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- UNIT 10: JOBS
I. WARM-UPS:
* In five minutes, write down two jobs which:
1. can be done by robots
2. no longer exist
3. require absolutely no intelligence
4. have low salaries but high prestige
5. require very long training
6. will be most needed in the future
7. are overpaid
8. young children typically want to do
9. can be done from home
10. you would really hate to do
For example:
1. a builder, a traffic warden
2. a fire- cracker maker
3. a cleaner, a baby-sitter
4. a doctor, a teacher
5. a doctor, a pilot
6. a computer progammer, an architect working on space
7. an air steward/ stewardess
8. a singer, a TV speaker
9. a house wife, a writer
10. a cleaner, an assembly line worker
* Discuss and dispute your answers and the reasons why you have chosen those jobs.
II. WHAT IS WORK?
1. Read the quotation by Andy Warhol, the American pop artist and then brainstorm on
the concept of “work”. Answer question 1.
- Discuss the questions 2, 3 and 4 in groups
2. Writing: Choose one of these titles and write an argument on it.
a. My ideal job
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- b. A day in the life of a (famous person, farmer, etc.)
c. How I would resolve unemployment?
III. WHICH JOB?
Listening:
- Discuss the questions 1 and 2 only. Do the first part of the listening (i.e. as far as
“...for me that would be the most boring job”). Compare your opinions with the speakers.
Listen again to focus on the language used and pick out some expressions.
For example: I think probably, obviously, overall, actually, would have to be, would
certainly be, what about, so definitely that would be for me...
- Continue discussing questions 3, 4 and 5, trying to use some of the expressions
used by the native speakers.
Play the last part of the listening. Note down the choice of job and the reasons given
for this.
Answer:
1. baby-sitter ( likes kids any way, not hard work)
2. assembly line worker (repetitive, looking at the same thing over and over day after
day, doing the same task over and over day after day; your day is broken up into
periods that are always the same)
3. doctor (your time is never your own, work terrible hours)
4. (not mentioned)
5. soldier (might end up having to kill someone)
IV. DIRTY JOBS?
1. Discussion:
- Cover question 7.
- Make your decisions individually and the discuss in groups.
- Reformulate your decisions on the basis of the follow - up question 7.
Vocabulary:
- Pharmaceutical (a): of, engaged in, pharmacy; of medicinal drugs
- Multinational (n): company, usu very large, that does business in many different
countries
- Oppress (v): cause to feel troubled; keep down by unjust or cruel government
2. Writing: Choose one of the following tasks:
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- a. Write a letter to the managing director of one of these companies, trying to
convince him/her to change the company policy.
b. Write a press release from one of these companies which want to set up in your
area. The statement should justify why, for example, testing beauty products on animals
is needed and not immoral.
V. INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL
Some information: An industrial tribunal is a court of justice, whose job is to deal with
cases related to work. They have a legally qualified chairperson and two lay members
who have knowledge or experience of employment in industry or commerce.
1. Read all the four situations without discussing them. The four people believe that they
have been unfairly dismissed by their employer. Imagine that you are members of a jury
(body of persons who swear to give a decision on issues of facts in a case in a court of
justice) whose job is to decide:
a. what the real motivations for the dismissals were
b. whether they really have been unfairly dismisses
c. if so what kind of compensation should be given to them.
Vocabulary:
- Host (v): act as a person who entertains guests
- Assemble (v):gather together
- Topical (a): of present interest; of subject for discussion of the day
- Revelation (n): revealing; making known of sth secret or hidden
- Execution (n): infliction of punishment by death
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- Precision (n): accuracy; freedom from error
2. Listening:
* Hear two people arguing about one of the industrial tribunal cases. Your task is simply
to identify which case is being talked about, and whether the two speakers agree that the
person was unfairly dismissed.
Answer: case 3 (the captain): The woman thinks he should have been dismissed (he’s the
one that history dictates that he has to stay there); the man doesn’t (why on earth should
the captain die?)
* Play the tape again and pick out some relevant phrases, which you would like students
to use in your own discussion.
Some relevant phrases:
- absolutely
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- - I’m sure...
- I’m in absolute agreement that...
- I agree with it.
- That’s absolute nonsense I’m afraid, I’m sorry.
- which is absolutely right
- I would have done exactly the same thing.
