UNIT 6 aT per acc childhood things nea ees ee cr Pore rN pee soa Pees aa PETC Ete oid UNIT ane Creep aac Peco READING pS Ere Mat ey eee Ed Crd eee Eee ee ELCs eRe eRe em aa Tomer ee Pa rT Pac en sen etc)6.1 FAVOURITE THINGS Bigsaenic 1A Work in pairs and discuss. What do you know about the famous people in photos A-F? Shizuka Arakawa iso Japanese figure skater. She is also an Olympic gold medalist. B Match the famous people (A-F) with their favourite childhood things. Use your dictionary to help with new words. 1 Karate and radio-controlled cars _C_ 2 Ballet and swimming _ 3. Football and the flm Gladiator __ 4 The piano and Harrison Ford __ 5 Writing poems and dancing 6 John Cleese and Charlie Chaplin C © 61 Listen and check your answers. GRAMMAR BENT 2A. Find and underline the verbs in the sentences below. Are the verbs in the present or the past? | His favourite sport was football 2 His favourite actors were John Cleese and Charie Chapin, B Complete the past table below. Shakira is] Colombian, Her CDs are_| very popular Past, ‘She — ] born in 1977. Her favourite writing poems activities — | and dancing. Look at the sentence below and complete the rule. Skating wasn’t her favourite sport. Rule: make the negative with was/were + D Make the sentence below into a question. He was a quiet boy. limp page 138 LANGUAGEBANK \ F) Rowan Atkinson E) Rafael Nadal PRACTICE 3A © 62 Listen tothe sentences. Are they in the past or present? Write past (P) or now (N). 13s 2 4 6 8 B ©63 Listen and write the four sentences you hear. 1 2 3 4 Listen again and underline the stress in each sentence. D Circle the weak forms of was woz! and were /wa/ in the sentences. Then practise saying the sentences. A Write the questions with prompts 1-6. | you / born before 1995? Were you born before 1995? 2 you / born in July? you / avery quiet child? you / afraid of the dark when you were a child? your frst English teacher / a man? your parents / childhood friends? your grandfather / born in another country? 8 your grandmot / adoctor or anurse? B. Workin groups. Ask and answer the questions above. ‘A: Were you born before 19952? B: Yes, I was. J was born in 1985. 5A What were your favourite childhood things? Think of examples for each of the categories below: + music/band + activity/sport + TV programme/film + food/drink + person/people B_ Work in pairs and compare your ideas. ‘A: Who was your favourite person? B: My favourite person was my uncle Luciano. He was really funny. Niele NERA dates and time phrases GA (B)6.4 Listen and underline the years you hear, 1 1999/1990 3. 1987/1997 S 1941/1951 2 2010/2003 4 2000/2002 6 1872/1972 B_ Work in pairs and take turns. Student A: say one of the years above. Student B: point to the year. Take turns to say the months of the year. A: January B: February 7A Match the dates A-H with the special occasions below. There are ‘two extra dates. 32 ST TT -eanm™ -G=ID cem= Hamm 7° #25 4 «#14 | Christmas Day _ 4 Halloween __ 2 New Year's Day _5 World Health Day __ 3 Valentine's Day ___ 6 Independence Day (USA) __ B 65 Listen and check your answers. € Listen again. Write how you say these dates. CAS ae) the Ist of January or January Ist. D Write the numbers. Ist first 4th Dist 2nd th 2nd 3rd 12eh 30th 8 Work in pairs. Student A: go to page 165. Student B: go to page 160. 9A. Complete the time phrases below with the words in the box. yesterdey on in ago. last | _vesterday _ morning, afternoon, evening 2 night, Friday, weekend, week, month, year 3 Saturday, Sunday, 12th June 4 July, 1997, 2009 5 aweek, ten days, ten minutes B Choose five of the time phrases and write past sentences. Make them true for you. | was at home last night C_ Work in pairs and take turns. Student A: say one of your past events, but don’t say when it was. Student B: guess the time phrase. A: Iwas with some friends. B: On Saturday? A: Yes, That's right!Eun VOCABULARY | common verbs | > HOWTO | tlk about your Ife TA Look at the photos and discuss. Where do you think the women are from? Why are they time twins? B_ Read about their lives. Then