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Overview
Grammar: Vocabulary:
Past Simple (2) Prepositions
• Questions and negatives • in July / at night / on Saturday
• Time expressions Adverbs
• quickly / sadly / seriously
Reading:
Listening:
Hedy Lamarr and
The good old days
Rosalind Franklin
• A grandson asks his
• The story of two
grandfather about his life
forgotten female firsts
Speaking:
• Talking about you Writing
• Talking about your life Telling a story
• What do you think? • Using time expressions
• Telling a story
Everyday English
• Special occasions
Wordlist
Here is a list of useful or new words from Headway Elementary
Student's Book.
adj = adjective
conj = conjunction
det = determiner
excl = exclamation
phr v = phrasal verb
phr = phrase
pron = pronoun
adv = adverb
n = noun
pl = plural
prep = preposition
v = verb
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
accident n /ˈæksɪd(ə)nt/ I saw a car accident yesterday.
acquaintance n /əˈkweɪntəns/ I wouldn't call her a friend – just an old
acquaintance.
acting n /ˈæktɪŋ/ If you love acting so much, you should
start drama school.
appear v /əˈpɪə/ When did the first Superman comic
appear?
assistant n /əˈsɪst(ə)nt/ Rosalind Franklin worked as an
assistant to scientist Maurice Wilkins.
Austrian adj /ˈɒstriən/ Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian actress.
burglar n /ˈbɜːɡlə/ There's a burglar in the house. Quick,
call the police!
butcher n /ˈbʊtʃə/ My uncle is a butcher and sells many
types of meat.
calmly adv /ˈkɑːmli/ ‘I'll call the police’, he said calmly.
cancer n /ˈkænsə/ She had cancer, but she's completely
recovered.
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
card (ie. n /kɑːd/ Did you get any cards for your
greetings card) birthday?
carefully adv /ˈkeəf(ə)li/ I listened carefully to the doctor's
instructions.
Christmas Day n /ˌkrɪsməs deɪ/ I used to love Christmas Day when I
was a kid.
cleaner n /ˈkliːnə/ My dad works as an office cleaner.
come down (ie. phr v /kʌm ˈdaʊn/ When did the Berlin Wall come down?
the Berlin Wall)
comic (ie. n /ˈkɒmɪk/ Superman is my favourite comic.
magazine)
congratulations n pl /kənˌɡrætʃʊ Congratulations on your new job!
ˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
Czechoslovakian adj /ˌtʃɛkə(ʊ)slə Hedy Lamarr started her acting career
ˈvakɪən/ in Czechoslovakian cinema.
dangerous adj /ˈdeɪndʒərəs/ Radioactivity can be very dangerous.
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
discover v /dɪˈskʌvə/ When did Alexander Fleming discover
penicillin?
Easter Day n /ˈiːstə/ We're ready for the chocolate egg
hunt on Easter Day.
embassy n /ˈembəsi/ I lost my passport in Rome so I had to
go to the British embassy.
fast food n /fɑːst ˈfuːd/ Many restaurants serve fast food
these days.
female adj /ˈfiːmeɪl/ Marie Curie is probably the most
famous female scientist of all time.
flu n /fluː/ Thousands of people die of flu every
year.
fortunately adv /ˈfɔːtʃənətli/ Fortunately, Helen's a good driver.
Greece n /ɡriːs/ We are going to Greece on holiday this
summer.
Greek adj /ɡriːk/ I can't speak Greek.
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
housework n /ˈhaʊswɜːk/ Women did all the housework in the
old days.
immediately adv /ɪˈmiːdiətli/ When I saw the accident, I called the
police immediately.
inventor n /ɪnˈventə/ Hedy Lamarr was an actress and an
inventor.
jigsaw n /ˈdʒɪɡsɔː/ My kids love doing jigsaw puzzles.
jumper n /ˈdʒʌmpə/ The jumpers I bought were very
cheap.
laboratory n /ləˈbɒrət(ə)ri/ Rosalind Franklin worked in a
laboratory in Paris.
land v /lænd/ When did man first land on the moon?
male adj /meɪl/ In the old days, there were more male
than female scientists.
