D.

VOCABULARY: Communication

Look at photos a-e below and answer the questions using words from the box.

1. How are the people communicating?

face to face

expressing feelings

giving a presentation

interviewing

telling a joke

keeping in touch

speaking in public

giving opinions
2. When was the last time you were in a similar situation to each of the photos?

3. Which situations in the photos do you enjoy? Which don’t you enjoy? Why?

Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

presentation - interviewed - expressing - In public

opinions – joke - face-to-face - in touch

1. I prefer having face-to-face meetings with my colleagues, rather than talking to them on the phone.

2. She used her laptop to give an extremely ………………. clear of her project in class.

3. Our teacher always tells a ……………… at the beginning of each lesson. Sometimes they're quite funny;
sometimes they're terrible.

4. Although I left the country fifteen years ago, I still keep …………. with some of my old friends. 5. The
politician was …………….. by a journalist from The limes.

6. He isn't very good at ………….. his feelings. He's rather shy so I never know if he's happy or not.

7. She doesn't usually say much in meetings. I don't think she likes speaking…………

8. David's a very direct person. He always gives his ………….. about my paintings.
1 Which generation are you?

Which Living Generation Do You Actually Belong In? (buzzfeed.com)

• 2 How many of these generations are there in your family?

• 3 Which generation are most of the people where you work or study?

Talk about family, friends or colleagues. What problems do you think different generations might have
when they communicate? Which of the things are you best at? Which do you find very difficult? Talk
about your ideas.

• talking to older people

• talking to younger people

• talking to people from different countries

• expressing my opinions

• expressing my feelings

• listening when people criticize me

• avoiding arguments

I like talking to older

people, but I’m not
very good at talking
to children.
What do you think they mean?

1. You argue with someone when you agree / don’t agree about something.

2. You complain when you’re happy / not happy about something.

3. You encourage someone when you say good/ bad things about what they want to do.

4. If you persuade someone, you make them agree / forget to do something.

5. If you insist on something, you say that something must happen / might happen.

6. You greet someone when they arrive at! leave a place.

d Choose 1 of these topics to talk about.

• a time when you complained about something in a shop or restaurant

• a time when you insisted on doing something

• a time when you argued about something unimportant

• a time when you encouraged someone who was having problems

• a time when someone persuaded you to do something you didn't want

Learning a language.

Discuss the questions.

1. How many languages can you say ‘Hello’ in?

2. How many languages can you order a meal or have a simple conversation in?

3. What language are you best at (apart from your own)?

Choose one idea below and continue using because. Write your idea.
For example:
Learning a language is like falling in love, because it’s exciting a t the beginning, and then it becomes
hard work.

1. Learning a new language is like ...

2.

• falling in love

• going on an endless journey

• being a child

• growing plants in a garden

• learning a musical instrument

3. because

4. complete the idea

YOUR SENTENCE:
 • Look at photos a-d and discuss the questions.

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each way of learning a language?

Picture A

Advantage:

Disadvantage:

Picture B

Advantage:

Disadvantage:

Picture C

Advantage:

Disadvantage:

Picture D

Advantage:

Disadvantage:

2. Which have you tried? Have you tried any other ways?
 Student's autonomous work
WE ALL KNOW THAT PEOPLE
LEARN BETTER IF THEY ENJOY LEARNING.
Jon Foster reports on an app that makes learning a new language like playing a game.

I’ve never been much good at languages. But next month, I’m travelling to a remote area of Central
Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala - one of the local languages - to have a conversation. I
wasn’t sure how I was going to manage this - until I discovered a way to spend just a few minutes, a few
times a day, learning all the vocabulary I’m going to need.

To be honest, normally when I get a spare moment at home, I go on Facebook or play games on my
phone. But, at the moment, I’m using those short breaks for something more useful. I’m learning a
foreign language. And thanks to Memrise, the app I’m using, it feels just like a game.

‘People often stop learning things because they feel they’re not making progress or because it all feels
like too much hard work,’ says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. ‘We’re trying to
create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something you’d want to do instead of watching
TV.’

