Материал: Unit 7

UNITOBJECTIVES

At the end of this unit, students will be able to:

understand texts and conversations about changes

in their lives

talk about life-changing events

describe health and lifestyle changes

talk to the doctor write a blog about an achievement

UNITCONTENTS

G  GRAMMAR

Comparatives and superlatives

used to/didn’t used to

Linking: ordering events

V  VOCABULARY

get collocations: get together (= start a relationship), get engaged, get divorced, get on well (with sb), get to know, get a place at, get in touch (with sb), get an offer, get paid, get rich, get a job, get ill, get better (= recover)

Health collocations: eat a healthy diet, be overweight, keep in shape, (go/be) on (a) diet, lose weight, get fit, put on weight, be a regular smoker, give up (smoking), have an allergy

Medical problems and treatments: backache, a cold, a temperature, a broken leg, a stomachache, the flu, a rash, get a prescription from a doctor, take pills or other medicine, have some tests, go to the hospital, go to the chemists, have an operation, put on cream

Wordpower: different meanings of change: change (noun): 1 = coins; 2 the right / wrong change = money a shop assistant returns to you; 3 for a change = for a new experience. change (verb): 1 change (on transport) = get off one and get on another; 2 change sth (in a shop) = return something and get a new one; 3 change sb’s mind = make an alternative decision / opinion; 4 change (money) = exchange money for different notes or coins; 5 change into (an outfit) = put on different clothes

P  PRONUNCIATION

Sound and spelling: used to/ didn’t used to

Tones for asking questions

C  COMMUNICATIONSKILLS

Talking about life-changing events

Describing health and lifestyle changes

Talking to the doctor

Writing a blog about an achievement

GETTING STARTED

OPTIONAL LEAD-IN

Books closed. Ask students to work in pairs and write down five things that children can learn from their grandparents and five things grandparents can learn from their grandchildren. Circulate and encourage with prompts and questions. Take feedback and see how many pairs had the same ideas. Ask the class which is the most important thing grandparents and children can learn from each other.

a Ask students to look at the picture and say what they can see. Give students one minute to think about their answers to the questions before talking about the picture as a class. If students don’t know where the old man and the girl are, say: Look at what they are sitting on. Where do you often see chairs like this? (on the beach) If you wish, give students information from the Culture notes below.

CULTURE NOTES

The British seaside is a popular place for families to spend holidays in the summer or to visit for the weekend. The seaside became very popular in Victorian times (the second half of the nineteenth century) when the railways were built and families could travel from big cities to towns on the coast like Blackpool and Brighton. Many traditions that are related to days out at the seaside started then and continue today, such as:

•sitting on deckchairs on the beach, as in the picture

•eating ice cream or fish and chips

•paddling in the sea (walking in the water up to your ankles)

•building sandcastles

•riding donkeys (animals similar to horses, but smaller and with long ears) along the sand

•walking along a pier (a structure built over and into the water)

b Students discuss the questions in pairs. Monitor and support students with any vocabulary they may need. You could introduce the expression to be proud of (B1 – feel pleased and satisfi ed about something you have or have done). Students share their ideas with the class.

EXTRA ACTIVITY

In pairs, students make a list of ways in which the seaside in their countries has changed in the last 50 years (or since their grandparents were young). Ask students to share their ideas with the class and ask: Do you think these changes have been good? Why / Why not?

Answers

1  braver  2  the biggest  3  the happiest 

4  more famous  5  the most famous  6  more quickly

bIn pairs, students read the quote from Jane Goodall again to answer the question. Check answers together as a class.

Focus 7A on SB p.154. Play the recording where indicated and ask students to listen and repeat. Students then complete the exercises in Grammar Focus 7A on SB p.155. Tell them that there is more than one possible answer

in some cases. Check answers as a class, making sure students are using the definite article in the superlative.

Tell students to go back to SB p.68.

