Life Events ACTIVITY

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Life Events

Which of these rites of passage, or life events, are important in your country? Check (✓) the events.

What are three other rites of passage for people in your country?

Have any of these things recently happened to you or someone you know?

Rites of Passage

VOCABULARYConfirmation: a religious ceremony to formally accept a person as a member of a Christian church.Bar mitzvah: a ceremony in the Jewish religion to celebrate a boy’s reaching the age of 13Bat mitzvah: a ceremony in the Jewish religion to celebrate a girl’s reaching the age of 13Sweet 16: a girl’s 16th birthday

EVENT | Turn point | Personality

Alan and Carol are o their first date, riding in a car.

They are talking about their childhood.

VOCABULARYIrresponsible: not acting in a responsible wayImmature: behaving as though one is younger or less experienced than one isTurning point: a time when an important change starts to happen

Time Clauses

TIME CLAUSES pp

BEFORE

AFTER

ONCE

THE MOMENT

AS SOON AS

UNTIL

BY THE TIME

Before I graduated from high school, I’d never worked.
After I graduated, I went to Alaska to work as a fisherman
Once I moved away from home, I learned to take care of myself.
The moment I moved away from home, I felt like a different person.
As soon as I got my own bank account, I started to be more responsible.
Until I moved to Alaska, I’d never been away from home.
By the time I went to college, I had already lived away from home.

Complete the paragraph with the correct words in parentheses.

Imagine you are Andrei and Ivan. Role-play a conversation.

Andrei: Ivan, you shouldn’t have taken your hands off the wheel.

If you’d been more careful, you wouldn’t have had an accident.

Ivan: But if I hadn’t had the accident, I wouldn’t have become more patient!

SPEAKING

In your country, how old are people when these things happen?

get a driver's license

begin to date

move out of their parent's home

graduate from college

get married

retire

Choose three milestones. What do you think life is like before and after each one?

Join another pair and discuss.

👩 Before people get a driver's licence, they are very dependent on their parents. Once they get a licence, they . . .

Video ACTIVITY

Mistakes at work

Categorize VOCABULARY associated with events and images you will see in the video, and think of additional words to categorize. Then talk about your own mistakes and how it made you feel. Work alone then compare your answers with a partner.

Put the words in the chart. Then add one more word to each list.

advertising agency

conference

embarrassed

meeting

performance

spellbound

technology company

theater

unprofessional

Think about a mistake you made in the past in school or at work.

Then take turns asking and answering the questions below.

1. What was the mistake you made?

2. How did the mistake make you feel?

3. What did you learn from the mistake?

Guess the story

Prepare to watch the video by using visual information to make predictions about what happens in the video.Play the first minute of the video with the sound off (until Jamie begins talking for his second interview), and watch for the answer.Work alone to complete the task. Then compare your prediction with a partner. You'll find out the answers in the next activity.

Watch the first minute of the video with the sound off.

What question do you think the interviewer is asking?

Watch the video

Watch for details

WATCH FOR DETAILS

Check✅ True of False. Then correct false statements. Compare with a peer.

1. Amber was still in college.2. Amber was embarrassed at lunch.3. Amber was wearing sandals.4. Evan was on vacation.5. Evan was staying with an old friend.6. Evan broke a lamp.7. Alexis took tickets at the theater.8. Alexis's phone rang very quietly.

Making inferences

Follow-up

Should I have . . .

Make notes about two situations in which you or someone you know made a mistake or did something embarrassing. Then suggest one or two things the person could or should have done differently.

Language close-up

What did he say?

Watch the video and complete the story. Then compare with a partner.

Past conditionals

Rewrite the sentences using if clauses + past perfect.

Talk about how your life would have been different if . . .

your parents had been millionaires.

you had been born a member of the opposite sex.

you had lived 200 year ago.

you had never gone to school.

Behavior and personality

Classify

+ for positive words or – for negative words.

active

ambitious

argumentative

carefree

conscientious

emotional

immature

independent

irresponsible

mature

naive

pragmatical

pragmatic

rebellious

responsible

sensible

sophisticated

Perspectives

Listen to Maya Misery talk about her regrets. Do you have any similar regrets?

What do you suggest to help Maya feel better?

PROJECT This is Your Life!

Practice describing rites of passage using time clauses.

Plan

What rites of passage have you experienced? How did they affect you?

Write five important events in your life.

Prepare

Choose someone you would like to interview. Then write ten questions you want to ask the person about important life events in his or her life. Be sure to include follow-up questions.

A GROUP WORK

Interview the person. Then use the information to make a scrapbook of the events. Draw pictures to make the scrapbook look authentic.

B GROUP WORK

Present

Share your scrapbook with the class. Explain the importance of each item or picture.

CLASS ACTIVITY

📹 Live

Reduction of have and been

Regrets

Greatest regrets

Who has influenced you?

Look at the topics on the screen. What do you think this course is about?

Discuss these questions.

1. Who influenced you?

2. How did he or she influence you?

3. How do you influence others?

Looking back

Lyrics

Looking back over my shoulderI can see that look in your eyeI never dreamed it could be overI never wanted to say goodbyeLooking back over my shoulderWith an aching deep in my heartI wish that we were starting overOh instead of drifting so far apartEverybody told me you were leavingFunny I should be the last to knowBaby please tell me that I'm dreamingI just never want to let you goLooking back over my shoulderI can see that look in your eyeTurning my heart over and overI never wanted to say goodbyeI don't mind everybody laughingBut it's enough to make a grown man cry'Cause I can feel you slipping through my fingersI don't even know the reason whyEvery day it's a losing battleJust to smile and hold my head up highCould it be that we belong togetherBaby won't you give me one more tryOne more tryLooking back over my shoulderI can see that look in your eyeI never dreamed it could be overI never wanted to say goodbyeLooking back over my shoulderOh with an aching feeling insideCutting me up, deeper and deeperFills me with a sadness that I can't hideLooking back over my shoulderI can see that look in your eyeI never dreamed no no it could be overI never wanted to say goodbyeLooking back over my shoulderI can see that look in your eye

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