And Memrise is fun. It’s a challenge. It gives you a few new words to learn and these are ‘seeds’ which
you plant in your ‘greenhouse’. (This represents your short-term memory.) When you practise the
words, you ‘water your plants’ and they grow. When the app believes that you have really remembered
a word, it moves the word to your ‘garden’. You get points as your garden grows, so you can compare
yourself to other Memrise users. I want to get a high score and go to the next level. And if I forget to log
on, the app sends me emails that remind me to ‘water my plants’.

The app uses two principles about learning. The first is that people remember things better when they
link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also
encourages you to use ‘mems’ - images that help you remember new words. You can use mems which
other users have created or you can create your own. I memorised motele, the Lingalan word for
‘engine’, using a mem I created - I imagined an old engine in a motel room.

The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them again later,
leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because it’s the kind of app you only
use for five or ten minutes a day.

I’ve learnt hundreds of Lingalan words with Memrise. I know this won’t make me a fluent speaker, but I
hope I’ll be able to do more than just smile and look stupid when I meet people in the Congo.

Now, why am I still sitting here writing this? I need to go and water my vocabulary!
a. Read Can you really learn a language in 22 hours? quickly and answer the questions.

1. What is Memrise?

2. Why is Jon Foster using it?

3. How much has he learnt?

b. Read the article again and choose the correct answers for questions 1 -4 .

1. The writer wants to learn Lingala because he ...

a. loves new languages.

b. wants to talk with the people who speak it.

С. wants to try Memrise.

2. Ed Cooke wants learners to ...

a. enjoy learning more.

b. improve quickly.

С. do more vocabulary practice.

3. ‘Mem’ is ...

a. the Lingalese word for ‘engine’,

b. a translation of a new word.

С. a picture that helps people remember new words.

4. Where do the mems come from?

a. Ed Cooke creates them.

b. Users can create mems for themselves and other users,

с. Every user creates mems only for themselves.

c. Match the words in bold in the article with meanings 1 -8 below.

1 getting better:

2 changes a word from one language into another:

3 what someone wants to do:

4 learnt something so that you remembered it exactly:

5 something difficult which tests your ability:

6 able to communicate freely and easily:

7 to make someone remember something:

8 do something again:
Present Simple

• a Match present simple sentences a- с with uses 1 -3.

• a. When I get a spare moment at home, I normally go on Facebook or play games on my phone.

• b. I know this won’t make me a fluent speaker.

• С. People learn better if they enjoy learning.

• We can use the present simple:

• 1. to talk about things which are generally true (sentence… )

• 2. to talk about habits and routines (sentence… )

• 3. with state verbs - verbs about thoughts (e.g. understand), feelings (e.g. want) and possession
(e.g. own), (sentence… )
Present Continuous

• b Match present continuous sentences a- с with uses 1 -3.

• a. I’m learning a foreign language,

• b. Now, why am I still sitting here writing this?

• С. Young people are spending more and more time playing on the computer.

• We can use the present continuous to talk about:

• 1. actions in progress at the same time as speaking/writing, (sentence… )

• 2. actions in progress around (before and after) the time of speaking/writing, (sentence… )

• 3. changing situations, (sentence… )

 Present simple and present continuous

Present simple

We use the present simple for:

• facts which are true all the time.

The sun rises in the east. The bus doesn’t go past my house.

• habits and routines.

I study for about an hour a week. We never get much homework.

• opinions and beliefs.

Do you agree? I don’t know the answer

Present continuous

We use the present continuous for:

• actions which are in progress at the moment of speaking.

Why are you carrying an umbrella? It’s not raining

• actions or situations around the moment of speaking.

He’s studying Russian at university.

• future arrangements (see 5A p. 140).

I’m meeting Andrew tonight.

States and actions

The present continuous is not normally used to describe:

• mental states: know, agree, understand, believe, etc.

• likes and preferences: like, want, love, hate, need, prefer, etc.

• other states: be, own, belong, forget, hear, seem, depend, etc.

Special cases

Some verbs (e.g. think, see, have) can be used as states or actions, with different meanings:

State: I think you're wrong. (= my opinion)

Action: I'm thinking about my birthday. (= a mental process)

State: I see what you mean. (= I understand)

Action: I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow. (= I'm meeting him/her)

State: I have a car/a sister. (= possession, relationship, etc.)

