ENGLISH 3

Lesson 1
Unit 1 Objectives
1A: Double Lives
In this lesson you will learn:

● Why people are most likely to lie about

● Differentiate between dynamic and stative verbs
● About attitudes to what it is to be ‘British’
● Talk about self-image and people description
 Oral Interaction
★ Name
★ Age
1. Look at the list and decide which things ★ job
are the most important when you are ★ nationality
describing who you are? ★ marital status
★ qualifications
★ friends
★ salary

● Which Information in exercise 1 are you most interested when you

meet someone for the first time?
● Which of these things do you think people are most likely to lie about?
● Talk about the most honest person you know
Liars! Look at the headlines on the text. Which of the
following pieces of information do you expect to find?
1. What people do when they lie
2. Why people Lie
3. Who lies more, men or women
4. Example of famous liars
5. examples of liars in films and on TV
6. Examples of favourite lies

Now read the text and check your answers

 Remember!
He’s looking at you straight in the eyes.
Everything seems to be going well. Some verbs can be both Stative and
Dynamic but the meaning changes.
We use… the most common are:
Stative verbs Dynamic verbs
To describe emotions, Be feel see smell think
In either the simple or
the continuous form opinions, the senses
To describe an action and states that do not
change. I see what the problem is now
(= I understand what the problem is now.)

I’m seeing a TV reviewer at ten

tomorrow.
(= I have arranged to meet her.)
Watch this video:
 Walter Mitty is the hero of a short
story by James Thurber. His life is
sad and ordinary, but most of the
time he lives in a dream world, as
the heroic Captain Mitty. Correct
three mistakes with stative and
dynamic verbs in the 2
paragraphs from the story

Pair/work

You are going to describe a

moment of Mitty’s real and
imaginary life using both
dynamic and stative verbs

Real life Mitty’s Imagination

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Lesson 2
Personality
Traits
Self-Image 1.Complete the sentences in column A with phrases in
column B

A B
1. I think of myself as A. an old-age pensioner
a Scot, -I’m too busy for that.
2. I would describe B. as quite fit for my age.
myself C. but I lived in England
3. I don’t see myself for 25 years.
as D. grandmother of two
Now, change the words in
4. I’m proud to be the very clever girls. italics in exercise 1 to make
5. My family is the E. important things to sentences that are true for you.
most me
6. My neighbours F. live in such a nice E.g.
probably see house. I think of myself as a European,
7. I consider myself G. me as a very friendly but I’ve lived in the US for the
last ten years
lucky to person.
Can you describe these people?

In my opinion….I Think…. To me….

She/he looks as…

She /He seems to be…..
She/He has….
Are you British enough?

Read the article

about a test for
people who want
to become British
citizens.
Which of the
people 1-8 think
the test is a good
idea?
Read the article again and answer the following questions:

1. What does Clive Morgan want the government to spend

money on?

2. What does James Radcliffe think is dead?

Do you notice something
3. What has become a dirty word? weird in these questions?
4. What do British people like doing in bars?

5. Who came from Uganda?

6. Who thinks that the test is unfair?

7. How many Britons would pass the test?

8. Where does Jayne Godfrey come from?

 This is the usual word order in questions Remember!
Question Word Auxiliary Subject Infinitive

What does this country do for me?

Why do we need a test?

Subject questions
When the question word (who, what, which, how Object questions
many) is the subject of the question, you do not If the question word iis the object of the
need an auxiliary verb (do, does or did) with the question, you use normal questions word order
present simple and past simple with do, does or did.

Subject Infinitive Question Auxiliary Subject Infinitive

Word
Who cares about these things?
What does he work for?
How many people describe themselves as British?
What did he say?
What happened to patriotism?
Group work

Are you Peruvian enough? Game

Prepare six questions that test knowledge of your national culture. Use the
grammar involved in this lesson and the topics in the box.
Everyday life famous people history important places

law multiculturalism politics regions

Now ask those questions to your classmates

1B: Around the world Objectives

In this lesson you will learn:

● travelling around the world

● Unusual journeys and different modes of transport
● Phrasal verbs
● Unusual homes
● Verb collocations
Oral Interaction

● What do you like and dislike about travelling?

● What’s the most widely-travelled person that you know?
where has he/she been? Why did he/she go there?