New Year’s Eve n /ˌnjuː jɪəz ˈiːv/ I often go to a party after dinner on
New Year's Eve.
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
noise n /nɔɪz/ I woke up when I heard a noise
downstairs.
pocket money n /ˈpɒkɪt ˌmʌni/ My parents give me little pocket
money.
Polish adj /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/ Marie Curie was born in Poland, so she
was Polish.
prize n /praɪz/ Rosalind Franklin never won a prize for
her work.
quickly adv /ˈkwɪkli/ We need to finish quickly, so hurry up!
research n /rɪˈsɜːtʃ/ Marie Curie did research at the
Sorbonne in Paris.
role n /rəʊl/ She played a great role in her latest
movie.
run away phr v /ˌrʌn əˈweɪ/ Hedy Lamarr had to run away to
escape from her husband.
sadly adv /ˈsædli/ I went on a climbing holiday. Sadly, I
broke my leg.
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
scary adj /ˈskeəri/ You look very scary in that costume.
Senegal n /ˌsenɪˈɡɔːl/ I taught in a school in Senegal for a
year.
seriously adv /ˈsɪəriəsli/ Why don't you take me seriously?
silently adv /ˈsaɪləntli/ Go upstairs silently, your mum is
asleep.
straight after adv /ˈstreɪt ˌɑːftə/ I finished university and started to
work straight after it.
structure n /ˈstrʌktʃə/ Franklin was the first to show DNA's
structure in a photo.
suddenly adv /ˈsʌd(ə)nli/ I was on my way to work when I
suddenly realised it was Saturday!
Sweden n /ˈswiːd(ə)n/ The Nobel Prize ceremony takes place
in Sweden every year.
umbrella n /ʌmˈbrelə/ Take your umbrella in case it rains.
unfortunately adv /ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nətli/ I went to see him. Unfortunately, he
wasn't there.
Wordlist
English Part of Phonetics Example sentence
speech
wave n /weɪv/ A radio wave is a low-energy
electromagnetic wave.
wedding n /ˈwedɪŋ/ Congratulations on your wedding!
Grammar
Past simple (2) – questions and negatives
Script
Grammar
Past simple (2) – questions and negatives
2. Listen and check your answers. Which group won the quiz? What
other information did you learn? Did anything surprise you?
Script
Grammar
Past simple (2) – questions and negatives
2. Listen and check your answers. Which group won the quiz? What
other information did you learn? Did anything surprise you?
Script
Grammar
Past simple (2) – questions and negatives
2. Listen and check your answers. Which group won the quiz? What
other information did you learn? Did anything surprise you?
Script
Grammar
Past simple (2) – questions and negatives
2. Listen and check your answers. Which group won the quiz? What
other information did you learn? Did anything surprise you?
Script
The good old days?
1. Listen to Billy talking to his grandad, Roger, about when Roger
was young. Tick () the things they talk about.
Script
• programmes on TV
• sport
• pocket money
• holidays
• housework
• comics
• school
Cultural Note
Script
In those days …
• we / not / have mobile phones
In those days we didn’t have mobile phones.
• children / not / play video games
In those days, children didn’t play video games.
• people / not / buy things with credit cards
In those days, people didn’t buy things with credit cards.
• we / not / shop online
In those days, we didn’t shop online.
• restaurants / not / serve fast food
In those days, restaurants didn’t serve fast food.
Grammar Spot
1. Write the Past Simple form
Questions
When did it happen?
How long ago did people start using the Internet?
How much pocket money did you get?
But:
How many people died in the war?
How many programmes were there?
Grammar Reference
7.2 Time expressions
in / at / on
in the twentieth century / 1924 / the 1990s winter / summer /
the evening / the morning / September
on 10th October / Christmas Day / Saturday / Sunday evening
at seven o’clock I weekends I night
ago
ten years / two
I went there weeks / a month ago.
Practice
1. Match a question word in A with a line in B and an answer in C.
Practice
Listen and check. Practise the questions and answers with a partner.
