Unit 3 Nightlife

Level 6

English

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Mtra. Alejandra Gómez Vilchis
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• Due date: Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 at 20:00 h.
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 Unit 3
Nightlife

Mtra. Alejandra Gómez Vilchis

 Unit 3 Topics
1. Speaking: Talk about different climates and lifestyles
2. Listening: Dark days and white nights
3. Vocabulary: Different Climates and lifestyles
4. Grammar: Adjectives and adverbs
5. Reading: Sleep
6. Grammar: Past and Present Habits
7. Vocabulary: Sleep paterns
8. Reading: Understanding reference
9. Vocabulary: Synoynms and Antonyms
10. Speaking and Writing: Nightlife
11. Writing: A report
Unit 3 Speaking: Talk about different climates and lifestyles

Which type of climate do you prefer to live in?

Do you think that weather has an influence in
lifestyles? Why yes or why not
 Unit 3 Task 1: Listening Dark Days and White Nights
• Watch the next video about the Midnight Sun in Iceland:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wCrrsq9Lw
• Watch the next video about Winter in Iceland:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klbIv7BoN7Y
 Unit 3 Task 1: Listening Dark Days and White Nights
• In teams answer the next questions, using both videos as a reference:
• In which season of the year Iceland gets lighter?
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• During which season of the year Iceland is darker?
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• Does it change much (light and dark) throughout the year?
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• Describe what is a Midnight Sun in Iceland.
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• What do you think would be like to live in a place like Iceland, where sometimes they can have light
for twenty-four hours during the hot season and dark for almost all day during a cold climate?
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• If you moved to another country, would you prefer to live somewhere very different to your home
country, like Iceland, or quite similar? Why?
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 Unit 3 Vocabulary: Different climates and lifestyles
1. artificial (adjective) made by people, often as a copy of something natural.
2. automatically (adverb) when you do something and you do it without thinking about it.
3. basically (adverb)  used when referring to the main or most important characteristic or
feature of something.
4. considerably (adverb)  to a large, noticeable, or important degree.
5. cozy or cosy (adjective)  comfortable and pleasant, especially (of a building) because of
being small and warm.
6. depressing (adjective) making you feel unhappy and without hope for the future.
7. Dramatic (adjective)  very sudden or noticeable, or full of action and excitement.
8. Gradually (adverb)  slowly over a period of time or a distance.
9. Lively (adjective)  full of energy and enthusiasm; interesting and exciting.
10. Magical (adjective)  used for describing something with a special and exciting quality.
11. Originally (adverb)  first of all, in the beginning.
Unit 3 Task 2: Different Climates and Lifestyles

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 Unit 3 Task 3: Different Climates and Lifestyles
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 Unit 3 Grammar
Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives
• We use adjectives to add descriptive detail to people or things.
• Adjectives can be used:
• Before a noun.
We had a fantastic time.
• After a noun or pronoun in questions with to be.
Was the hotel expensive?
• After a verb such as be, seem, look, feel, sound, become, get.
Did the new guy seem nice?
Hurry up, it’s getting late!
• Not all adjectives can be used in all positions.
 Adverbs
• We use adverbs in a number of ways:
• We use adverbs of manner to say how something happens.
• It describes the verb or the action.
• They most commonly adverbs go after the verb and its object, but the ending in –ly can
sometimes go before the verb.
The roads were icy, so we drove very carefully.
He was driving extremely fast.
• We use adverbs of frequency to say how often something is done. They generally go before the
verb, but they go after to.
It sometimes rains here.
The meetings are usually in Room 10.
• We use adverbs of time to say when something happens.
I’ve just emailed you those photos.
• We use adverbs of place to say where something happens.
I saw Jenny in town yesterday.
• We use adverbs of degree to express the degree or extent of something. We
use adverbs of degree with adjectives, adverbs and verbs. It goes directly
before the word it is modifying.
It’s really sunny today.
I’m absolutely freezing!
• We use some adverbs to express an attitude towards something.
I disagree with you, actually.
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 Unit 3 Task 8: Grammar Adjectives and Adverbs
• Work with a partner. Choose a season in your country and answer the next
questions adjectives and adverbs.
• Write with red the adjectives and adverbs.
• For each question you must use at least 3 adjectives and 2 adverbs.
1. What adjectives and adverbs could you use to describe how the natural
world looks at that time of year.
2. What adjectives and adverbs could you use to describe how you or other
people feel in that season?
3. What adjectives and adverbs could you use to describe the weather.
4. Using adjectives and adverbs, what are the positive and negative aspects
of that season? It is your favorite? Why or why not?
5. What kind of things you and other people like to do at this time of the
year.
6. How it is different from the other season of the year.
 Unit 3 Task 8: Grammar Adjectives and Adverbs

• Answers here
 How many hours do you sleep?
Do you take naps?
Do you sleep with the lights off or some lights on?
Apart from your bed, which other places do you think are
comfortable enough for sleeping?
 Unit 3
Grammar
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 Unit 3 Past and present habits
Past habits
• We use used to + infinitive to talk about past habits, typical behavior, states and
situations that no longer exist in the present moment.
I used to go to bed around midnight when I was a teenager.
We used to live in Manchester for a few years.
• Note that there is no final –d in negatives and questions.
I didn’t use to read much as a child.
Did you use to do any sports?
• We also use would + infinitve to talk about past habits and typical behavior. However, we
do not use would to talk about past states.
I would go to bed around midnight when I was a teenager.
NOT We would live in Manchester for a few years.
 Present habits
• To talk about present habits, we can use the present simple tense, often with an adverb of
frequency, such as usually, often, always, etc.
I usually watch TV for an hour or so in the evening.
• We use be used to + -ing to say that we are, or aren’t familiar with or accustomed to
something.
I’m used to getting up early these days.
I’m not used to driving on the left.
• We use get used to + -ing to say that we are becoming, or have become, familiar with or
accustomed to something.
We’re getting used to living here.
I got used to driving on the right pretty quickly when I lived in Italy.
• We can also use be/get used to + noun.
I’m not used the weather here.
I’m getting used to the food.
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 Unit 3 Task 12: Describing people

• In teams think of past routines you

used to have when you were a child or
a teenager.
• Explain those past habits in 80 to 100
words using the grammar structure of
Past Habits.
• Afterwards, think of present routines
you do nowadays.
• Explain those present habits in 80 to
100 words using the grammar structure
of Present Habits.
 Unit 3 Task 12: Describing people

• Answer here
Unit 3 Task 13: Reading and Writing

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 Unit 3 Reading
Comprehension: Reference
Unit 3 Reading Comprehension: Reference
Unit 3 Task 14: Reading Comprehension Reference

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 Unit 3 Speaking: Nightlife
Gather in pairs, ask your partner the
next questions, afterwards your partner
must ask you the same questions.

Which kind of evening entertainment

do you prefer? Why?
How often do you go out in the
evening?
What do you usually do?
How late do you usually stay out? Does
it matter to you if you have to get up
early the next day?
How good is the nightlife or evening
entertainment in your town or city?
How could it be improved
 Unit 3 Task 15: Speaking and Writing Nightlife

• In teams talk about which is your perfect plan for a Friday afternoon.
• Write a text of 80 to 100 words describing that Friday’s plan.

Write here
Unit 3 Writing: a report
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 Unit 3 Task 18: Writing a review

• Use the information to write a report on your meeting using the report in the previous
exercise as a model. You must write 240 to 250 words.

• Write here