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Unit One

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Unit ONE A



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• The texts and activities included inthis power point presentation havebeen taken from: First Certificate

Masterclass . Student’s and

Teacher’s book by Simon Heines and

Barbara Stewart. OXFORD

• (Updated from the revised FCEexam)



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 probablygo on space flights in the future?

Answer: D



3 Why is it better for the first crews ofspace flights to be childless couples?

Answer: C



4 Why is it difficult to design morals forspace travellers?

Answer: A



5 The article suggests that long distancespace 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

• Doesn’t 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 reasonableexpectations



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 tothe other students in the group.

• Whole class discussion



How your birth orderaffects your romantic

compatibilityBy Dr Kevin Leman



• Did you know that the order you were

born into a family can influence yourpersonality and your relationships?

• Find out which marriage combinations

work best - and how yours compares -in this extract from Dr Kevin Leman'sbook, The Birth Order Connection. This

advice applies to all other intimaterelationships too



• Dote on : give someone a lot of love,almost to a ridiculous extent.

• Butting heads : confrontation, havearguments

• Controller-pleaser pattern : one partner isvery demanding and the other is moresubmissive



Vocabulary II



Writing & speaking

• Write a brief description of an old friend ofyours

• Put your description on the table

• Pick up another student’s description and

read it

• Pick and read all the other descriptions

• Decide which person you would like tomeet and why



Confusing verbs: lie/lay

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



Confusing verbs: lie/lay

1. Regular: lie lied lied / lying = mentir (tosomebody 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 I’ll 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 oftalking about the future in English.

• Match these future sentences a—

g with the appropriate meaning1—7 below.



The future

a The space

rocket blasts

off in preciselyforty-eighthours.

4 a scheduled or

timetabled

event



b the crew is

meeting to

discuss finalpreparationson Friday

evening.

1 an action or

event that has

been arranged



c My sister is

going to have a

baby. It’s duein three weeks.

5 a prediction

based on

evidence orknowledge



d The astronauts

are going to

send regularreports back toEarth.

7 an intention or

plan to do

something



e The journey to

Alpha Centauri

will take forty-three years.

6 a future fact



f That’s the

phone. I’ll get

it.

3 an offer of help

or an instant

decision aboutthe immediatefuture



g Space travel to

faraway solar

systems willprobably he afamily affair.

2. A prediction or

expectation



2 Read this letter. Fillspaces 1—12 with the

appropriate form of

the verbs in brackets



3 How would you respond in thefollowing situations? Useappropriate future forms in

your answers. Write youranswers or make

conversations

3 P ibl



3 Possible answers

• a I’m going to ask them to tell the truth. • b I’m afraid I’m visiting relatives in the

holidays.

• c I’ll put up the decorations and I’ll selectsome music, if you like.

• d I’ll be twenty-one.

• e I’ll probably be married • f Tomorrow is going to be icy.



Future continuous and

future perfect



4 Match the examples



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