Answers
Practice – Roger’s life
______
at eleven o’ clock
______
at night
______
in the evening
______
on Saturday
______
on Sunday morning
______
at the weekend
______
in 2018
______
in July
______
on August 24th
______
in the summer
______
in the 20th century
Practice – Talking about you
4. Work with a partner. Ask and answer questions with When...? Use a
time expression and/or ago in your answer.
When did...?
• you go to bed last night
• you get up today
• you leave the house
• arrive at school/work
• you start learning English
• this class start
• you last go on holiday
• your parents get married 5. Tell the class about your day
• you last check your phone up to now.
• you last have a coffee break
I got up at seven o’clock and had
breakfast.
Listening and pronunciation
6. Listen and tick () the sentence you hear.
Owen You aren’t English, are you Nicole? Where are you from?
Owen
Nicole What did you/study?
No / French. born / Toulouse.
Owen English and Education
Is that where you grew/ up?
Paris, and then / studied / one year /
Nicole
Nicole London.
Yes / lived / parents / brother / house near the university. /
Owen Ah! That’s
father why your English is so good! And did you start work
worked/university
Owen straight
Oh, howafter that? What did he do? Was he a teacher?
interesting!
Nicole
Nicole No
Yes // travelled
professor//Africa
music./ few months, then / taught / school in
Owen Senegal.
Really! What does he play?
Owen
Nicole That sounds
brilliant great! And what’s your job now?
pianist.
Nicole
Owen teach / high school
How wonderful! And/ Paris.
what /about
English and
your French.What’s her job?
mother?
Owen
Nicole I’m sure/ you’re
retired a brilliant
but / doctor. teacher!
/ worked /hospital
Nicole
Owen Anyway,
So did you what/you?
go to school in Toulouse?
Nicole Yes / catholic high school. I / ten years. Then / university
Speaking - Talking about your life
1. Listen and compare. 1 2
Owen You aren’t English, are you Nicole? Where are you from?
Owen
Nicole What did you/study?
No / French. born / Toulouse.
Owen English and Education
Is that where you grew/ up?
Paris, and then / studied / one year /
Nicole
Nicole London.
Yes / lived / parents / brother / house near the university. /
Owen Ah! That’s
father why your English is so good! And did you start work
worked/university
Owen straight
Oh, howafter that? What did he do? Was he a teacher?
interesting!
Nicole
Nicole No
Yes // travelled
professor//Africa
music./ few months, then / taught / school in
Owen Senegal.
Really! What does he play?
Owen
Nicole That sounds
brilliant great! And what’s your job now?
pianist.
Nicole
Owen teach / high school
How wonderful! And/ Paris.
what /about
English and
your French.What’s her job?
mother?
Owen
Nicole I’m sure/ you’re
retired a brilliant
but / doctor. teacher!
/ worked /hospital
Nicole
Owen Anyway,
So did you what/you?
go to school in Toulouse?
Nicole Yes / catholic high school. I / ten years. Then / university
Speaking - Talking about your life
1. Listen and compare.
Owen You aren’t English, are you Nicole? Where are you from?
Nicole No,
No /I’m French.
French. I was
/ born born in Toulouse.
/ Toulouse.
Owen Is that where you grew up?
Nicole Yes.
Yes /I lived
lived/with my parents
parents / brotherand my brother
/ house in a
near the house near
university. / the
university there. My father worked at the university.
father worked/university
Owen Oh, how interesting! What did he do? Was he a teacher?
Nicole Yes,
Yes /he was a professor
professor / music. of music.
Owen Really! What does he play?
Nicole He’s a brilliant
brilliant pianist.pianist.
Owen How wonderful! And what about your mother? What’s her job?
Nicole She’s
retiredretired
/ but /now, but/she
doctor. was /hospital
worked a doctor. She worked in the
hospital.
Speaking - Talking about your life
1. Listen and compare.
Owen So did you go to school in Toulouse?
Nicole Yes,
Yes /I catholic
went to high
a catholic
school.high
I / ten
school.
years.I was
Thenthere
/ university
for ten years.
