BEFORE, AFTER & WHILE Practice

1 The pictures show seven periods in Geoffrey's life.

Look at the arrows above the pictures. What events does each point to ?

2 The arrows below the pictures show other events in his life.

In groups, ask and answer questions about when each happened.

Example A: When did he meet Angeline ?

В: He met her before he became a captain.

С: He met her after he went to college.

D: He met her while he was at college.

5.3 FIRST EXPERIENCES Practice

A: When did you learn to drive ?

В: I learnt to drive when I was 18. How about you ?

Work in pairs. Have similar conversations.

When did you:

1 learn to swim ?

2 first wear make-up?

3 first go abroad ?

4 start earning money ?

5 start learning English?

6 smoke your first cigarette ?

7 first fly in an aeroplane?

8 first fall in love?

Now continue with your own ideas.

5.4 LIFE STORY Writing

Look at your notes in 5.1. From your notes, write the story of the writer's life. Use appropriate expressions you have learnt to link the events together. Begin like this:

'David Manning was born in London in 1942, and attended Westminster School for Boys ...'

5.5 PAST TIMES

Presentation

All of the expressions below are used to talk about past time. Which of them are used with (a) at? (b) on ? (c) in ? (d) no preposition ?

4 o'clock Tuesday, 14 the 1920s

Yesterday three weeks ago the turn of the century

Tuesday the end of May Victorian times

last Tuesday Christmas the 19th century

Tuesday morning the summer the Middle Ages

14 May last summer 1,000 years ago

May 1945

Practice

Work in groups. Ask and answer questions about the past. Use these ideas:

5.6 PAST EVENTS: THE PASSIVE

Presentation and practice

This is an entry in a record catalogue. It tells you that the symphony was composed by Elgar, that the orchestra was conducted by Georg Solti, and that the record was made in 1972. What else does it tell you ?

Now look at these other pieces of information, and say:

1 where you might find them

2 what they tell you - use the Passive in your answer

Writing

Work in groups. Look at the pictures below, which show the history of Cranmore Castle.

1. Say what happened at each stage of its history.

2. Write a history of Cranmore Castle. Use the information in the pictures, and add details of your own.

Begin like this:

‘Cranmore Castle was built in the 15th century by John, Duke of Cranmore ..’

5.7 TEST YOUR MEMORY: QUIZ Free practice

Can you answer these questions?

1 What happened in Rome on 14 March 44 BC?

2 Who were the following discovered by ?

a) penicillin

b) North America Can you say when ?

3 Who were the Pyramids built by, and when?

4 When:

a) did the first man step on the moon ?

b) did the first aeroplane fly?

c) was a woman elected Prime Minister of Britain ?

Now write down three ‘quiz’ questions of your own about the past.

In groups, ask each other your questions.

Now choose the three best questions in your group, and ask the rest of the class these questions.

5.8 FAMOUS LIVES

Reading

Work in three groups.

1 Read your own passage, and decide who it is about.

2 Practise retelling the life story without looking at the passage.

3 Form new groups (one A, one В and one C). Tell the others the story, so that they can guess who it is about.

Group A: He was born in the United States at the turn of the century. As a young man, he was very active, and spent a lot of time hunting and fishing. He started working as a journalist, but during the First World War he was an ambulance driver in Italy, where he was badly wounded in 1917. After fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he worked as an army correspondent until 1945, when he went to live in Cuba. In 1954 he won a Nobel Prize. He stayed in Cuba until the Castro Revolution in 1959, and then returned to live in the United States. He was married four times, and later in his life became physically and mentally ill. On 2 July 1961, he committed suicide.

Group В: She was born into a wealthy family in Philadelphia in 1930, and she had her first part on the stage when she was 12 years old. Five years later, after visiting Europe with her family, she was admitted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. While she was there she did some modelling and TV commercials to earn some extra money. She first appeared on Broadway in 1949. In 1951, after appearing in several plays on stage and on TV, she played the hero’s wife in the film High Noon. She then had star roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, and later won an Oscar for her role in The Country Girl. In April 1956 she left Hollywood and got married. She had a daughter in 1957, followed by a son 14 months later, and another daughter in 1965. She lived in Monaco until her death in 1982.

Group С: She was born in September 1890 in Torquay, in the southwest of England. She married in 1914, just before the beginning of the First World War. During the War, she worked first as a nurse, and then in a hospital dispensary, where she learnt all about drugs and poisons. Her husband returned from France at the end of the War, and they had a daughter in 1919. Eight years later, in 1927, she got divorced, and after two or three years’ work, she went on holiday to Baghdad, where she joined a British archaeological expedition. There she met her second husband: they travelled back to England together on the Orient Express, and got married in September 1930. They went on two more archaeological expeditions in Syria, and during the Second World War she again worked in a dispensary. After more travels to the Middle East in 1947 and 1949, she and her husband moved back to the southwest of England, where she worked until her death in 1976. In 1971 she was made a Dame of the British Empire.

Writing

Write a similar paragraph about yourself.

Unit 6 Talking about now

6.1 USES OF THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS Presentation

Read these three passages, each of which uses the Present Continuous

All the passages are talking about ‘now’. In what ways are they different?

