Making decisions and choice

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 11B – Might

2. • Lead in – photos describing decisions (5 mins)
• Discussion questions making decisions (10 mins)
• Speaking practice - Holiday questionnaire (5 mins)
• Listening practice – holiday decisions (1) (5 mins)
• Listening practice – holiday decisions (2) (5 mins)
• Listening practice – holiday decisions (3) (5 mins)
• Grammar – Might – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar – Might – presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar – Might – exercises (10 mins) 55
• Game / filler (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – interviewing partner (5 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – diphthongs (10 mins)
• Listening practice – Intro – types of jeans (5 mins)
• Listening practice – Too much choice (1) (5 mins)
• Listening practice – Too much choice (2) (5 mins)
• Speaking practice – too much choice (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – noun formation (10 mins)
• Vocabulary building – speaking practice from noun formation (10 mins)
• Optional extras – More practice using might (10 mins)

4. • How do you usually make decisions? e.g. buying new
clothes, a restaurant to visit etc
• What was a decision you made recently where you
had to think a lot before? What helped you?
• Can you think of a choice you made that were not
happy with? What would you do differently?
• Do you prefer making decisions on your own or by
asking other people?
• Does decision-making get easier with experience /
age?

7. trainers raincoat hairdryer two pairs of jeans

8. go to the gym.
rain.
have one.
different styles.
(trainers)
(raincoat)
(hairdryer)
(two pairs of jeans)

9. • Nancy’s suitcase is too heavy (17.5 kilos, and she can only take 15).
• They tell her to pay £25 extra.
• She tries to take some things out and put them in Brian’s case.

12. H
G
A
C
B
I
F
E

13. might be ill
might be in a meeting.
might not like it.
might not have time.
might have the pasta.
might be cold

16. Different tempos of music can affect performance and decision-
making. In a study, participants who listened to ______ music made
better and more accurate decisions when it came to harder choices
than those who had ________ music on in the background.
faster
slower

17. Playing action video games can train the brain
to make faster decisions. In a test people who
played action video games were ___% faster
at making choices than the other group.
25
A) 5
B) 15
C) 25

18. A study looked at how temperature affects decision-making.
Participants were asked to hold a hot cup, a cold one or no cup and
then asked for their impressions of a hypothetical person. Those
who held (the) _____ cup of coffee rated this fictional person as
significantly more sociable than those with the other choices.
hot
A) hot
B) cold
C) no

19. Where you are can affect how you vote.
Voting inside a _____ you could make you vote
more conservatively than in another place.
church
A) school
B) church
C) hospital

20. Having children can affect how you vote. For every
additional _________ a couple has they become two
percent more likely to vote liberal. The same holds
true for the other sex and voting conservative.
daughter
A) son
B) daughter
C) twin

21. A study looked at how people reacted when faced with choosing chocolate
sweets. People preferred to choose from thirty rather than six sweets ,
but after making their choice the people who picked from the _________
group of sweets were happier with their decision and were more likely to
eat those chocolates again.
smaller
A) smaller
B) larger

24. 1. I might buy a white tie.
2. It may rain later.
3. We don’t know where to go.
4. There’s a hairdresser in the square.
5. Here’s a really good idea for a souvenir.
6. The tourists are curious about Europe.
7. We’re now in a small town in the south.
8. Those noisy boys are annoying me.

29. verb
noun
verb
noun

31. revise
confuse
invent
compete
educate
invite
pronounce
choose
advise
fly
live
die
succeed
With nouns ending in -ion, -
sion, and -ation, the stressed
syllable is always the one
before the ending.

32. decision
invitation
flight
invention
competition
advice
life death
pronunciation.

36. • Go around your group asking each other the questions on
your card and recording their group members’ answers by
writing their names in the appropriate column.
• Try to ask follow-up questions to gain more information and
note down the answers on the back of the card.
Example:
A: In the next 12 hours, do you think you will go shopping?
B: Yes, I will.
A: Why?
B: Because I have to buy a new pair of shoes.

39. • Imagine that you are going on a day trip and that you are going to say
what you are taking with them and why.
• I'm going to... because I may/might...
• Example: 'I'm going to take a camera because I might want to take
some photos’.
• In order to win a point, you must make an appropriate sentence about
the object on the card using the structure on the board.
• Then take it in turns to pick up a picture card and make a sentence
about the object on the card.
• If you manage to make a suitable sentence, you score a point.
• If you can't think of anything to say or makes a grammar mistake, you
don’t score a point.
• The game continues until someone has score five points.