LESSON PLAN
LEVEL:
C1.1
GROUPS:
A, B, C
DATE: October 26th-29th,
2020
UNIT 1:
CITIES
This
week, we will focus on writing, grammar and, to a lesser extent, vocabulary.
Writing:
WRITTEN
COPRODUCTION. AN INFORMAL EMAIL.
Go to
unit 6, pages 19-20 in the writing and vocabulary booklet. If you don’t have it, click here to download the worksheet in PDF.
Read the
information about writing an email giving advice and suggestions to a friend
who wants advice. Exercises in this unit work on identifying who you are
writing to and what information you want, acknowledging the sender’s email,
giving advice and making suggestions, using informal language and closing the email by means of colloquial expressions.
Do the 6
activities included in this unit:
Part 1:
identifying who you are writing to and what information they want.
Part 2:
Acknowledging the sender’s email.
Part 3:
Giving advice and making suggestions.
Part 4: Using
informal language: phrasal verbs.
Part 5:
Using informal language: idioms.
Part 6: Closing
the email.
When you
finish, check your own answers at the end of this post.
Grammar:
This unit
contains a revision grammar point. We will revise perfect forms. Read the
information on page 166 in your textbook and do exercises 1 and 2. Do activity
9 on page 11 as well. After reading the grammar information and doing the three
tasks, check your own answers at the end of this post.
Vocabulary:
We will
introduce and practice ways of emphasizing and exaggerating. We will see examples
of repetition, intensifying adverbs, extreme verbs and expressions with like.
You will be encouraged to use your own ideas. However, if you have access to
dictionaries or digital media, you could find other examples.
Go to
page 9 and do these activities:
Activity
7: decide in what situations you might use expressions with “like”.
Activity
8: Rewrite the sentences to make them more interesting using emphasis and exaggeration.
Activity
9: Match the sentences to the examples.
Check your own answers at the end of this post.
ANSWER KEY:
Writing:
Part 1:
1
They are friends.
2
He wants to learn German.
3
He wants advice on how to learn a foreign language as
a beginner (from scratch) and in a short amount of time (in a hurry).
4
An informal and chatty style.
5
Giving advice and suggestions.
Part 2:
1 so much 2 so good 3 absolutely ages 4 really sorry 5 great news 6 all about
Part 3:
1 If 2 Don’t 3 What
4 Have 5 Make 6 Whatever
7 Avoid 8 One
Part 4:
1 catch 2 pick 3 give
4 set 5 sign 6 speed
Part 5:
1 body 2 leg 3 neck
4 mouth 5 ear 6 head
7 heart 8 heads
Part 6:
1 c 2 d 3 f 4
a 5 e
6 b
Grammar:
Page 11, exercise 9
1has become= happened
before now
2 have been= before now
3 had ... created=
before it was condemned and knocked
down
4 had been dominated= before the economic downturn of the late 1980s
5 hadn’t secured=
before Peñalosa initiated his large-scale
reforms
6 will have built=
before achieving a perfect city in the future
7 may have failed= before now
8 Havingcleared=
before Peñalosa’s administration expropriated
the land of a private country
club
Exercise 1, Grammar reference,
page 166
1 a haven’t called b don’t call
2 a was done up b has
been done up
3 a
had been struck b was
struck
4 a
will have changed b will
change
5 a consult b have consulted
6
a was / were here (was is more
common) b had
been
7 a Having spent b Spending
8 a underwent
b had undergone
Exercise 2, Grammar reference, page 166-167
1
will have left by
2
had never seen anything
3
having been there recently
4
had been initiated
5
people had not been
evacuated
6
to have improved
Vocabulary:
Activity 7,
page 9. Possible answers:
1 intensifying adverbs: remarkably, preposterously, greatly, hugely, absolutely, terribly, deeply, etc.
2 extreme adjectives: filthy, vast,
brilliant, dreadful, awful,
incredible, tiny, enormous, fascinating, etc. extreme verbs: devastate, bombard, smash, crush, soar, rocket, plummet, etc.
3
It was like being at a rock
concert.‑being at the theatre
for a modern play, where the
audience stands up and applauds
a lot‑being at a conference
where a famous speaker gives a
plenary‑being at a wildly
popular classical music concert
It was like living in a war
zone.‑living with very noisy argumentative housemates‑living
in an area where there’s lots of crime
and maybe gang activity
It’s like Buckingham Palace.‑a lovely big house that someone has bought‑a
new office that’s very big and well decorated
It was like the Arctic in there.‑a cold store room in a big store‑a room that has the air conditioning turned up very high
It’s like talking to a
brick wall.‑trying to talk to
someone who just won’t listen
to you‑trying to explain to a
bad worker what they’ve done wrong and getting nowhere with the conversation
Activity 8, page 9, Possible answers
2 They’re doing loads and loads of / an incredible amount of building work. They’re doing so much building work the whole city is absolutely covered in clouds
of dust!
3 The city’s really,
really run-down. / The city
is so run-down that half the buildings there are totally crumbling and falling to pieces.
4 It’s really,
really cheap there. It’s so cheap there it’s like you hardly even notice you’re spending money!
5 Some areas are incredibly rough / really, really dangerous.
It’s extremely dangerous. It’s like
the whole area is controlled
by organised criminals and
there are loads and loads
of shootings and muggings every day!
6 It’s absolutely fascinating.
Activity 9, page 9:
1 e 2 b 3
a 4 c 5 d
