1.

Lifestyles

- Think about adjectives that describes your lifestyle best.

busy and dynamic sedentary chaotic

healthy comfortable simple lavish

- Give a brief description of your own lifestyle.

- Would you like to change your lifestyle? Why? Why not?

- Lavish: extravagant and ostentatious.

Rich Russian women are videoing themselves cutting up their
Chanel handbags to protest being unable to purchase the
fashionable items because of trade sanctions against Russia.
Trade sanctions are currently in place with a number of big
name brands including McDonald's, Coca Cola and Chanel have
stopped trading in Russia after their invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow models and influencers are fuming at the Chanel ban,
with many accusing the brand of "Russophobia," taking to
social media to show themselves destroying Chanel products.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-
models-blast-chanel-over-26650095
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 READING: DEVELOPING SKILLS
“OUR LOST CHILDHOOD” (B2, RUE, 7th paper) p. 8+9
- Skim: read a text quickly
- Get to: start doing
- Succeed >> success >> successful >> successfully
- Choose >> choice
- For pleasure
- Make progress
- Skill: aptitude, ability
- Chill out: relax
- Try out: sample, experience, test
- Afford: have money to do
- Snatched (minutes): taken quickly
- Proper: correct, appropriate
- Rush off: leave in a hurry
- Packed off: sent somewhere
- Sort of = kind of = type of
- Target: objective, goal
- Take over from: replaced
- Actually: in fact.
- Keep in touch with: communicate
- Keep up: practise.
- Keep an eye on: monitor.
 PRESENT SITUATIONS AND HABITS p. 10
STATE VERBS p. 11
PAST HABITS AND STATES p. 11

1. PRESENT SITUATIONS AND HABITS

PRESENT - A changing situation. - His children are growing
- fast.
CONTINUOUS A temporary situation.
- He’s staying with the
family at the moment.

PRESENT - An annoying or - She’s always making

surprising habit. long phone calls on the
CONTINUOUS + phone.

always
PRESENT - A regular action. - She usually goes out in
- A long-term situation. the evening.
SIMPLE - She lives in a small
house with her husband
and children.

WILL + - Characteristic - He’ll sit and doze in an

behaviour. armchair all evening.
infinitive

- We can also use (to) tend to do sth. for things that

usually happen.
He tends to interfere in other people’s business.
Men don’t tend to live as long as women = Men tend not
to live as long as women.
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 STATE VERBS
Some verbs are only (or mostly) used in simple tenses,
and are not used in continuous tenses. An example of a
simple tense is the present simple, or the past simple. An
example of a continuous tense is the present continuous
or past continuous. These verbs are called STATIVE, or
STATE verbs. A verb which isn’t stative is called a
DYNAMIC verb and is usually an action. Often stative
verbs are about liking or disliking something, or about a
mental state, not about an action. LEARN LIST ON PAGE
N. 182
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2. PAST SITUATIONS AND HABITS

USED TO or WOULD past HABITS (e.g. sell, help)

USED TO WOULD past STATES (e.g. live)
PAST SIMPLE past HABITS & STATES

 EXTRA PRACTICE HERE:

https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/Englis
h_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Used_to/
Would_and_used_to_fk1220017qu
  Listen and complete with the missing words:

When James was a student, his lifestyle was completely

different. He didn't have a lot of money, so he
________________________ in cheap student cafeterias
instead of restaurants. During the year, he
________________________ with his friends to student
bars and have fun. It was the best time of his life. In his
third year, he studied abroad in Italy - he didn't have a lot
of lectures, so he ________________________ late and go
sightseeing. However, in his final year, he
________________________ very often because he had a
lot of exams. He ________________________ a lot of time
in the library and he ________________________ his
friends as much.

Complete the rules below with “would” or “used to”:

- __________________ can be used to describe past
habitual actions, likes/dislikes, states and opinions
that are not true now.
- __________________ can only be used to describe
past habitual actions NOT states and opinions.
 WRITING: PART 2: Informal Email
An email is an example of an interactive writing, which means that we are
writing to someone rather than just for someone to read. For this
reason, emails and letters are a very particular type of writing for FCE in
comparison with essays, articles, reviews or reports. So let’s take a look
at the main characteristics of emails:
 The email layout is extremely clear. This is easily achieved by
using opening and closing formulas and paragraphs, a
signature, and allowing some space between all the semi-
independent paragraphs.

 Each paragraph has a clear purpose, which in this case is

marked in red.
 The opening and closing formulas are used to say
«hi» and «goodbye» in a polite way.
 The introductory paragraph is typically used to
react to news (It’s great to hear from you… / I’m so
excited about...) and to introduce the topic of our
email.
 The main body deals with each of the sub tasks,
which in this case are: what to visit, what to wear and
invite him.
 In the closing paragraph we start saying goodbye
and we can ask for a reply to our email.

 The language is informal:
 Contractions: It’s great, I’m, you’ll have,  etc.
 Common phrasal verbs: put you up, check out.
 Colloquial language: How are you doing?, you
should totally, you can’t miss, drop me a line,  etc.
 Writing as we think: Oh, By the way, Anyway, 
 Flexible punctuation: …viewpoint – you’ll have the
best…
Sample answer

Now that we have a sample task, let’s take a look at a sample FCE
answer to the task above. Pay attention not only to the language, but also
to the clear structure marked in red.
Useful Expressions for an Informal Email for FCE
writing
So if you want to learn how to write an informal email for FCE, you need
to have a set of expressions ready to use. Some of these useful expressions
are the following:
 Greetings:
 Dear Sarah,
 Hello Sara,
 Hi Sara,

 Introductory paragraph:
 How’s it going?
 How are you doing? 
 How are things?
 How are things going?
 It’s great to hear from you!
 Long time, no see!
 Sorry I haven’t written for ages, but
 I’m really sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to
you. 

 Reacting to good news:

 I’m glad to hear that
 I’m so happy that
 Great news about your
 I’m very happy to hear about
 It’s so great that 

 Reacting to bad news:

 I’m so sorry to hear about
 Sorry to read about
 I can’t tell you how sad I am that
 I’m extremely sorry to hear about
 It’s just awful to hear that

 Introducing paragraphs:
  Oh, by the way, 
 Hey, did you hear about…?
 One more thing, 
 As for
 By the way, tell me about

 Ending the email or letter:

 Well, I gotta go now. 
 Anyway, I should get going. 
 I’ve got to leave you now. 
 I’d better get going. 
 Well, it’s time to go
 Make sure you write soon
 Don’t forget to drop me a line soon. 
 Look after yourself.
 Take care of yourself.

 Closing the email or letter:

 All my love, 
 Love,
 Lots of love,
 All the best,
 Take care,
 Best wishes, 
 Best, 
 Regards,
 Kind regards,   

Plan YOUR email: pages 12 + 13