Unit 2.2: What really happened?

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2.2: What really happened?

TO DO

- Check answers unit 2.1

- Unit 2.2 -  Speaking

                        Reading

                        Grammar

                        Vocabulary

                       Writing

AIMS

After this week's lesson you should be able to:

-find information in a text.

- talk about an important news event.

- listen to news reports.

- write a news report

Speaking

How do you keep up-to-date with the news?

What have been the most important stories in the last five years?

Listen tot he excerpts from news reports. Which stories can you see in the photos?

Speaking - Exercise 7A

Choose an important news story  and discuss the questions below:

1. What was the news story? Where were you when you heard the news?

2. What were you doing? Who were you with?

3. What did you think at first? How did you feel?

4. Did the news change things for you in any way?

Grammar- Narrative tenses

Narrative Tenses

Narrative tenses are used to tell a story or talk about events in the past.

Past simple: state and actions at a definite time in the past.  ( Main events)

                                      I left university in 2010.

Past continuous: Things that were going on in the past. ( Background info)

                                      I was walking down the street when I suddenly heard a 

                                      loud noise.

Past Perfect: to make clear that one action happened before another.

                             I didn't have any money because I had lost my wallet.

Grammar - Exercise 4

"In 1963, President Kennedy and his team were preparing for the next presidential campaign. In Dallas, he was riding through crowds in his car when a gunman shot him."

1. What are examles of the past simple and past continuous?

2. Which tense is used to talk about main events in a story?

3. Which tense is used to give background information?

Grammar - Exercise 4

"Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. A report later agreed that Oswald had killed Kennedy, but also concluded that there had been a conspiracy by a number of unknown people."

1. Which of the underlined verbs is in the past simple?

2. Which of the underlined verbs is in the past perfect?

3. Which tense describes events that happened first?

Grammar - Exercises

Language Bank 2.2A on p. 131: underline the correct alternatives to complete

                                                                 the story.

Language Bank 2.2B on p. 131: Find and correct the mistakes. One sentence 

                                                                 is correct.

Exercise 5 on p. 24:  Complete the text with phrases a) - h)

Finished: exercise 2A, 2B , 3A, 3B, 3C  >  You can do this individually.

                   Instead of discussing the questions you can write down your own answers

                                    

Answers - Language Bank 2.2A

1. died

2.had been

3. hadn't played

4. was living

5. was studying

6. came

7. replied

8. turned

Answers- Language Bank 2.2B

1. when I heard

2. I had left my keys at home

3. we were driving through the tunnel

4. I realised I'd seen it before

5. I'd never been to Egypt before

6. everybody else was leaving.

7. correct

8. I was looking through

Answers - Exercise 5

1. d

2. a

3. c

4. g

5. h

6. b

7. f

8. e

Conspiracy Theories

Exercises

Exercise 2A: Read the definition and look at the photos below.                                                           Then answer the questions.

Exercise 2B: Read the article on p.23 to check your answers.

Exercise 3A: Read the article again and answer the questions.

Exercise 3B: How are the words in the box related to the stories? 

                          Example: fans: fans of Elvis still believe he didn't die.

Exercise 3C: Answer the questions.

Exercise 6A: Match the headlines 1-8 with the explanations a)- h)

Writing: time linkers

By the time the waiter took our order, we had waited for an hour.

As soon as she lost ten pounds, she bought a new dress.

Someone knocked on the door while we were having dinner.

You should not talk during the exam.

I studied until midnight last night.

Exercise 9B: When do we use the time linkers?

Answers- Exercise 9B

1. by the time

2. until

3. while

4. during

5. as soon as

Writing

Exercise 8A: Read the report and answer the questions.

Exercise 8B: Read the news report again and find examples of 1-4 in the text.

Exerice 9C: Complete the sentences with the correct time linker.

Exericse 10A: Choose a headline and write down 6 questions asking for information about the story.

Exercise 10C: Use your questions to write a short news report (100-150 words). Use the ideas in 8B to help you.

HOMEWORK

Finish unit 2.2  from the Students' Book