@ GRAMMAR «= Narrative tenses 1 used to, usually @® VocaBuLary + Relationships: background, emotional support, fendshe, geton with, get to know, hove in common, keep touch, personality, relationship, relative, senseof humour, shared Interests, stronger ‘= Family: childhood, generation, nephew, niece, older/oldest child brothersister, middle child, only child, rise children ‘© Muité-ord verbs: bring someone up, cut something of, get together, grow apart, grow up, hang outwith, mix things/ people up, ring someone up, take after someone = Wordpower: have an accident, have brothers/sisters, have ‘brown hair, blue eyes, et, havea drink, have fun, hove o go, havea lesson, have ook, have lunch, have no ideo (® PRONUNCIATION * Linking sounds 1 Sentence stress: mult-wrd verbs « stressin word groups © COMMUNICATION SKILLS « Talking about friendship 1 Talking about families + Tellingastory * Using appropriate phrases for reacting to what people say + Writing about someone’ life GETTING STARTED Bae as) Ree eae en re ee er ere er ‘exchange and convey information and opinions about family relationships and friendships Peet teeter eer talk about habits in the past Pier eet eer rer ec Pe ee care en ey write a short biography about someone they know b Elicit the meaning of an old friend (a friend you have known for a long time, not necessarily someone who is old). Also elicit the meaning of clase friend (a friend who knows you very well and likes you a lot). Give students time to write down their answers. € QW Pat students into small groups to talk about the people they wrote about. Take feedback as a class. Q pxTRAActiITY Write onthe board: A true fiends someone who... Ak students to complete the sentence in their own words. They should then compare thei sentences with their partner and discuss what they've writen. Elicit sentences and find out whose definition the cass thnks isthe best and why. OPTIONAL LEAD-IN Books closed. Ask students to think about atrip they've recently ben on witha friend. Write on the board: Who, Where, When, Wy, What and tell students to use these prompts to ask and answer questions about the trip with their partner. Nominate a few students to tll the class about their partnerstrip. Ask how the trips might have been different with family member instead of fiend a C2 Ask students to look at the photo and the title of the unit, Relationships. Put them into small groups and give them a few minutes to discuss the questions. Take feedback as a class 46 UNIT3 RelationshipsAVES Cita L a) Cr CM TMS Q OPTIONAL LEAD-IN ‘Books closed. Write the word Friends onthe board with these phrases around tough, talk, watch sports, watch flms, wotch TV, do sports, eat, listen to music, study, goon holiday, ge shopping Put students into pairs to ask and answer these questions: Vibich of these things do you prefer doing with fiends? Which do {yu prefer doing with family? Which do you preter doing alone? Why? Nominate. few students to say whether their answers were similar to or very diferent fom thee partner’. ENVOCABULARY Relationships a CB Ask students to write down the names of three people they know well, then pat them into pairs to ask and answer the questions. Take feedback as a class. b Give students five minutes to underline the correct answers. They then compare answers in pairs. Answers (7) LANGUAGE NoTES: The schwa /a/ sound appears in comman, stronger, ‘elatignship, gotta know, support, relative and sense of hhumau: Help students to pronounce the words correctly bby modelling the words for them to repeat afer you. Pot cout that the schwa sound is common in prepositions You may also wish to contrast the pronunciation ofthe ou spellingin humour /hjuzma/, touch /tt|/and background Poekgravndl. ¢ CW Give students time to tick the sentences in Ib that are true for them, then put them into pairs or small, groups to discuss their ideas. Take feedback as a class. EAPRONUNCIATION Linking sounds 4 REM Tel students to read through the information in the box about linking. Pay the recording for steents to listen and notice the linking sounds in sentences 1-3. b ut students into pairs to identify where they think the linking sounds will be in the sentences. Elicit students’ ideas, but don’t check answers at this point. Pea ea eRe See Sree neater ree Set eee + understand an a freer + understand and use narrative tenses to talk about Ps ony Sere Necessary ¢ @HEE Play the recording once or twice for students to listen and check their answers. Then put students into pais to practise