UNIT 7

WHAT RISKS ARE GOOD TO TAKE

1. What is a risk?

2. Why are some activities more risky than others?

3. What kinds of risks do people take?

4. What makes a risk worth taking?

5. Are you a risk taker? (Test – p.126)

Listen to the Q-classroom students – Track 29.

According to the students, what is most important
before taking a risk?
 LISTENING 1
Financing a Dream

1. p. 127 – Vocabulary – Answers

1 – financial 2 – income 3 – credit

4 – debt 5 – funds 6 – embarrass 7 – expose
8 – model 9 – audience 10 – threaten

a mortgage - an agreement that allows you to borrow money

from a bank, especially in order to buy a house

to shoot (a photo, a film) - to use a camera to record a video or

take a photograph

2. p.128, 129 – Listen for Main Ideas and Details

3. Over to you
Why do you think these filmmakers had to take the risks they did?
Do you have any dreams or goals that might require you to take risks?
Amounts, Cardinals and Ordinal Numbers – p.130,131

1. Identifying amounts - Read the information in the box

and listen to the examples – Tracks 32,33
1,000 a thousand
1,000 000 a million
1,000 000 000 a billion / a thousand million
1,000 000 000 000 a trillion

NB! The word 'milliard' is not used

power = the number of times that a number is

multiplied by itself
e.g. 2 to the third power is 2³ = 8
2 to the power (of) three is 2³ = 8
2. Using amounts as adjectives – Read the information
in the box and listen to the examples – Track 34

Read some more examples. Then do ex.A/ p.130

- a 3-day trip - a 20-year-old girl

- a 5-kilo packet - a 2-month course
3. Cardinal and Ordinal numbers – Read the information
in the box, as well as in the table below. Then do ex.C.

three thirteen thirty

four fourteen forty
five fifteen fifty
eight eighteen eighty
 LISTENING 2
The Truth about the Loch Ness Monster
1. p. 132 – Vocabulary - Answers

a – locate b – solve c – previous d – investigate

e – invent f – retire g – reputation
h – prove i – mystery j – discover

to threaten = to tell someone that you will cause them problems

if they do not do what you want

to satisfy = to make someone happy by giving them what they want or what they
need

evidence = anything that helps to prove that something is

or is not true

Read the introduction and listen for Main Ideas and Details.

Do you think people would rather risk their money or

reputation?
What other mysteries have you heard about?
 Word Families – p.135

Read the information in the box.

Then make words from the word family of 'employ'.
For HW do ex.A and B on p.136.

employee

employed unemployed

employment EMPLOY unemployment

reemploy employable

employer
 GRAMMAR – p.137
THE PAST PERFECT TENSE

Read the information in the box. Then look at the example below.
The concert started We arrived
(earlier) (later)
----------I------------------------------------------------------------------I---------

The concert had (already) started

when /by the time/ we arrived.

1. Both actions happened in the past.

2. Arrived happened later; Started happened earlier.

3. To talk about a past action which happened before

another past action, use the Past Perfect (had done).

Practise: 1. p.137,138/ ex.A and B

2. Handout - Past Tenses (use PS, PP and PC/ was doing)
 Giving a Short Presentation – p.140 + p.161

1. Read the information in the box.

2. Listen to Track 44 and complete ex.A.

3. Do the ex. On p.161 – Recapping a presentation

4. For HW prepare a one-minute presentation on

one of the following topics.
Be sure to use specific phrases, to structure your
presentation properly and to recap .

- My favourite sport
- My favourite gadget
- My favourite recipe
- Organizing a corporate event
- A place that I like
- My hobby
 Contraction of HAD – p.139

Read the information in the box and listen

to the examples – Track 41.

Then listen to the sentences in ex.A – Track 42 and

explain the difference.

Listening and Speaking – p.142

(Consider the Ideas – Track 45)

Listen and answer the questions. Here is some vocabulary.

to backpack = to travel while carrying your luggage in

a big bag on your back

to give in = to accept that you have been defeated and

to stop competing or fighting

to work out = to realize, find out

 HOMEWORK

1. p.136/ ex.A+B
2. p.137,138/ ex.A,B
3. Handout – Past Tenses
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3. A short presentation - use the phrases from p.140

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SS3 – Unit 7.ppt
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