According to an English saying, “Travel broadens the mind”

Do you agree? In what ways has travel broadened your mind?
1. Why did the lawyer
decide to cycle around
South America?
2. Why is he dressed as a
clown in the second
photo?
Match the phrasal verbs from the article to the words and phrases 1 - 6
A. give up 1. meets by chance
B. set out 2. left
C. stopped off 3. managing to survive
D. getting by 4. stayed
E. bringing together 5. combining
F. runs into 6. started (a journey)

Complete the questions. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect or the past
simple.
1. How many countries ________ you ________ (visit)?
2. What's the most interesting place you __________ (be) to? Now, work in
pairs/groups.
3. How many times _________ you _________ (go) away last year?
ask and
4. Where _______ you _______ (go) for your last holiday? answer these
5. What’s the furthest you ________ ever __________ (fly)? questions
6. When _______ you _______ (fly) for the first time?
7. What’s the strangest form of transport you ________ ever ________ (use)?
8. _________ you ever __________ (travel) on your own?
 Unusual journeys
Listen to the three stories about unusual journeys.
match each journey to two of the photos A-F

Listen again and answer the questions

Which journey sounds the most interesting or

enjoyable? why?
 Match the phrasal verbs in bold 1-6 to the
definitions A-F
1. He was able to sort the problem out.
2. They came across the bear near the river.
3. Tizio got over his injury. Put it in the correct place in the sentences
4. Their friends and families saw them off.
5. A van picked her up after only five 1. I sorted out before I left work.
minutes. I sorted it out before I left work.
6. The van dropped her off near the
finishing line 2. I’m sure you’ll get over soon.
3. I’ve never come across before
A. felt well or happy again after something 4. I’ve tried to give up many times.
bad. 5. Why don’t you pick up on your way home?
B. found an answer to a problem.
Now think of a noun to replace IT in each
C. took someone or something in a car.
sentence
D. let someone get out of your car.
E. met or found by chance.
1. I sorted the problem out before I left
F. said goodbye to someone who was going
work.
on a journey.
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Lesson 3
Think about transport in your town/city and discuss these questions.

● What’s the quickest way of travelling around your town/city?

● What’s the most popular form of transport for people going to
work ?
● What’s the best way for a tourist to travel around your town/city
to see the sights?
Choose the correct verbs to complete the
information from a tourist guide about
Edinburgh

Now, change the information in the exercise so that is true for your city
 Travelling
I. Match the phrases 1-8 to the photos A-C
1. Can I get a taxi anywhere round here?
2. Can you tell me the time of the next train to North
Park?
3. Has the 11:40 for the North Park left yet?
4. Could you tell me when we get to the bridge, please?
5. Does this bus go to the town centre?
6. Have you got change for a ten-pound note?
7. I’d like a cab for the Pizzeria Roma, please?
8. A single to the town centre, please?
Match the responses A-H to the phrases 1-8 in the exercise I.
A. That’ll be one twenty, please.
B. Certainly, sir. We’ll send one right away.
C. Yeah, we go there.
D. No, sorry love. Exact change only.
E. I’ll let you know.
F. Not if you hurry, it’s still at the platform.
G. Yes, madam. There’s a taxi rank at the front of the station.
H. The next one’s at 2.35, madam.
 Cave Houseboat Unusual homes
Lighthouse Mobile home
Tree house Windmill 1. Match the words in the box to the
photos A-F
Would you like to live in any of them?
why or why not?
2. Listen to three people talking about their
unusual homes. Where do they live? Choose
your answer from exercise 1
3. Match the sentences 1-8 to the three unusual
homes in exercise 2.
1. We make dog owners leave their pets in the
garden.
2. The local authorities make us move on.
3. We don’t let little kids come up on their own.
4. They let us keep pets.
5. The farmers are happy to let us stay on their
land.
6. The local people don’t let us stay.
7. They don’t allow us to have visitors.
8. We don’t allow smoking.
 Remember!
Choose the correct verb to complete the
We can use the verbs make, let and allow to talk sentences
about obligation and permission.
1. They let/allow us to put up our tent
Obligation wherever we want.
Make + Object + Infinitive without to 2. They make/allow us park our cars in the car
Our teacher make us do a lot of homework. park
(= We must do a lot of homework.) 3. They let/allow us use the washing machine in
their kitchen.
Permission 4. They make/let us come and go when we
Let +Object + Infinitive without to want.
The farmer let us stay on his land. 5. They make/let us pay $3 a night.
(= We can stay on his land)
Allow + Object + to + Infinitive
They usually allow us to stay overnight
(= We can usually stay overnight)

Allow + Noun/Verb + -ing

They don’t allow smoking in the living room.
(= You can’t smoke in the living room.)
 Sleep (Verb Collocations)
Complete the sentences with a verb from the box
Fall Feel Go Have Make
Remember Set Wake

1. I often find it difficult to ______ up in the morning

2. I always _______ the bed first thing in the
morning.
3. I sometimes _______ a nap after lunch. Discuss these questions
4. I sometimes _______ asleep in front of the TV. ● Do you find it easy to get sleep?
5. I often ______ sleepy in the middle of the day. ● What do you do when you can’t get to
6. I never ______ to sleep before ten o'clock. sleep?
7. I sometimes forget to _______ my alarm clock. ● Are you a heavy or a light sleeper?
8. I can never _______ my dreams. ● Do you usually remember your dreams
the next morning?
Change the sentences in exercise 1 so that they are true for you ● Can you remember a recent dream?