In this introductory session you're required to carry out two production tasks.
1. Written expression. Write a story in pairs using as many as the following words as possible:
-Actually
-Career
-Despite
-Regardless of
-Had she/he only known
Swap your texts with another pair after 10 minutes and go on writing them until all of you have contributed to all the stories. Use your imagination and be creative!
2. Oral expression. Rank the following concepts according to your personal priorities in life:
-Family
-Friends
-Health
-Money
-Politics
-Romance
-Sex
-Sport
-Studies
-Work
Make a list individually and then compare it to other students' choices to reach a consensus and create a single list. Once you've finished, join another pair to follow the same process and come up with a single list you all agree with. Provide arguments for this pyramidal discussion until all the class produces a common ranking.
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Two days ago, a German girl called Zineb finished her tourism degree and decided to travel around the world. Despite her ambition to visit new places, she had only been to Austria for a week. The 22 year old girl decided to go to Russia as a first stop.
Actually, her favorite destiny was not Russia but she finally decided to travel and discover new world. Once she landed there she get lost trying to find the way to get to her new home.
Regardless of not knowing russian she did not have any difficulty when communicationg with local people. She learned russian so easily she even decided to start a random chemistry career. Had she only known that she would meet the love of her life, a Russian guy named Vladimir. He was the most intelligent guy she had even met in her whole life, but there was one thing that concerned Zineb, Vladimir was blind.
Everyone criticised their relationship, but despite the comment Zineb didn't give up on him and 15 years later they got married and had a beautiful baby.
But until the age of 7 of the child they realized that he was losing sight progressively.
Thanks to the random chemistry career her mother had cursed, she was able to create a serum to stop her blindness. One day, a few years later, she ate a corndog, right before the food poisoning epidemy that started the purge. But it did not affect her, she was immune thanks to the serum, she had the cure to the epidemy and the world was going to be safe.
One month ago I was laying on the sofa when my husband arrived home. He started getting mad and shouting all the time non-stop. After few minutes of discussion I get so nervous that I stand up and slapped him hard.
Evetything went downhill since that day. Despite having our two years old baby at home he came back home drunk. I was so fed up with him that I came up with a perfect plan to leave the country and run away with my little baby Leo.
Regardless of all the difficulties that it could bring, I was ready to escape. Had I only known that right at the moment I was about to cross my entrance door to leave everything behind, something would change in my mind and I would commit a crime.
I discovered he spent all the money I was saving in drugs and alcohol. When I heard that, I went crazy and while he was sleeping I poissoned him because I didn't want my son being like him. I was about to leave home again and a message in his phone popped out. It was from a corndog dealer. What was that about?
It all come clear when I turned to my TV and I saw the news. People were actually killing each other for corndogs. I realized I had no escape from the corndog purge.
I decided I was going to save the world from the corndog purge. But little did I know that baby Leo had the lost corndog in his mouth. Suddenly, I saw people with torches coming to my house. I went to get baby Leo in his room but it was too late because people were getting inside my house.
Out of the sudden I couldn't feel anything. The purge had won.
Once upon a time, there was a little elf who wanted to take up windsurf, but the problem was that he couldn't leave his home because his parents wanted him to make a career of biology.
However, he was totally determined to leave everything behind and start a new life without having to live up to his parents expectations. He was very fuel of himself so he didn't think about it twice and left his house one sunday morning.
He had only known what he was going to experience he would have thought twice leaving home. The elf was almost arriving to Florida and he realised the car was out of fuel. The gas station was so far away and there was anyone there. Besides, regardless of having enough food, he started feeling dizzy.
He thought eating something would make him feel better. He looked at the food he had and thought that a corndog was a good option, but it wasn't. Despite curing his dizzyness, he found out by listening the car radio that a food poisoning epidemy by corndogs was taking over the world.
In order to save himself from he corndog poisoning epidemy he decided to move back home. Actually, he decided to call his mom and tell her what was happening. She answered with a corndog in her mouth.
When the elf realised that his mum had a corndog in her mouth he started shouting and telling her what was happening. Suddenly, her mum bit the corndog and what happened was incredible.
Popcorn flew from her mouth. It was like watching how a corndog was giving birth to the Niagara Falls, that was the weirdest thing he had ever experienced
Once upon a time, a finnish girl called Dana had been studying her career for three years in Barcelona. Everything was going smoothly, her parents supported her decisions and her grades were beyond excellent. But had she only known that all those things would vanish in no time.