* Decide which of the two people in the listening you agree with and proceed to discuss
the other three cases.
Some information:
1, 3 and 4 are based on real situations, but 1 and 3 were not actually taken to an
industrial tribunal; 4 lost his case on the grounds that he was fully aware of what he was
doing when he signed the contract. In America, where some companies pay for their
employees’ ever-increasing health insurance costs, some employers think they should be
able to dictate what their workers do both at work and at home. This ranges from
discouraging workers not to have high calorie diet to prohibiting workers from smoking at
home, and stopping their managers from using motorbikes. Are these kinds of impositions
acceptable? If you were employers, are there certain categories of people who you would
not want o give a job to, or who you would be prepared to dismiss if they infringed (break
a rule; violate) some of your “regulations”?
3. Writing: Choose one of the four people and write a letter of complaint to your ex-boss.
You should try and justify what you did and why you should be reinstated (replaced).
VI. HONESTY AT WORK
Rank the situations in terms of how dishonest they are. Then discuss your ranking
in pairs.
Vocabulary
- Inadvertent (a): not paying or showing proper attention; (of actions) done
thoughtlessly or not on purpose
UNIT 11: KINDNESS
I. WARM-UPS:
1. Pre- discussion:
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- - Have you ever given or would you give any of the following to an unknown
person: your blood, parts of your body, your sperm (fertilizing fluid of a male animal)
your time, your money?
- How much money would you spend on:
+ a wedding present for a close friend?
+ a leaving present for a teacher?
+ mother’s birthday present?
+ sister/brother’s Christmas (or equivalent) present?
II. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
1. Read the text and answer question 1. What would you have done in such situations?
Vocabulary:
- Assailant (n): attacker
- Transfix (v): pierce through; cause (sb) to be unable to move, speak , think, etc
- Stab (a): pierce or wound with sharp-pointed weapon or instrument; push (a knife,
etc) into sb
2. Listening:
Listen to some native speakers discussing the two situations. Decide which explanations
in questions 2 a-f are mentioned, and if the speakers believe they are true or false.
Answer: a. T b. T c. T
d. no mentioned, but this is confirmed by the footballer example (the player in
question was Cantona)
e. don’t know, but probably not f. T
Listen again and take notes of some conditional constructions and other useful
vocabulary. Use these to discuss question 3.
Some conditional constructions and vocabulary from the listening:
- I ‘m afraid I ‘m of a school that think...
- If you hear..., you do nothing...
- I think I tend to agree with that actually.
- I have an idea of ...
3. Writing: “Charity begins at home.” Discuss.
Some suggested ideas:
- If you want to show your kindness, should do so first to people living near you:
your family, your relatives and your neighbours.
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- - Your charity should be expressed the least things such as carrying heavy bags for
an elderly lady to a bigger thing like building a fence between the two houses or
protecting a neighbour when he/she was attacked by a bad person.
III. ARE YOU AN ALTRUIST?
Vocabulary:
+ Altruist (n): person who follows the principle of considering the well-being and
happiness of others first
- Do the quiz individually and then predict what you think your friend would do in
such situations. Compare your predictions with your friend.
- Write your own quiz and ask your partner your invented questions.
IV. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
1. Pre-discussion:
Think of names of people who appear to be motivated by pure altruism.
- Think of Mother Teresa. How much have you known about her? Why did she start
to help poor people? What did she do?
2. Listening: Listen to a brief history of the life of Mother Teresa and answer some very
simple questions.
a. Where and when was she born?
b. Who was her father?
c. Where was her first missionary work?
d. When did she move to Calcutta?
e. When did she win the Nobel Peace Prize?
f. How many saris does she possess?
Some useful words from the listening text:
- Accuse (v) of: say (sb) has done wrong, broken the law, is to be blamed
- Ulterior (a): situated beyond; beyond what is first seen or said
- Motive (n): that which causes sb to act
Ulterior motive: motive other than what is expressed or admitted
- Spur (v) on: urge on with, or as with greater activity
- Missionary (n): person sent to preach his/her religion, esp among people who are
ignorant of it.
- Leper (n): person suffering from leprosy (a skin disease that forms silvery scales
on the skin, causes local insensibility to pain, etc and the loss of fingers and toes
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- - Intersperse (v): place here and there
- Sari (n): length of cotton or silk cloth draped round the body, worn by Hindu
women.
