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Lesson1
New year
What do you usually do at the New Year?
Put the collocation to the correct column

eve
Discuss the questions
Answer the following questions with an answer
in the present perfect continuous tense.

Have/has been doing

for 2 hours*/ since 8 p.m.
Activity 3. Match the phrases with their meanings, then
summarise the basic idea of the song in two short sentences.
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Staff
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 Dustpan

Listening Shower rail\

Bin
Shower curtains
Bucket
torch
LISTENING

The sink
To charge smb
I can’t live without
Things in the house

Complete the sentences with words from Exercise 3.

Look again at the things in Exercise 3. Tell each other:

if there are any things you don’t have. which things yo
use the most.
if there are any things you never use. where exactly
each of the things in the box are in your house.
DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS

Explaining where things are

• We often give two descriptions of where things are: one general, one
more specific. Notice the prepositions used.
For example:
• It’s in the kitchen - in the cupboard under the sink.
GRAMMAR Relative clauses
How many of these things can you name? What do you call...
1 the thing in the kitchen that you can pull open and keep things like knives and
forks in?
2 something fixed to a wall which you put books and things like that on?
3 the money which you borrow from a bank to buy a house or apartment? 4 a
person that lives next door to you, or upstairs or downstairs from you?
5 a man who owns the house or apartment that you rent?
6 the place in the house where guests can stay or where you can store things?
7 the place near - or connected to - your house where you can keep your car?
8 the place just outside an upstairs window where you can stand?
Match the words in the box to the descriptions in Exercise 8.
 GRAMMAR

Think of a thing, a job and a place that you don’t know the
words for in English, and write three What do you call...?
questions.
Homework
• WB p 82-83 ex 1-7