f.- rich, wealthy, well-off
Partitives
1.- a bar/square/piece of chocolate – una barrita/tableta/onza/pedazo de chocolate
2.- a bar/cake of soap – una pastilla de jabón
3.-a pìece/an item of furniture – un mueble
4.- a cube/lump of sugar - un terrón de azúcar
b.- astonished -
c.- bewildered
d.- cunning
e.- to impersonate
f.- to take one’s own life
Antonyms
Find antonyms for the following words:
a.-comfortable
b.- to fail
c.- guilty
d.- harmless
e.- irrelevant
f.- needy
Partitives
Fill in the blanks with an adequate partitive,
then translate into Spanish:
1.- a .... of chocolate
2.- a .... of soap
3.- a .... of furniture
4.- a .....of sugar
5.- a .... of wind
6.- a .... of fog/mist
7.- a .... of laughter
8.- a .... of toast
9.- a .... of salt
10.- a ....of good/bad weather
Re-write the following sentences
using unless without changing the meaning:
a.- Don’t format the hard disk
without backing it up first
b.- You will be taken to court if you don’t
pay up
c.- The lid will leak if you don’t do it up
tightly
d.- If I can borrow my brother’s motorbike,
I’ll be able to get there by 9 o’clock
e.- Without a change in their attitude,
they’ll never be champions
f.- There will be no Christmas
bonus this year if you don’t make greater efforts to sell more
Ways of killing
Fill
in the blanks with the appropriate verb from the lexical field of killing:
a.-
Martin Luther King was ............ in Memphis
b.-
The jury found him guilty of ........... not murder
c.-
More than 300 people were killed in the battle; it was a real ...........
d.-
The prisoner will be .......... next Monday
e.-
The horse was suffering badly from its wounds, so its owner had to ...... it
......
f.-
The gunman opened fire with a machine gun and ......... at least ten people
g.-
The two gangsters were ........ at the pizza parlor
h.-
The lambs will be taken to the village abattoir to be ...........
Complete the following sentences:
1.- If you want to adopt a child, you have to fill in a lot of forms. There’s a lot of .......tape
a.-
black; b.- red; c.- brown
2.-
I wouldn’t do that for all the tea in ...........
a.-
China ; b.- India ; c.- Russia
3.- “How do you know that George’s going to be promoted?” “I got it
straight from the........mouth”
a.-
bull’s; b.- dog’s; c.- horse’s
4.-
The boss ....... him on the carpet for being late to work
a.-
had; b.- set; c.- laid
5.- You could have knocked me down with a .......... when I heard they
were divorcing
a.- hammer; b.- feather; c.-
pin
6.- It’s a high salary for an easy job. It’s money for .........
a.- biscuit; b.- butter; c.-
jam
7.- Now they want me to work overtime without any money compensation.
That’s the last ..........
a.- drop; b.- grain; c.- straw
8.- I’m not saying that thieves should be ill-treated, but I don’t think
they should be handled with ......gloves either
a.- leather; b.- kid; c.- silk
9.- They hadn’t been on speaking terms for years, but then one day they
decided to bury the ........... and be friends
a.- hatchet; b.- gun; c.-
knife
10.- The pension she gets from the government is scarcely enough to keep
the ....... from the door
a.- wolf; b.- dogs; c.- rats
Phonetics: Silent 'b'
The 'b' is not pronounced in the words debt and debtor, appearing in the story. What other words do you know with a silent 'b'?
Phonetics: Silent 'b'
The 'b' is not pronounced in the words debt and debtor, appearing in the story. What other words do you know with a silent 'b'?
KEY
Role-play : students' own answers, taking the story as a basis
Motives: students' own answers, taking the story as a basis
Synonyms:
a.- to kill, to murder
b.- surprised, amazed, astounded
c.- baffled, puzzled, perplexed
d.- clever, astute, crafty
e.- to pass oneself off as
f.- to commit suicide, to kill oneself
Antonyms
a.- uncomfortable
b.- to succeed
c.- not guilty, innocent
d.- harmful
e.- relevant
f.- rich, wealthy, well-off
Partitives
1.- a bar/square/piece of chocolate – una barrita/tableta/onza/pedazo de chocolate
2.- a bar/cake of soap – una pastilla de jabón
3.-a pìece/an item of furniture – un mueble
4.- a cube/lump of sugar - un terrón de azúcar
5.- a gust/puff of wind – una ráfaga/una racha de viento
6.- a patch of fog/mist – un banco de niebla/neblina
7.- a peal/roar of laughter – una carcajada
8.- a piece of toast – una tostada
9.- a grain/pinch of salt – un grano/una pizca de sal
10.- a spell of good/bad weather – una racha de buen/mal tiempo
6.- a patch of fog/mist – un banco de niebla/neblina
7.- a peal/roar of laughter – una carcajada
8.- a piece of toast – una tostada
9.- a grain/pinch of salt – un grano/una pizca de sal
10.- a spell of good/bad weather – una racha de buen/mal tiempo
Unless
Suggested answers:
a.-
Don’t format the hard disk unless you have backed it up first
b.- Unless you
pay up, you’ll be taken to court
c.- Unless
you do up the lid tightly, it will leak
d.- Unless I can borrow my brother’s
motorbike, I won’t be able to get there by 9 o’clock
e.- Unless they change
their attitude, they’ll never be champions
f.- Unless you make greater efforts
to sell more, there will be no Christmas bonus this year.
Ways of killing a.- assassinated; b.- manslaughter; c.- massacre; d.- executed; e.- finish off; f.- mowed down; g.- bumped off/knocked off/ done in; h.- slaughtered/butchered
Idioms
1-b; 2-a; 3-c; 4-a; 5-b; 6-c; 7-c; 8-b; 9-a; 10-a
Phonetics: Silent 'b'
- The 'b' is silent in words ending in mb and derived: bomb (bomba), bomber (bombardero), to climb (escalar), climber (escalador), comb (peine), crumb (migaja), dumb (mudo), lamb (cordero), limb (miembro, extremidad), plumb (plomada), plumber (fontanero), thumb pulgar), tomb (tumba), etc.
- the 'b' is also silent before 't' in words like: debt (deuda), debtor (deudor), doubt (duda), doubtful (dudoso), doubtless (indudable), undoubtedly (indudablemente), subtle (sutil), subtlety (sutileza), etc.
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