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Intermediate 2019
Intermediate 2019
Conversation
HANDOUT
Intermediate Topic 2
TALKING ABOUT JOBS
What matters most to you?
A. When you are looking for a job, which things are most important to you? Put the following in
order of importance:
D. Match the questions on the left with the appropriate answers on the right:
2. Are there any recreation facilities? B. There is a company apartment for you.
6. Do you provide accomodations? F. You can have free lunch in the company
restaurant.
I. Here you will find some television related words and expressions.
iii. What would you like to see on TV? Design your own “ideal day” of programs.
IV. Questionnaire
Other forms of mass media are the radio, newspapers, magazines, podcasts, etc.
1. Do you listen to the radio (or via internet)? How often? What sort of programs?
2. Is it important to read the newspaper? Which one do you normally read?
3. Do you read only the headlines of a newspaper?
4. Compare the radio, TV and the newspaper with their internet counterparts.
5. How much TV do you watch every week?
6. Do you watch satellite TV and/or cable TV? What is different about them?
7. What are your favorite programs on TV at the moment?
8. What nights are they on?
ASKING ADVISING
What do you think I should do? I advise you to ...
What can I do? If I were you, I‟d ...
What should I do? You‟d better ...
What would you do if you were me? You should ...
You ought to ...
Example
Practice
2. You probably have some real problems you would like to discuss. Create another dialog about
a real problem you are having, asking for advice. Try to imagine the advice you would receive
from: a parent / a sibling / a classmate / a workmate / a therapist.
1. Look at the lists below. Add three more choices in each category
2. Create questions about preferences according to the categories above. Use Which and Why.
c) What sort of changes would you like to happen in your life? Why?
These pronouns are used far more often in English than in other languages. This is because they are not only
reflexive, but also intensive (emphatic) pronouns; in several languages some personal pronouns are
the same as reflexive ones.
Reflexive pronouns are used when an action somehow refers back to the subject:
Did you hurt yourself?
She looked at herself in the mirror.
Less usual in other languages is the intensive pronoun, something to give emphasis:
I saw it myself.
She can easily do it herself.
These emphatic pronouns are in no way reflexive, i.e. they do not refer back to
the subject, but mean personally, on her own. They can often be left out without loss of
meaning:
He himself attended.
He attended.
The intensive pronouns can often sound smoother than the personal one:
This is for advanced students like yourself.
i. Completeeachsentenceusingtheappropriateverbfromthelistbelowandthecorrectreflexive
pronoun.
myself ourselves
yourself yourselves
himself themselves
herself
itself
Examples
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A reflexive pronoun usually refers to the subject
of a sentence. In the example he and himself refer He looked at himself in the mirror.
to the same person.
PRACTICE
B. Does your lifestyle mean that you have a lot to remember to do each day?
What kind of things fill your day?
In what ways do you help yourself remember all that you have to do each day?
C. Obviously, you can‟t remember anything about the day you were born, but what have you been
told about it? Who told you? What did they say?
What sort of abilities or skills did you have in the early stage of your childhood?
i. Complete these sentences in at least three different ways to ask people their opinion.
ii. Restate these sentences without using the underlined words and phrases. The meaning must
stay the same.
iii. Continue these dialogs and add to the argument. If you introduce a different point of view,
remember to start with a short expression of agreement first.
Choose one of the following topics, take some notes to prepare a short speech expressing your
views on it. Practice it orally (in front of a mirror, or with friends) and in not less than three minutes.
Suggested Language
i. Using the map on the next page, create a dialog asking where you can do
the following things, and responding. Use the dialog below as a guide.
Dialog
A: Could you tell me where I can buy a nice pair of shoes?
B: You can buy a nice pair of shoes at High Heels shoe store.
A: Where is it located?
B: It's on Tweedy Avenue.
A: Oh! And, how can I get there?
B: Walk a long First Street for one block, then make a right on Tweedy
Avenue. Continue along Tweedy Ave. You'll see the shoe store on your
left, on the corner right after the bridge.
MAP
DRY
CLEANERS
BANK
SUPERMARKET
HARBOR STREET
DRUGSTORE
BAKERY PARKING
AREA
BOOKSTORE
POST
OFFICE SHOE STORE
FIRE STATION
FiRST STREET
BRIDGE
TWEEDY AVENUE
"MAJESTIC"
DEPARMENT
STORE
"TSING HWA"
CHINESE
RESTAURANT "STARS"
CINEMA
SCHOOL
THiRD STREET
BRIDGE
MAIN STREET
ii. Can you guess what hobby they are talking about?
