22.7 Memories Free practice
You will hear someone describing how he first met his wife. Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
Why was the speaker at the party ?
How was he feeling? Why ?
What was the girl doing ?
How exactly did they meet?
Work in groups.
Tell the others either how you first met someone you know very well
or your earliest childhood memory
or a dream you remember
22.8 Morning call
Reading
Read the passage below and answer the question.
1. Find expressions in the passage (as many as you can) which tell you:
that it was early morning
that the weather was dull and very windy
that it was winter
that the town was neglected
2. What is the A A (line 5), and what would they do if the writer phoned them ?
3. The writer mentions three permanent features of the street she was walking down. What were they ?
4. a) Why was the cat sniffing at the paper bags ? (line 20)
Why was it sniffing ‘hopelessly’ ?
Why did the writer ‘stop in astonishment’ ? (line 27)
Why did she wait ‘discreetly’ ? (line 36)
What is the difference between ‘drip’ (line n) and ‘trickle’ (line 39) ?
5. a) Why didn’t the man raise his head when the writer approached ?
b) Why didn’t the writer realise immediately that something was wrong ?
Free practice
The writer is being questioned by the police, who want to know:
why she was in the town
what she was doing
how she discovered the man
exactly what she saw
Student A: You are the policeman. Question the writer in as much detail as you can.
Make sure she can prove she is innocent.
Student В: You are the writer. Give an account of your actions, without looking at the text.
Unit 22 Summary of language
In this unit you have learnt how to: - describe scenes you saw in the past - talk about previous events - set the scene for a story
KEY POINTS
1. Past Continuous structures Some children were playing in the street. There were a few people dancing. There was a man sitting in the corner, reading a book.
2. Participle structures They were sitting talking to each other. He was lying stretched out in the sun. An old woman dressed in black was walking down the road.
3. Past Simple tense for permanent features The trees stood in a long line beside the road. The road crossed a stream and then ran through a forest.
4. Past states resulting from previous events When I got back, I found that everything was different. When I got back, I found that everything had changed.
There was some milk in the fridge. She had left some milk in the fridge.
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Activities
ESKIMOS
An Eskimo who has never been near a city or a road in his life visits a big city. He sees lots of things he has never seen before. When he gets back home, he describes some of these unfamiliar things to his friends ...
You will hear the Eskimo describe one of the things he has seen in the city. Listen to the tape, and then try to guess what he has described.
Work in groups. Think of another familiar thing that the Eskimo saw in the city. Imagine you are the Eskimo, and work out how to describe it to your friends.
Describe your object to the rest of the class. They will try to guess what you have described.
COMPOSITION
Below are the first and last sentences of some paragraphs that set a scene for a story. Choose one of the scenes and write:
a paragraph describing the scene
a second paragraph continuing the story.
Write 150-200 words.
When Jane got to the airport building, she found that it was swarming with people...
... Jane pushed her way through the crowd towards the information desk.
Brian unpacked his suitcase, and looked down from the hotel window to the square below; it was the busiest time of the day ...
... ‘What a nice change from London,’ he thought to himself.
On board the liner, there was no reason to believe that anything was wrong at all...
... In fact, for everyone on board it seemed to be just a normal, calm, sunny day.
Unit 23 Criticising