COURSE: TEENS 6

CLASS 09
DATE: ________

WARM-UP: Describing a job! Unscramble the letters to discover the hidden word!!!

RDHA: …………………………………. DMANEDING: ……………………….

XCEIITNG: ………………………….. TRIING: ………………………………..
TYINGSAISF: ………………………. EHXAUTSING: ………………………
IAPD-LLWE: …………………………. WARERINGD: ……………………….
UFSEUL: ………………………………. CAHLLIENGNG: …………………….
STSSRELFU: ………………………… ITNERETSING: ………………………
BRGNIO: ……………………………….

+ Speaking:
 What are you good at?
 Which job would you never consider doing?
 Would you like to have the same job as your parents?
 If you could choose, which talent would you like to have?

ACTIVITY 1:Oral discussion

Student’s Book p. 21. Discuss questions a and b and use the adjectives above to describe the jobs
in the pictures

ACTIVITY 2:READING
Student’s Book p. 22 / 23. Read the text and do activity 3 from the book
VOCABULARY
Dropout: a person who leaves school, college, or university beforecompleting a qualification, or
a person who lives in an unusualway
Painstakingly: in a way that shows you have taken a lot of care or made a lot of effort
To stem from: to start or develop as the result of something

ACTIVITY 3: PHRASAL VERBS with TURN

Student’s Book p. 22, ex 4

PHRASAL VERBS: TURN

To turn back: stop and return to the place you started from
To turn down: not accept a proposal or offer
To turn into: become something
To turn out: be discovered as something
To turn to: go to someone for help, etc.
To turn up: arrive
ACTIVITY 4:ABILITIES
GRAMMAR & PRACTICE: Student’s Book p. 24, ex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. Then read the chart from
the photocopy.

GENERAL ON PAST FUTURE PERFECTIVE MAKING

ABILITY PARTICULAR FORM FORM FORM AN
OCCASION EFFORT
CAN ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
(COULD) (WILL BE (HAVE BEEN
ABLE) ABLE TO)
BE ABLE TO ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BE UNABLE TO
(CAN IS MORE
USUAL)
COULD ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
COULDN’T ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
MANAGE TO ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SUCCEED IN ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BE GOOD AT ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
BE CAPABLE OF ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

ACTIVITY 5: Grammar practice (Abilities)

a) Complete the sentences with the correct form of CAN, COULD or BE ABLE TO.

0) He is very fit for his age. He __can run__ (run) really fast.
1) I’d like ________________________ (work) with you one day.
2) He ____________________________________ (not/ climb) up to the top. He was too
scared.
3) If they hadn’t phoned for an ambulance, he _________________________ (die).
4) I love ______________________________ (spend) all morning in bed at the weekends.
5) We ______________________________ (go) to that concert tomorrow if the tickets haven’t
sold out.
6) I thing you should go in the spring: it _______________________ (be) very crowded there
in the summer.
7) I ______________________________ (not/ understand) what he says: he speaks too
quickly.
 8) Do you know where Nick’s glasses are? He _____________________________ (not/ see)
very much without them.
9) _______________________________ (speak) another language fluently is a great
advantage when you’re looking for a job.
10) Jonathan ______________________________ (not/ say) anything until he was
about three years old.

b) COULD, WAS ABLE TO: Complete the sentences with be able to, could or both of them.

A. Houdini ……………………. escape from chains and padlocks, from ropes and canvas sacks.
B. They once hung him upside down in a straitjacket and he ……………………… break free in
minutes.
C. When he was in the coffin, he …………………….. hear the sound of footsteps above him.
D. Until now, no one has ……………………… explain how he did these things.
E. Perhaps in the future someone might ……………………… repeat the same feats.

c) In the following sentences, discuss whether it is possible to use forms of MANAGE TO

or COULD
A. Some people thought that Houdini ……………….. put himself into suspended animation.
B. Once he …………………….. stay underground in a coffin for half an hour without using up the
air.
C. When he was in the coffin, he ……………………….. hear muffled voices above him.
D. One day someone might …………………………. repeat some of his more daring feats.
E. So far nobody …………………….. copy all of Houdini’s dramatic escapes.
F. I’ve been ringing her all morning but so far I ………………………. get through.
G. The robbers ……………………… get into the bank by climbing through a skylight in the roof.

HOMEWORK
 Workbook p. 12, ex 1, 2, 3 and 4
 Student’s book p. 15: activity 3