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Lesson 76
Unhurried Pace of Life in Cuba
Content:
Part 1 Warm Up 3’
Part 2 Text 7’ Part 4 Discussion 8’
Part 3 Retell 3’ Part 5 After-Class Review
©2017 Acadsoc Limited Tutor: Please keep your greeting in 2 mins. And you can go through Part 5 if time allows.
Part 1 - Warm Up 3 mins
Tutor: Please encourage the student to answer the questions and keep this part in 3 mins.
In her novel Everyone Leaves, Guerra's heroine ends up frozen on Havana's famous
seaside boulevard, the Malecon, "stuck in the immobility of Cuba".
Tutor: Please read or let the student read the text, and explain the underlined expressions in blue.
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3 mins
Part 3 - Retell
Hints:
stop … changes … rhythm … languid
Old Havana … colonial building … putter … sidewalk
timelessness … aura
slow … legacy … produce … poet
novel … frozen … immobility
2. putter
In Old Havana, locals still watch life go by
2. Have you ever walked aimlessly in the streets? How does it feel?
from the balconies of their dilapidated
colonial buildings, as classic American cars
putter down cobblestone streets …
3. If a place attracts you, what kind of feeling should it bring you? 3. aura
Tourists love the island's timelessness,
which gives it the aura of a living postcard
Tutor: Please let the student talk freely, each question about 2 mins. Using the expressions from immune to change.
today is encouraged.
After-Class
Review
Review the expressions you’ve learned today and try to use them to make some sentences.