Action: I’m having a party/a shower / dinner

PRACTICE

Do each exercise and make a screenshot of the result (100%)

https://www.learnclick.net/quiz/849

https://reviewgamezone.com/mc/candidate/test/?test_id=13629&title=Present%20Simple%20Vs
%20Present%20Continuous

https://wordwall.net/resource/5919191/present-simple-present-continuous-multiple-choice

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/present-simple-present-continuous/

https://englishuniversity.eu/?qorder%5B173%5D=1&S=3&E=1&L=3
Listen and underline the correct words.

1 James is a bit/ very tired.

2 Linda likes / doesn't like the book.

3 Tony thinks the girl can do something quite / very impressive.

4 The teacher thinks Olivier will/ won't be able to pronounce ‘squirrel’.

H Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Listen again and check.

exhausted fantastic impossible useless

1 I’m absolutely____________

2 This book’s ____________

3 That’s ! I can only speak one language.

4 It's___________ ! I’ll never get it right.

Read about gradable and extreme adjectives. Complete sentences 1 -6 with absolutely or very.

• With some adjectives (gradable) {good, bad, difficult), we can use words like quite, very, really and
extremely to make their meaning stronger or weaker (e.g., His pronunciation is quite good. The exam
was extremely difficult.).

• Other adjectives already have a strong or extreme meaning (e.g., perfect, useless). We can use words
like completely or absolutely before these adjectives to add emphasis {Her English is absolutely
perfect.).

• 1 Online dictionaries are often______useful.

• 2 That cake’s ______ enormous.

• 3 I think Anna’s ______ confident.

• 4 I went for a swim in the river and the water was_____ freezing.

• 5 There are only seven houses in my village - it’s _____ tiny.

• 6 It’s ______ important to learn pronunciation as well as vocabulary.

Listen to the extreme adjectives in the box. Complete the sentences with the them.

• Awful boiling brilliant delicious enormous

• Filthy Freezing furious miserable tiny

• 1 Their house is _______ ! It’s got 12 bedrooms.

• 2 A. Was it hot? В. Yes, it was absolutely _______ !

• 3 Why do you look so _______, ? I’ve never seen you looking so sad.

• 4 We had a _______ holiday! The hotel, the weather, the town - it was all really good.

• 5 The food was absolutely _______. I’m not going there again!

• 7 The picture’s _______. see it. Can you make it a bit bigger?

• 8 A It’s — 1 _______ Why didn’t I bring a coat? В Here, you can borrow my jacket.

• 9 Your Т-shirt’s _______ Put it in the washing machine.

• 10 That cake is _______! A Could I have some more, please?

С. Think of an example of each of the things below.

• • someone who earns an enormous amount of money

• • an awful film or TV show

• • something that makes you furious

• • something that tastes delicious

• • a time you felt absolutely miserable

• • a brilliant website
May 28, 2021
A. Discuss the questions.

• 1. Have you ever had a job interview? 2. Was it a good experience? Why / Why not?

Reading
Not the best interview I ’ve ever had!

Most people feel nervous when they go for a job interview, but some interviews are worse than others.
Fortunately, they don’t all end in disaster!

a. ‘They wanted to test how fast I could type. My fingers were over the keyboard, ready to type. The
interviewer said, ‘Right click to open the file', but all I heard was ‘Write click’ so I typed ‘click’ on a
window that was already open. I felt so embarrassed when I realised my mistake, but we both laughed,
and I got the job. I’ve worked there for eight months now.’ Laura

b. ‘I’ve never forgotten to switch my phone off in the cinema, but for some reason I forgot when I went
for my first job interview. My friend phoned me to wish me good luck - right in the middle of the
interview. Oops! I didn’t get the job.’ Andy

c. ‘I’ve had lots of good interviews, but this one was a disaster. I had put on my CV that I could speak
‘some French'. I learnt some French at school, but I’ve never really used it and my listening skills are
really bad. The three interviewers began the interview by speaking to me in French, and I didn't
understand a word. No, I didn't get the job, and yes, I’ve changed my CV!’ Dan

d. ‘I had a job interview with two people last week. One of them was leaning back on his chair when
suddenly it fell right back, and it was soon clear that he couldn't get up again. I didn’t know if I should try
to help or not and I was worried I was going to start laughing. Fortunately, the other interviewer asked
me to wait outside the room for a minute, and then the interview carried on as if nothing had
happened. Guess what? They’ve just offered me the job!’ Ellie

