Unit 3

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Revision present simple

[LC + GRA]

Listen to the song Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton1 and fill in the missing verb forms.

TIP: all verb forms are in the simple present tense.

It ……………………………….…… late in the evening She's wondering what clothes to wear She ……………………………….…… on her make-up and ……………………………….…… her long blonde hair And then she ……………………………….…… me, "……………………………….……………………… all right?"

And I ……………………………….……, "Yes, you ……………………………….…… wonderful tonight."

We ……………………………….…… to a party and everyone ……………………………….…… to see This beautiful lady that's walking around with me And then she ……………………………….…… me, "……………………………….……………………… all right?"

And I ……………………………….……, "Yes, I ……………………………….…… wonderful tonight."

I ……………………………….…… wonderful because I ……………………………….……

The love-light in your eyes And the wonder of it all Is that you just ……………………………….……………………… how much I ……………………………….…… you.

It ……………………………….…… time to go home now and I've got an aching head So I ……………………………….…… her the car key and she ……………………………….…… me to bed And then I ……………………………….…… her, as I ……………………………….…… out the light I ……………………………….……, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."

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an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter

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Answer the following questions about the song orally: a) How would you describe the mood of the song? b) On what occasion or event would you play this song? c) Do you like the song? Why (not)?

Have a closer look at the affirmative sentences of the song. Are all the verb forms the same? Explain why (not). ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

REVISION: You learned how to use a present simple tense last year. Complete the grid below!

PRESENT

FORM

simple

USE EXAMPLES

Every Saturday, I ………………………… volleyball. (to play) My friend ………………………… rugby on Fridays. (to play)

Underline the negative sentences and encircle the questions of the lyrics.

Take notes on how to form negative sentences and questions in the simple present tense.

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Ø Have a look at the grammar topic present simple tense in your TB, p. 204-207 for more information and examples.

EXERCISES: Present simple tense 1

Write the affirmative form of the verbs in brackets in the present simple tense.

a) Sally ………………………………………………. (to be) John’s girlfriend. b) They ………………………………………………. (to be) dating. c) John and George ………………………………………………. (to be) best friends. d) They always ………………………………………………. (to have) breakfast before they ………………………………………………. (to go) to school. e) John ………………………………………………. (to like) a bowl of cereal, but George ………………………………………………. (to prefer) some fruit. f) I usually ………………………………………………. (to eat) some toast.

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Write the negative form of the verbs in brackets in the present simple tense: full forms and short forms.

a) Some of my classmates ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to live) in Mechelen. b) I ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to ride) my bike to school. c) I ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to be) a senior. d) My nieces ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to go) to Scheppers. e) It ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to be) Saturday today. f) You ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to hate) English. g) My father ……………………………………………/………………………………………… (to watch) the news every day.

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Fill in the third person singular form of the verbs in brackets in the present simple tense.

a) Peter ………………………………………………. (to like) watching baseball. b) Jack ………………………………………………. (to live) in Tokyo. c) The landlord ………………………………………………. (to try) to please his customers. d) Cathy ………………………………………………. (to study) in the library. e) My Mum ………………………………………………. (to go) to the supermarket to buy food. f) She ………………………………………………. (to do) most of the housework in the morning.

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g) My sister ………………………………………………. (to wash) her hair every other day. h) My brother often ………………………………………………. (to watch) TV.

EXERCISES: Present simple tense

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Listen to your teacher and tick the final sound of the third person singular of the verbs in the grid. Then pronounce the verb forms yourself.

final sound = [z]

final sound = [iz]

final sound = [s]

examines

writes

serves

washes

works

pairs

papers

paints

goes

studies

Make some notes on the pronunciation of the third person singular in the present simple: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Still not sure?

Consult a pronunciation guide: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pronunciation

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Put the infinitives in brackets into the present simple to complete the text.