saying the sentences Answers EAREADING a (2 Ask students to look at the film poster and guess ‘what kind of film itis. I anyone in the class has seen Untouchable, encourage them to say a little about the film without giving too much away about the story. ut students into pairs to discuss the questions. Then, take feedback as a class. Collate students’ ideas on the board and leave them there for 3b. Don't say which suggestions are correct at this point. G CULTURE NOTE Untouchables a 2011 French comedy based onthe true story of a friendship between Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel Sellou, In 1993, a paragliding accident changed Philippe's life. aFrench aristocrat who had once lve a life of great comfort, Philippe was now completly wheelchait-bound. His suffering was emotional as much as physical Hiscarer, ‘Abdel, became an unlikely source of emotional strength, and brought joy backinto Philippe’ ite In the lm, Abdel is played by Omar Sly and Philippe by Frangois luzet. Sly won the Cesar Award (the French equivalent of the Oscars for Best Actor forhis ole inthis film. Critics describe Untouchable as funny and moving, with much of the film's humour coming from the contrast between the cultural ferences and the emotional closeness between the twomen (7) VOCABULARY SUPPORT boroffice hit- a measure of how popular and financially successfula flm or actors paragliding - the sport of jumping out ofan aircraft with a special parachute that allows you to travel a long horizontal distance before you land Give stutlents five minutes to read the first part of the article to check their ideas. Answers UNIT 3 Relationships 47Q ExTRAACTIVITY. Wirlte these questions on the board and put students into pairs to answer them. 1 Where and when did the two men meet? (Paris, 1993) 2. What was Philippe’ ob before the accident? (businessman) What country aid Abdel come from? (Algeria What sort of help ad Philippe need? (practical help with his day-to-day life] 5 How long wos Abdel planning tobe Philippe’ nurse? (not long} ¢ C2 Students guess the answers to the questions before they read the second part of the article. Again, collate students’ ideas on the boaed and leave them there for 3d. Don't check answers at this point. d Give students five minutes to read the second part of the article and see if any of their guesses were correct. They ‘compare answers in pairs. Check answers asa class © Put students into pairs to do the activity. Check answers asa class Answers f CQ Give students time to read the questions then put them into small groups to discuss their ideas. Take feedback as a class www frenglish.ru € In pairs, students find more examples. Take feedback as aclass, Answers « After looking at examples ofthe past continuous and past perfect, write the following sentences an the board ‘to check students’ understanding of why the diferent. narrative tenses are used. Write: We watched the flm and then we went too party. Ask students which tense is used and why (the past simple, to talk abouta sequence of events). Write: 1 ell asleep while was watching the film. Ask students which two tenses are used here, and why (the past simple and the past continuous, to talk about an event and the background situation around that event). Write: had read the book before saw the film. Ask students which two tenses are used here, and why (the past perfect and the past simple, to say that one event. happened before another event). idually, students complete the story. Check answers asa class. Q FAST FINISHERS Ask fast finishers to discuss any other flmsor Becks they know which focus on friendships. Ask them to say what happened, wio te friends were, and whether itwasa happy orsad story EEAGRAMMAR Narrative tenses Individually, students underline the correct words. Check answers as a class. b Use these two questions to check students’ ‘understanding of the past continuous and the past perfect. | Answers 48 UNIT3 Relationships © cer! At thislevel, students often make mistakes with narrative tenses, Instead of the past simple, students tend tose the present simple, past continuous or past perfect, e.g. Wewalked fora ‘bitthenwestartte um (Correct form = then we started). Where the past perfects required, students may use the past simple, e.g. he shops were busy because everyone cometo buy ‘new clothes (Correct form= becouse everyone had come...) Instead of the past continuous, students may use the present continuous or the past simple, eg. Hewentioseewhatie ‘oppening (Correct form= what was happening). Students may also have problems with subject/auxiliary agreement in the past continuous, ag, Weweswatting or the-bus (Correct form= We were waiting...)