- Devotional (a): used in prayers; for use in worship
Answer to the listening questions:
1. Serbia, 1910
2. A rich merchant
3. In Ireland
4. In 1928
5. In 1979
6.Two
3. Discussion:
- Look at the statements on your page and discuss whether the first statement is true
of Mother Teresa.
- Then discuss the other statements.
- Think of other famous people who do charitable work. Are the statements 1 and 4
true for them? How does the media present such people to us?
Some information: Not everyone sees Mother Teresa as a saintly figure. In 1995, a TV
documentary suggested she had been receiving money from dubious sources.
4. Writing: Choose one of the following titles and write an argument.
a. If everyone spent one hour a day helping someone worse off than themselves, the
world would be a better place. Discuss.
b. Every human being deserves a share of the world’ s resources. Discuss.
V. THE RED CROSS
1. Pre-discussion:
- What is the Red Cross?
- How and when was it founded?
2. Discussion:
Read the text. Discuss the questions.
Vocabulary:
- Bazaar (n): (place where there is a)sale of goods for charitable purposes
- Car boot (n): place for luggage at the back of a motor-car
- Trace (v): follow or discover (sb or sth) by observing marks, tracks, bits of
evidence, etc.
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- - Carnage (n): killing of many people
- Appalling (a): full of fear or terror; dismaying; shocking deeply
- Vision (n): power of seeing or imagining, looking ahead
Answer:
Q1: Being totally independent non-political will help the Red Cross work more
advantageously in any country, support any group of people without being restrained by
any political authority.
Q 2 a. Apart from wartime activities, this is probably the most well-known form of
aid that the Red Cross offers.
b. These are money raising activities as the Red Cross is a self-financed charity.
c. One of the tragedies of war and natural disasters is the separation of families.
Using its worldwide network centred in Geneva, the Red Cross is constantly striving to
reunite families, no matter how long the separation. The British Red Cross, for example,
manages to trace, on average, one person every day of the year.
d. Again in war or natural disasters, many people are cut off from the families
because normal communications have broken down. Relatives may be taken prisoner-of-
war or moved to refugee camps or shelters. In these circumstances the Red Cross
Message Service is often the only means for families to keep in touch.
e. The Cosmetic Camouflage service aims to help people cope with disfigurement
(spoiling the appearance or shape of) and blemishes (mark, etc that spoils the beauty or
perfection of sb or sth), including scars, birthmarks and conditions such as vitiligo (BÖnh
b¹ch biÕn, bÖnh lang tr¾ng). The Red Cross also offers beauty care techniques fro the
blind. Volunteers demonstrate to women with impaired vision how to apply their make-
up. The service is intended to give confidence to visually handicapped people, offer
independence and provide an interest which can be shared with other women.
UNIT 12: LOVE
I. WARM-UPS
- Think of different types of love (not just for people, but for nations, places, things,
activities) and different ways of showing love.
Suggested ideas: love, friendship, family feelings, patriotism, comradeship,
brotherhood, love for work, etc.
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- - Write a list of three things you love and hate doing. Then read your list to a
partner who has to guess if it’s love or hate.
II. THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE
1. Discussion:
Read the text (fictional). Read and tick the items 1-7 that you yourself would do for
love.
Vocabulary:
- Neo-Fascist: New / Modern Fascist
- Satanic (a) of Satan, of the Evil One, of the Devil
- Cult (n): system of religious worship
2. Listening:
- Hear two friends talking about what they would do for love in relation to the
questions you have just answered. Try to find out which of questions 1-7 are asked and
whether the answer is yes or no.
Answer: 4 yes 2 no 1 no
- Were you prepared to do all the things for love?
III. MARRIAGE CONTRACTS
- Listen to the extract. What do you think a marriage contract might be? What
clauses might be in it?
A marriage contract is a pre-nuptial agreement where both partners would have to
stipulate exactly what they were prepared to give up for the other one and how far they
were prepared to go.
- Read the passage for confirmation of what came up during the class discussion.
