NLL PRE-INTERMEDIATE UNIT

2 PEOPLE
WHAT IS SUCCESS?

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL

PEOPLE?

BEING CONFIDENT DETERMINATION

BEING HARD-WORKING
BEING BRAVE

CREATIVIT
Y
WHAT ARE THE NOUN FORMS OF
THE ADJECTIVES BELOW?
 Determined  Determination
 Happy  Happiness
 Creative  Creativity, creation, creator
 Hard-working  Hard work
 Kind  Kindness
 Friendly  Friend, friendliness, friendship
 Brave  Bravery
 Confident  Confidence

NOW, DO ACTIVITY 4C ON P. 15.

WHAT ARE SOME OTHER ADJECTIVES
WE USE TO TALK ABOUT A PERSON’S
PERSONALITY?
Horrible
Polite
Rude
Friendly
Miserable
Nice
Unfriendly
Cheerful
Stupid
Clever
Lazy
Chatty
Shy
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN ‘RELAXED’ AND
‘RELAXING’?
 Choose the best option.

1. The film was so __________. I nearly fell

asleep.
a) boring

b) bored
2. Mary is ___________ because she has
cleaned the house for hours.

a) tired

b) tiring
3. The documentary was really ___________. I
learnt many things about bees.

a) interesting

b) interested
Now, go to p. 14 in the book and read
and listen about three determined
women who worked hard to achieve
success in their field. (from 1a to 3)
Now, go to p. 17 in the book and listen
and learn about a famous person,
Esperanza Spalding. (6a)
While describing a famous person, you may talk about:

I'd like to invite Esperanza Who s/he is and her /his

job
Spalding. She's a jazz singer and a
musician from the USA. Her early life
wasn't easy. She lived in a poor part
of Portland, Oregon, with her
mother. Her mother was an important
influence, and Esperanza has a lot of Her / his early life
respect for her. Esperanza had a long
illness as a child, and didn't go to
school all the time. Instead, she
learnt at home.
Erm ... she first became interested
in music at the age of four. She
trained as a classical musician, How s/ he first started his /
but, as a teenager, she also liked her career
blues, hip-hop and other styles of
music. She discovered the bass
when she was fourteen ... because
she was bored with other
His/her achievements
instruments. Er ... her first album –
'Junjo' – came out in 2005. In
2011, she won a Grammy music Your opinion about him/her
prize for Best New Artist. I admire
her determination and ability: she
can sing in English, Spanish and
Portuguese. She's also very
beautiful!
What are the past forms of the verbs
below?
 Was / were
 Be
 Lived
 Live
 Had
 Have
 Went
 Go
 Learnt
 Learn
 Became
 Become
 Trained
 Train
 Liked
 Like
 Discovered
 Discover
 Came out
 Come out
 Won
 Win
You know Mark and Betty from the previous unit.
Please watch their video and answer the following
question:
What did Mark do last weekend? Was he
happy about it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUkdzt2Wf2A
Watch the video again and answer the following questions.

1. Where did Mark go last weekend?

 He went to the mountains.

2. When did Mark leave home and arrive at the

campsite?
 He left home on Friday afternoon and arrived at the
campsite at night.
3. What did Mark do at the campsite?
 He wanted to take photos of wild flowers.

4. Were the mountains full of bears?

 No, they weren’t.

5. Was Mark brave?

 He thinks so because he took a photo of a huge bear.
 TALKING ABOUT PICTURES

What did they do last week?

He drove a car.
He painted the wall.

He made a cake. He read a book.

Sally and Tom ________ in the zoo yesterday.

a) are

b) was

c) were
He ______ a student ten years ago.

a) is

b) were

c) was
I _______ fat when I was young.

a) was

b) did

c) were
Now, go to p. 18 and do the activities
under 2.3 ‘Scenario’ part. (From 1a to 6c)
We learnt some adjectives to talk about a
person’s personality. Let’s now have a look
at some adjectives we use to talk about
physical appearance.
 AGE

young x old
middle aged
(BE) + …in her / his twenties/ fifties
…about ... years old
 HEIGHT

(BE) + tall x short

…of medium/ average height
 WEIGHT
slim=thin X fat=overweight
(BE) + skinny (=quite thin)
…of medium/ average height
…plump (=quite fat)
 HAIR
 Length: long x short,
shoulder-length

 Color: black, blond,

brown, gray, red, white

 Type: straight, wavy,

curly

 Styles: braid, ponytail,

bangs=fringe, bun
FACIAL HAIR
 Beard

 Goatee

 Moustache
 Skin / Complexion
Pale complexion x dark
complexion
Freckled: covered with light brown spots
Tanned: with a healthy golden-brown tint
Wrinkled: full of or covered with lines, often
associated with age
 DESCRIBING A FAMOUS PERSON

 Whatdo you know

about Brad Pitt?

 What is he like?

 What does he look

like?

 What does he like

doing in his free time?
DESCRIBING SOMEONE FAMOUS

Write a paragraph about Brad Pitt using the

cues given for you in the next slide. Use
appropriate tenses (simple present or past
tense).
-Birth: Dec. 18, 1963
-American actor and film producer
-His father: owner of a trucking company
-His mother: a school counsellor.
-study journalism at the University of Missouri
-not finish his degree, go to Hollywood to look for
fame
-gain recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the
movie Thelma & Louise (1991).
-star in Fight Club (1999)
-receive two Golden Globe Awards and
an Academy Award for his performance in Once
Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
-Marriages: from 2000 to 2005 - Jennifer Aniston
from 2014 to 2019 - Angelina Jolie
-Children: six children (3 of them were adopted)
-like spending time with his children in his free
time
-often top the “most handsome guy in the world”
lists
-have a practical and creative energy