¢ DB ORME students read the information in ‘Grammar Focus 34 on SB p.136. Play the record ‘where indicated and ask students to listen and repeat. Students then complete the exercises. Cheek answers ‘asa class, making sure students choose the appropriate narrative tenses. Tell students to go back to SB p.34, Answers (Grammar Focus 34 SB p.137) 3 hadTallen 4 was tying 1 had become 2 happened 3 was drving 5 turned/vas tuning ng 15 had itcorne 16 had alle 1 hadpu shadsaved ASPEAKING Tell students they are going to prepare to tell the story ‘of how a close friendship began. They can talk about ‘one of their own friendships or friendship between two other people they know. Give students time to ‘make notes before they begin. Monitor and help with vocabulary of any other support the students need, b C2 Put students into pairs or small groups to tell their stories. Monitor and help without interrupting their fluency. Listen to their conversations, noting how well they are using narrative tenses and relationships vocabulary. Take feedback asa class Workbook 28 ‘© Photocopiabe acts: Pronunciation pas rammar p.161, Vocabulary p.166, www frenglish.ru UNIT 3 Relationships 49We used to get Lem OPTIONAL LEAD.IN Books closed, Write HABITS on the board and then add these phrases around it: woke up fist, goto bed last, lock the door atright, take the rubbish out, do the woshing-up, cook dinner, woteh T Tell students to think about ther families or the people they le with atthe moment. Who always does which activity? Who never does what? Give them a few minutes totalkin pairs or small groups. Then take feedback asa class on some of the habits of the people that students live with, ENXVOCABULARY Family a CB Ask a few general questions about the photos, for ‘example: Who's the oldest person you can see? Who's the youngest? How old do you think they are? What's cis family ‘doing? Put students into small groups to talk about the photos for about five minutes. Take feedback as a lass. Put students into pairs and give them five minutes to ‘match the sentences with the photos. Cheek answers asa class, | Suggested answers ¢ CQ) Give students a few minutes to think about what they will say about their own family before putting them in pairs to talk. Take feedback as a class on anything interesting students heard about their partners, FAST FINISHERS Ask fast finishers to draw simple family trees fr two families they know which have different family shapes (eg lots of children, more than three generations, etc). In pairs or small groups, they show and talk about the family trees they have drawn, ALISTENING @ C2 Tell students to look at the photo. Ask: What's the relationship between the girls? Do they look very similar or exactly the same? Establish that they are twins identical twins Put students into small groups to discuss the questions. Take feedback as a class b @HEM Play the recording for students to answer the questions. Check answers asa class 50 UNIT3 Relationships Pe oe Petre res derstand a listening about two twins CER tet Reet re Cerca eae ate? pees corns Anewers Charlotte ‘Audioscript ‘hamuorte When people indaut rm atin, thay gneraly ask the sare questions: What Itke? Can youread esch other’ thoughts? an people tl you part? Do yeu do eveything together? In tre that! ofen know what Megan stinking or feeling, but that's boecausewe gren up together and we'every clase. Meena diferent fromorainary store utifyou ook t photos of us when we were younger even Ica say whichonels ma We usetolaok absolutly Mentcal. Ard Mur «aj we dln'tuseto tak much when wewere playingtogether— we seemedto loa what each other was thieldng. | guess a5 we grew up we wanted to create our awn unique denies remember st school Megan used to dessa fret fem meas she ‘could mentthraugh a phase of wearing lots of black anc ooking quite assy. 50 ofcourse, Megan started wearlg loner dresses! We use to havea lot ofargumentsas teenagersbutrom wele really 00d frends. We usually speak onthe phone two or hee times day, and we ge ogatheras often as wean S, what eta have Ow? Its great ~youhavea bes end fort ‘ecan chevlota and had a wendertlchlchood. Wedd everyting ‘ogethet. hac my bested with me 24/7 and we used tobe very close Shear abillatmaginaton and used tolnvent wonder stores, Ofcourse, we played the usual twin Jokes Atschoo weusedt| ‘swap clothes and conse the