Vocabulary Verb Collocations Speaking Past and Present Experiences Writing

Lesson 16


The Past. Don’t Give Up. Using Past Tenses


Grammar Using Past Tenses to Describe Experience
Vocabulary Verb Collocations
Speaking Past and Present Experiences
Writing Past and Present Experiences
Listening The History of Money. Inhotim


1 Work in small groups. Make a list of things a person needs to be successful in life. Do you all agree?
a good education, ...
2 Work with a partner. Student A, read about Vera Wang. Student B, read about Akio Morita. Complete your column in the table.




3 Tell your partner about the story you read and listen to your partner's story to complete the other column in the table in exercise 2.Which story do you think is most interesting? Why?


Make questions from the prompts using was or were.
1 you hungry / this morning ?


Were you hungry this morning?
2 you / a good student at school ?
3 your partner / late for class today ?
4 your teacher / at work yesterday ?
5 your school friends / from the same town as you ?
6 you / at home / seven o'clock last night ?
Work with a partner. Take turns to ask and answer the questions


Work with a partner and do the History Firsts Quiz. Match questions 1-6 to answers a-f.




6 .3 ))) Listen and check your answers.
Complete the table with the time expressions in the box.




1a How many currencies do you know? Make a list, e.g. dollars, pounds.
b The four photos show different kinds of currencies from the past.
Label them with words from the box.
coins metal snakes ring salt

2 6.4 ))) Listen to a programme called The History of Money and number the
photos 1-4 in the order you hear them.

3 6.4|) Listen again and choose the correct option.
1 The Romans / Chinese / Lobi / Egyptians used jewellery as money.
2 The Romans / Chinese / Lobi / Egyptians copied a Turkish idea in the
first century BCE.
3 The Romans / Chinese / Lobi / Egyptians earned something you can eat.
4 The Romans / Chinese / Lobi / Egyptians believed their money was lucky.

4a Are the sentences in exercise 3 about now or before now?