unit 4: Laughter is the best medicine

Unit 4
Laughter is the best medicine
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Unit 4
Laughter is the best medicine

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Ex 1
Rank these situations from m ost to least enjoyable.




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Ex 3
Read and listen to the article on p 39.

Number the situations in the photos in the order that they are referred to in the article.
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Do in pairs:

ex 4+5 p 38
ex 1+2 p 39

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ex 4

  • 1 C 
  • 2 A 
  • 3 A 
  • 4 D 
  • 5 E 
  • 6 B 
  • 7 B 
  • 8 A

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Cleft sentences
Cleft sentences with:
- What ....  -> focus of attention: end of the sentence
- It ... -> focus of attention: beginning of the sentence
- All... = the only thing

Another way to add emphasis: add do or does to a positive sentence

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To do: 
grammar ex 2+3 p 40
finished? 
Go to the online platform > unit 4 > empathic structures 1+2+3

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Listening p 41

To do: ex 1

To do (individually)
Do Vocabulary ex 1+2 p 40
Do Reading ex 1+2+3 p 42
Finished? Go to the online platform and continue where you left off yesterday.
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Vocabulary
ex 1
a 8 b 6 c 7 d 4 e 9 f 5 g 2 h 3 i 1

ex 2
1 pranks 2 gets 3 punchline 4 hilarious 5 giggles
6 found 7 at 8 light



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Reading
ex 2
1 Her profession has always been a male-dominated one; her early life was also unconventional as she was living in the UK as the daughter of a political refugee from Iran.
2 She has appeared on political discussion programmes
and on a dance show; and she’s written a book.

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ex 3
1 because female comedians have always been in the
minority
2 because her father had criticised the government and so the family were no longer safe in Iran
3 It was diff icult adapting to a new culture, and living with the threat to their safety from Iran.
4 She and her dad told jokes about their situation to help make light of things.
5 because she would go on to tell jokes for a living
6 She says she was very nervous.
7 She feels she doesn’t have to choose one identity; she
values both

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Grammar: boosting (p 43)
> ex 1

Rule:
  1.  after the verb to be
  2. before other verbs
  3. between auxiliary and main verbs

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To do:

Grammar ex 2 p 43
Vocabulary ex 1+2+3

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Grammar: ex 2 p 43

  • 1 He is undeniably one of the funniest actors in the world.
  • 2 The Interview is undoubtedly his best film.
  • 3 It is literally the funniest film I’ve ever seen.
  • 4 He clearly loves playing losers.
  • 5 His performance in Steve Jobs was utterly convincing.
  • 6 He will definitely win an Oscar one day.

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Vocabulary ex 1 p 43
  • 1 g 
  • 2 h 
  • 3 d 
  • 4 a 
  • 5 f 
  • 6 b 
  • 7 c 
  • 8 e

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ex 2 p 43
  • 1 head off
  • 2 joke
  • 3 have; last laugh
  • 4 laughing stock
  • 5 joking aside
  • 6 other side; face
  • 7 laughing matter
  • 8 burst out

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Literature (p44)
Listen to the extract and do ex 3+4

Finished? Go to the online platform > unit 4 > grammar > boosting
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ex 3 
1 because they had lots of time
2 there was very little actual potato left
3 the process was very messy
4 there was lots of room left in the pot
5 it allowed you to use up lots of different left-over food
6 a rat; they’d never heard of rats in Irish stew and thought it would be safer not to include it

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ex 4
1 to spare
2 scrape
3 in the way of cooking
4 be on the safe side
5 half smothered
6 odds and ends
7 every little helped
8 fished out

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To do:
- revision exercises (key > Teams)
- Test yourself (book p 47) (key > Teams)
- passive exercises (key > Teams)
- online platform > do revision exercises
grammar unit 3+4


timer
25:00

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Test yourself p 47
1
1 in
2 off
3 stock
4 out
5 beginner’s
6 up
7 down
8 punchline
9 matter
10 giggles

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GRAMMAR
2
 
1 speak
2 It
3 didn’t speak
4 What
5 could speak
6 hadn’t spoken

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1 I’ll do certainly certainly do all I can to help you.
2 Unless we don’t leave now, we’ll miss the train.
3 If I hadn’t eaten so much, I wouldn’t have felt feel so ill
now.
4 It was the journey what that was most fun.
5 He’s made clearly clearly made a lot of enemies.
6 Provided that Imagine you could go anywhere in the
world, where would you go? 

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FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE
4
1 remember
2 good
3 get
4 funny
5 Never
6 bad
7 beginner’s
8 Just

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