Comment on the following quotes, statements, proverbs
MODULE 4
Do some events in our life can really influence and change it?
I. Study the vocabulary that is useful to talk about life events
get a degree
get a job
get divorced
get engaged
get married
get married again
get promoted
become very successful
bring up your children
fail your exams
fall in love
amorousness
being in love
have children
important influence
incredible
influence someone
in spite of
leave home
leave school
lifetime
lose your job
make a lot of money
major
matter
remarkable
rent or buy a house
retire
split up
start school
start work
pass your exams
change a job
childhood
adolescence
birth
puberty
old age
retirement
marriage
middle age
growing up
at university
at school
child
teenage
teens
twenties
student
kid
single
young
my lucky break
the best day of my life
turning point
the lowest point
all my life
start a new life
it’s a way of life
in all my life
spend his full life
a very full life
difficult choice
wise choice
right decision
wrong decision
bad move
II.Comment on the pictures.
Look at these statements. Which 3 of them do you consider the best motto for your life? Why?
III. Discussion
Answer the questions
1. All events in our life can be of different categories. What are these categories?
2. What positive events can happen in one’s life? What is their influence? Give some examples from your life, life of your parents, relatives or just people you know.
3. They say that in life we have both white and black periods. What events can be in a black one? How can they influence a person? Give some examples from your life, life of your parents, relatives or just people you know.
4. Do you remember the best day in your life? In life of your family? What was it?
5. Have there been any major turning-points in your life?
Comment on the following quotes, statements, proverbs
6. Everything that doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
7. Life begins at forty.
8. You have to take the good with the bed.
9. Better late than never.
10. The best things in life are free.
11. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
12. After the feast comes the reckoning.
13. Everything will be as it should be.
14. Our life is as we consider it to be.
IV. Prepare a report about your lifeline. Write about events that have happened in your life and how they’ve influenced you. Present ideas about your future (what events you’d like to happen in your life).
V. Describe (15-20 sentences) lifeline of any famous person. How did events in his life influence and change his life?