Class one
In class one we will start a new chapter in the book: Surviving and Thriving.
We will kick off with a role play in which students must navigate a difficult situation at work.
(1a) You are the manager of a busy company. One of your best employees wants to talk with you. This employee has the best sales numbers and you really need them to continue working so hard.
(1b) Your boss has been forcing you to work more and more overtime every week. You have also been given many extra responsibilities that do not fall under your job description. Even though you love your job and you get a great salary, you haven’t been able to spend much time with your family, and your husband/wife is threatening to divorce you.
Having completed this, we will then look at idiomatic expressions used to give advice. Students will work together to match the idioms to their definitions on this worksheet and then put them into practice with some more role play situations.
- I have a friend who is really tight-fisted. Every time that we go out for a drink or a meal he says he hasn’t got any money or he mysteriously disappears to the toilet when the bill arrives. At first we thought “poor John he never has any money”, but he works 6 days a week so he must have some money. What should we do?
- My best friend is always flirting with my girlfriend. He always pays her lots of compliments like “Wow! You look fantastic tonight!” Also when we go to parties he often asks her to dance. It’s making me really angry. What should I do?
- I share a flat with a friend and she keeps borrowing my things without asking. At first it was just little things like books and DVDs but now she’s started borrowing my clothes and when I want to wear my favourite dress for example, I find it on her bedroom floor unwashed! What should I do?
Finally we will complete the listening task on page 44.
Homework
Complete the exam task on page 40-41.
Class two
In class two we will review the conditionals. This will include a revision of the basic (zero to third conditional) and also mixed and inverted conditionals.
Review of Conditionals: Press Conditionals
Inverted conditionals explanation:
We will look at page 45 of the book to review expressions with If and other expressions commonly found in alternative conditional phrases.
In pairs we will complete the following part 4 exam practice:
- If there is an accident phone the emergency services.
OF
Phone the emergency services …………….. an accident.
- I couldn’t have bought that motorbike unless my mother had agreed to pay the monthly repayments.
BUT
……………. agreeing to pay the monthly repayments I could never have bought that motorbike.
- We would have missed our connecting train if we had not caught the earlier plane.
NOT
Had ……………. the earlier plane, we would have missed our connecting train.
- Purchases may be refunded within seven days.
MIND
Should ……………. your purchase you have up to seven days to bring it back for a refund.
- Providing that you make up the time later in the week you can take Monday off.
CONDITION
You can have the day off on Monday ……………. make up the time later in the week.
Homework
Exam task “Positive Psychology” page 45
Essay on page 46.
CAE students: please select an essay from the exam book that was sent to you. Remember to include a photo of the question.
