WHAT ARE THEY GOOD AT?

He is gifted at (=talented) singing opera music.

He is an expert in cooking Peruvian food.

He is the most skillful Peruvian soccer player.

N

A
N

A
1 HOPELESS - USELESS
2
N

A 1. He is a doctor. (N)
2. He is intelligent. (A)
A 3. She has a lot of money. (N)
4. She is an intelligent student. (A)
A
HOPELESS/USELESS = BAD (A)
NATURAL TALENT (GIFTED)
SKILL LEARNED AFTER YEARS (EXPERT) MATCH

1 EXPERT 4 Good at doing something that you have learned

and practiced.
2 GIFTED (=talented) 2 Having a natural ability to do something.
3 ABILITY 5 A natural ability or skill to do something well.
4 SKILLFUL 1 Someone who has a lot of skill (=ability) in
something or a lot of knowledge about something
5 APTITUDE 7 Very bad at doing something.
6 TALENTED 3 the skill or qualities that you need to do
something
7 HOPELESS/USELESS 6 Have a natural ability to do something well.
T. 54

EXPERIENCE

NATURAL ABILITY

SKILL

EXPERIENCE

NATURAL ABILITY

NATURAL ABILITY

NEGATIVE

NEGATIV
WRITE 4 EXAMPLES ABOUT YOU IN THE CHATBOX

EXPERIENCE

NATURAL ABILITY

SKILL

1. PREPOSITION + NOUN (SPORTS) EXPERIENCE

2. PREPOSITION + (VERB+ING) FIXING…
NATURAL ABILITY

NATURAL ABILITY

NEGATIVE

NEGATIV
1) ADJECTIVE To be gifted at painting (v+ing)
To be the most skillful soccer player
To be a talented musician
To be hopeless at geography (v+ing)
To be useless at sports (v+ing)
2) NOUN To be an expert in art (v+ing)
To have ability as a dancer
To have an aptitude math (v+ing)
for
A What name did you write in the first one?
B George
A Why George?
B Because I think he is an expert in (fixing) machines in the ER.
 NEXT CLASS MAKE A REVIEW ABOUT BE
GIFTED AT / BE AN EXPERT IN / ETC
USE THE SPEAKING ACTIVITY: WRITE A
NAME AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU CHOSE THAT
NAME….
DO YOU KNOW OR HAVE YOU READ ABOUT
SOMEONE WHO HAS A VERY SPECIAL ABILITY
THAT NOBODY ELSE HAS? WHAT ABILITY IS IT?
THE HUMAN COMPUTER CAN REMEMBER EVERYTHING
HE IS AN EXPERT IN COMPUTERS
THE HUMAN CAMERA WHO WATCH A PICTURE ONLY ONCE AND REMEMBER ANY
DETAIL AND THEN THE PERSON DRAWS IT.
 VOCABULARY

1 BLUE DAY 5 A RECITAR

2 TO DIAGNOSE 7 B SMALL ROCKS
/daiagnous/
3 AUTISTIC /otistik/ 9 C TO BE SIMILAR
4 TO TIE SHOELACE 1 D SAD, DEPRESSING DAY
5 TO RECITE /risait/ 3 E HAVING AUTISM
6 OATMEAL /outmil/ 4 F TO FASTEN
7 PEBBLES 10 G PRECISE, CORRECT
8 TO EMBRACE /embreis/ 8 H TO HUG
9 QUITE LIKE /kuaitlaik/ 2 I TO SAY WHAT IS WRONG WITH
SOMEONE WHO IS SICK
10 ACCURATE /akiuret/ 6 J AVENA
 B THE HUMAN CAMERA
A
A
B THE HUMAN CAMERA
 SUMMARY OF PRESENT AND PAST ABILITY OF
“THE HUMAN COMPUTER AND THE HUMAN CAMERA”
1 PRESENT A, D, G
PAST B, C, F, E, H, I
2 PRESENT CAN, IS ABLE TO, MANAGES TO
PAST COULD , WAS ABLE TO, MANAGED TO
3 NEGATIVE C, F, I
What things can Daniel Tammet do?
He is able to do extremely …
He can speak several languages…
What things could he do?
He was able to calculate …
He could calculate …
What things couldn’t he do?
He couldn’t make Friends..
He wasn’t able to make Friends…
What 2 special and difficult things did he do on TV?
He managed to recite 22, 514 numbers….
EXERCISES
 PRESENT ABILITY PAST ABILITY
(+) (-) (+) (-)
CAN CAN’T COULD COULDN’T
BE ABLE TO BE NOT ABLE TO WAS/WERE WASN’T
MANAGE TO (*) DON’T MANAGE ABLE TO WEREN’T ABLE
DOESN’T MANAGE MANAGED TO TO
DIDN’T MANAGE

MANAGE / MANAGED  FOR DIFFICULT SITUATIONS.

BE ABLE TO  IT CAN BE USED FOR SPECIFIC SITUATIONS
TO

1 ISN’T ABLE TO MAKE

2 CAN TO SAY
3 HE IS ABLE TO
4 MANAGED TO CRAWL
5 MANAGES TO DRAW
 SHE CAN RIDE

I CAN’T PLAY

WEREN’T ABLE TO

DID YOU MANAGE

ARE YOU ABLE

MANAGE TO SLEEP

COULD YOU RUN

DIDN’T MANAGE TO
DO YOU KNOW HIM?
 DEREK PARAVACINI

English autistic savant known as a musical prodigy. He

resides in London.
BLIND= PERSON WHO CANNOT SEE ANYTHING
1 MANAGED 5 ISN’T

2 ABLE 6 CAN

3 COULDN’T 7 TO

4 CAN’T 8 COULD /KUD/

WRITING
 WRITE ABOUT YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE
1 Write about 2 things you have the ability to do.
Use CAN and BE ABLE TO.
2 Write about 2 things you don’t have the ability to do.
Use CAN’T and NOT BE ABLE TO.
3 Write about 2 things you had the ability to do.
Use COULD and BE ABLE TO.
4 Write about 2 things you didn’t have the ability to do.
Use COULDN’T and BE ABLE TO.
5 Write about 2 things you managed to do at specific ocasión.
Use MANAGE.
WORK IN PAIRS I GOT A FLAT TIRE
WHEN YOU HAVE TO STUDY FOR AN EXAM YOU PREFER TO STUDY
WORD BY WORD FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT OR MAKE A SUMMARY?
 WHAT IS A SUMMARY?

To use the principal ideas / main

ideas from a complete text using
your own words.
THE HUMAN CAMERA
 LEARN TO MAKE NOTES FOR A SUMMARY

WHAT TECHNIQUES ARE USED?

T. 55
JOHN
JOB
MEMORY

TIM
JOB
MEMORY
MAKES MISTAKES

BLOCKING

ALL OTHER STUDENTS

AFTER AN HOUR OF WATCHING

A MOVIE
WRITE A SUMMARY
 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO
REMEMBER PREVIOUS CLASSES
 2 HAVE A NATURAL TALENT FOR
3 BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
4 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
5 MASTER
6 BE A HIGH ACHIEVER
7 FOCUS ON
8 WORLD-CLASS

I CHOSE THE CAREER OF ENGINEERING AT ENAMM

ACADEMY BECAUSE I THINK I HAVE A NATURAL TALENT
FOR UNDERSTANDING MACHINES’ OPERATION
 WITH

WITH TO CARE FOR

ABOUT STICK TO

ABOUT TAKE PART IN

TO WORK FOR
RESULT IN/LEAD T
TO

FOR WORK ON
FOR TO PART WITH

ON GO ON

ON COPE WIT

IN COMPLAIN ABOUT
IN