Xceed ue ate El en peor Det eee ned PA rece eo Se oat uray Listening and vocabulary ‘L_ What isthe most useful piece of advice you've ever heard? Work in pairs and compare your ideas. 2 Read quotes a-f and answer the questions. 1. Canyou express the meaning of each life lesson in your own words? 2 Whichone(s) do you agree with most? 3. Are any contradictory? Which ones? Why? a Theartof life stole in the moment Never Sette forsecond best. © Thereis nothing in fe more valuable than friendship. 4 if youwantto succeedin if, you fist have ofl © Alvaysbe the best that you can possibiybe. 1 Never compare yourself to others, just be happy with who you are 3 Q))1+ Listen to four people talking about an experience from which they learnt something Important. Match conversations 1~4 with four of life lessons a-fin Exercise2. 4a Complete the sentences with the wordsin the box. Can you remember what caused each feeling? ashamed big blew devastating felt fool in luck me out 1 twas completely 21 totally numb. 3 justbawled my eyes 4 feltso__. 5 Iwas quite Iterally____shock 6 Ithadabig, ____impacton me 7 Itreally inspired tobecomea writer 8 simply couldr't believe my 9 And:this completely 10 Irealsed what a total bb Listen again and check your answers. 5 Work in pairs. who do you think learnt the most important life lesson? Explain your answer, © @ crore epptenmremnee my mind youkniow, Idbeen, Life lessons : past simple, past continuous, used to, Grammar 6 Complete the grammar box with the words in the box. background continuous complete longer main many times Past simple, past continuous, used to, would, keep + -ing Use the past simple for actions andstatesin the past thataret___. Youusually use the past simple to tell the#____evants ina story The teacher walked in and switched off thelihts Use the past continuous fr actions in the past ‘that were not complete at that point in the narrative, For example they werein the# or in progress and unfinished at that time. {twas raining and we were sitting inthe classiecm, ‘State verbs are rarely used in the form. ‘Hyyasn't- newing what he mesrt. I didn't know vehat he meart. ‘When two connected actions with the same subject. follow each other. you often leave aut the subject and aundliary. Twas eating 2 sandwich at work #was having my Junch break, Used torefers tastates or actions in the past that happened ‘They donothappen now, We used to hang out rogether all the time, You canalso use would for repeated actions in the past (but not states) Td get up. have breaktast..Wt'd spend every moment together. Iwoullneverhaveany-ambitions, Inever use to have any ambitions. ‘To show that something happened many times or for ©__ thanexpected, use keep + ing. ‘The rain kept falling anc we kept listening.LDR &stsaeacea 7 Which sentenceis orrect/more likely, aor b? Speaking & 1 a |hatedall the studying, 5 b I washatingllthe studying, ee 2 a Shemade a sandwich and then she ate it g 'b She wasmakinga sandwich and then she ateit SEa2a) Think of sniper emt ie Jessen iat eu (04 3 32 Iwosstarng nthe shoe. wasoong out se. someone younow) has art Workin pais and b I wasstanding onthe shore, looking outto sea 6 at RLS pT SRR 4 a used toadore my aunt keep going learnt that from video games! ta Leni core ecu b Think about an experience that taught you (or 5 2 couldn’ sleep. thought about whathe sid someone you know) thatlife lesson, Make notes b count sleep. kept thinking about what he said aout 8a 15 Listen tothe text. 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