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Unit 3: Life stories Unit 3: Life stories Grammar/ Reading Part Reading comprehension: Gretna scene I. Answer these questions: 1. How can you get married if you are 16 in England? _________________________________________________________________ _____ 2. Where can you get married at 16? _________________________________________________________________ _____ 3. How many guests were there at Marie’s wedding _________________________________________________________________ _____ 4. Were there Marie’s parents? _________________________________________________________________ _____ 5. When did they know about their daughter’s wedding? _________________________________________________________________ _____ 6. What did her mother do when she know about Marie’s wedding? _________________________________________________________________ _____ 7. When did Mrs. Schearer do after that? _________________________________________________________________ _____ 8. What’s the end of the story? _________________________________________________________________ _____ II. What is true from the story? 1. Marcus and Marie both live in Gretna. 2. Marie lived with Marcus when she was 13. 3. There were about 20 guests at the wedding. 4. His mother was there. 5. Her mother was there, too. 6. Her mother didn’t know about their wedding until the day after. Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 1 Unit 3: Life stories 7. Her parents were very happy when she got married. 8. Marie’s mother hit Marcus very painfully. III. Can you rewrite the story in five or ten sentences? Grammar questions: 1. Do you know the form of the Simple Past Tense? TO BE VERBS 2. Describe how to use this tense? 3. How to put “ed” to make past form of the regular verbs? • Verbs with “e” ending? Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 2 Unit 3: Life stories • Verbs with a vowel + a consonant ending? • Verbs with “y” ending? 4. Irregular verbs Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 3 Unit 3: Life stories Unit 3: Life stories Vocabulary/ Reading Part Vocabulary: Money Spider gram: Reading and Writing: The Witch of Wall Street - Wealthy: ['welθi] - poor: [pɔ:(r)] New words Witch ['wit∫] Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong Money 4 Unit 3: Life stories - To sell: [sel] - rich: [rit∫] - To buy: [bai] - stock [stɔk] - exchange: [iks't∫eindʒ] - mean [mi:n] - fortune: ['fɔ:t∫u:n] - cheap [t∫i:p] - generous ['dʒenərəs] - tax [tæks] - free [fri:] - To pay [pei] - stocks and shares [∫eə] - bank [bæηk] - To cost [kɔst] - millionaire [,miljə'neə] - price [prais] - To work [wə:k] - To count [kaunt] - expensive [iks'pensiv] - property ['prɔpəti] - diamond ['daiəmənd] - job [dʒɔb] - jewellery ['dʒu:əlri] - mortgage ['mɔ:gidʒ] - To lose [lu:z] Genius: ['dʒi:niəs] Revenge [ri'vendʒ] Chamber pot ['t∫eimbəpɒt] stroke [strouk] To Injure ['indʒə] Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 5 Unit 3: Life stories Reading comprehension: The Witch of Wall Street I. Answer these questions: 1. When did Hetty Robinson learn about money? ________________________________________________________ 2. How could she become a millionaire? ________________________________________________________ 3. How much money did she leave to her children when she died? ________________________________________________________ 4. Why did people call her the Witch of Wall Street? ________________________________________________________ 5. What can you buy and sell at the Wall Street? ________________________________________________________ 6. How mean was she? ________________________________________________________ 7. How much money did she spend on clothes? ________________________________________________________ 8. Why did she leave her husband? ________________________________________________________ 9. What happened with her son? ________________________________________________________ 10. How did she die? ________________________________________________________ 11. How was her son after she died? ________________________________________________________ Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 6 Unit 3: Life stories Discuss: 1. Why do people call Hetty Robinson the Witch of Wall Street? 2. What is the worst example of her meanness? 3. What is the funniest example of her meanness? 4. What is the most interesting part of the story? 5. What is the most ironic part of her life? Language focus: . so . that Form: Use: Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 7 Unit 3: Life stories Listening and speaking :Telling your life story I. Listen and fill in the blank with right place England Scotland Peru- South America South London Manchester- England Australia Singapore – Far East Canada 1. He was born in . 2. He mostly grew up in 3. His grandfather lived in 4. When his grandfather died, his family moved to . 5. His father got a job in . but he didn’t like it. 6. When he was ten, his family moved down to 7. When his sister got married, his parents followed her to live in . 8. Two years ago, when he got a place at the university, he came to II. True or false 1. When he was a kid, he moved around a lot. 2. His mother wanted to live aboard, and so did his father. 3. He left Peru when he was two and his sister was four. 4. His family lived in Singapore in nearly 5 years. 5. His family stayed in the same place from he started secondary school until he went to University. 6. His parents still live with his sister. Pronunciation: -ed ending and word stress Rules: - After a vowel sound or a voiced consonant: eg: pulled; lived . - After a voiceless consonant ( /∫/,/ p/, /k/, / t∫/, /s/): eg: topped, watched . - After -t or -d: eg: started; chatted; needed Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 8 . Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong 3 Unit 3: Life stories Unit 3: Life stories Vocabulary/ Reading. part of the story? 5. What is the most ironic part of her life? Language focus: . so . that Form: Use: Class: CP 009- Edulink Center Course: Life Lines