1. I usually use color, but sometimes you get a better effect with black and white.
2. I really enjoy going round the shops and markets looking for a bargain.
3. It‟s difficult to practice every day because my neighbors get very angry if I
play the same thing over and over again.
4. I usually do it 3 or 4 times a week - either early in the morning or after work. I only go for
about 25 minutes but it really keeps me fit.
5. It saves me a lot of money, and in any case, I hate buying things in boutiques.
6. I joined a club because I wanted to get better. It has helped me a lot and I have a much
better memory for all the different moves and strategies.
7. I think this is a very common hobby for people like me, who have a house but don‟t have
much money.
IV. Answer these questions and if possible ask somebody else. Compare your answers.
Mary will be here soon, won‟t she? You haven‟t got a car, have you?
There was a lot of traffic, wasn’t there? They don’t like us, do they?
Jim will pass the exam, won’t he? Mary won’t be late, will she?
NOTE:
After Let’s... the question tag is... shall we?
Let’s go for a walk, shall we?
After the imperative (Do ... Don’t do ..., etc.) the tag is usually ... will you?
Open the door, will you?
Don’t be late, will you?
i. What do you say? Use question tags in the following situations. Supply some possible
response.
1. You look out of the window. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
2. You‟re with a friend at a pub. You‟re looking at the prices, which are very high.
3. You’ve just come out of the cinema with a friend. You really enjoyed the film.
4. You and a friend are listening to a woman singing. You like her voice very much.
5. You are trying on a jacket. You look in the mirror and don‟t like what you see.
6. Your friend‟s hair is much shorter than when you last met.
7. You and a friend are walking over an old wooden bridge and some parts are broken.
WORLD
The world is controlled centrally, following a nine-year war between super powers which led
to economic collapse. There is total social stability. World population is maintained at two billion.
English is the only language; all others are dead. There is no religion. History and
literature are censored.
PEOPLE
Everyone is happy. Babies are born in test-tubes, and by careful use of chemicals and conditioning
(babies are taught in their sleep), people are designed to perform certain functions in life. There are
five classes of people. There are no illnesses or diseases, but there is no emotion
or privacy either. Everyone looks young until they are sixty, when they are sent to a
hospital to die.
ENTERTAINMENT
People go to the feelies, where they not only see pictures, but also feel and smell them. There is no
love or marriage, and sex is an important form of entertainment. Everyone takes a
drug called soma in the evenings with friends and for sleep holidays that last two weeks.
THE ECONOMY
Everybody works seven and a half hours a day, not because this is necessary (they have the
technology to allow no one to work) but because people like their work and would otherwise have
too much free time. It is a throwaway, consumer society.
TRAVEL
The better classes travel everywhere by helicopter, and go on weekend holidays to the other side of
the world. Rockets can go from London to America in six and half hours, traveling
at 1,250 kilometers per hour.
- Does this description of the world in the future represent your ideas about it?
- Which ideas, in your opinion, might come true sooner or later?
- Make your own description of the world in the future considering the five
aspects mentioned above.
Use structures such as: “By the year 2050 the world will finally be at peace.”
“By the year 2100 people will be living on other planets too”.
b) to express the present result of a past event. (The past event is usually recent)
A: You’ve changed. What have you done to yourself?
B: I’ve lost a lot of weight . I‟ve been exercising, and I‟ve been watching my diet.
EXERCISES
i. Choose the correct words: ii. Put the words in the correct order:
iii. Practice:
b) Give responses to the questions you have formed above, for different family members:
When we wish to show that some action was performed, not by ourselves, but by somebody else
at our instigation, we use the verb to have or to get and the past participle of the second verb,
Causative Form of Have and Get.
ACTIVITY Your teenage relative was in charge of watching your apartment while you were
away on your ten-day vacation. On the sixth day you had a problem and decided to
come back home, but you found an awful mess. Name all the things you had to get/have
done.
There are three ways to express wishes using the verb hope
I hope I‟ll get a promotion.
I hope I get a promotion.