My brothers and I always ……………………………….…… (to watch) The Simpsons after dinner because my parents ……………………………….…… (not to want) us to watch TV before 6 p.m. The Simpsons ……………………………….…… (to be) the brainchild of Matt Groening who named the characters after his family: Matt’s father is called Homer, and his mother is called Margaret (although Marge was a funnier name). He also ……………………………….…… (to have) two sisters called Lisa and Maggie. He called the main character Bart because it ……………………………….…… (to be) an anagram of ‘brat’, a child who ……………………………….…… (to behave) badly.

Our

favourite

characters

……………………………….……

(to

be)

Bart

and

Homer.

We

always

……………………………….…… (to laugh) out loud when something funny ……………………………….…… (to happen) to them and we ……………………………….…… (not to know) what we would do without our daily episode of The Simpsons.

Bart ……………………………….…… (to be) the most misunderstood Simpson. He ……………………………….…… (not to like) the narrowminded people of Springfield who ……………………………….…… (to judge) him merely by his thoughts and actions. At heart, he ……………………………….…… (not to be) a bad kid, although he sometimes ……………………………….…… (to do) stupid things. Bart ……………………………….…… (to enjoy) skateboarding, bubble gum, and Squishees from the Kwik-E-Mart.

A devoted husband, Homer ……………………………….…… (to leave) his wife with few complaints. When pressed, however, Marge did once acknowledge2 to a marriage counsellor that Homer “……………………………….…… (to forget) birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, ……………………………….…… (to chew) with his mouth open, ……………………………….…… (to hang) out at a seedy3 bar with bums4 and lowlifes, ……………………………….…… (to blow) his nose in towels and ……………………………….…… (to put) them back and ……………………………….…… (to scratch) himself with his keys”. Despite these few foibles5, Homer ……………………………….…… (to love) his family and he’ll do just about anything to prove it – even if that ……………………………….…… (to mean) making himself look foolish.

to accept that something is true dirty and unpleasant, possibly connected with immoral or illegal activities 4 a lazy person 5 a silly habit or a strange or weak aspect of a person’s character, that is considered harmless by other people 2 3

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3 Complete the questions to the underlined words. The answers are given in the right-hand column.

1. Homer Simpson is from Springfield.

1a 1b

a. Who ___________________ from Springfield?

b. Where _____________________________________________________ from?

(1a) Homer (is).

(1b) From Springfield.

2. There are a few bars in Springfield.

2a 2b

a. How many ______________________________________________ in Springfield?

(2a) A few.

b. Where ____________________________________________________________ a few bars ? (2b) In Springfield.

3. Bart and Lisa study English at school.

4a 4b 4c 4d

a. Who ________________________________ English at school?

b. What ______________________________________________________________ at school?

c. What ______________________________________________________________ at school?

d. Where ______________________________________________________________ English?

4. Maggie has a lot of talent.

3a 3b

a. Who ______________________________________________ a lot of talent?

b. What ________________________________________________________________________?

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(4a) Bart and Lisa (do).

(4b) They study English.

(4c) English.

(4d) At school.

(3a) Maggie (does).

(3b) A lot of talent.

5. Playing the saxophone inspires Maggie most.

4a 4b

a. What ________________________________ Maggie most?

(4a) The saxophone (does).

b. Who ___________________________________________________________________ most?

(4b) Maggie.

Ask an inversion question about each of the above statements and write it down in the left-hand column.

Write the short answers in the right-hand column.

1. ____________________________________________________________________________________

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2. ____________________________________________________________________________________

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3. ____________________________________________________________________________________

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4. ____________________________________________________________________________________

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5. ____________________________________________________________________________________

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II

Jobs

[VOC]

Let’s do a quiz together. Your teacher will show you 10 pictures of different jobs. Write down the jobs you see on the lines below.

1 ……………………………………………………

6 ……………………………………………………

2 ……………………………………………………

7 ……………………………………………………

3 ……………………………………………………

8 …………………………………………………….

4 ……………………………………………………

9 …………………………………………………….

5 ……………………………………………………

10 ……………………………………………………

What do your mother and father do? What’s their job? (orally)

Now fill in the crossword puzzle about jobs!

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III

52 jobs in 52 weeks (extra)

[RC, WA]

Read the text below. Use a dictionary to look up words you don’t understand.

