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Here's me with some of my adult learners just a couple of months ago
I'm going to tell about Mr W. I'm going to explain the Mr W story, OK?
The first thing that you have to know is what he looks like and he wears a typical hat a
very typical English hat Sombrero?
That's a typical Spanish hat a Mexican hat
This is a typical English hat A bombĂn?
Yes What colour is it?
Black Exactly we call that a bowler hat
I don't know why a bowler hat
but it doesn't matter a typical English hat
Everybody He looks quite
He looks a bit which adjective?
He looks funny
Funny ha ha or funny strange? Funny strange
He wears a black t-shirt which is quite
tight Tight in Spanish is
estrecho a tight black t-shirt
and also black trousers and his shoes are also black and they are
shiny In Spanish that's brillante?
Shiny black shoes Tight black t-shirt
Shiny black shoes A funny face
A typical English hat Now do you remember what Mr W loves to do?
He loves to to get on people's nerves
and I'm going to give you an example, OK? Are you ready?
So here's the example Mr W is in the street
What do you think he sees around him? Over there there's a stall
What's that in Spanish? Un puesto
What are they selling at this stall do you think?
cigarettes chewing gum
fruit and vegetables and there's a woman and she is
not sitting but standing at the stall
She is deciding what to buy maybe oranges
maybe apples maybe tomatoes
maybe Did you say yoghurt?
fruit yoghurt Mr W over here sees the woman and he thinks
Ah! A fantastic opportunity to get on somebody's nerves
He goes up to the woman and do you remember a little while ago I gave everybody a little
scrap piece of paper? I didn't but just pretend I did
Now I want you to write down what you think Mr W does to get on this woman's nerves
And everyone writes their ideas I think that Mr W does that
and that we go onto the next situations where Mr W is an a child's playground
it's nothing bad He's sitting on the end of a slide
and there's a little girl playing in the What's on the ground?
Sand What's she doing? She's making castles
Mr W thinks a fantastic opportunity to get on someone's nerves
What does he do? In pairs think write it down Next situation Mr W is standing on a balcony
I'm going faster than I normally would by the way
Mr W is standing on a balcony What's he holding in his hands?
a flower pot? Why do you say that?
I was thinking of Michael Jackson Exactly it's a flower pot not a baby
He's holding a flower pot in his hands and down below him there are two
What's that word? It's like 'old' but it's more polite than 'old'?
'Elderly' Two elderly ladies
Mr W with the flower pot remember he likes to get on people's nerves
the perfect opportunity He doesn't like to kill people
What does he do? Again in pairs
So we're going through the narrative of the video
Would you like to meet Mr W? I know some of you know him already