WORDS OF WISDOM

CLASS 1
 • Before watching the video
• Jane Goodall
• Have you heard this name before?
• What do you know about her?
• What has she done?
Engagement:
watching a • PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS:
video (Act. 1) • When and how did she travel from England to Africa?
• In what ways are we similar to chimpanzees?
• What is her main contribution?
Jane Goodall

• AFTER watching the video

• How did she live in Africa?
• How was her first
experience with a
chimpanzee?
• What was affecting the
chimpanzee’s population?
•WHAT DOES THIS QUOTE MEAN?

•WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?

•NOW, THINK OF AN IMPORTANT ADVICE

YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN.
•Who gave it to you?
READING: ACT.
2
• Before you read:
• INTERVIEW your partner and decide which
pieces of advice you agree, or disagree and
why?
Now: read
• Step 1: Read your section.
• Step 2: Tell your partner about your characters.
• Focus on: WHO is the character? Who gave him/her advice?
WHAT was the piece of advice about?
After reading • Match the previous advice with the
people in the article.
Let’s check
• SANTA SEBAG-MONTEFIORE
• NOBANTU SESEKE
• HONG BO CHIN
• JANE GOODALL
• PAOLA GAVAZZI
• PETER BARRON
• SIR RICHARD BRANSON
• STEFAN OROGOVITZ
Speaking
• In groups of 3 or 4 discuss the following questions:

• Which three pieces of advice do you like the best?

Why? Are there any that you don’t like? Why?

• Have you ever been in a similar position to any of

the people on the text? What did you do?
VOCABULARY Act. 3
• Go back to the article and find expressions with the following meanings:
• become familiar with the new situation or experience (intro)

• use the chances you get (p.1)

• a problem that prevents or delays progress (p.2)

• in a position in which you quickly have to learn something difficult (p.4)

• finding out how something is done in a particular place or situation (p.6)

• changed a person deeply, e.g. the way they understand the world (p.7)

• believe that your feelings are correct (p.9)

• act according to your personal feelings about something (p.9)

Let’s take a look at
some of the meanings
 • become familiar with the new
situation or experience (intro)

Let’s check • use the chances you get (p.1)

• find our feet

• a problem that prevents or delays • take advantage of

progress (p.2) opportunities
• in a position in which you quickly have • a setback
to learn something difficult (p.4)

• finding out how something is done in

• on a steep learning curve
a particular place or situation (p.6)
• learning the ropes
• changed a person deeply, e.g. the way
they understand the world (p.7) • had a profound effect on
• believe that your feelings are correct
• trust your instincts
(p.9)

• act according to your personal • go with your gut feeling

feelings about something (p.9)
Game time Act.
4
• Get together with a partner
• Turn all the cards down
• Start picking them up to pair the
picture with the correct idiom
Speaking Act. 5

•Look at the questions and choose 3

that you are happy to answer.
•USE SOME OF THE
EXPRESSIONS PREVIOUSY SEEN
•Compare your answers with your
partner.
Let’s refresh our mind

Go back to the article

again.

Look at paragraphs 4, 6
and 9.

Underline 3 conditional
sentences and 3 phrases
to describe regrets.
Checking time
• Conditionals
• But for his advice, I would have worked myself into the
ground. (paragraph 4)
• If I'd known that statistic when I was learning the ropes, I'd
be selling insurance today. (paragraph 6)
• Had I done this, I would have said 'yes’ to some great books.
(paragraph 9)

• Regrets
• I wish Id' spoken to him earlier. (paragraph 4)
• I now regret rejecting some authors who went on to have
good careers. (paragraph 9)

• If I only Id' known then what I know now. (paragraph 9)

 • SPEAKING
• Step 1: you complete the following sentences
individually and make them true for you
• Step 2: get together with 2 more classmates (groups of
3 or 4)
• Step 3: share your sentences, give background, explain
what you wrote and elaborate as much as possible

Last Act.6 today

• sentences
• If there’s one thing I’ve learnt ….
• One thing I’d never …
• One thing I wish I’d known when I was …
• If I had a personal motto, it would be…
• My mother/father/mentor/friend/loved one always told
me…