1. World Cultures

2. Think about culture!
• What words do you think abou?

3. What aspect of culture do you think
each picture represents?

4. Which culture is each picture from?

5. Now, think about these cultures!
Choose one of them and compare it to
your own culture?

6. Use superlatives. What are the best
things about Colombia?
• What things should you not miss?
• Use “miss” with a second verb!

7. Do the text as a listening…
• What does each person say? Which aspect of
each culture shouldn’t be missed?

8. Do B
• Look at these sentences! Are they active or
passive?

9. Look at the sentences you have
written! Write down all of the
differences between them and these
sentences!

10. Katie has been learning to bake for
two years

11. Rosie has written a book about Kenya..

12. The main difference is that the two
mention PEOPLE!

13. Passive expressions
What’s the difference?
• She ate the orange.

14. • The orange is eaten.

15. Make “active” or “passive” sentences
with the following pictures….
• Look at the structure provided on page 23.
• When do we use passive sentences?

16. To pay the bill

17. To sign a paper

18. To eat/have a starter

19. To eat a main course

20. To eat/have a dessert

21. To sing a song

22. To paint a picture

23. Look at the words in “Speaking
naturally”.
• Is there anything strange about these words?
• What do they have in common?

24. MIME – You are a monkey at a dinner
party!

25. What kind of things would a monkey
do at a dinner party?
• Are these good things to do?
• What kinds of things would you do?
• THESF ARE BAD AND GOOD MANNERS!
• What other good and bad manners can you
think of?

26. Work in pairs – What does each phrase
mean? (Maybe act the phrases out).

27. What things are good manners and
what things are bad manners in
Colombia?
• C – Copy the structures from A.
• Think of an example of the following,
• Verb + ing is rude.
• (gerund)

28. • It is impolite to go to party
+ preposition
+ verb +compliment.

29. • It’s rude + infinite
(to + verb)

30. Look at p25! How do we make these
expressions negative?

31. Give me examples of subjects in
English!
• Now, we can use verb like subjects.
• Smiling is polite when you
e meet someone new!
• Running is healthy.

32. Can you think of an example of this?

33. What prepositions can you think of in
English?

34. What form of the verb do we use after
the preposition?
• He finished writing
about travelling
around the world.

35. Can you think of an example of this?

36. After adjectives we use the infinitive
• It’s nice to
offer to paint
people.

37. Which of the following structures
applies to the following?
• Look at the questions!

38. If you want to say something
very clearly and without
confusion, then we say
something DIRECTLY

39. Is it easy to life abroad?
• Have you ever considered living abroad?

40. Write down your “for” and “against”s
of living abroad.
• Do this in groups.

41. Now, swap and summarise what the
other group has said.

42. Do the text as a listeining! What things
would you both “miss”?
• What things would the man in the text miss?

43. Do you remember in level 9 when you
talked about impressions?
• What words can you use to make a sentence
more certain?
• It’s definitely a good idea.
• It might be a bad idea.
• WHICH OF THESE IS MORE CERTAIN? WHY?
WHAT DO THE ABOVE SENTENCES MEAN?

44. A – Look at the light blue box!
• Which are the 2 MOST direct sentences of the
following?

45. Which are the more direct and less
direct comments in the text?
• How do we make comments less direct?
– Might
– May
– Maybe
– Perhaps
• LOOK AT THE COMMENTS IN B. MAKE THEM
“MORE” AND “LESS” DIRECT!

46. Do the listening!

47. Lesson D - Proverbs
• Counting chickens!

48. What is a proverb?

49. I’ve got a tail so I’ll wag with the rest!

50. A hungry dog thinks only of meat!

51. Yer ees bigger than yer belly! (Your eye
is bigger than than your belly)

52. We're aw Jock Tamson's berns! (We
are all Jock Thomson's choldren).

53. Do gach fear a sgarabh fhein

54. Find all of the proverbs in the text!
• How many proverbs are
there?
• IN PAIRS! Work out the
meaning of the proverb!

55. Do you have any very good proverbs in
Spanish?
• Do you have like the ones in C.

56. What do you think the proverbs in 2
mean?
• Write 100 words about your favourite
proverb!