Vocabulary:
- Pre-nuptial (a): before marriage or wedding
- Contention (n): quarrelling or disputing
- Stipulate (v): state, put forward, as a necessary condition
Some information: A number of famous people have or have had marriage contracts -
Henry VIII, Mick Jagger (with Bianca), Aristotle Onassis with Jackie Kennedy. This
practice is also quite common with modern French couples.
IV. ARE YOU A GOOD LOVER?
1. Discussion:
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- - Read the questions on your page, answer true or false and discuss them in groups.
- Discuss different attitudes to love, deciding which questions indicate
a. a romantic approach to love
b. a realistic approach
c. a cynical approach
- Write a score/ analysis for the test.
- Compare your analyses with the others.
2. Writing: Choose one of these titles and write:
a. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Discuss.
b. All is fair in love and war. Discuss.
V. A KISS IS JUST A KISS?
1. Pre-discussion:
- Think of how people give formal kisses in your country, i.e. where on the face,
how many times, and what it means.
2. Discussion:
Read the text and discuss the statements.
Vocabulary:
- Repulsive (a): disgusting
- Scruple (n): (hesitation caused by) uneasiness of conscience
- Unstuck (a): not stuck or fastened
- Mandatory (a): of, conveying, a command; compulsory, obligatory
- Cheek-peck (n): hurried, unemotional kiss on the cheeks
Information: The article says people kiss twice in France, but a lot of French actually
kiss three times.
UNIT 13: MONEY
I. WARM-UPS
- Collect coins and notes from different countries. Compare the currencies and try to
set parameters ( characteristic or determining feature) for ideal coins and notes.
Factors involved:
1. Notes: number of denominations + related colour and differences; aesthetics, size
2. coins: shape, weight, size, aesthetics, help for the blind
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- - Imagine you have been given £1 m to be spent in a specific way. In groups,
prepare a project.
Possible tasks: to improve your town; to design and build a dream house; to start your
own business; to invent a new machine; to spend it all in a week without buying anything.
- Compare your solutions to a friend who has chosen the same task.
II. MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND
1. Listening:
Listen to a short history of the uses of, and alternatives to, money. Decide which of
the pictures of alternatives to money on your page are mentioned. Also try to understand
how money has been used not only as a method of payment.
Some ideas mentioned in the listening text:
- American Indians have used beads made from shells.
- In India, cowrie shells
- In the Fiji islands, whale teeth
- The early colonists of North America utilized tobacco
- In Germany after the Second World War, cigarettes and liquor were used
- Some southern Europeans used sweets as small change
- Today, in some holiday camps, plastic beads made into bracelets and necklaces are
used instead of money
- Tokens are a common substitute in slot machines
- The wide use of cattle in the primitive times survives in the word “pecuniary” from
the Latin “pecus” meaning cattle; and the word “salary” reminds us of how the Roman
soldiers used to be paid in salt.
- Coins began to be employed in the seventh century in a Greek state in Asia Minor.
Originally, they were very heavy and were made of a mixture of silver and gold.
* The pictures of alternatives to money on the student’s book ‘s page are mentioned:
beads made from shells; plastic beads made into bracelets and necklaces.
* Money has been used not only as a method of payment. Coins were also used to
spread propaganda about the power of the ruler whose head was shown on the face of the
coin. Coins were also used as amulets and for decorative purposes.
2. Discussion:
- Answer question 1 in the book.
Possible disadvantages of some of the alternatives: deterioration (damage)
transportation difficulties, difficult to split up, impossible to accumulate (i.e. no savings)
not scarce (rare) enough.
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- - Answer questions 2 and 3. in groups, think of as many consequences as possible in
five minutes. Imagine how you would pay for your English lessons, i.e. what you could
offer in exchange.
One advantage of bartering is that it avoids inflation, and it might be a little more
difficult to amass great wealth.
III. WILL YOU EVER BE RICH?
1. Pre-discussion:
Think of the following questions:
a. How do people get rich?
b. Who deserves to be rich?
c. What do the rich do?
d. How does money affect and change people?
2. Discussion:
Do the quiz and discuss your answers, inventing (if you wish) your own scoring
system. Write three more questions to ask other members of the class. In a whole class
activity students vote on the best questions.
Vocabulary:
- Casually (adv): by chance
- A spending spree: an occasion of (extravagant or unusual) spending of money
- Confront (v): face
- Hint (n): slight or indirect indication or suggestion
3. Writing:
Discuss one of the following titles:
a. “Money is the root of all evils.”
b. Would you rather be rich and stupid, or poor and intelligent?
