Objectives

1. Revise past simple & past continuous use

2. Review types of text and their purpose

3. Understand who the audience of a text is

4. Learn more about the tone of a text

Today’s words:

a black hole in space:

a Parker pen:

a handkerchief to blow your nose:

a punctured football:

The documentary takes a lighthearted look at theworld of filmmaking.

regret noun [ C or U ]

B2 a feeling of sadness about somethingsad or wrong or about a mistake that you have made, and a wish that it could have been different and better:

I left school at 16, but I’ve had a great life and Ihave no regrets.

The manager expressed deep regret at/for thenumber of staff reductions.

We think, much to our regret (= and we are verysorry about this), that we will not be able to visityou next year.

send (sb) your regrets

 

to send a polite message that you cannot go to a party, etc.:

We did have an invitation, but we had tosend Graham our regrets.

a jigsaw:

a saw: