08 if 1 Were President... step) Let’s Get Started © Warm-up Questions 1 Who isthe president of your country? What things does that person do? 2 Do you think being the president would be a good job? Why or why net? © Vocabulary Filin the blank with the correct words). disadvantage lected ‘demeeracy cfficient bland umn rights 1 difficulty; weakness tasteless without flavor a government by the people well-organized and effective tomake bigger tofictoanswer chosen; selected basic rights and freedoms all people should have 2 | UniteFS TE | #ystep2) Let’s Listen © Listening Practice 1 Listen and choose the best answer. ‘ins 29 11 Which best describes James's mom's opinion of presidents? © Presidents don't keep their promises. (Presidents are funny. @ Presidents are wonderful peopl. ) Presidents are hard working, 2 For whom does James want to make life better? © moms © teachers @ kids ©) presidents '3 What is one thing James does NOT want to do? © build new amusement parks sive more days off from school @ make homeworkillegal © give free icecream on Saturdays ‘4 What can be inferred from the conversation? © James thinks being the president is interesting 5 Jamesis writing a paper on presidents. @ James has not finshed his homework. © Jamesis the school president. Listening Practice 2 Listen and complete the chart. “Simen 20@ Listening Practice 3 Listen and take notes. “Mimk 2 Presidential candidate : sally Fields Election date: Campaign Promises + Proposed change 1: Reason: + Proposed change 2: Reason: + Proposed change 3: © Listening Practice 4 Task? | Listen and check. "Wak 2 11 What ithe conversation mostly about? 1 things Bily would do ithe were president [things presidents usually do Task2) Listen again and choose the correct statement. 11 © Christina thinks being president would be exciting Christina thinks being president would be meaningless. Christina thinks being president would be stressful 2 © Billy wants to make food free. Billy wants to make school free, Billy wants to make going abroad free. 3 © Christina has the same ideas as Billy Cristina doesnt ke Bil’ ideas but thinks they are realistic Christina likes Billys ideas but thinks they are not realistic. 0 | UniteEstep3, Let’s Talk 1 What would Jade do if she were president? Do you think theyre good ideas? 2 What things would you do ifyou were president? @sien4 Listen and Number putthe sections in order. “im 51 9, Third, want the school to update the compute labs. lof our computers are slow and ‘cutof date. Having up-to-date computers is important for any good school I you ike my ideas, please vote fr me, Sally Fllds on April 10% ‘My name is Sally Fields, and | want tobe elected your cass president. If youelect me president on Apri 10 wil try my best to make those changes happen. Youre probably wondering what changes | am talking about. Let me tl them to you Good afternoon, fellow classmates. Thank you for coming to listen to my speech, Next, want to improve the food n the school cafeteria. The food servedis often ban, boring, and gross We should have more options for inch, ‘Atour school, there are alot of things that need tobe changed Fist want to expand our schoo library. We dont have enough new books. That puts usata disadvantage for learning and itis not ae M1 Were President. |