Celebrity Valentine’s Day

Saint Valentine's Day or the more common name Valentine’s Day! Feb. 14 - Every year!  A day that makes people do crazy things to show that they love someone.  It's good that it only comes around once a year!

Well let’s take a look at some celebrity styles from the past!

Justin Bieber to Selena Gomez

 Valentine’s Day Gift:

Bought out an entire florist shop of roses, tulips and daisies for Selena - $2000

  Angelina Jolie to Brad Pitt

 Valentine’s Day Gift:

200-year-old olive tree - $19,000

 

Jay Z to Beyonce

 Valentine’s Day Gift:

Platinum covered mobile phone - $24,000

 George Clooney to Sarah Larson

 Valentine’s Day Gift:

Expensive Hotel, show and dinner - $40,000

Katy Perry to Russell Brand

 Valentine’s Day Gift:

Bentley automobile - $341,000

David Beckham to Victoria Beckham 

 Valentine’s Day Gift:

Bvlgari necklace and dinner made by her favorite chefs - $8 million

What is the best Valentine's Day Gift you ever got?

Language Learning Section

For this week, everyone will be talking about Valentine’s Day. So here are some fun casual questions you can try out with your friends while practicing superlatives. 

(1)Vocabulary for Valentine’s Day Speaking Practice

The Most Common Valentine’s Day Gifts

    Chocolates

    Candy

    Flowers

    Jewelry

    Perfume

    Alcohol

    Greeting Cards/e-cards

    Stuffed animals

    Clothing

    A date 

    A kiss

Vocabulary for Casual Superlative Questions

ever = until now

got = received

(2)Speaking Practice for Valentine’s Day Speaking Practice: Question and Answer Style.

Ask your friend the questions and listen to their answers.  Then switch roles.

(A)What was the most romantic Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The most romantic Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was red roses.

(A)What was the most expensive Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The most expensive Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was _____________.

(A)What was the cheapest Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The cheapest Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was _____________.

(A)What was the most original Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The most original Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was _____________.

(A)What was the strangest Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The strangest Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was _____________.

(A)What was the best Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The best Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was _____________.

(A)What was the worst Valentine’s Day gift you ever got?

(B)The worst Valentine’s Day gift I ever got was _____________.

Well I hope you enjoy or enjoyed Valentine’s Day!

See you next week!

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What do Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Matt Damon have in common?

Brad Pitt

Nicole Kidman

Matt Damon

What do Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Matt Damon have in common?

(a)Extremely successful movie stars.

(b)On the Hollywood the A-list.

(c)All have learned language accents to do famous movies.

(d)Tim Monich.

Answer – All of the Above

(a) and (b)

Of course both are obviously correct.

(c)

Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Matt Damon have all been quite successful at portraying characters using accents that they did not grow up with.  Here are some famous examples:

Brad Pitt – Southern Accent - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Nicole Kidman – American Accent - Hemingway & Gellhorn

Matt Damon - South African Accent – Invictus

(d)

Tim Monich

At one point or another, Mr. Tim Monich has coached Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Matt Damon on creating believable accents for character portrayals in movies.

So, what can we learn from this linguistic master?

Tim Monich’s Style

Monich’s archive, assembled over thirty years, is almost surely the largest private one of its kind, with approximately six thousand entries. He also collects accents from TV. Monich begins by talking with the director about how a character should sound, then he talks to the actor about the character and decides which voices from his archive might provide a model. He usually gives an actor four or five choices, and the actor selects one, from which Monich makes tapes distilling the vowel and consonant sounds that typify the dialect. Monich and the actor then “play a word, listen to it and say it,” he said—do language lab. Monich invents rhymes and sentences using words from the script—what he calls random acting. He also writes an actor’s lines in a faux-phonetic style he made up by combining elements of actual phonetics with approximations of sounds.

By the time the actor stands in front of the camera, Monich has done the bulk of his teaching work. Eventually, the accent recedes as a concern.

~The New Yorker~

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