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Pronunciation
1. Read the sentences from the pilot`s transcript:
We`re gonna be in the Hudson
What does “gonna” mean?
Gonna is a short form of going to
2. What do you think these reduced forms mean?
Didja: Did you
Doncha: don`t you
Dunno: don`t kown
Gimme: give me
Gotta: got to
Kinda: kind of
3. Listen to the sentences and write what you hear. Then check your
answer to exercise 2 above.
1. Here gimme that pen will you? Thanks
2. Ugh! Rain. Doncha hate it whent it rains?
3. Hey, didja hear the news?
4. Is that the time? I`ve gotta go
5. I dunno what you’re talking about.
6. Can you please be quiet? It’s kinda difficult to study with all this noise.
Vocabulary
1.Look at the summary of the dictionary mecanings of the verb Land.
Match cach me
1. C
2. D
3. A
4. E
5. B
2. Choose two categories from the Happy Landings questionarire.
Complete with your ideas. Then compare with partner.
Think of there…
Things that could land you in serious trauble with the pólice,
especially in your country: The problems they could cause me
would be due to drug use, theft or death
Places you might have landed up if your life had been different: I
would not have been studying in Trujillo, I would have been in Argentina.
At that time they proposed to me to go study there but because of my
parents I couldn't go
VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING
1. listen to the sounds on the recording and write all the words that
they make you think of.
2. Use a dictionary to help you.
Movement of the sea: Current, wave, tide
Equipment to go in the sea: snorkel
Things on the beach: Sand, seashells, seaweed
Water sports: drive, water-skiing
Things that live in the sea / at sea: jellyfish, seagull, shellfish
Kinds of boats: ship, tanker, yacht
3. Work in pairs.
A: draw a picture of one of the words but don’t say what it is.
DRIGHT
GRAMAR PAG 35
1. Look at the examples above from the text of the present perfect and the
perfect and the present perfect continuous. Now find other examples of
the tenses in the text.

Present perfect simple Present perfect

continuous
Subject + have / has + subject + have / has
+

2. Read the rules on when to use present perfect simple and continuous.
Decide why the author chose each tense in the examples you found in
the text

Present perfect continuous: The seas have been rising steadily

Present perfect simple: The seas have risen between 10 and 25 cm
Seas levels will continue rising even if the climate has stabilized

3. Look at the words in the box. Which are usually used with present perfect
and which word are used with past simple? Which can be used with
both?

Past Simple: Present

Perfect
 A few years ago already
Yesterday for years
In never
Last year since I was a
child
For years yet
For years can be used with

4. Complete the sentences with the present perfect or present perfect

continuous
- Have been rising
- Have risen
- Have you ever lived
- Have you been living
- Have been
- Have been taking