OP Unit 2: Expectation

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CPE Unit 2 Expectation

Think of a situation or theme
in your life
that does or did NOT live up
to your expectations... :(

1. Think back on a moment or achievement that DID exceed your expectations. What happened?

2. What is more important according to you:

Remembering your disappointments or your successes or top moments? Why so? 

Focus on vocab

What do these expressions mean?

What about these holiday / travel idioms?

1. Float One’s Boat

2. Just The Ticket

3. A Mile A Minute

4.  To Travel Light

5. Neck of the woods

6. A Redeye Flight

7. That Ship Has Sailed

8.  To Rock The Boat

9. To Paddle One’s Own Canoe

10. On The Home Stretch

Meanings:

1. Float One’s Boat: to make someone happy, excited or interested in something.

2. Just The Ticket: exactly what is needed or wanted.

3. A Mile A Minute: very fast

4. To Travel Light: to travel with very little luggage or baggage.

5. Neck of the woods: an area or neighbourhood nearby / the area where sb lives .

6. A Redeye Flight: a late-night flight. Usually, one that leaves really late at night and arrives early the next morning.

7. That Ship Has Sailed: the opportunity has already passed; a missed opportunity.

8. To Rock The Boat: to do something that will cause problems for others.

9. To Paddle One’s Own Canoe: be independent

10. On The Home Stretch: the last part of a long journey.

Speaking assignment

With a partner: talk for 3 minutes about travelling/ holidays and try to incorporate some of the idioms you've just seen.

You can think of:

• Most interesting/wonderful/horrible holiday yet.
• Upcoming holidays
• Future holiday plans
• Impact of Corona on (the future) of tourism

During your conversation you assess your partner’s speech according to the rubrics below:

• Is able to carry a coherent conversation for some time              2
  
• Uses a wide range of vocabulary                                                          2
  
• Uses travelling idioms                                                                             2
• Uses a wide range of grammatical structures (e.g., inversion, gerund, passive)                                                                                         2 
  
• Is able to sustain his/her arguments well                                           1
  
• Correct pronunciation                                                                             1
• ________________________________________________________________
• Total score                                                                                                10

Grammar: The future

Which tenses can be used to refer to the future?

Future tenses

1. Simple Future:                will walk / am going to walk
   
2. Present Continous        am walking
   
3. Present Simple               walk/walks
   
4. Be + infinitive                  are to walk/ are not to walk
   
5. Future Continuous        will be going
   
6. Future Perfect                will have walked
   
7. Future in the past           was going to walk/ would walk
   

Future simple

will + verb: 

• Used to talk about a future action or event at the point of decision: 

      I will come to cinema with you tonight.

• Used to make predictions about the future: You will meet a tall, dark stranger.
• Used to make promises: I will buy a car for your birthday.

to be going to + verb:

• Used to talk about intentions/ plan & decisions based on intentions: 

      We're going to visit our friends in New Zealand next winter.

• Used to talk about future events and actions based on present evidence, especially when we can see that the event is imminent: Watch out! We're going to hit that tree!

Present continuous

To be + verb & -ing: 

Used to talk about plans and arrangements for the future. A time reference often makes the future meaning clear:

• What are you doing tonight?
• We're meeting early tomorrow morning.

Present simple

verb/verb + s:

• used to talk about timetables and schedules: 

   Our trains leaves at 6.30 tomorrow morning.

• Used  with future references  in subordinate clauses after time conjunctions such as  when, before, until, as soon as:

   I hope you will text us as soons as you get home.

Be + infinitive

Used in formal situations. Often in rules or instructions, or when you talk about official plans. Common in news reports.

• Staff are not to use company telephones for personal calls
• The Prime Minister is to visit South Africa next month

Future continuous

Will + be + verb & -ing:

Focuses on an action or event in progress at a specific time in the future. 

• This time next week I'll be lying on a beach in Italy.
• This day next month I will be spending more time with my family.

Future perfect

Will + have + past participle:

used when looking forward to a future time and then looks back from that point.

• By the end of next year we will have finished the project.
• When the summer rolls around, we will have redecorated the entire house.

Future in the past

was/were + going to + verb OR would + verb

used to look back at a past time and talk about the future as it was at that past time.

• By the time I left school I knew I was going to become a doctor.
• I thought it would be cold today, but it isn't.

1. The bus ___ at 7.30. We will have to wait a bit longer.

1. will be arriving
2. will arriving
3. arrives
4. is going to arrive

2. The report on air pollution ___ next Thursday.

1. will have finished
2. will be finishing
3. will be finished
4. will finish

3. The book ___ by the end of this year.

1. will have been published
2. will publish
3. will be publishing
4. is published

4. What __________ at the weekend?

1. will you do
2. are you going to do
3. are you doing

5. If you keep running around on this slippery floor ______

1. you will fall over
2. you're going to fall over
3. you're falling over

6. By the time I retire _______________ .

1. I'll have worked here for twenty years
2. I'll be working here for twenty years
3. I'm working here for twenty years

7. This time next week _______________ .

1. I will sit on the beach in Thailand
2. I will be sitting on the beach in Thailand
3. I will have sat on the beach in Thailand

8. Where do you think ___________ in ten years' time?

1. you are going to live
2. you are living
3. you will be living

• In the next video the future tenses are illustrated by excerpts from Friends. 

Be aware: gonna needs to be replaced by going to in formal English, including writing ;). 

Objective Proficiency

• Exercises 2,3 and 4 (page 16/17)

• Exercises 1,2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  (page18/19 

• Phrase spot and corresponding exercises (page 20)

• Exercise 4 Exam spot (page 21)

• Study vocabulary units 1-10

Recap Emphasis

Can you rewrite the sentence starting with 'Under'?
Students are not allowed to use their phones under any circumstances.

Can you rewrite the sentence starting with 'Only'?
Mr Tip was allowed to teach V4 only after he had graduated from university.

Can you rewrite the sentence starting with 'Not'?
Most pupils did not like English until they got Mr Tip.

Can you rewrite the sentence starting with 'Never'?
I have never seen so many people in one place!

Can you rewrite the sentence starting with 'Never'?
He never considered he might be arrested.