teachers. Im not surethey even nocd ome ofthe a -wa ookedco srl thateven our parents sed 19 mocusup Wa didn’tuse to argue much, butn cur tecnage years westatedto grow apart. We mere ryng te nd our own ident, |think, and we teach mada dflzent group of fends Lateran, wewen to unerses In diferenttowns. autit tuned out thatyou can never escapebeinga win. After our fist year away wehadrt seen eachother er sixmanths. ‘Thedaywe went home, wesaw that wea both uta curhal of ‘These day, think we havequlteciferent personales. Chatotels| vary kind and caring, but ote frgas things and ges fst. bit ‘more conident and organised But we stl Favelotsin common -we bath love beach holds, playing football nd wa both compan, about out ha(7D) VocaBULAry SUPPORT confuse (82) ~ to mix up two separate things or people in your mind, imagining that they are one Identical (82) exactly the same, or very similar {identity (82) - who a personis, orthe qualities of a person or {group that makes them different from others swap (C1}~ to give something and be given something else Instead ¢ CW Put students into pairs to discuss the question. d @iam Give students time to read the questions, then play the recording again. Check answers asa clas. Answers Q exrraactviry ‘As you go through the answers, check that students heard ‘and understood the fallowing phrases: = to read each other's thoughts (to know what each other is thinking) 24/7 (all day, every day/all the time) turn out happen} ¢ C® Put students into small groups to discuss the questions EXVOCABULARY Multi-word verbs a Write the following sentence on the board: When people find out that I'm a twin, they generally ask the same ‘question. Ask: What's the multi-word verb in this sentence? What does it mean? (find out = discover). Tall students that they are going to Look at more mult word verbs from the recording, Put students into pairs to match the verbs with the meanings. Cheek answers asa dass by reading out the meanings and asking a few students to say the sentence with the multi-word verb in ud st ee Put students into pairs to read the five sentences and complete the rules. Then check answers as a clas. Answers <¢ @\BEIM Pronunciation Give students time to read the task. then play the recording for students to decide which ‘words are stressed. ‘Anawers Give students time to read through the rule about the pronunciation of multi-word verbs. d © Play the recording again for students to listen ‘and repeat the sentences www frenglish.ru + Use this transformation drill with the clas to give students some very controlled practice of using pronouns with ‘mutt-word verbs, Demonstrate how the drill works by saying this prompt: / always mix up Jack and John. / them. Then, elcitthe follow-up statement: / always mix them up. Why don'tyou phone up Carl2/him > Why don't you phone him up? Jeut the comer oft /it Picutitof They brought up my three brothers ond me. /us > They brought us up. Do you take after your mum? /her > Doyou take after her? ‘ike hanging out with you and Anna. /you Hike hanging out with you. Repeat the dill two or three times until students can produce the target sentences confidently, ¢ C2} Give students time to think about their answers. ut them into pairs or small groups to discuss the questions. Monitor, without interrupting their fluency. Listen to their conversations, noting how well they're tusing the multi-word verbs from the lesson. Nominate a few students to share something new they have learnt about their partners. EAGRAMMAR used to, usually a GMM Play the recording for students to underline what the speakers say. Check answers asa class. You Inay wish to point out that in sentences 1 and 3, both options are correct, but use to adds more information about past situations. Answers @© crerut ‘Although students at this level sometimes omit the din used, €g,Huse-tovethere Correct form=/usedto lve... , most errors with usd to and usualy relate to their meaning and use. Students may be tempted to use used to when they shoul Use the past simple or present perfect, ¢.g. Hewsedto drive. teMadridlestweek Hised to lstertomusiesincetwese _young chit. (Correct form= He drove... ve listened to. They may also confuse used to with the present simple and usually to talk about present habits, e.g tesed to-go shopping on Saturdays ith my fiends (Corect form = usually go shopping Make sure students pronounce used o as /ussta/ (not fiwzt uh, b Put students into pais to complete the rules, then check answers asa clase Answers UNIT 3 Relationships 51