It all happened one friday morning, it was the end of the school week and she was ready tot make her last class of the day when suddenly, her best friend came running towards her in tears and sobbing. Dana tried to calm her down and figure out what was the matter but regardless of her effort, her friend just couldn't stop bursting in tears overtime.
When she started to calm down she told Dana that she found her parents murdered in the garage. Despite she tried to cheer her up it was impossible because she was hiding something else.
Actually, the murderer was looking for the corndog that Dana's friend was hiding. People was going crazy for corndogs.
Little did her friend know, that she was talking to the murderer herself. The only reason she killed her parents was to get the last corndog available in town. People were so desperate to get them that they started killing each other.
Suddenly, a huge truck came into the city with a million of corndogs inside ending that stunning corndog war.
Had she only known corndogs tasted so good, she would’ve tried them before. Actually, they had become her favourite food. Soon enough, she got obsessed, eating them every day and night until she realised she truly got addicted.
Regardless of her bad, unhealthy diet, she couldn’t get enough of it. Soon she started to feel sick, but that didn’t stop her, until one day something extreme happened.
Despite she didn’t expect to get alive, her passion with corndogs drove her to take part of a secret club called “corndogs lovers”, which were collecting money to become corndogs a really big kingdom in the world.
Once this big initiative became internationally recognised, a national politic campaign from “Corndogland” arised a confrontation between corndog lovers and hotdog lovers. All the military services organised to start the war.
She was the strongest warrior because she believed she didn’t need anything else in life than corndogs, not even a career or job because as long as organisations at "Corndogland" provided her corndogs, she would be happy.
This happiness finished when the “Corndogland” appeared in the news because of a terrorist attack. Then she realised she couldn’t eat more corndogs in her life so she suffered a depression and committed a suicide.
This summer was one of the bests of my life. I moved to this town called Tiana where I met Josh, my neighbour and crush, but at first he didn't notice, actually he barely knew I existed.
One day as I was walking down the street with a corndog in my hand, i bumped into Josh. Bewildered, he asked me "where did you get that from?". His voice sounded like Goollum. Regardless of that fact, I told him what he wanted.
If he had only knwown that I would become his worst nightmare... We started talking non-stop about senseless topics, until something shocking come out of my mouth. I let him know unwillingly that I was a double agent,
I started my career as a double agent inside a secret society who were corndogs lover too. He didn't expect what I was saying all the time, but finally, he said something deeper.
Despite looking like a human beeing he was made of corn and I could use him for laboratory purposes without him knowing about, I was all the time studying him.
After two months studying his corn cellule composition, I began to fall in love with him again, but this time was different from the first time. Now he knew I existed and he was in love with me.
It was a cold and windy night, when I recieved a text message. I was on my way back home alone and I started reading it. "Someone's gonna call you. J"
Actually the phone started ringing and I picked it up, regardless of the fact that I didn't know the number, or even who it was.
"Hello?" I said.
Nothing.
"Hello?!" I tried again.
No one responded.
Weird.
I hung up and continued my way home.
As I turned left, I saw a dark silhouette at the end of the street.
Despite of my instinct to turn around, I continued walking. The person in dark just stood there. The closer I got, the more I could hear him saying frenetically "Had she only known I loved her...".
I started feeling uncomfortable and I thought that the message was for me, that's why I began mopping around the streets thinking about what to do.
"Should I call my parents?"- that's what was she thinking-
After all, I decided calling a friend of mine from the career.
That's the best thing I could do, because she helped me to calm me down, and fortunately nothing happened to me.
One upon a time, in CETT university something horrible happenend. It was exactly the 28th of September, when a teacher of the tourism career found that one of the students had been killed in the secretary department.
She first thought the student was asleep. Then she saw a bitten Pizza next to him and because she was hungry she ate the rest. Despite the boy didn't wake up, she went home complaining about the pizza because it contained pineapple. So the body stayed the whole night there.
As I entered my car to drive home a wave of guilt hir me. I tried to reason with this inner voice that tried to convince me to call the police or an ambulance.
Despite my sense of guilt, I drove home. My career was my number one priority and I swrely wouldn't jecpardize it for some foolish boy.
After a few minutes of driving, I started feeling really sick to my stomach. My hands started trembling, as I started to see black points. My breath was getting faster and I had no control anymore over my body. The last thing I saw, as I lost control over the steering wheel, crashing dawn a bridge, was the dead boy at the school.
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