I hope to get a promotion.
When you need to express wishes in different tenses you use the following:
I wish I had my own house. (Present)
I wish I could have my own house. (Future)
I wish I had had my own house. (Past)
Practice: Write your strongest ambitions for these three situations. Then, imagine the ambitions of a
friend or family member.
after Tronwell
during retirement
future hopes
Activity One of the most common wishes is to win the lottery or get money easily.
What would you do if you got something like this in the mail?
Congratulations!
You have won
US$ 5 MILLION
Now you have to make some decisions.
Are you going to keep your win a secret,
or will you go to a big hotel in the USA
to receive your check from a famous
film star? Of course the press will be there,
and your photo will be all over the internet.
Think of the first five things you would do if you won a prize like this.
We use this type of conditional when we are imagining something about the past.
The basic form is:
eg. If I had had enough time, I would have done my homework earlier.
(In fact, I did not have enough time, so I did not do it)
Activity Imagine you are in these situations. Say something for each one.
2. There was a job advertised in the paper. You did not apply for it. Now you think that your decision
was wrong.
3. When you were younger, you didn‟t learn to play a musical instrument. Now you regret this.
4. You‟ve painted your bedroom red. Now you think that it doesn‟t look very nice.
5. You are walking in the country. You would like to take some photographs but you didn‟t
bring your camera.
6. You have some unexpected guests. They didn‟t tell you they were coming.
You are very busy and you are not prepared to receive them.
INTENTiON
Going to is used when talking about a future plan or intention which you have given thought to. Will
is used when talking about a spontaneous idea for the future:
PROBABILITY
You canal souse may. For most speakers may is more probable; might is less probable. Other
speakers use may for slightly more formal speech, and might for more casual speech.
EXERCiSES
1A. Make a list of some of the problems faced by people living in previous centuries that
are not such big problems now.
1B. Make a list of some of the problems we face in the twentieth century that didn‟t
exist before.
2. Dialog
...and what about the future?
Create a dialog between an optimistic person, who thinks that all problems
will be solved, and a pessimist, who expects the worst to happen.
HANDOUT
Intermediate Topic 27(A)
BUNGEE JUMPiNG
WATER SKIING
GYMNASTICS
PARACHUTE JUMPiNG
ii. Create a dialog asking if someone has done these activities lately, and with the response des-
cribing more about the activity.
Exercises:
i. Today is Jim's first day at Tronwell Can you help him? Complete these questions.
iii. What would you ask and answer in these situations? Use indirect questions to create a dialog.
Compare your answers about yourself with what you know (or imagine) about "the average person"
and then use comparative and superlative forms to say who is happier, more generous, more talka-
tive, messier, the most hard working, the most changing, the angriest, the friendliest, the shyest, the
most negative, etc.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
See if you can answer these questions...
Should have done expresses advice, obligation or criticism about a past action.
eg: She would have felt more relaxed if the examiner had been nicer.
If she had driven more carefully, she might have passed.
PRACTICE
1. Say one sentence with should / shouldn’t have for the following situations.
Example:
I’ve got no job and no qualifications...
I should have worked harder at school.
2. Here are some facts about the past. Use your imagination to say how things would/could/might
have been different.
a. A boy died in a fire at his home, as he tried to rescue his pet dog.
b. A man was served in a restaurant by a very rude waiter, but he didn‟t complain. He just didn‟t
leave a tip.
c. A mother found drugs in her son‟s pocket. She told the police, who arrested the son. The
son was sent to prison.
HANDOUT
Intermediate Topic 32
PHRASAL VERBS
i. Complete the phrasal verb in each sentence using one of the following verbs.
iii. Make these texts more informal by changing the verbs in bold type to phrasal verbs with the
same meaning.
1. The cost of living is increasing all the time and it is quite difficult to manage
on my salary. But I think I can probably continue for a few months.
2. She told us to enter, but then we had to remove our shoes and I had to extinguish my ciga- rette.
3. The teacher told the class to invent a story to go with the picture in their books, and then
continue with exercise 2. She said we could all omit exercise 3.
a) Draw a flow chart showing the different steps and stages in the process.
b) Describe the process, explaining clearly the order of events.
c) Explain why things are done in the way they are.
Useful words: appliance, container, gadget, machine, thing, stuff, tool, utensil.