06 🔧 What's wrong with it?

Topics

Consumer complaints; 

everyday problems; 

electronics; 

repairs

Speaking

Describing problems; 

making complaints; 

explaining something that needs to be done

Grammar

Describing problems with past participles as adjectives and with nouns; 

describing problems with keep + gerund, 

                                         need + gerund, and 

                                         need + passive infinitive

Pronunciation

Contrastive stress

Listening

Listening to people exchange things in a store; 

listening to complaints; 

listening to repair people describe their jobs

Self-study

Listening to people’s problems with items they bought

Writing

Writing a letter of complaint

Reading

“Trading Spaces”: Reading about a TV show in which participants redecorate other people’s rooms

Activity

“Fixer-upper”: Comparing problems in two pictures of an apartment