Level 10 – Interesting Lives

Do you know anybody with an interesting life? Why is there life interesting?

• What is happening in these pictures?• What do you think these people do every day?

• Who do you think has the most interesting life?

• Would you like a life like this?

Lesson A – Look at the text!

• This is “Melida Cortez”. She is an English student like you! She lives in Mexico City.

• (Have .any of you ever been to Mexico City?)• She is being interviewed by her university.

Who is being interviewed?

• What is she being interviewed about?• How do you think the English Department

chooses its best students?

In pairs - Look at the paragraph underneath the picture? Why do you think the university chose Melida?

• Let’s read the text. Do you have anything in common with Melida?

Interview each other with these questions! Do you think you have an interesting life?

How long have you been learning English?

• Have you ever had your name in a newspaper or newsletter?

• Which is the on-going action/which is completed?

Katie has been learning to bake for two years

• What form is the verb after “been”?

• Has Katie stopped learning to bake?

• Does this refer to past/present or future events?

Rosie has written a book about Kenya..

• What tense is this?• It this a past/present or future statement?

Write your own “on-going” and “completed actions”

What is temporary? What is permanent?

• Let’s look at Melida’s interview?

• Group 1 – Find the “completed actions”• Group 2 – Find the “on-going actions”• Group 3 – Find the “permanent actions”• Group 4 – Find the “temporary actions”

Which tense do we use for these?

Look at the blue box! What are the 3 tenses used?

Use the pictures to make a question and an answer.

• In what situations would you use these questions?

• Which words would you use with these expressions (e.g. right now, last week, etc.)

Use the pictures to make a question and answer in the present tense?

Use the pictures to make a question and answer in the present perfect?

• LAST SUMMER?

…present continuous?

…the present perfect continuous?

…past continuous? IMPROVISE YOUR ANSWER!

• What …………………………………

• when

Do you know anyone who lives abroad?

Is it easy to life abroad?

• Have you ever been offered a job abroad?

What does “it’s a long story” mean?

• How did Dan end up in Seoul?

Put the verbs in bold into the correct category

• Write the longest story with the verbs.

• Make up dialogue.

Look at the blue box on p5

• Are these sentences completed or incompleted actions in the past?

• Verb + gerund.• Verb + present participle + preposition+

gerund.• Verb + infinitive.• Gerund/infinitive + different verb.

Give example questions and answers using these constructions

• Now react to my sentences.

In your groups make up a sentence using these words and bet on the outcome…

• FINISH

consider

Stop

Offer

continue

Do 3 to recap this

Lesson C – Look at the title! What tense is the title in?

Lesson C – We’re both kind of scared

• WHAT? - Sometimes we can use the present tense when we are talking about past events.

• WHY? – It’s creates a vivid story which feels more “here and now”

• FOR EXAMPLE – “David turns to me and he says “That’s a polar bear!”

• It ended up being a big cow…

Have you ever had a scary experience?

• What scares you?

• Listen to Juan and Bryan’s story.

• What happened to them?• What went wrong?

When did Juan use the present tense?

• Don’t use this in written language!!!!!!!!!!!!• Put them into the prefect or simple past!

Use this structure to write about one of your scary experiences. Try to use the new structures we saw in Lessons A and B.

Can you find any demonstrative pronouns in the dialogue?

• Should they be there?

They should…sometimes

• Demonstratives pronounces can make your story seem more real too!

• Let’s try Exc. A!

• Do the listening.• Circle your questions.• Can you answer your questions from the

dialogue?

Lesson D – Against the odds

• Look at the title.

• What do you think “Against the odds means”?

• To do something when the changes of succeeding are not good.

• Have you ever done something against the odds?

Do you know someone who is successful?

• E.g. My friend Katie is very successful. She works with the church charity and helps lots of people.

• My friend Augusto has helped lots of kids in P Peru escape from gangs and crime.

Separate into 2 teams

• Group A – Find the most important grammar and vocabulary from the text and explain it to the rest of the class.

• Group B – Retell the story.

• WORK TOGETHER TO UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT!

What does a civil engineer do?

“I’ll flunk it”

• Where is this phrase in the text?

• What is the context?

• Use the same structure to work out the rest.

What do you know about Lance Armstrong?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rtILXwQ19w

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTbddxQFOCU&feature=endscreen&NR=1

• How does he travel into Space?

• What equipment does he have?

• What does his mother think?