First days

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 7A – Infinitives

2. • Lead in – photos showing first days at work (5 mins)
• Discussion questions about first days (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – tips on first days (5 mins)
• Reading – first day at work – new vocabulary (5 mins)
• Reading – first day at work – missing sentences practice (5 mins)
• Discussion – which tips do you think are the best (5 mins)
• Listening – first day problems – details and which speaker (10 mins)
• Listening – first day problems – discussion / experience (5 mins)
• Game / filler (10 mins) 60
• Grammar – verbs with infinitive – vocabulary building (10 mins)
• Grammar – verbs with infinitive – highlighting functions (5mins)
• Grammar – verbs with infinitive – presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar – verbs with infinitive – exercises (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – how to survive situations (10 mins)
• Pronunciation – word linking – highlighting (5 mins)
• Speaking practice – asking questions and practising linking (10 mins)
• Words from the class vocabulary quiz (5 mins)

4. •How do you usually feel the first
time you do something? Nervous?
Excited?
•When was the last time you did
something for the first time?
•How would you feel on your first day
at a new job?

10. D. Decide what to wear the night before.
B. Try to remember everybody's name.
A. Don't make it either very well or very badly.
C. If they invite you to go with them, go!

11. E. Think about everything that you've learned today.
G. Try to solve the problem yourself first.
F. Keep your good ideas for the next meeting.

14. • Simon was
wearing the wrong
clothes (a suit).
• Claire had to
teach three-year-
olds and couldn’t
control them.

15. C
C
S
S
C
B

19. "I got ___________ on my first
night as a pizza delivery guy.“
A) mugged
B) attacked by a dog
C) knocked off my bike
mugged

20. A) $20,000
B) $30,000
C) $40,000
?

21. ? A) Back to
school
B) Perfect
wedding gift
C) Valentine’s
idea

22. ?
A) give cyclists
space
B) give cyclists
time
C) slow down
for cyclists

23. A) An Easter
bunny
B) A Father
Christmas
C) A Halloween
skeleton

24. ? A) Ready
meals
B) Soft drinks
C) Cough
medicines

25. an
ffer
ant
y

28. to turn off
to see
to drive
to go
to help
to get married
to be
to pay
to bring
to rain
to find
to catch
to buy

29. 2
3
1

33. F
D
E
A
C

34. to meet
to do
not to be
not to make
to learn
not to drive
to look for
to pay

37. to isn’t stressed and is pronounced /tə/

39. tried to learn
how to drive
what to wear
forgotten to turn off
hoping to go
planning to go anywhere
to work or study
pretended to be ill
to learn to cook
to stay friends