Lesson Outline: Speaking: Answer the questions Listening: Listening Exercises Reading: Great green ideas Grammar: Comparative and superlative Writing: Exercises References: Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson. Speak out 2nd edition. Pr

Lead In/ Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
1 Do you think men or women go to the doctor more often?
2 Why do you think this is?
3 What reasons do you think people give for not going to see a doctor?
Read the text to check your answers.Work in pairs. Discuss. Do you think any of the excuses in the text are good reasons to avoid seeing the doctor? 
1. Do you like wild places? 2. Have you ever slept outdoors or been out in the wild? 3. Which wild places would you like to visit?
1. I”d like to live in a rural area when I am older. It is nicer than the city.
2.The north of my country is an area of natural beauty : tourists often visit it. 3.Where I live there is a lot of beautiful scenery. It is good for walking.
4. I went camping in a national park. It was very quiet and peaceful.
5.We visited the wildlife center; there were lots of unusual birds. 6. I would like to visit a tropical rainforest and see the trees and insects. 7. My country has interesting geographical features, like volcanoes and forests. 8. I like being out in the fresh air, it’s to be out of the city
B. Discuss which sentences are true for you? C. Word stress. Listen and underline the stressed parts of the words in bold. 
D. DIFFICULT WORDS: spelling versus pronunciation Check your pronunciation. Listen and repeat.
A.Work in pairs. Read two comments about country life and city life. Which is closer to your opinion?
B.. Explain where you prefer to live and why?
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Specific topic “Social psychology”
Decide which of the following headlines the best to the text below is.
1. Social psychology
2. Social psychology and identities
3. Social psychology of identities
I review the social psychological underpinnings of identity, emphasizing social cognitive and symbolic interactionist perspectives and research, and I turn then to key themes of current work on identity—social psychological, sociological, and interdisciplinary. I emphasize the social bases of identity, particularly identities based on ethnicity, race, sexuality, gender, class, age, and (dis)ability, both separately and as they intersect. I also take up identities based on space, both geographic and virtual. I discuss struggles over identities, organized by social inequalities, nationalisms, and social movements.
I conclude by discussing postmodernist conceptions of identities as fluid, multidimensional, personalized social constructions that reflect socio-historical contexts, approaches remarkably consistent with recent empirical social psychological research, and I argue explicitly for a politicized social psychology of identities that brings together the structures of everyday lives and the sociocultural realities in which those lives are lived.
(Annu. Rev. Sociol. 2000.26:367-393. Downloaded from arjournals.annualreviews.org by Columbia University on 02/14/05)
Find words or phrases in the text 1 and 2 which mean …
1. A well-planned vacation is a good strategy
2. Reflection and feeling gratitude toward happiness can make you happy.
3. Social imbalance, nationalisms, and social movements organize identities in social psychology.
: After reading the text 1 and 2, answer the questions by inferring information that follow.


3. Why are last days of your vacation easily remembered? I review the social psychological underpinnings of identity, emphasizing social cognitive and symbolic interactionist perspectives and research, and I turn then to key themes of current work on identity—social psychological, sociological, and interdisciplinary