Then I went to university.
Owen What did you study?
Nicole IEnglish
studiedandEnglish
Education
and Education
/ Paris, and in then
Paris,/ and
studied
then/ one
I studied
year /for
London.
one year in London.
Owen Ah! That’s why your English is so good! And did you start work
straight after that?
Nicole No,
No /I travelled
travelled/around
Africa /Africa
few months,
for a fewthen
months,
/ taught
then/ school
I taught
in in
Senegal.
a school in Senegal.
Owen That sounds great! And what’s your job now?
Nicole Iteach
teach/ in
high
a high
school
school
/ Paris.
in Paris.
/ English
I teach
and English
French.and French.
Owen I’m sure you’re a brilliant teacher!
Nicole Anyway
Anyway, what/you?
... what about you?
Speaking - Talking about your life
2. Practise the conversation with a partner. Swap roles and practise
again. 1 2
Owen So did you go to school in Toulouse?
Nicole
Owen Yes, aren’t
You I wentEnglish,
to a catholic high
are you school.Where
Nicole? I was there
are youforfrom?
ten years. Then I
Nicole wentI’m
No, toFrench.
university.
I was born in Toulouse.
Owen What
Is thatdid you you
where study?
grew up?
Nicole I studied
Yes. I livedEnglish
with myandparents
Education
and in
myParis, andin
brother then I studied
a house nearfor
theone
year in London.
university there. My father worked at the university.
Owen Ah! That’s
Oh, why your English
how interesting! What didis so
hegood! Andhe
do? Was dida you start work straight
teacher?
Nicole afterhe
Yes, that?
was a professor of music.
Nicole
Owen No, I travelled
Really! What doesaround Africa for a few months, then I taught in a
he play?
Nicole school
He’s in Senegal.
a brilliant pianist.
Owen That sounds
How wonderful! great! And
And what’s
what aboutyour jobmother?
your now? What’s her job?
Nicole I teachretired
She’s in a high
now,school in Paris.
but she was aI doctor.
teach English and French.
She worked in the hospital.
Owen I’m sure you’re a brilliant teacher!
Nicole Anyway ... what about you?
Speaking - Talking about your life
3. Make some notes about your own life story.
4. Work in groups. Tell the group your life story. Ask and answer
questions.
4. Find a partner from the other group. Ask the questions in 3 and
swap your answers.
HL’s Paragraph RF’s Paragraph
What is similar and what is different about the lives of the two
women?
Reading and speaking
Hedy Lamarr and Rosalind Franklin
5. Match the verbs with the words for each person. Use them to tell
your partner about the person.
1. Hedy Lamarr left school early and started
drama school.
2. She ran away from her husband to Paris.
3. She got bored with film roles that were
just about being beautiful.
4. The US Navy didn’t take her idea seriously.
Tips:
Giving opinions: /think...
Showing interest: Really?! That’s interesting.
Agreeing: /think so, too./l agree with you.
Disagreeing: /don’t agree.
Cultural Note
Some examples of female inventors:
Stephanie Kwolek 1923—2014, chemist, invented Kevlar,
which is the material used in bulletproof vests.
Verbs Adverbs
speak English hard • speak English well / fluently
walk easily • walk fast / carefully
drive late
win fast • drive fast / carefully
arrive well • win easily
sing carefully • arrive late
work fluently • sing well
• work hard / late / fast /
carefully
Vocabulary and Listening - Adverbs
4. Put the word in brackets into the correct place in the sentence.
Sometimes more than one place is possible.
1. We had aa holiday
terriblein
holiday in (terrible)
Greece. Greece. (adjective)
2. IUnfortunately I lost(unfortunately)
lost my passport. my passport. / I lost my passport,
unfortunately. (adverb)
3. I went
immediately went to
to the British the British
Embassy. Embassy. / I went to
(immediately)
the British Embassy immediately. Immediately, I went
to the British Embassy. (adverb)
4. It was
was aa drive
long drive
because because the traffic
the traffic was(long)
was bad. bad.
