Lesson 10 Changes and Challenges. Using –ing and infinitive Reading

Lesson 10


Changes and Challenges. Using –ing and infinitive

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  Reading: Joao Carlos Martins
  
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  Listening: Friends’ Plans
  
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  Vocabulary: Life Stages and Events / Internet Activities
  
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  Grammar: Going to and Present Continuous
  
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  Speaking: Plans and Arrangements
  

Vocabulary & Reading life stages and events
1a Put the words and phrases in order, from the youngest to the oldest.
in your mid-twenties child middle-aged in your sixties
in your late twenties teenager elderly about thirty-five in your early twenties
b Work with a partner. Describe people in your family, using the words and phrases in exercise la.
2a Look at the life events below. Which of them have you experienced?
• start your own business
• have a baby/children
• go to university
• get a job
• choose your career
• get married
• leave home
• retire
• learn to swim
• leave school
• move house or flat
• spend time abroad
• change career
• take up a hobby/sport
• pass your exams/driving test
• live with a partner
b Work with a partner. Choose two or three of the events you
have experienced and tell your partner more about them. Say what you did, when and why.
I left home two years ago. Before that I lived with my family
in a village in the south of Italy. Then I got a job in Rome.
Now I share a small flat with friends here in Rome.
Work in a group. Choose five of the things in exercise 2a and discuss which is the best age to do them. Is it ever too late to do some things?
Read about the pianist and conductor, Joao Carlos Martins.
How many different careers has he had?


R ead the article again. Complete the table with the name of the career and the reason why he changed.

What about you? Have you, or your friends or family, experienced big changes in your life?


D ecide which group (1or 2) in exercise 7 the verbs in the box belong to.
enjoy need would like plan imagine hate

9a Complete the questions with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1 Do you want ______ (live) abroad one day?
2 Do you hope ______ (have) the same career for ever?
3 Do you plan _____ (move) home some time in the future?
4 Would you like_____(take up) a new hobby?
5 Can you imagine _____ (move) to a different town or city?
6 Do you get annoyed when people keep _____ (change) their minds?
7 Do you enjoy_____ (try) new food in restaurants?
8 Do you sometimes decide _____(change) the colour or style of your hair?
9 Do you like _____ (read) the same news sites or blogs every day?


b Joao Carlos Martins has had to make a lot of changes in his life. How do you feel about making changes? Work with a partner and ask the questions in exercise 9a. Ask for more information using questions like Where?What?Why? and Why not? What do your partner's answers say about his/her attitude to change?
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