52 Jobs in 52 Weeks

Asked what he wanted to be, Sean Aiken used to tell people he was going to become a physiotherapist.

He didn't know exactly what that entailed, he acknowledges, but it "sounded cool."

But then he found himself graduating from business school with a sense of trepidation. He was on the verge of "real life" and still unsure what he wanted to do with it. After his father confessed to never finding passion in his work, Mr. Aiken committed to an unusual journey: He would work anywhere, doing 52 jobs in a year and donating his wages to charity. "I promised myself that I would find something I loved doing," the Vancouverite told students recently at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

The highs, the lows and the lessons learned during the year from February, 2007, to March, 2008 – including that "it's surprisingly difficult to dress a mannequin" – are detailed in his book One-Week Job, out this week. Mr. Aiken sat down with The Globe and Mail to talk about his experience.

You graduated top of your class with a business degree. Why didn't you end up on Bay Street6 instead of dabbling as a bungee instructor, baker and bartender?

I started out in sciences. I was thinking about being a physiotherapist or getting into rehabilitation. I took a business course and I found I could really relate it to the real world. I thought business would allow me to keep the options open. So I wasn't too sure exactly what career path I wanted to take, whether I wanted to be on Bay Street or another job. Many take the year after school to go travel and try different things. I guess One-Week Job was my way of doing that.

What did you learn about yourself?

Many things. I'm not a very good yoga instructor. I guess the biggest thing is I got a lot of confidence. To put myself, week in and week out, in these challenging situations, most often in a job I'd never done before. I guess just kind of testing my abilities, and knowing I have the skill set that I could step into any situation and learn and make do.

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Bay Street is the financial district of Toronto (a major city in Canada). (You can compare it with Wall Street in New York.)

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How did you find and choose the jobs?

Our information was on the website and people would e-mail or call with offers. I chose based on what the job sounded like, whether I'd be learning something or not.

What were some of the jobs you turned down or, in retrospect, wish you had turned down?

One job I turned down was working for Naked News in Toronto. The job was to be a news anchor: As I was delivering the news, I'd have to take off my clothes.

Were there jobs you liked, that helped clarify what you want to do in quote unquote real life?

I worked in Toronto at the Steam Whistle brewery and the corporate culture there is just amazing.

They really respect their employees and, in return, their employees are really happy to be there. I really enjoyed that perspective. In business school, we were always focused on the bottom line, we had this idea that, in order to get ahead, it almost has to be at the expense of others.

So it was good to work at a company like Steam Whistle and see how they're involved in the community and how that helps their business. Other ones – specifically, working in a cubicle job – I found that I definitely could not see myself in an office environment all the time. So basically, each week I was able to take little pieces of what I was looking for in a career.

Any jobs that put them all together?

There are a few. I think I'd definitely like to be a teacher and a real-estate agent. I'm not sure in what order.

How much time did you spend actually doing the job? When you were a yoga instructor, for example, how long did you have to spend learning it before you could teach a class?

Monday through Thursday, I did six hours of yoga class a day. Sometimes I participated in the class, other times I would sit in the corner and take notes. On Friday, I stood up and taught the course myself.

That was a really hard week. It was incredibly difficult and I was very sore afterwards. The next week, I was a dairy farmer and I definitely still felt the soreness, even a few weeks after that.

What advice would you give a young person, someone close to graduation?

I would say, "Don't focus on the title." It's so easy to say you want to be a doctor, teacher, whatever, but d

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you don't think about what actually makes up the career. I would say to focus more on yourself and learning more about the types of situations in the workplace you need to be happy. And then start putting it together and see what jobs come out of it. The most important thing is to do something you love.

OLIVER MOORE The Globe and Mail Abbreviated from the original version

Now try to solve the following questions.

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Explain the underlined words in English.

a) dabbling ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… b) learn and make do ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… c) turned down ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… d) in retrospect ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… e) cubicle job ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… f) real estate agent ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… g) dairy farmer ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Why are employees of the Steam Whistle brewery so happy? Explain in your own words.

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Why did he choose to try so many jobs? Explain in your own words.