Answers (Grammar Focus 7A SB p.155)

a1  better: the best 2  fitter: the fittest

3  further than: the furthest

4  friendlier than: is the most friendly: the friendliest

5  drives more carefully than Alex: drives the most carefully 6  Eric works faster than Alex: works the fastest

7  Eric is more fashionable than Alex: is the most fashionable

dStudents complete the sentences individually and compare with a partner before you check answers as a class.

e 2.41 Play the recording for students to listen and check their answers. Then play the recording again for students to listen and repeat, paying attention to the sentence stress and the weak form of than. Point out the weak form of than /ðən/ and model this clearly.

  CAREFUL!

A common mistake students make when forming comparatives is that they use that instead of than. The city was bigger that I thought. (Correct form = The city was bigger than I thought.)

f In pairs, students discuss whether the sentences in 2d are true for them or not. Look at the examples with the class and encourage them to give similar examples. Ask students to share some examples with the class. Be prepared to give your own examples, too.

  CAREFUL!

•Monitor to check students are not using a double comparative form, e.g. He’s more older than me. (Correct form = He’s older than me.) I think the countryside is more better than the city. (Correct form = I think the countryside is better than the city.)

•Also make sure students include the with superlative forms, e.g. It was happiest day of my life (Correct form = It was the happiest day of my life.)

3 LISTENING

aAsk students to cover the page. Write the anagrams on the board: IDVRLAO / LTRESYEVS NOTSLELA. Tell students that one is a famous footballer and one is a famous actor. How quickly can they find the names?

Students uncover the page to check the answers. (Rivaldo and Sylvester Stallone) Ask students what they know about these two people and put their ideas on the board. Then ask them to read the biographies to check if their information is included. In pairs, students discuss how they think these people’s lives were different before they became famous. Ask students to share their ideas with the class. Put some ideas on the board.

b 2.42 Tell students that they are going to hear more about the two people. Play the recording and students listen to see which of the ideas/information on the board is mentioned. You can pause after each section and ask students to summarise points they heard. Take feedback as a class. Elicit any new facts that the students learned about each person.

Audioscript

The subject of this week’s one-minute inspiration is Brazilian footballer, Rivaldo. Rivaldo came from a very poor family. They didn’t have enough to eat and so, growing up, he had some serious health problems. As a teenager, he spent his days on the beach, he sold souvenirs to tourists in the morning and played football in the evening.

Rivaldo got on very well with his father, who was sure that one of his three sons would become a professional footballer. But when Rivaldo was only 16, his father died in a car crash. Rivaldo wanted to give up football and didn’t play for a month, but his mother told him he should make his father’s dream come true.

Later that year, he got an offer to join Paulistano, a small football club in his home town. He didn’t get paid much and he sometimes had to walk 15 kilometres to go to training, because he did not have enough money for the bus. He worked very hard at the club but, because of his health problems, his coach did not believe he could get fit enough to be a star.

But Rivaldo proved the coach wrong and became one of the best footballers in the world. He played for Brazil, and helped them to win the 2002 World Cup. He also played for Barcelona, who paid a 26-million-dollar transfer fee for him. Rivaldo dedicates his success to his father who he says was always with him.

One-minute inspiration this week comes straight from Hollywood. Sylvester Stallone grew up in a poor neighbourhood in New York. He had a difficult childhood and, after his parents got divorced, he got into trouble at school. When he left school, he managed to get a degree before looking for work in films.

But Stallone couldn’t get regular work as an actor. In 1975, he was at his poorest. He had got married and his wife was going to have a baby. He got a job at a cinema and another at a zoo to pay the bills, but he didn’t even have enough money to feed his dog. Instead, he sold his dog for $50 to a man outside a shop and walked away crying.

Two weeks later, he was watching a boxing match and he had an idea. In just 20 hours he wrote the script for Rocky. Then he tried to sell it. Amazingly, he got an offer of $325,000 from a film studio but he said no! He told the studio he wanted to play Rocky in the movie, but the studio didn’t think the film would be successful if he did.

