- Check homework: present perfect
- More practice on present perfect: Oral activity in pairs - "Haven't we met before?" (link)
- Reading (p.22): "My life without money"
Interesting vocabulary - phrasal verbs: throw away, give away, throw away, set up, look after, turn up
Oral comment with the class: Which of these sentences describes your attitude to money?
. All I want is enough money to enjoy life?
. Money is very important to me. I'd like to earn as much as possible
. I would be happy to live with less money and fewer possessions
- Vocabulary and pronunciation: saying numbers (p.23 - activities a and b)
- Listening: News bulletin (p.23)
- 2B. Changing your life
. Oral practice: if you could choose to spend a year abroad, where would you choose to go?
. Listening (p.24): Listen to Karen, a primary school teacher who is spending one year off in Beirut
- Grammar point: present perfect continuous (p. 132) - theory and activities
. We use it to emphasise "how long..." a recent action or an action that hasn't finished yet.
. Thus, we usually find it with the expression "how long...?" and the time adverbs for/since.
. Present perfect continuous can't be used with non-action verbs
- Song: "Hot and cold" by Katy Perry (link to song)
- Video Listening: "Taxi" from Headway Intermediate (cabs in London)
- Review worksheet: present perfect simple and continuous
- Oral activity with the class: present perfect continuous
- Written and oral activity in pairs: more on present pefect...: writing a story
- Reading and oral activity: psychological test (revision on adjectives)
HOMEWORK:
- Worksheet on present perfect continuous
- Reading p. 26: "It was just a holiday, but it changed my life" (activity e)
- Reading from Speak up: "Globalisation: United fruit goes bananas"
