A2.1 Unit 3: The Past

Review of Unit 2: People

Kahoot Review of Unit 2: People

Including use of:

Adjectives of personality and appearance
Correct question formation
Distinguishing between to like, to look like and to be like
Practising subject-verb agreement
Identifying Parts of Speech - i.e. noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, determiner, conjunction
Word formation


Unit 3: The past

Aims

Learn and use verbs in their most common collocations

Practice using verb tense  more confidence

Learn to express sympathy in conversation: "oh dear", "how nice"etc

80 Irregular verbs

File 7 NEF - Past Simple tense practice

File 8 - regular and irregular

Jumble

(arranging sentences)

Review of extra vocab







Tell your partner about...
















Something you did this morning.

















Something you did yesterday.



















Something you did last week.



















Something you did last month.





















Something you did last year.




















Something you did two years ago.

















Something you did 5 years ago.















Something you did 10 years ago.












A history quiz










Review of extra vocab



Words to remember...










painful












starving










hilarious











true










bittersweet












return









rest









take a walk











get lost














get hurt












strange














two days ago












luggage













music festival











extremely tired









three months ago










stadium

A2.1 Class Wheel

Class wheel

A2.1 Unit 3: The Past - using verbs, writing

What verbs can we use with these nouns?

for example "a COOK cooks" or "a FARMER farms"

WRITER
INVENTOR
BOXER
LEADER
ACTOR
RULER
MOUNTAINEER
CONQUERER
FASHION DESIGNER
SINGER
THINKER
PAINTER
COMPOSER
FOOTBALLER
DIRECTOR
EXPLORER

Are there any here where you have to use a verb that is different from the noun?

Use the nouns to describe the people in the pictures and use a verb to say what important things they did.




He was a ______
He wrote ______

Writing activity











When were you born?










What pets did you have as a child?









What was your favourite toy when you were a kid?









Who was you best friend?








What sports did you play? What hobbies did you do?







Where did you go to high school?









Did you enjoy high school?








Did you travel anywhere when you were a teenager? What did you do there?








Why did you decide to come to New Zealand?

(Business Book 2) Risk

1. What does GFC stand for?


2. What happened in the 2008 GFC?


3. What caused it to happen?


4. What negative things happen when there's a global credit crunch?





Phrasal verbs

weed out

dry up

renege on

seize up

start up

come up with

What could be the nouns used with these verbs? Would you put them before the verb or after it?


Quizlet vocab preview

Let's learn some business terminolgy!

24 terms

A2.1 Unit 2: People - Game - Detectives

Detectives:

Suspects:







Read your cards. Do you understand everything?



Round 1. Rules

Detectives work in pairs.
Detectives can only ask about one thing at a time.
Detectives can make notes if they need to.

Try to find the people who might have stolen Mrs Miller's handbag. Tell the others to sit down.


Suspects must keep their cards hidden!
Suspects do NOT have to answer any questions that are not answered on the card.


Round 2.

Keep questioning the suspects.

Who stole the handbag? How do you know?

A2.1 Conversation - adjective builder

Look at the chart below

Questions for conversation - Groups of 3

What's the strongest drink you've ever tried?

Who in this class is wearing the most eye-catching colours?  

What's the most delicious smell in the world?

Talk about an unforgettable concert you went to.

Who at EF has a sweet voice? 







Do you like boiling hot drinks? 

Do you like boiling hot baths or showers?

Have you ever swum in freezing cold water?

Are winters mild in your country?

Would you describe yourself as a romantic?

(Advanced TED SPIN) Embrace the Shake

In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it.

Embrace the Shake

a warm, gentle, loving, full, hesitant embrace
embrace your darker side, fears, reality, enemies...
embrace Christianity, a faith
embrace motherhood, adulthood
embrace (cover) many topics

Listen and try to fill the gaps:

1. The shake developed out of a _____-minded p______ of pointillism

2. eventually these dots went f___ being perfectly round to looking more like t_______, because of the shake.

3. to compensate, I'd hold the pen tighter, and this p__________ made the shake worse, so I'd hold the pen tighter s____.

 4. I decided to go to a neurologist about the shake and discovered I had permanent n_____ d_____

5. I still enjoyed the f_________ of pointillism, seeing these little tiny dots come together to make this unified w____.

 6. I ended up having an approach to creativity that completely changed my a______ h_______.

7. I realized I was actually p_______ by all of the c______ that I never had before.

8. It really became a moment of c_________ for me that we need to first be limited in order to become l_______.

9. The last i________ of destruction was to try to produce something that didn't actually exist in the first p____.

10. There were times when my projects failed to g___ o__ t__ g_____, or, even worse, after spending tons of time on them the end image was kind of embarrassing.

11. I found a process of creating art that's perpetual and unen_______d by results.

12. Now, when I run into a barrier or I find myself c_______ s______, I sometimes still struggle, but I continue to show up for the p______ and try to remind myself of the possibilities