put the paragraphs in the correct order. C ©66 Listen and check your answers. D Find two things that are the same and two things that are different between Lia and Carol. They were born on the same day. CEUIGM past simple 2A. Read the life stories again and circle the past form of the following regular verbs: lke, move, want, start, live, work, vist, stop. B Look at the verbs above and complete the rule. Rule: Make the past simple of regular verbs by adding or ___to the verb, © ©1677 Listento the pronunciation ofthe regular verbs below and write them inthe correct place inthe table fished loved hated travelled practised decided 8° She had sugar for lunch and Ith id hid finished D Write the past form of the irregular verbs below. Use the life stories to help. | have__had 2 get (married) 3 make 4 buy 5 0 6 mee E Complete the sentences with the negative form. Then complete the rule. 1 Ua any children. 2 Carol her children Rule: Make the negative by adding___before the verb. limp page 138 LANGUAGEBANK speakout The Longman WordWise Dictionary shows the past tense of verb, e.. begin (began). In your notebook, always write (REG) for a regular verb or the past form for an irregular verb. Do this now with find, finish, win and die, Lia was born in Yugoslavia on the 4ch of july 1931. ler every day for three years. She got married at twenty-five. She didn't have any children, but children always liked her. In 1969, she moved to Lake Balaton in Hungary and made @ lot of money selling ice cream with her sister. She bought house with the money, and now she rents rooms there. ‘She wanted to go to university but there was no money, so she started working in a sugar factory at seventeen. She lived in a small village and went to school when she was seven. In 1944, her family moved from Yugoslavia to Hungary because of the war. 3A. Complete the sentences withthe past form ofthe verb in brackets 1 She___lved __inthe city and always Later, she worked in a bookshop in New York. She met her husband there in 1951. They got married and hhad five children, E For a few years, she stopped going to school and studied at home with her mother. She became a ‘well-known radio actress. p In the 1990s, she didn't see her children very much because they lived abroad. She and her husband visited them sometimes. A. Complete the sentences with the past form of the verbs in brackets. Vl car (nothave) 21 alot of sport. (do) 31 a lot of junk food. (eat) al to agreat concert. (g0) 51 anew mobile phone. (buy) 61 English. (not speak) 71 friends. (sit) 81 English classes. (start) B Make the sentences above true for you last year. € Work in pairs and compare your sentences. Find three things that are the same. VOCABULARY BORIS 5A. Read the texts agsin and underline six verbs in the past tense that you use for telling a lif story. Lia was barn in Yugoslavia B Look at the irregular verbs on page 127 and find the past tense of these verbs: begin, find, grow up, leave, earn, lose, win. 6 Look at the sentences. What's different about the present and past question forms? 1 Do you lve in New Yorke? 2. Did you lve in New York when you were a child? am page 138 LANGUAGEBANK 7A Think about a friend you don't see now. Complete the questions below. Use the information in brackets tohelp. ‘Where and when. 2 (you / meet) Why each other? (you / like) a lot of things together? (you / do) How of to each other? (you / speak) When him/her? (you / last / see) What. then? (you / do) B Workin pairs. Ask and answer the questions above. BA. Think of three important events in yourlife 2007 ~ met my wife, B_ Workin pairs and talk about the important events in your lives. A: 2007 was a great year, B: Why? A: met my wife! RA EINIE because and so A. Complete the sentences with because or so. | Cerolloved acting, shewent toa school for cid actors. 2. Lia started working in a sugar factory her family was poor: B Complete the sentences about your life. 1 At schoo! liked sol 2. started studying English because © Write your life story in 100 words. Remember to use and, but, because and so.