Unit 9: Getting on

Part 1:
Reading - Teen big brother is here

Activity 2: Describe the people in the photos.

How do you think they feel?
1

Activity 2: Describe the people in the photos.

How do you think they feel?
1

Relaxed and happy

Activity 2: Describe the people in the photos.

How do you think they feel?

Nervous, worried
and uncomfortable

New words used in the text to describe

personalities
+ confident / 'knfidnt / feeling sure about your
own ability to do things and be successful
+ arrogant / 'rgnt / behaving in a proud,
unpleasant way, showing little thought for other people

+ insecure / ,insi'kju / not confident about yourself

or your relationships with other people
+ laid-back / leibk / calm and relaxed; seeming not
to worry about anything
+ likable / 'laikbl / pleasant and easy to like

Matching exercise
A. Confident
B. Arrogant
C. Insecure
D. Laid-back
E. Likable

1. calm and relaxed; seeming not to

worry about anything
2. feeling sure about your own ability
to do things and be successful
3. pleasant and easy to like
4. behaving in a proud, unpleasant
way, showing little thought for other
people
5. not confident about yourself or your
relationships with other people

Activity 5: Find words and phrases in the review

that match these meanings.
1. get on (verb) (para1,
line 7)
2. backgrounds (noun)
(para2, line 4)
3. make eye contact
(verb) (para3, line 6)
4. burst (verb) (para4,
line 5)
5. housemates
(noun) (para4, line 7)

6. put up with (verb)

(para5, line 3)
7. tasks (noun) (para6,
line 3)
8. make up (noun)
(para7, line 8)
9. stripped of (verb)
(para8, line 7)
10. hold on to (verb)
(para10, line 7)

Grammar: Reported speech

Example:
The teacher said to us Write three
sentences.
The teacher asked us to write three
sentences.