4. Listening: Listen to a totally over-the-top woman being interviewed on how she
became so fantastically rich. Answer these questions:
a. True or false? Dolores was born in the USA
b. T or F? Dolores enjoys swimming in champagne.
c. How many times has she been married? Is she married now?
d. T or F? Dolores’ first husband was 60 years older than her.
e. T or F? Many newspapers have had to give Dolores a lot of money for printing
supposedly libelous stories about her.
f. What other methods has Dolores used to get money?
g. What is her dream?
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- Some ideas from the listening text:
- “Mind Your Pennies”
- ...talking to a farmer whose hens lay golden eggs and to a child whose tooth fairy
apparently left him 10 million dollars under his pillow”
- ... some hints on how to become rich without working
- Dolores Mint was born in poverty
- Her determination to survive led her to cross the border at the age of 13 and to
work her way up to Hollywood.
- visit Dolores by the side of her champagne filled swimming pool
- I picked my men right. They were all very wealthy and extremely old
- I’ve made a fortune in suing people and in various libel suits...had some fun with
insurance companies
- ...very expensive jewels, which I just have this terrible habit of losing, and then
when the insurance money comes, they just miraculous reappear
- my husbands’ life insurances have come in handy
Answer: a. F b. T c. eight times, not currently married
d. F e. T
f. fires, husbands’ life insurance, insurance on money
g. to rob a bank
IV. EVERYONE HAS THEIR PRICE
- Discuss what money can’t buy.
Possible contenders (some of which obviously can’t be bought): health, children
happiness, youth, a clear conscience, other people’s love and feelings, freedom.
- Discuss the situations in the student’s book.
Vocabulary:
- Testify (v): bear witness, give evidence
- To be under oath: having sworn to tell the truth
V. BAKCKHANDERS
Discuss the situations in the student’s book.
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- VI. YOUR MONEY
Fill the percentages in the grid and discuss your percentages with your partners.
There is no need for the percentages to add up to exactly 100 % but merely to be a rough
indication of how you spend your money.
UNIT 14: NUMBERS
I. WARM-UPS
What do you think of the expression “Two’s company, three’s a crowd”?
- If two is a company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: nine
- Discuss the ideal number of:
a. students in a class
b. guests at a wedding
c. friends for dinner
d. working days per week
e. weeks of holiday
f. hours of homework per day
g. friends to go with to the cinema
- Listening: Listen to three people answering some of the questions (a) - (g).
Identify which subject is being talked about, and what the ideal number is.
Answer:
1. (c) dinner party, eight 2. (c) dinner party (probably) - three or four
3. (g) cinema - alone
4. (d) everyday for a good job, none for a bad job
II. THE ORIGIN OF COUNTING
Read the text and discuss the questions in groups
Vocabulary:
- Anthropologist (n): expert in science of man, esp of the beginnings, development,
customs and beliefs of mankind
- Assert (v): make a claim to, esp one’s rights; declare
- Fringe (n): edge (of a crowd, forest, etc)
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- - Dual: of two; double; divided in two
- Binary (a): of or involving a pair or pairs
- Decimal (a): of ten or one-tenths
Decimal system: for money, weights, etc.
- Aversion (n): strong dislike; sb or sth disliked
- Notch (n): V-shaped cut (in or on sth); narrow pass through mountains
- The Arabic system: the signs 0, 1, 2, 3, etc
- The Roman number: the signs I, II, III, etc.
Some information:
(2) The most obvious advantages of 12 over 10, is that 12 can be more easily
divided (12: 2, 3, 4 and 6; 10: 2, 5). 12 is also related to the way we calculate time.
(3) Calculations must have been difficult.
(4) They are used to subdivide documents; they are often found at the end of TV
programmes to indicate the year of production.
(5) cardinal = one, two; ordinal + first, second.
III. HOW MANY?
Pre-listening: Guess the answers to the questions, individually and then in groups.
Listening: You will hear some statistics about languages. Check your answers.
Answer:
1. 5000 2. 350 m 3. 350 m; 2,382,509
4. 194-2145. 615,000 6. 1,913
IV. NUMEROLOGY
Read the text, then before calculating your number, you should read the analysis and
decide which description best describes you.