In the end, the studio agreed to let him star, but they only paid him $35,000 for the script. As soon as he got paid, Stallone went to see the man he sold his dog to and gave him $3,000 to get it back!

The rest is movie history. Rocky was a big hit. It was nominated for ten Oscars and Stallone got rich and became a star.

  VOCABULARY SUPPORT

coach (B1) – someone whose job is to train and organise a sports team

dedicate sth to sb (C2) – to say that something you have made or done is to show your love or respect for someone

inspiration (B2) – a person or thing that makes you want to be better or more successful

neighbourhood (B1) – a particular area of a town or city nominate (C1) – officially choose or suggest

professional (B1) – someone who earns money for playing a sport

prove sb wrong – to show someone that they are/were wrong script (B2) – the written text of a film/movie or play or talk star (B1) – to play the main part in a film

transfer fee (B2) – the amount of money a club has to pay to buy a player from another club

at the first sentence and then play the first part of the recording which gives the information. Stop and check the answer. Then play the whole recording for students to listen and answer the remaining questions. They complete the exercise individually and then check their answers in pairs before you take feedback as a class.

Answers

1B – Rivaldo – health; Stallone – divorced parents, trouble at school

2B – Rivaldo – didn’t have enough to eat; Stallone – not enough money to feed dog

3S – his dog

4R – his father died

5R – had to walk to work

6B – Rivaldo – his coach did not believe he could get fit enough to be a star; Stallone – studio didn’t think he’d be a success

7S – when he appeared in his own film

8B – The answer is debatable. Rivaldo wanted to succeed for his father, not the money. Stallone paid $3,000 to get his dog back.

d Students discuss the questions in pairs. Monitor and help with vocabulary as necessary. Take feedback as a class and ask for the names of any other examples of famous people who started life poor and became rich and famous.

4 VOCABULARY get collocations

a 2.44 Tell the class that the verb get is one of the most common in the English language and has many different possible meanings. In pairs, students complete the sentences with the different phrases containing get before listening to check their answers.

dictionaries. Tell students to go back to SB p.69.

Answers (Vocabulary Focus 7A SB p.138)

dget divorced – when husband and wife separate; get on well – have a  good relationship (with); get together – start a relationship (with); get engaged – when two people agree to

marry; get in touch – make contact (with); get to know – find out more about a person after meeting them

5 SPEAKING

aExplain that students are going to write a timeline about the important events in a person’s life. Ask them to think of someone they know well. Elicit some examples of people they could think about, e.g. a very good friend, a member of their family, someone they know about at work or school, a famous person. Look at the timeline in the book with the class. Give some examples to clarify if necessary, e.g. When he was five, my brother started learning to play the piano. So, on the timeline I write ‘play the piano’. Give students some time to choose their person and complete the timeline. Encourage them to use expressions with get where possible. Monitor and give help where necessary.

bIn pairs, students tell their partner about the person they chose. Monitor and make notes of any common errors to deal with during feedback. Take class feedback and ask for interesting comments and information students learned.

cStudents ask and answer the questions in pairs. Go through the prompts in the box to give them some ideas before they start the activity. Monitor and listen to the discussions. Take feedback as a class and see if students agree with each other’s decisions for question 2.

LOA TIP REVIEW AND REFLECT

•Have a brief class discussion and ask students what new information they found out in this lesson. What was the most interesting thing? e.g. I learned some interesting information about Rivaldo.

•Ask what students learned in English that they didn’t know at the beginning of the lesson, e.g. I learned some new meanings of the verb get.

