Tuesday 9th February - Week 6 (of 12)

● College feedback volunteers

● New teacher this week - Ann Kinsman
● Remember: NO LESSONS next week!

● Vocabulary review
● Homework: Grammar ‘must’ and ‘can’t’
BREAK & INDIVIDUAL WORK
● Reading

1. Did your parents ever give you a curfew when you were younger?
2. There will be a lot more security controls at airports this summer. Is this
sentence correct? CHECKS
3. I’m trying to have a healthy and varied diet at the moment but all I want to do is
eat bread and biscuits, in bed watching Netflix! What about you? MIXED
4. The deadline for your writing homework is the Tuesday after half term.
5. Life is so dull at the moment. What have you been doing to stay busy?
6. Working as a waiter is very hard work. Do you agree with this statement?
“customer-facing”
7. What’s the difference between a cover letter and references when applying for
a new job? Contact details of your manager & position
9. What jobs are highly respected in your country? Practical jobs are becoming
much more respected in the UK recently. Practical jobs are for example: a
plumber, an electrician etc. successful respected Academic subjects/jobs
10. Do waiters earn commission or tips? Sales/estate agents/recruiters
12. What jobs are the most insecure in your country? People who work in
hospitality/ the hospitality industry.

Corrections:
● I was like a 16 year old. “I went to a party last week and I was like a
teenager again! I was drinking all the wine and beer!”
I went to a party last week and I left at 10pm. I was like an old woman!
● I was like/about/approximately 16 years old.
● I have to go home lately lately….I HAD TO BE HOME AT 10PM AT THE
LATEST.
● I was jumping from the window to go with my friends….I was jumping
OUT OF the window to ENJOY TIME with my friends/ to go out with my
friends.
 ● “Join me in the park” = Come and meet me in the park. Join = to
connect “I couldn’t join the call this morning.”
● Now is snowing…..It is snowing/it’s
● I stop cycling...I have stopped cycling. (Present perfect because I stopped
in January and I am still not cycling now.)
● She prepare our food…..PREPARES
● Take care my children….take care OF
● If you are engineer…..an engineer

Homework from last week: Read the box below and complete ex 9 (Page 45 of
book). Then complete Exercise 10 - write the answers in your notebook. We will
discuss tomorrow.

The Grammar box (below)

ANSWERS:
1. Probably experiences /iz/
2. Must
3. Can’t
4. Often use
5. believe/think
6. usually

Answers / ideas: MUST + base verb (usually ‘be’)

1. EXAMPLE: That must be quite stressful at times. That can’t be easy!
2. You must enjoy travelling! It must be exciting! You must feel lucky!
You must be exhausted!
3. It must be horrible. That can’t be enjoyable/nice. That must be scary!
4. That must be stressful! She must be interesting/intelligent/well-paid.
5. That must be great! They must work hard!
6. It must be boring/dull You must be lazy.
 7. You must feel a bit anxious. You must be enjoying your free time.

Must = to say you believe something/you think something is true.

This is different to how we use ‘must’ in other sentences.

You must enjoy your free time. MUST/HAVE TO= obligatory/an obligation/order
You must take your medicine.

You must find a new job!

(You should find a new job. SHOULD = advice/a suggestion)

9. That must be great! You must be really happy! You must feel relieved.

Page 171

1. Must / am
2. Must /are / do
3. Can’t / Well / Actually / No
4. Be / Not / was
5. Want / have / need can’t / don’t

Extra practice
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/modals-
deductions-about-the-present

Pages 48 & 49

- A servant / a butler
- An ‘alarm clock’ person
- A telephone operator
- The Key keeper “if you lock yourself out”
- “Call the midwife” TV series the rat killer/hunting / A pest company
- We’ve lost handwritten admin. Now we have everything recorded digitally.

- An injury (noun) = I fell out of a tree and I have a bad injury (= damage to yourself,
break a bone, to cut yourself, a wound)
- Chefs, Firefighters, prison officer
- Housekeeping (chemical injury) injure your back
- Risky (adjective) = dangerous
- Security guard
Pronunciation
Give
Could wood would
Dangerous

Vocabulary
Boredom (noun of ‘bored’ or ‘boring’)
Rotting to rot (verb) rotten (adjective) - food that has gone bad/decomposing
Beetroot
Century = 100 years
Decade = 10 years
A fortnight = 2 weeks
Pills = tablets/medicine
Nasty = horrible

If you’re dying of boredom and want something extra to do!

Writing a CV:
https://esol.britishcouncil.org/content/teachers/lessons-and-activities/lesson-
plans/writing-cv
Time Out
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/are-you-having-london-withdrawal-symptoms-
take-this-quiz-and-find-out-012221