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Which advice does he give young people? Explain in your own words.

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Do you know which job you would like to do in the future? Would you be interested in trying 52 jobs in 52 weeks? Why (not)?

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Hobbies

[VOC, OA, RC]

Watch the clip and write down as many hobbies as you can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOoNAVEvqHM

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Additionally, have a look at the hobbies in your TB p. 45-46. Can you name them all? (orally)

Prepare an interview with your neighbour about her/his hobby/hobbies. Write down a few questions you can ask on the lines below. Use the present simple tense. When you have all your questions, interview each other.

1. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

5. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Read the text about young people’s hobbies in your TB p. 40-42.

Then answer the following questions.

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Why does Melissa love stargazing so much? Explain in your own words.

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Quote two passages from the text proving that Melissa does not normally share her interest in stargazing with others.

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Find the word in the text that replaces the underlined words. He comes along with me.

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What is special about the computer Elek uses now? Explain in your own words.

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Why does he prefer computer games to real sports? Quote from the text.

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Abigail doesn’t call herself an artist, she calls herself a …………………………

Explain why in your own words.

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Why doesn’t she edit her photos? Explain in your own words.

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My room/My hobby

[WA]

Use the picture of this room to write about Jack and Jill’s hobbies in full sentences. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

What do you see in this bedroom? Write a few sentences describing Brandon’s room. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

On your exam you will be asked to write about your own hobbies or to describe your own room.

You can use this page as a preparation for the Christmas exam. You can brainstorm and write down some ideas. However, you may not bring your preparations to the exam! ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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MTV Cribs

[LC + OA]

Watch the MTV Teen Cribs episode in which Lynsey and Ryan show you their uncle’s (huge) crib and answer the questions below.

PART 1: LYNSEY’S TOUR (1:35-7:05) 1

Where is the house situated?

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Does Lynsey cook often? Why (not)?

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What is the bunk room?

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What is so special about the closet?

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Personal questions (orally) 5 6

Which rooms did you like? Why? Which rooms didn’t you like? Why not?

PART 2: RYAN’S TOUR (7:05-12:20) 7

What does Ryan do in the TV room?

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What is Ryan’s favourite1 room? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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What does the virtual window do?

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favourite = British English (BrE), favorite = American English (AmE)

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Personal questions (orally) 10 Which rooms did you like? Why? 11 Which rooms didn’t you like? Why not?

12 Would you like a house like the one you have just seen on MTV Teen Cribs? Why (not)?

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VII I.

Present simple drills

[GRA]

Make these sentences negative.

1. Paul studies electronics. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. Bristol has got beautiful houses. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Doctor Horne examines one of his patients. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

4. Emily and her friend love pop music. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

5. We do the laundry. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

6. I know the answer. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

7. The house looks new. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. He lives in Antwerp. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

9. I can do all the exercises. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

10. I love making sentences negative. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………

II.

Ask questions.

1. I work on Saturdays. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. He goes to school. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

3. I play rugby every Wednesday. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. Jack is interested in cars. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

5. We all love English. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

6. Scheppers is the best school. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

7. Our English teachers are wonderful. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. He has got more than 100 pictures on Instagram. …………………………………………………………………………………….

9. These trains go very fast. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

10. He runs every day. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

11. I want to talk about it. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

12. He has a car. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

13. Helen loves winter. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

14. I have five brothers. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

15. Emma has a boyfriend. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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16. The mayor travels by train. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

17. Brenda makes all her clothes herself. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

III.

Write the correct questions. Then ask the questions to your neighbour2. Write down your classmate’s answers on the lines underneath the questions and report to the class about your peer’s habits in the morning.

1. What time …………………………………………………………………………………… (you/to get up)?

2. First I get dressed. What …………………………………………………………………………………… (you/to do) next?

3. When …………………………………………………………………………………… (you/to have) breakfast?

4. Where …………………………………………………………………………………… (you/to have) lunch?

5. What time …………………………………………………………………………………… (you/to go) to bed?

6. What …………………………………………………………………………………… (you/to do) in the evening?

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neighbour = BrE, neighbor = AmE

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