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1 Warm up
picture A picture B
picture C picture D
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1. entrepreneur a. money that you get for a special reason, e.g. to invest in a business
Part B: Now, complete the sentences using the words from Part A.
2. The new, small company needs more to make their new product.
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3 Collocations
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
Part B: Now, complete the gaps with the collocations from the previous part. Mind that you may need
to change the form of the word.
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4 Business profile
Part A: Look at the picture. Who was this person? What do you know about him? Read the text.
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Part B: The words in bold in the text (page four) are the past forms of regular verbs. Answer the
questions.
1. How do we form the past of a regular verb like work, start and return?
2. How do we form the past of a regular verb like live, increase and name?
3. Find more examples of the first and second rules in the text.
5 Pronunciation
Part A: There are three ways to pronounce the -ed ending of regular verbs. Listen to your teacher
and repeat.
Part B: Now listen and read the words below. Which category do they belong to?
6 Anita Roddick
Complete the facts about the British businesswoman, Anita Roddick (1942-2007), founder of The
Body Shop. Use the verbs below in the past. Listen to the recording and check your answers.
die divorce found marry offer open promote purchase train travel
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Part A: In pairs read the dialogue about Steve Jobs’s early career and answer the questions below.
B: No, he didn’t live with his biological parents. He lived with his adoptive parents.
B: Yes, it did.
short answers
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Part C: Form questions in the past simple. Then, in pairs, ask and answer the questions like in the
dialogue about Steve Jobs (page six).
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Transcripts
5. Pronunciation
Speaker: wanted
Speaker: offered
Speaker: liked
Speaker: hated
Speaker: repeated
Speaker: stopped
Speaker: corrected
Speaker: loved
Speaker: fixed
Speaker: played
6. Anita Roddick
Speaker: During her career, she promoted fair trade with third-world countries.
Speaker: In 2006, L’Oréal purchased The Body Shop for £652 million.
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Key
1. Warm up
5 mins.
This is an opportunity for students to express what they already know about the subject and share their views.
Part A:
5 mins.
Go through the phrases and check your understanding. Have the students translate them if necessary. Ask them
in what context they may use the given words.
1. → d. 2. → e. 3. → b. 4. → a. 5. → c.
Part B:
5 mins.
Students complete the gaps with nouns from Part A. Check pronunciation and spelling. Assist if necessary.
3. Collocations
Part A:
5 mins.
Students match the given collocations to the pictures that represent their meaning. Ask students to try doing
these tasks unaided at first but if necessary, offer your help.
4. Business profile
Part A:
5 mins.
Students discuss for a moment who the person shown in the picture is (Steve Jobs) and what he became famous
for (the founding of Apple), then read the article and compare their answers to the newly learned information. Be
prepared to answer questions about difficult vocabulary (e.g. ‘adoptive parents’) and check understanding.
Source for the image: Reuters
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Part B:
5 mins.
Draw attention to the regular past simple verbs in the text. Ask students to work out the simple rules for forming
the past simple of regular verbs.
Be prepared to point out that when a verb ends in a consonant + vowel + consonant, e.g. ‘stop’, we double the
final consonant when adding an ending such as -ed and -ing (‘stopped’). Also point out that when a verb ends in a
consonant + -y, e.g. ‘marry’, we change -y to -ied.
1. we add -ed
2. we add -d
3. first rule: learned, showed, attended, picked, invented, stopped, resigned, founded, entered, earned; second
rule: died
5. Pronunciation
Part A:
5 mins.
Read out the words and have the students repeat them. At this stage, students only need to know that it is easier
to pronounce -ed as /d/ after words like ‘live’, /t/ after words like ‘watch’, etc.
Part B:
5 mins.
Students listen to the recording and put next to each word or just say which words are pronounced with /d/, /t/
or /id/.
Answers:
/d/ - offered, loved, played;
/t/ - liked, stopped, fixed;
/Id/ - wanted, hated, repeated, corrected;
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5 mins.
Go through the verbs, checking understanding. Students put the words into the correct gaps and change their
forms to the past.They can complete the sentences individually and check in pairs.
Part A:
5 mins.
Have the students read the dialogue in pairs and work out the rules for forming questions, negative sentences
and short answers in the past simple.
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5 mins.
Students look at the box with the past forms of the verb ’work’.
Part C:
5 mins.
Students form the question in the past simple. Check as a class. After they are finished they can role-play the
dialogue from Part A using the information from this part. Circulate and help as needed. Check the pronunciation
and grammar.
10 mins.
Put students into small groups or in pairs and ask them to pick the word and describe it to their teammates without
showing or saying which word they’ve chosen. Groupmates’ task is to guess what word the student is describing.
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