2. 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?
3. • Who do you think has the most interesting
life?
• Would you like a life like this?
4. 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.
5. Who is being interviewed?
• What is she being interviewed about?
• How do you think the English Department
chooses its best students?
6. 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?
7. Interview each other with these
questions! Do you think you have an
interesting life?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. Rosie has written a book about Kenya..
• What tense is this?
• It this a past/present or future statement?
12. 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”
14. Look at the blue box! What are the 3
tenses used?
15. 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.)
16. Use the pictures to make a question
and answer in the present tense?
17. Use the pictures to make a question
and answer in the present perfect?
23. Is it easy to life abroad?
• Have you ever been offered a job abroad?
24. What does “it’s a long story” mean?
• How did Dan end up in Seoul?
25. Put the verbs in bold into the correct
category
• Write the longest story with the verbs.
• Make up dialogue.
26. 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.
27. Give example questions and answers
using these constructions
• Now react to my sentences.
28. In your groups make up a sentence
using these words and bet on the
outcome…
• FINISH
34. Lesson C – Look at the title! What
tense is the title in?
35. 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!”
37. Have you ever had a scary experience?
• What scares you?
• Listen to Juan and Bryan’s story.
• What happened to them?
• What went wrong?
38. When did Juan use the present tense?
• Don’t use this in written language!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Put them into the prefect or simple past!
39. Use this structure to write about one
of your scary experiences. Try to use
the new structures we saw in Lessons
A and B.
40. Can you find any demonstrative
pronouns in the dialogue?
• Should they be there?
41. 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?
42. 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?
43. 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.
44. 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
!
46. “I’ll flunk it”
• Where is this phrase in the text?
• What is the context?
• Use the same structure to work out the rest.
47. What do you know about Lance
Armstrong?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rtILXwQ1
9w
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTbddxQF
OCU&feature=endscreen&NR=1
• How does he travel into Space?
• What equipment does he have?
• What does his mother think?