- Then calculate your number and see if the real description coincides with the one
you’d previously chosen.
Some information: People actually believe in this, and even calculate the effects that a
name change ( e.g. Marylin Monroe to Elton John) can have on the personality of that
person.
Vocabulary:
- Pseudo-science (n): false science
- Rebellious (a): not easily controlled; acting like a rebel
- Antisocial (a):opposed to social laws or to organized societies
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- - Strung (a): made tense, ready, excited, etc.
- Impulsive (a): (of persons, their conduct) acting on impulse (without thinking of
the consequences); resulting from impulse
- Resilient (a): having or showing the quality or property of quickly recovering the
original shape or condition after being pulled, pressed, crushed, etc.; (of person0 buoyant
in disposition
- Resent (a): feel bitter, indignant or angry at
V. IS THERE ANY LOGIC IN IT?
* If possible, get in groups of four. You have ten minutes to answer as many
questions as possible. The group which answers the most questions is the winner.
Vocabulary:
- Oil slick (n): film of thick oil covering an area of the sea
- Haystack (n): large pile of hay firmly packed for storing, with a pointed or ridged
top.
- Blackout (n): the keeping of all buildings, etc, dark (by curtains, etc, windows, by
having no street-lighting, etc) in order to prevent any light being seen, esp from the air.
- Tramp (n): person who goes from place to place and does no regular work
- Rung (n): crosspiece forming a step in a ladder
Answer:
1. one 2. one 3. three
4. eight - He makes seven to start with, smokes them and then he makes the
eighth from their ends.
5. four hours - You take the first pill straight away, not after half an hour.
6. None. The ladder of course rises as the tide rises
7. left: seven ,right: five
UNIT 15: ORIGINS
I. WARM-UP
In pairs, discuss your own origins, where you were born, what you know about your
ancestors, if you like your birthplace.
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- II. ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE
The four sentences 1-4 on the student’s page are the beginnings and endings of the
two paragraphs A and B. Match the beginnings and endings to the correct texts.
Vocabulary:
- Speculation (n): guess
Answer:
A. 4 (beginning), 2 (ending); B. 1 (beginning), 3 (ending)
* Follow-up: Discuss your own ideas of the origin and history of life on this planet.
III. LANGUAGE
1. Pre-discussion: How do you think language may have begun?
2. Discussion: Read the passage and then correct the animal noises in the illustrations.
Vocabulary:
- Weird (a): unnatural; unearthly; mysterious
- Grunt (n): (of animals, esp pigs) make a low, rough sound
- Exertion (n):putting forth, bringing into use
- Onomatopoeia (n): formation of words in imitation of the sounds associated with
the things concerned.
Answer:
Baa / sheep; cock-a-doodle / cock; coo / pigeon; ee-aw / donkey; miaow / cat; moo /
cow; neigh / horse; oink / pig; quack / duck; too-wit / owl.
3. Listening: Hear some of the sounds above. Your task is to match the sound to the
word.
Answer: 1. creek 2. mumble 3. splash 4. whine 5. buzz
6. tick 7. crunch 8. hum 9. pop 10. sizzle
IV. GOIN’ BACK TO MY ROOTS
1. Pre-discussion: In groups, think why people emigrate.
Some possible reasons: to find work, enhance lifestyles and opportunities, improve
prospects for their children, (e.g. fewer class berriers0join relatives, escape persecution,
avoid a war.
2. Reading and discussion:
- Discuss question 1.
- Read the text, then discuss the other questions.
Suggested ideas:
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- + Living in a foreign country: strange people, strange language, different culture:
habits, customs, points of view, lifestyles, usually having the feelings that you do not
belong to that community, etc.
+ Advice given to an immigrant to my country: trying to adapt to the culture,
lifestyles, habit and customs; trying to learn the language; considering it as your second
homeland.
+ There may be different ideas on a person’s real “home”: perhaps that’s a place
where he/she was born; or where most of his/ her family and relatives live; or where he/
she has been living; or where he/she finds happy and interesting to live; etc.
It is important to have “roots”. This can give you precious emotions about people’s
relationships, about humanity, etc.
+ Conditions that have led to the general feelings of “rootlessness” in many parts of
the world: emigration, wars, natural disasters, the living way which doesn’t care about the
past, etc.