(adjective)
5. Fortunately, Helen’s aadriver.
Fortunately, Helen’s good driver.
(good)(adjective)
6. She speaks Greek.
Greek well.
(well)(adverb)
Vocabulary and Listening –
Telling a story
5. Complete the sentences with your own ideas.
4 carefully
7 obviously Script
1 suddenly
10 calmly
3 slowly
6 immediately
9 quickly
5 quietly
2 silently
8 fortunately 8. Work with a partner. Take turns to tell the
story. Use the adverbs to help.
Vocabulary and Listening –
Talking about you
9. Choose some adverbs from the box and use them to tell your
partner about you or people you know.
I eat quickly.
My sister sings well.
I can ...
What do you
know about her?
Writing – Using time expressions X
2. Read these lines about Marie Curie. Match them with the pictures.
Pictures
Ex2 Lines
X
a. Marie drove trucks with X-ray machines to the soldiers on the
front
Marie linewas a Polish scientist who worked in France. As a
Curie
b. women
woman, couldn’t
it was gofor
difficult to university
her to get in
thePoland
education she wanted, but
c. people
she becamedidn’t understand
the most famous then that
female radioactivity
scientist was
of all time.
dangerous
Early life could only sit and listen to his talk
d. Marie
She was the
e. and bornfirst
Maria
andSkoldowska,
only womanintoWarsaw, on November
receive two, in different7, 1867.
She sciences
was a very bright child, but at that time, (1)_______. b In 1891, she
went to Paris
f. They to study
married physics at the Sorbonne University. She met
in 1895
Pierre
g. they Curie there, a two
discovered Professor of Physics. ________(2).
new elements f
Writing – Using time expressions
Ex2 Lines
X
a. Marie drove trucks with X-ray machines to the soldiers on the
front line
b. women
Nobel couldn’t go to university in Poland
success
c. people
Pierre didn’tworked
and Marie understand then on
together that
theradioactivity
new sciencewasof
dangerous(a word which Marie invented). Between 1898 and
‘radioactivity’
d. Marie
1902, could
g only polonium
(3)_________, sit and listen
andtoradium.
his talkThey received the Nobel
e. and
Prize forthe first in
Physics and onlyAt
1903. woman to receive
first, the prize wastwo,
forinPierre
different
only, but he
sciences
asked that Marie receive it, too. Pierre gave their presentation when
f. They
they married
received the in 1895
prize in Sweden – (4)_________.
d
g. they discovered two new elements
Writing – Using time expressions
Ex2 Lines
X
a. Marie drove trucks with X-ray machines to the soldiers on the
front line
b. women
Another couldn’t go to university in Poland
prize
c. people
Pierre died didn’t understand
in a road accident inthen that
April radioactivity
1906. One month waslater, Marie
dangerous
became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. After five years of
d. Marieand
teaching could onlyresearch,
doing sit and listen to his talk
she received a second Nobel Prize, for
e. and theinfirst
Chemistry, andMarie
1911. only woman
was theto receive
first woman two,
to in different
receive a Nobel
sciences
Prize, (5)_______.
e
f. They married in 1895
g. they discovered two new elements
Writing – Using time expressions
Ex2 Lines
X
a. Marie drove trucks with X-ray machines to the soldiers on the
front line
b. women couldn’t go to university in Poland
Final years didn’t understand then that radioactivity was
c. people
Curie’s work made the use of X-rays possible, and during the First
dangerous
World War,could
d. Marie (6)_____.
a sit
only A few
and years
listen later,
to hisMarie
talk began to have
problems
e. and thewith
firsther
andhealth. Then, the
only woman doctors two,
to receive discovered that she had
in different
leukaemia.
sciencesIt was from all the radioactivity she received in her work,
but
f. They cmarried
(7)_____. Finally,
in she died on July 4, 1934.
1895
g. they discovered two new elements
Writing – Using time expressions
4. What do the highlighted time expressions in the story refer to?
5. Work with a
partner. Use the
pictures to tell the
story of Marie Curie
in your own words.
Writing
PROJECT