6.2 WHAT ARE THEY DOING? Practice

A: Hello, Suntours Ltd. Can I help you ?

В: Yes, I’d like to speak to the Manager, please.

A: I’m afraid he’s not available at the moment. He’s attending a meeting.

В: Oh. Could I speak to his secretary, then ?

A: I’m afraid she’s not available, either. She’s ...

Have conversations like this, using these ideas:

1 Murphie’s Garage: Mr Murphie; the chief mechanic.

2 Ogilvie, Blunt & Partners (Solicitors): Mr Ogilvy; Mr Blunt.

3 University Physics Dept: Dr Lloyd; Dr Lloyd’s secretary.

4 The Regency School of English: the Director; the Information Officer.

5 Buckingham Palace: the Queen; the Duke of Edinburgh; Prince Charles.

6.3 SEE FOR YOURSELF

Presentation

Example: Somebody’s watching us.

There’s somebody watchingus.

We’re being watched.

Change these sentences in the same way:

Practice

Add an explanation to each of the remarks below, saying what is happening.

Examples Don’t go out in your sandals: It’s pouring with rain.

Could you answer the door: There’s someone ringing the bell.

Keep your head down: We’re being shot at.

6.4 DESCRIBE AND CHOOSE Practice

Work in pairs.

Student A: Choose one of the five pictures below. Describe it to B, by saying only what is happening, what people are doing, etc. В will guess which picture you are describing.

Student В: Listen to A’s description. When you think you know which picture he or she is describing, check your guess by asking some questions.

6.5 LONG-TERM CHANGES Free practice

Discuss the topics below. Say what changes are taking place, and, if you can, explain why.

1. Venice 5. life expectancy

2. the sun 6. the Mediterranean Sea

3. the world’s fuel resources 7. the population of the world

4. the Sahara Desert

6.6 CURRENT ACTIVITIES Practice

Have more conversations like this. You’re talking to:

1. a writer 3. a painter 5. a detective

2. an architect 4. a composer 6. a journalist

Talk to other students. Find out the kind of things they’re doing these days.

6.7 READING GAME:

THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS PASSIVE Practice

Read these sentences, which describe present situations:

section A 1. Their flat is being completely modernised:

2 Miss World is being given V.I.P. treatment:

3 The war’s causing terrible suffering:

4 My car’s still at the garage:

5 The college has been without electricity for a week now:

6 Christmas is coming:

7 The family next door is being closely watched:

Now read these sentences, which continue the sentences in section A and give more details. Each sentence in section A has two continuation sentences.

section B ... they’re putting up coloured lights in the High Street.

... people are taking her out to nightclubs.

... they’re taking out all the old fireplaces.

... they’re sending most students home at 5 o’clock.

... they’re fitting a new exhaust pipe.

... they’re holding evening classes by gas light.

... troops are destroying the crops.

... they’re tapping their telephone.

... they’re tightening the brakes.

... they’re selling Christmas trees in all the shops.

... they’re watching the house from across the street.

... everyone’s buying her bouquets of roses.

... the invading army is burning down all the villages.

... they’re putting in central heating.

1 Match the sentences in section A with the continuations in section B.

2 Read them out, changing the continuation sentences into the Passive.

Example Their flat is being completely modernised: all the old fireplaces are being taken out and central heating is being put in.

6.8 WHAT’S GOING ON?

Free practice

Here is part of a letter, in which the writer is giving some current news:

Work in groups. Look at the sentences below. How might they continue?

1 I’ve decided to go on a diet...

2 There’s a water shortage at the moment...

3 I’m very short of money at the moment...

4 Spring is almost here ...

Writing

Choose two of the topics you discussed, and develop them into paragraphs.

6.9 A TELEPHONE CALL

Listening

Listen to the telephone conversation between Sue and Mike and answer the questions.

1. Choose the correct answers, (a) or (b).

Sue is on holiday in [ a) Spain / b) England ] with her [ a) sister. / b) boyfriend.] She is ringing up her [ a) boyfriend, / b) brother,] Mike, because it’s [ a) her / b) his ] birthday. Mike has stayed at home because [ a) he’s ill. / b) he’s working.] When she phones, he is just [a) having breakfast. / b) making coffee.]

2. What is the weather like in England?

3. What does Sue mean when she says:

a) ‘It’s absolutely boiling!’

b) ‘I’m living in my bikini!’

4. Why is she sending Mike a postcard?

5. What does Sue say people are doing where she is?

6. What does Mike say people are doing where he is?

7. What do you think Mike does for a living?

8. Listen to the last part of the conversation and fill in the missing words.

Sue: Oh dear, still, I expect .............................................................................................. .

How’s it going?

Mike: Oh, fine. I’m................................................................................... . Actually, at this

very moment....................................................................... and ................................ .

Good God, that ............................................................ .. Can you ........................... ?

The kettle ......................................................................... . Just a tick.

Sue Hey, Mike, don’t go ............................................................. This ............................

............................... . I’ll ...................................................................................., OK?

Writing

Some of the things Sue says in the conversation could also be written on a postcard. Write down as many as you can.

Using these expressions, write the postcard Sue might have sent to Mike. Add any details you like.

Activities

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