grammar and three minute speeches

Later this morning students will give "3-minute speeches" on the topic of your choice.

Remember that you should not read your speech. You can look at notes.

Until 10:00 you have time to work on your speech (research by google or wikipedia)

Also, you can review grammar. The test is later today.



These are links for research:


www.google.com


www.wikipedia.com




These are grammar practice links:



http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/simple_present1/index.php


http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/phrasal_verbs_sentences.htm

Patrick, Donald and unnamed passenger

Look here:

http://flesl.net/



1. Donald's age:

2. number of years Patrick was sentenced to prison:

3. Patrick's crime:

4. age of unnnamed passenger:

5. (unnamed passenger) airplane from where

6.(unnamed passenger) Nairobi is capital of which country:

7. Donald's health problem:

8. name of Patrick's company:

9. Word the pilot shouted to the unnamed passenger:

10. first two sentences Donald yelled:

11. People Patrick stole from:

12. Who the unnamed man was wrestling with:

13. What the passenger and pilot put on Donald: 

14. Country Patrick was from:

15. (unnamed passenger) 2 things that happened first as the plane dived and shook violently:

16. (Donald): City where the plane landed

17. Donald's job.

18. Why and where Donald was traveling:

19. How and where and when did Patrick die:

20. The name of Patricks's company:

21. What part of the plane did the unnamed passenger enter:

22. (unnamed passenger: What would have happened if the plane had turned over on its back:

23. When Donald appeared in court and what he pleaded:

24. Family name of the person who Patrick stole $500,000 dollars from:

25. The name of the board that allowed Patrick out of jail after only a few months:

26. How the police officer felt about Patrick getting out of jail after only a few months:

27: unnamed passenger: two things the crew members and passengers finally managed to do:

28. Two things Donald did the night before his vacation:

29: (Patrick): how he and several other prisoners were suspected of trying to defraud the Canadian government (by....ing and ..ing)

30. Does the story tell why the unnamed passenger tried to stop the plane? (yes or no)

ANSWERS (find the order)

A: rich and poor
B: the United States
C: fifty-three
D: fraud
E: the pilot
F: Kenya
G: We are all going to die. The plane is going to crash.
H: Detroit
I: five
J: Kinlin Financial Services
K: drama professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada
L: “Help!”
M: London
N: Things began flying through the air and people hit their heads
O: handcuffs
P: He was an alcoholic
R: 27
S: heart attack, March 2001, in the prison hospital
T: parole
U: to Hawaii to celebrate
V: the cockpit
W: Kinlin Financial Services (same answer before!)
X: Baldwin
Y: there would have been no way of stopping it from crashing
Z: angry
aa: two weeks later; guilty
bb: by getting false identification on the Internet and using it to apply for old-age pension checks
cc: get the man under control and to restart the plane’s engines
dd: drank a dozen bottles of beer and smoked some marijuana
ee: No