Lesson 12A Books and movies

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The topic of movies that are based on books provides the context to introduce the present perfect. The lesson begins with the grammar presentation through a conversation about a movie. The pronunciation focus is on sentence stress, and vocabulary looks at common irregular past participles. The main context of the final speaking and listening activity is a survey asking about movie experiences, and Sts learn how to ask present perfect questions with ever.
Note: In 1 2B Sts learn other regular and irregular past participles, and contrast the present perfect with the simple past

Lesson 11C Me, women, and the Internet

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After the focus on one website in 1 1 B, this lesson looks at the Internet in general and in particular how it is used in different ways bv men and women. This provides the context tor learning vocabulary related to the Internet and for a grammar focus on the uses of the definite and indefinite article that Sts have seen so far in the course.

Lesson 11B What do you want to do?

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This lesson is based on a website called 43Things on which people post their ambitions and other visitors to the site offer advice as to how to achieve them. In the first half of the lesson, Sts read and talk about people’s ambitions. In Grammar they focus on the structure verb + infinitive, which is common when talking about ambitions, e.g. / want to climb a mountain , and they learn some common verbs that are followed bv the infinitive. In the second half of the lesson, Sts work on sentence stress and talk about their own ambitions.

Lesson 11A First impressions

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People's first impressions of a new city provide the context for learning common adverbs of manner and modifiers. This lesson starts with Sts reading two blogs based on real interviews with people who went to a new city abroad (Atlanta and Malmo) where they talk about what surprised them when they first arrived. This leads into the grammar focus on formation of adverbs. In Pronunciation, the focus is on word stress in adjectives and adverbs.