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LESSON 11

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Welcome to a new lesson! Today we're beginning a new unit.  1- Look at the home page of a new website. Listen to part of a readio programme about this website and answer the questions: A RADIO PROGRAMME  (audio) 1- Why did Annabel Acton set it up? 2- What king of things di people sell on it? 3- What else do they do apart from selling things? 2- Look at three things from the website and answer these questions: 1- Would you like to buy any of them? 2- Which break-up do you think was the worst? 3- Do you have anything you would like to sell on the website? In this unit we're going to work with "reported speech". Do you remember how it worked? Let's see... "Reported speech  is  speech  which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words" 3- Now, let's practise! Rewrite these sentences using reported speech: 4- Rewrite what the people said in direct speech: 5- Now...let's work with a dictionary. Are these expressions the

LESSON 10

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  Welcome to a new lesson! Today we're going to continue talking about houses. In this case, we're going to read about a famous musician's house.  1- Read and listen to the audio guide (page 70  SB) AUDIO GUIDE  (audio) 2- What is the connection between these things and Tchaikovsky's house? 3- Look at the highlighted words in the text. Then match them with definitions 1-8: 4- Tchaikovsky lived in his dream house. Let's listen to four American architecture students describing their "dream house". Which speaker's house is...? FOUR AMERICAN STUDENTS  (audio) 5- Listen again and make notes about the location and special features of each house: FOUR AMERICAN STUDENTS  (audio) 6- Now listen to four sentences the students said. Why do the s speakers use "would"? FOUR SENTENCES  (audio) 7- Read the song lyrics and think about what the missing verbs could be. Then listen and complete the gaps: SONG  (audio) SONG FACTS: "If I could build my whole

LESSON 9

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Welcome to a new lesson! Today we're going to continue working with CONDITIONAL SENTENCES, but this time we're going to focus our attention on SECOND CONDITONAL. So, let's go straight to the theory and see how this works: Now let's do some practice: 1- Follow the example and complete the blank spaces with the verbs in the correct form: 2- Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: Go to page 145 in the SB.  3- Write second conditonal sentences: 4- FIRST or SECOND CONDITIONAL? Complete with the correct form of the verb: Now, let's focus on vocabulary. Go to page 162 SB. 5- Complete the PREPOSITION column with IN or ON. You may need a dictionary. Then listen and check: WHERE PEOPLE LIVE  (audio) Learn these differences: 6- Match the words and pictures. Then listen and check: PARTS OF HOUSES OR FLATS  (audio) 7- Match the descriptions and the photos. Then listen and check: DESCRIBING A HOUSE OR FLAT  (audio) Learn these differences: HOMEWORK: (send this activity

LESSON 8

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  Welcome to a new lesson! Today we're going to continue working with the topic we began working last zoom class: FIRST CONDITIONAL SENTENCES. 1- Answer these questions about you: 1- When was the last time you did an exam? Did you pass or fail? 2- What's the next exam you're going to do? How do you feel about it? 3- How do you usually feel before you do an exam? 4- What do you usually do the night before an exam? 5- Have you ever failed an important exam you thought you had passed (or viceversa)? 2- Listen to Olivia and Tomasz who are waiting for their exams results and answer the questions: OLIVIA  (audio1) TOMASZ (audio2) 1- Do they think they have passed? 2- When and how will they get the results of the exam? 3- How will they celebrate if they get good results? 4- What do they want to do if they get good results? 5- What will they do if they fail, or if they don't get the results that they need? Learn this: 3- Listen and complete the sentences: LISTEN AND COMPLETE (a