Lesson Outline: Speaking: answer the questions Listening Grammar: Tense review Reading: Text ‘Ferdinand Waldo’ Writing: Exercises References: Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson. Speak out 2nd edition. Pre-intermediateStudents` Book

Warm up/Answer the questions.
1. Why do you think people decide to make big life changes? Think about the
following ideas.
• where they work/study
• where they live
• what they look like
• what they do
2. What do you think is the most important reason to change your life? Why?
Activity 1.
Ex 1. Look at the people below and read the things they say. Watch the video and match the people to sentences 1–6 (Speak out Pre-Intermediate, 2nd. BBC Interviews_U07).

1. My life has changed quite a bit in the last two years. _D_

2. I enjoy living in the UK, and I’ve been over here for about nine years – so I do enjoy my life. __
3. And then personal life … got married, I had my first child, bought my first property. __
4. I’ve got two lovely children, a great husband and I just finished paying for my house. __
5. Ten years ago I was a student and so I used to get up late, and I used to have lots of time. And now I have to go to work. __
6. I’d like to go on more holidays. __
Activity 2. 
Ex 2. Match 1-7 with a)-g) to make collocations (words that go together)
1. cure
2. make a mans life money
3. save
4. become a crime a murder
5. be arrested for illness people
6. spend six months in prison , time broad
7. play a role , a part in a film
a) successful / famous
b) a role / a part in a film
c) film / documentary
d) a crime / a murder
e) a man’s life / money
f) illness / people
g) six months in prison / time broad
Ex 3. Complete each pair of sentences with the correct form of the same verb from
1. a) He was very ill, but the doctor him.
b) No one can cold, you just have to wait for it to go.
2. a) Don’t spend all your money, try to some as well.
b) He jumped in the water to her life.
3. a) I don’t want to be famous, I wouldn’t have a normal life.
b) He only was successful after years of hard work.
4. a) Before I go to university, I want to be a year abroad.
b) After he ________ six months in prison, he decided to change his life.
5. a) When George Lucas the first Star Wars film, no one thought it would be a success.
b) I’m going to spent a documentary as part of my Film Studies course at university.
6. a) I’d like to play the role of the hero in this play.
b) In 2006 Helen Mirren was the part of Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen.
7. a) He was a crime he didn’t commit, but eventually the police let him go.
b) I couldn’t believe it when she was murder. She seemed such a nice person.