Unit 1- New Headway Pre Intermediate

UNIT 1
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
1. Match the questions and answers
a. Where were you born?
b. What do you do?
c. Are you married?
d. When did you start learning English?
e. How often do you have English classes?

GRAMMAR SPOT
Find examples of present, past and future tenses in the texts about Maurizio and Carly.
Which tenses are the two verb forms in these sentences? What is the difference between them?
- He lives with his parents.
- She’s living with an English family for a month.
An action which always true
or true for a long time
An activity happening now,
or around now
Present simple
Present continuous
QUESTION WORDS
PRACTICE
Talking about you
Pairwork
a. Where …live?
b. …have any brothers or sisters?
c. What …like doing at the weeekend?
d. where …go for your last holidays?
PRACTICE
Talking about you
Groupwork
a. Do you like listening to music?
b. What sort of music do you like?
c. What are you wearing?
d. What is your teacher wearing?
e. What did you do last night?
f. What are you doing tonight?
PRACTICE
Talking about you
3. Writing
Write a paragraph about you.
GETTING INFORMATION
PAIRWORK
Ask and answer questions about Joy Darling.
VOCABULARY
1. Look at this extract from the Oxford English dictionary



birth [bɜ:θ] n. sự sinh đẻ (emergence of young from the mother’s body); ~day n. ngày sinh nhật; ~mark n. vết bớt

The pronunciation in
phonetic symbols
The translation
The information in brackets helps
you to find the right translation
~ means repeat the word,
so this word means birthday
The part of speech,
n = noun, v = verb
VOCABULARY
2. Parts of speech: N, V, A, ADV, PREP, PAST
3. Groupwork: work in groups of 4, write 2 sentences that show different meanings of the each word in the box.
4. Groupwork: work in groups of four
a. Name the objects in the pictures?
b. Find 10 things in the classroom and name them.
READING
How many different ways can people communicate?
- Using a phone
- Writing and posting a letter
- Sending an email
- Using the Internet
- Sending a fax
- TV and radio
- Smoke signals
- Sign language
- Braille
- Morse code
READING
3. There are 4 headings:
a. A history of communication
b. How we communicate
c. Communication today
d. Differences between people and animals
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4
3
READING


5. Read the text again and answer the questions:
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
NEIGHBOURS
- Who are your ideal neighbours?
- Complete the questionnaire
- Pairwork: discuss your answers with each other
3. Work in two groups:
Group A: Listen to Mrs Snell.
Group B: Listen to steve.
4. Answer the questions

LISTENING AND SPEAKING
NEIGHBOURS
Pairwork: a student in group A works with a student in group B and compare your answers.
What do you think?
- What is “generation gap”
- Write down three things that young people think about older people and three things that older people think about young people and compare you ideas
READING
A generation gap: is a lack of understanding between older and younger people that results from them having different opinions, behaviour and experiences of life.
Ex: She`s a young politician who manages to bridge/cross the generation gap.

SUFFIXES


What is a suffix
WRITING AN INFORMAL LETTER
How many parts are there in an Informal letters?
Write a letter to a penfriend about these things:
you
Where you live
What you do
Your hobbies
Your family

A: I have the perfect son.
B: Does he smoke?
A: No, he doesn`t.
B: Does he drink whisky?
A: No, he doesn`t.
B: Does he ever come home late?
A: No, he doesn`t.
B: I guess you really do have the perfect son. How old is he?
A: He will be six months old next Wednesday.
THE PERFECT SON