LESSON PLANS
LEVEL: C1.2
GROUPS: A, B, C
DATE: May 13th,
14th
CHECKING ACTIVITIES FROM PREVIOUS CLASS:
READING:
Activity 1
1 c, 2 d, 3 a, 4 b
Activity 2
1T There has been a huge increase in the number
of hazardous extreme sports and participants.
2 T It could be that humans are programmed
to live with risk, and if there is none, they create it.
3F Since 1981, 228 people have died doing
this reckless sport.
4F There is a high cost to the taxpayer
for the medical costs of doing these activities and many object to their
getting free treatment.
5T Perhaps the excitement is worth the
fear of facing death.
6 T Most people will need courage to
encounter emotional risks in life.
Activity 3
1 The greatest danger in life is to risk
nothing.
2 People hope to escape suffering and
sadness.
3 Adrenaline rush of life / joy of passion
/ beauty of love.
4 The writer compares them to a slave.
5 He will experience everything life
offers, enjoy freedom and realise his potential.
Activity 4
1 recklessness 3 daring 5 courageous
7 courage
2 fearful 4 daring 6 hazardous 8 brave
Activity 5
1 has achieved 6 has climbed 11 courageous
2 daring 7 has made 12 reckless
3 started 8 risks 13 would, take
4 left 9 suffered
5 has succeeded 10 hazardous
LISTENING:
·
Page 142, activity 4. Answer three questions about
each conversation.
Conversation 1
1 Brian’s brother – his front
teeth and his wrist
2 A wall collapsed when he was
trying to climb it and he landed face first, knocking his teeth out (and
snapped his wrist).
3 His false teeth fell out at
dinner and he put them back in in front of them.
Conversation 2
1 Doug – his forehead (and chin)
2 He hit his head on a shelf. He
got blown over and fell and hit his chin on the road.
3 The woman notices and asks
about a scar.
·
Page 143, activity 5. Mark the sentences True or False
and say why.
1 F (I guess it was a bit odd.
I’m sort of used to it now, though.)
2 F (Ha ha. I’d take it as a
compliment. It means he’s comfortable in your presence now! A: Lucky me! (Note that Anita is being sarcastic.)
3 T (We were trying to haul
ourselves up it) (Note that haul means ‘pull up using your arms and with great
difficulty’.)
4 T (He didn’t even really
notice because he somehow snapped his wrist in the fall as well.)
5 T (I guess perhaps I should
cut him some slack then.)
6 T (I was working at this
summer camp in the States)
7 T (while it hurt a bit, it’d
probably be OK and that what I really needed was my bed)
8 F (he could’ve stitched it
if I’d seen him right away, but that it was un-stitchable the following day!)
9 F (it’s my own stupid fault,
really)
10 F (That must just have
completely passed me by somehow.)
·
Page 143, activity 6. Explain the words in italics
that have been excerpted from the conversations.
1 business here means
‘strange or controversial thing that happened’
2 freaked me out here
means ‘made me feel really unsettled / uncomfortable’
3 sneaked off here means ‘to go quietly so people don’t notice’;
the loo is an informal word for the toilet; bashing here means ‘hitting it so
that it is in place’
4 to
top the whole thing off is used here to introduce the last of several bad
events
5 smart is used ironically
here – normally it means ‘clever’, but here it means ‘stupid’
6 stumbled here means
‘walked unsteadily’
7 just my luck is used
ironically to mean ‘I always have bad luck’
8 weren’t too happy
is used to mean his teeth were painful too
SIOBHAN:
These are the moments that our language assistant has
available for conversation practice with C1.2 students. Write her an email in
advance if you are interested:
Mondays from 1 pm to 2 pm
Mondays from 7 pm to 8 pm
Wednesday from 5 pm to 6 pm
CONVERSATION: (oral coproduction)
Page 143, activity
12. Think of a mishap (minor accident) that you or someone you know had. I’ll
give you 4 minutes to prepare it and then, you will talk about that. After
listening to your classmate you will interact with them and show some interest
about it. Use interjections and ask them questions about this minor accident.
You can take the conversation in video clip #37 or the audio in track #54 as a
reference.
SPEAKING:
4. Speak
about a time when you (or someone you know) had to pluck up courage to deal
with a difficult situation.
5.
6.
HOMEWORK
Go to Page 144-145
and do activities 4 and 5, which are vocabulary tasks about laws and
regulations. In activity #4, you have to match the some words to their
definitions. In activity #5, you need to fill in the gaps of the incomplete
sentences with the correct form of the verbs given. I’ll provide you with the
answer key next week and we will use this new vocabulary in our following Teams
meeting next Wednesday/Thursday.
That’s all for now.
Take care,
Ángel
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