Unit One

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Unit ONE

 The texts and activities included in this power point presentation have been taken from: First Certificate Masterclass. Students and Teachers book by Simon Heines and Barbara Stewart. OXFORD (Updated from the revised FCE exam)

HUMAN RELATIONS
PART ONE

Homework: Reading multiple choice

1. What makes families especially suited to long-distance travel?

Answer: C

2 Why will more ordinary people probably go on space flights in the future? Answer: D

3 Why is it better for the first crews of space flights to be childless couples? Answer: C

4 Why is it difficult to design morals for space travellers? Answer: A

5 The article suggests that long distance space travel Answer: B

Birth Order
According to Dr Kevin Leman

Vocabulary: match the words

Conscientious Hard driving Scholarly Compliant Peers Unspoiled Engaging affectionate Obedient Intensily ambitious Meticulous, careful Winning, attractive Tender, loving People equal to you independent Likes studying

Vocabulary I
Conscientious Hard driving Scholarly Compliant Peers Unspoiled Engaging affectionate Meticulous, careful Intensily ambitious Likes studying Obedient A person equal to you Independent Winning, attractive Tender, loving

First Born
Perfectionist Conscientious List maker Well-organised Hard-driving Natural leader Critical serious Scholarly Logical Doesnt like surprises Loves computers Often compliant Has difficulty saying No

Middle child
Mediator Compromising Diplomatic Avoids conflict Independent Loyal to peers Many friends secretive Unspoiled Has reasonable expectations

Youngest Child
Manipulative Charming Blames others Attention seeker Tenatious People person Natural sales person Precocious Engaging Affectionate Love surprises

Birth order and relationships

Work in groups of four Each student reads a text Report what you have just read to the other students in the group. Whole class discussion

How your birth order affects your romantic compatibility

By Dr Kevin Leman

 Did you know that the order you were born into a family can influence your personality and your relationships? Find out which marriage combinations work best - and how yours compares in this extract from Dr Kevin Leman's book, The Birth Order Connection. This advice applies to all other intimate relationships too

 Dote on: give someone a lot of love, almost to a ridiculous extent. Butting heads: confrontation, have arguments Controller-pleaser pattern: one partner is very demanding and the other is more submissive

Vocabulary II

Writing & speaking

Write a brief description of an old friend of yours Put your description on the table Pick up another students description and read it Pick and read all the other descriptions Decide which person you would like to meet and why

Confusing verbs: lie/lay

1. How many verbs are there in the box? What are their meanings?

Confusing verbs: lie/lay

1. Regular: lie lied lied / lying = mentir (to somebody about something) e.g. she lied to me about the money 2. Irregular: lay laid laid / laying = posar, col.locar (the table, an egg) e.g. Please, lay the table and Ill do the dishes 3. Irregular: lie lay lain / lying = estar tombat, estar ( the dog lay on the carpet)

Match the verbs with their propunciation

1. /lai/ /laid/ /laid/ 2. /lei/ /leid/ leid/ 3. /lai/ /lei/ /lein/

Grammar and practice

Future

 There are many different ways of talking about the future in English. Match these future sentences a g with the appropriate meaning 17 below.

The future
a The space rocket blasts off in precisely forty-eight hours. 4 a scheduled or timetabled event

b the crew is meeting to discuss final preparations on Friday evening.

1 an action or event that has been arranged

c My sister is 5 a prediction going to have a based on baby. Its due evidence or in three weeks. knowledge

d The astronauts 7 an intention or are going to plan to do send regular something reports back to Earth.

e The journey to 6 a future fact Alpha Centauri will take fortythree years.

f Thats the phone. Ill get it.

3 an offer of help or an instant decision about the immediate future

g Space travel to 2. A prediction or faraway solar expectation systems will probably he a family affair.

2 Read this letter. Fill spaces 112 with the appropriate form of the verbs in brackets

3 How would you respond in the following situations? Use appropriate future forms in your answers. Write your answers or make conversations

3 Possible answers
a Im going to ask them to tell the truth. b Im afraid Im visiting relatives in the holidays. c Ill put up the decorations and Ill select some music, if you like. d Ill be twenty-one. e Ill probably be married f Tomorrow is going to be icy.

Future continuous and future perfect

4 Match the examples

6 cloze: Womens language