Unit 2. Personal experience

Look at the pictures below and guess what is
happening in each of them.
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New words
experience (n)
person (n)
- embarrassing (adj)
floppy hat
idol (n)
glance at (v)
turn away (v)
sneaky (adj)
money
paper notes
coins
wad (n)
make a fuss
shy (adj)
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= turn round (v)
 personal (adj)
 embarrass (v)
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New words
floppy hat
glance at (v)
turn away = turn round (v)
wad (n)
make a fuss
shy (adj)
Exercises
1
The words/phrases in the box all appear in the passage.
Use them to fill the blanks in the sentences.
1. The girl was so shy that she didn’t look at him in the face.
She just_________at him and looked away.
2. She complains noisily about anything she doesn’t like.
She is the type of person who is always______________.
3. She was in a very _____________ situation.
She felt so stupid and didn’t know what to say.
4. Teenagers nowadays often have their own ______
who they really love and imitate in different ways.
5. I don’t like the look of that man.
There is something_______about him.
making a fuss
sneaky
glanced
embarrassing
idols
2
Answer the questions.
1. What did the girl wish to have when she was in grade 9 ?
2. Why did her father give her some money on her birthday ?
3. What did she see in the boy’s bag ?
4. Why did she decide to take the money from the boy’s bag without
saying anything about it ?
5. What did she do with the money ?
 A red floppy cotton hat.
Sothat she could buy the hat for herself.
To buy the hat for herself
 She saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones her father had given her.
 Because she didn’t like to make a fuss.
 She bought a hat with it.
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Work in pairs. Put the pictures of the events (on page 22)
in the order they happened in the story.
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Work in groups
Discuss the question :
What do you think the girl had to do after
she discovered that the money she had
taken from the boy’s bag was not hers ?
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