3. Writing: Write how you imagine the story might have ended, i.e. what happened to the
man when he returned to the village.
Suggested ideas:
- Positive way: Everything his relatives said was wrong. All the villagers were very
friendly and glad to welcome him back. The people were very frank. They enjoyed simple
but very happy and peaceful lives. The environment was pure and clean. People took care
of one another. Therefore he wanted to go back there more frequently. Etc.
- Negative way: What his relatives said was partly true. The villagers were
indifferent with him. They did not accept you back in their community. Not many people
were friendly. He felt disappointed and returned to America immediately. He didn’t think
that he would go back there any more. Etc.
V. FIRSTS
1. Discussion: In groups, work out and underline the first time the events took place
(where and when).
2. Listening: Hear the answers to the “firsts” and check your answers. Also listen for any
other “firsts” mentioned.
Beauty contest (Belgium 1888); coffee drinking 9 Arabia 1000); diagram of flying
machine (Italy 1492); electric chair (USA 1890); playing cards ( china 1000); printed
book (Turkestan 868, movable type: Korea 1409); sandwich (England - not mentioned,
1762); phone conversation (Cuba 1849); TV transmission (England 1925); traffic lights
(England 1868); + and - (Holland 1514).
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- Also mentioned: AIDS (USA 1977); = sign (England 1557); air flight (USA 1903).
UNIT 16: PREDICTIONS
I. WARM-UPS:
Write down three predictions about your classmates (or yourselves, though
obviously not using the first person pronouns). You can either write all three about the
same person or about three different people. The you read out your predictions and let the
others guess who the predictions relate to.
* Writing: Write in reported speech the predictions made for you by the others,
along with a comment e.g. Adriano predicted I would get married next year - I hope he’s
wrong!
II. IN 1,000 YEARS...
1. Pre- discussion:
- Write down a few predictions, serious or not, for life in 1,000 years. In small
groups, discuss what you have written.
- Read the text ( a satirical piece from The Daily Telegraph) and in groups, discuss
the implications. Think about he likelihood and consequences from various points of
views - practical utility, ethics, economics, etc. Then compare the analyses between
groups.
Vocabulary:
- Claustrophobia (n): morbid fear of confined places (e.g. a lift, cave or coalmine)
Sù kinh sî nh÷ng chç v©y kÝn; kinh khiÕp buång kÝn
- Foresee (v): know beforehand or in advance
2. Writing: Choose one of the following:
a. Sketch a plan of a city in the year 2050, then write an explanation of how you
imagine life will be in that city.
b. Describe a day in your life five years from now.
c. Would you rather live a thousand years into the future or back into the past?
3. Listening: Listen to an altered version of the text.
- Underline the differences
- Try to remember the differences.
The differences (The altered parts are in italics):
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- In ... book, Your Future in the Past, Dr Marlon Orange, an Australian pioneer...in
two thousand years’ time.
A ...teeth; a World Hand Bank... perfect hands for... a uniform green, thus... balance
for nobody:.. Dr Orange foresees.
III. THE YEAR 3000
Read the six situations and decide if they will come true or not.
Listening:
- Listen to the first three listening extracts. Your task is to identify which prediction
is being talked about, and whether the speaker believes it will come true or not.
- Discuss in groups what the implications would be if these situations really did
come true. Exchange your ideas with other groups.
- Play the fourth and fifth pieces. Try to identify which points are mentioned, and
say what you think about what the speakers said.
Vocabulary:
- Telepathy (n): transference of thoughts or ideas from one mind to another without
the normal use of the senses; ability to be immediately aware of the thoughts and feelings
of others.
Some useful phrases from the listening text:
- people enjoy their food too much
- current trends are much more to do with natural food, good foods, no preservatives
- icebergs are sort of where they are for a good reason
- towing them round the world might unbalance the environment
- how the mind can be transmitted already by little electrical impulses from the mind
on to computers
- a sort of leveling of standards and ways of life
Answer:
1. d (no) 2. b (no) 3. e (not a good idea)
4. c (yes, already exists) 5. a (yes) + f (yes)
IV. CRYSTAL BALLS
- Before looking at the your page, think of various methods of fortune-telling.
- Look at your page, say which methods are illustrated.
Answer:
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