  FAST FINISHERS

Fast finishers should think of some other important lifechanging events and discuss their impact on people’s future lives, e.g. get promotion at work, win a lot of money, move to a new country. Discuss their ideas as part of the class feedback.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Workbook 7A

Photocopiable activities: Grammar p.216, Vocabulary p.240

7BI didn’tusetoeathealthyfood

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

• read and understand an article about health in the past

• use used to to talk about the past

• use health collocations

•pronounce /juːs tə/correctly

•talk about things that have changed in their lives

OPTIONAL LEAD-IN

Books closed. Put students into pairs. Ask them to list five kinds of food that are healthy and five kinds of food that are unhealthy. Ask the class for their suggestions and list them on the board. See if students agree on what is healthy and unhealthy, and why. Ask students if any of these kinds of food can be considered both healthy and unhealthy and

why. (e.g. milk and milk products – healthy because good for bones and teeth, unhealthy because can contain a lot of fat.) Agree on a separate list with students.

1 READING

a Ask students to look at the photos and say how we can tell they are from the 1950s. You may want to point out that the photos are from the USA. Encourage

students to think about fashion (e.g. The people are smart / smartly dressed. She’s wearing a turtle neck top / high heels. He’s wearing a suit and tie.) and lifestyle (e.g. She’s a housewife. Home / Family life is very important. The family are going shopping.) Ask students to think about family life and how it has changed, e.g. Women did more housework. Children played outside more. If you wish, give students information from the Culture notes below.

CULTURE NOTES

Many new houses were built in suburbs around American cities in the 1950s, giving young couples the chance to own their own homes. Television was new and advertising created a consumer culture for the first time. People were

encouraged to buy new household appliances. Many women stayed at home while their husbands went out to work. In 1950, around 29% of the workforce were women compared with around 50% in 2012.

b Read the title of the article and the introduction with the class. If you wish, give students information from the Culture notes below. Ask students if they think we are any healthier today than 70 years ago. Put their ideas and reasons on the board. Leave these on the board to refer back to later. Students read the sentences and decide whether they think they are true or false and then compare answers with a partner.

CULTURE NOTES

Mad Men is a popular American TV series about a group of people who work in an advertising agency. It is set in the 1960s and has won many awards.

James Dean was an American actor who played Jim Stark in the iconic film Rebel Without A Cause (1955). He died in a car accident that year at the age of 24.

Audrey Hepburn (1929‒1993) was a British actress who starred in a number of famous Hollywood films in the 1950s, such as Roman Holiday, Funny Face and Sabrina. One of

her most popular roles was Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961).

cStudents read the article quickly to check their answers from 1b. Ask them to correct the false statements (2 they spent less time; 3 they lived shorter lives).

Answers

1 T 2 F 3 F 4 T

VOCABULARY SUPPORT

calorie – unit of heat energy used as a measurement of the amount of energy that food provides

common (B1) – usual

housework (B1) – the work of keeping a house clean and tidy illegal (B2) – not allowed by law

recommend (B2) – advise

dFor the more detailed reading task, look through the questions fi rst with the class before they start the activity.

You may also wish to help students with words in the Vocabulary support box. Ask students to read the article again to answer the questions individually and then check with a partner.

Answers

1two glasses of milk a day

2They say we should eat more vegetables and less meat, cheese and butter.

331 years

4by doing housework

5Inventions have made our lives easier.

6when they were seriously ill

7allergies to food, diabetes

8They didn’t know how dangerous it was.

9in public places like offices, schools and restaurants

e Refer to the ideas that you wrote on the board earlier in the lesson about being healthier now or in the 1950s. Discuss the question as a class. Have students’ ideas changed?

2 VOCABULARY Health collocations

aIn pairs, students discuss which of the highlighted phrases are good or bad for our health. You might want to teach the expression underweight as the opposite of overweight and the construction to be allergic to. (Point out the diff erence in word stress between allergy and allergic). Check answers as a class.

Answers

1good – eat a healthy diet (eat healthy food), (be) on a diet (eat healthy food), keep in shape (stay fit), lose weight (become less fat), get fit (become fit), give up smoking (stop smoking)

2bad – put on weight (become fatter), have allergies (have a medical problem which starts because of a particular

substance), be overweight (be heavier than the correct weight for your height), (be) regular smokers

Note that losing weight and dieting can also be bad for health if done to excess.