This document provides an overview of Week 10 activities for an English language course. It includes: - Listening to music and practicing pronunciation - Working with adverbs and advertising techniques through group activities - Practicing pronunciation of word pairs through minimal pairs exercises - Analyzing and using adverbs in short stories through fill-in-the-blank and underlining exercises - Matching confusing adverbs and sentences to clarify differences - Identifying stressed syllables and words in sentences for pronunciation practice

1. AEF4 Week 10
UNIT 2C

2. Week 10
What are we
doing?
 Listen to some music
 Go crazy with adverbs
 Practice some pronunciation
 Do group work on the advertising
techniques we have studied so far.

3. Music Time
Jaron David
Lowenstein is an
American singer
who formerly
recorded with his
identical twin
brother, Evan, in
the musical duo
Evan and Jaron.
This song reached
the Top 15 on the
Billboard Hot
Country Songs
charts.
Jaron and the Long Road to Love

4. A B
ship
aboard
bet
cat
look
yarn
bull
loose
Minimal Pairs
sheep
abroad
bat
cut
loop
yawn
bowl
lose

5. Unit 2C - Incredibly Short Stories
Page 28 - Mini Sagas are 50-word stories.
A) Match the stories with these titles (one is not used):
Generation Gap The Last Laugh Good intentions
In the Cards Meeting the Boss
B) Take turns and explain the stories to your partner(s).

6. Part C: Look at the highlighted
adverbs/adverbial phrases in the
stories and list them in the following:
Time:
Manner:
Frequency:
Degree:
Comment:
Adverbs and
adverbial
phrases

7. Part C: Look at the highlighted
adverbs/adverbial phrases in the
stories and list them in the following:
Time: immediately, early, last year,
five minutes later
Manner: angrily
Frequency: always
Degree: unbelievably, increasingly, so
Comment: unfortunately
Adverbs and
adverbial
phrases

8. Tip: For non -ly
adverbs such as even,
ever, just, etc., are
often put in the
mid-position
(before the main verb).
For example:
“Don’t even think
about dating such an
ugly guy!”
Part d) Use your instinct and put
the adverbs into the sentences.
Page 134, part C)
a) Underline the adverb(s) /
adverbial phrase(s) and correct
any wrong sentences.
b) Put the adverbs in parentheses
in the common position for each
sentence.

9. 2C Answers
1. She likes theater very much. / She really likes
theater.
2. late , yesterday
3. The ambulance arrived immediately.
4. They usually go jogging after work.
5. extremley, last night
6.They won the game easily because they played so
well.
7. I almost forgot your birthday.
8.Luckily we had taken an umbrella.
9. always , healthily
10.Apparently he’s been fired from his job.

10. 2C Answers
1. The building was badly damaged in the fire last
week.
2.Obviously we need to do something quickly.
3. Ben is often at his friend’s house in the evening.
4. She just walked and didn’t even say good-bye.
5. He always drives extremely fast.
6.She danced beautifully at the ballet last night.
7. Luckily she wasn’t seriously injured when she fell.
8.Apparently he nearly broke his leg when he was
skiing.
9. My father usually sleeps a little in the afternoon.

11. Page 29
Listen to some
sound effects or
short dialogues.
Then use the
adverb in bold to
complete each
sentence.
1. When he got to the bus stop, the bus
had just left.
2. They were having a party when…
3. He though he had lost his boarding
pass, but…
4. The woman thought Andrea and Tom
were friends, but, in fact, …
5. The driver couldn’t see where he was
going because…
6. The Chinese man couldn’t understand
the other man because…

12. Page 29
Listen to some
sound effects or
short dialogues.
Then use the
adverb in bold to
complete each
sentence.
1. When he got to the bus stop, the bus
had just left.
2. …suddenly, the lights went out / there
was suddenly a power outage / the
lights suddenly went out / etc.
3. …luckily, he found it in his pocket.
4. …they hardly know / knew each other.
5. …it was raining (so) hard, etc.
6. …he talked / was talking incredibly
fast/quickly.

13. Vocabulary
Match each pair of adverbs with a
pair of sentences.
Confusing
adverbs and
adverbial phrases
right now / actually ___
especially / specially ___
ever / even ___
hard / hardly ___
in the end / at the end ___
late / lately ___
near / nearly ___
still / yet ___

14. Vocabulary
Match each pair of adverbs with a
pair of sentences.
Confusing
adverbs and
adverbial phrases
right now / actually _5_
especially / specially _4_
ever / even _8_
hard / hardly _1_
in the end / at the end _3_
late / lately _2_
near / nearly _6_
still / yet _7_
Now work together and decide which
adverb goes with each sentence.

15. Vocabulary Help!
Confusing
adverbs and
adverbial phrases
hard = not easy; hardly = almost nothing
late = not early; lately = recently
at the end is usually used with events;
in the end is used to mean negotiation or
discussions
specially goes with verbs (specially
designed, specially made); especially = in
particular
actually means the same as in fact, or to tell
the truth.
*Sentences like I haven’t found a job yet and
I still haven’t found a job mean more or less
the same, but the use of still is often used in
spoken English to show a stronger feeling.

16. Vocabulary
Now work together and decide which
adverb goes with each sentence.
Confusing
adverbs and
adverbial phrases
1 hardly, hard
2 late, lately
3 At the end, In the end
4 especially, specially
5 actually, right now
6 nearly, near
7 yet, still
8 never, even

17. Pronunciation
Page 29, part 3
a) Underline the stressed syllables
c) Underline the stressed words in each
sentence.
d) Practice each sentence with a partner

18. Homework:

19. Still got some time?
 I eat eel while you feel ill.
 The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.