B. Read Not the best interview I've ever had!

1. Who got the job?

2. Who didn’t get the job?

С. Read the stories again. Match a-d with headings 1 -4 .

1 ______ Wrong word!

2 ______ Better to tell the truth

3 ______ The interviewer probably felt worse than me!

4 ______ An unlucky call

VOCABULARY: Work
a. Look at photos a -f below and match them with sentences 1 -6 .

1. Hundreds of people applied for the job but only six candidates were invited for an interview. _____

2. It’s hard to balance family life and a career. _____

3. I’m proud of my practical skills and medical knowledge. _____

4. There are 200 employees in this organisation, but I’m only in charge of a small team. _____

5. I’ve got good grades, but I haven’t got much experience to put on my CV. _____

6. I've got a lot of business contacts who work for employers in different countries. ____

b Match the words with these meanings.

apply for – career – employees – in charge of – candidates

knowledge – grades – CV – business contacts – employers

1. the jobs you do during your working life ___________________

2. people you know who might be able to help your career ___________________

3. contacted a company asking for a job ___________________

4. people who work for a company ___________________

5. the results of your exams at school or university ___________________

6. the things you know from experience or study

7. people who are trying to get a job ___________________

8. responsible for something or someone ___________________

9. the people that you work for ___________________

10. a document which describes your education and the jobs you have done
Present perfect simple

We use the present perfect simple to talk about:

• experiences in our lifetime, or another unfinished time period.

1. Have you ever had a job interview?

2. I’ve never worked in an office.

3. We can use adverbs like ever, never, three times, etc.

• news and recent events, often with a present result.

1. They’ve just offered me the job. (result = I’ve got a job.)

2. The interviews have already finished - you're too late. (result = You can’t have an interview.)

3. She hasn't called me back yet. (result = I'm still waiting to speak to her.)

4. We can use adverbs like just, already and yet.

• unfinished states (when we want to talk about the duration).

1. I’ve only had this phone for a week.

2. We've lived in London since 2010.

We use for to give the duration or since to give the starting point
Past simple

We use the past simple for completed past actions in a completed past time period:

1. She didn’t get the job.

2. The interviews finished five minutes ago.

3. Why did you miss the bus?

We often use past time phrases like last week, a few days ago, when I was a child.

Present perfect or past simple?

We often introduce a topic with the present perfect and then change to the past simple in the next
sentence to talk about the details:

1. I've had lots of job interviews. The last one was about three months ago - it was terrible.

2. I’ve lost my keys. Maybe I left them on the bus this morning.

3. He hasn’t worked here long. He started a few weeks ago.

Don’t use the present perfect when you describe an action that

• happened at a particular time. Use a past tense instead:

• They left yesterday / at four о 'clock / ten minutes ago.

• GRAMMAR
Present perfect simple and past simple

a. Look at these sentences from the stories on Not the best interview I ’ve ever had!

• Which verbs are in the present perfect and which is in the past simple?

• 1. I’ve never forgotten to switch my phone off in the cinema. _______________

• 2. I’ve had lots of good interviews, but this one was a disaster. _______________

• 3. I had a job interview with two people last week. _______________

• 4. They’ve just offered me the job! _______________

b. Underline the correct words to complete the rules.

• 1. We use the past simple / present perfect to taIk about recent past events that have an effect
on the present.

• 2. We use the past simple / present perfect to talk about our experiences.

• 3. We use the past simple / present perfect when we give details (e.g. when, where, etc.) or talk
about specific past events.

• practice

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/big-bang-theory-past-simple-and-present-perfect

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/present-perfect-or-past-simple/

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/past-simple-present-perfect/