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Pre-intermediate (Lesson fourteen)

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Warm upward!

Read the post-obit sentences and make positive predictions (I'm sure you'll …).

1. I accept an important exam tomorrow.
2. I'one thousand getting married next calendar month.
iii. I'm a bit depressed today.
4. I'm going to New York side by side month.
5. I can't go out tonight. I don't have money.

Speaking and Reading.

A) Await at the 6 promises below. What do they have in common?

A I won't tell anyone.
B I'll always love you.
C I'll come back tomorrow.
D I'll write.
E I'll pay you dorsum tomorrow.
F This won't hurt.

What hope is the most hard to keep from your point of view?

B) Read the text and make full the gaps with the promises from ex. 2A.

Promises, Promises…

We make them and we break them, because some promises are very hard to continue.
Here are the top of vi nigh common broken promises…

ane.
You lot e'er hear this from builders, plumbers, electricians. But the truth is very different. They won't come dorsum until next week (or afterwards). And you will probably need to phone them five times outset.

two.
Nosotros dearest hearing secrets and happily make this hope. And at the time nosotros actually mean information technology. 'Don't worry' we say, your secret is safe with me'. Only of course information technology isn't. Inquiry shows that everybody volition always tell one other person the hush-hush. Very shortly the whole street will know!

3.
A favourite phrase of doctors, dentists, and nurses. They usually say it merely before they give you an injection. But the phrase is not complete. The full phrase is: 'This won't hurt me (but it will probably injure you a lot).

4.
You make a new friend on vacation or on a autobus journey, you swap your east-mail accost on a carte du jour or an erstwhile slice of paper. 'Oh, dearest!' you think — only then you remember that they didn't write to you either!

v.
In Village, Shakespeare told us never to borrow or lend money. He was right. When nosotros lend people coin they e'er brand this promise, simply so they forget. If we then ask for the money back, they think nosotros are mean. If we don't ask, we never get the money back.

6.
Whitney Houston sang a song virtually this and every day all over the world thousands of people brand the same promise to each other. We know eternal beloved exists, only is this promise the nigh difficult one to proceed of them all?

Vocabulary Study and Practice.

A) Call back these phrases:

Useful phrases:

to continue promises – means that i always does what he / she has promised
to break promises — ways that people forget what they've promised

B) Find the words in the text to complete these definitions.

1. A person who repairs h2o pipes, baths —
2. Studies to find more information about something —
3. Putting medicine nether the skin with a needle —
4. The act of travelling from one place to another —
5. One or the other —
half-dozen. Something which lasts forever —

Grammar Study. DECISIONS. OFFERS. PROMISES.

Pay attention to these rules.

Grammar Practice.

A) Friction match the sentences and the responses.

1. I'm thirsty.	a) I'll help y'all do it.
2. I have a headache.	b) Shall we make yous a sandwich?
three. This practise is difficult.	c) Shall I carry i for you?
4. I'k hungry.	d) I'll lend you some money.
v. These begs are heavy.	e) I'll send it by e-mail now.
half-dozen. I left my wallet at home.	f) Shall I plough off the music?
7. I need this photo urgently.	one thousand) I'll get you a glass of water.

B) Consummate the sentences with Volition / WON'T and the suggested verbs:

call forget assistance pay take tell

Instance:
A: What would y'all like?
B: I'll have the pasta.

1
A: I can't open this window.
B: you lot?

2
A: It's a secret.
B: I anyone, I hope

3
A: When will I come across you again?
B: I you this evening.

4
A: Can I borrow 50$?
I you back tomorrow.

5
A: It's my birthday next calendar week.
B: Don't worry. I

half dozen
A: I don't feel very well.
B: I you home?

Speaking.

Await at the pictures and attempt to gauge what promises or offers the people are giving.

What promises practise yous often give?

Vocabulary Study and Practice. Phrasal Verbs with 'Back'.

Complete the dialogue with one of the phrasal verbs.

call dorsum come up back give it back pay me dorsum accept it dorsum

1
A: I dear that shirt you gave me for my birthday. But it's a chip modest.
B: Don't worry. I'll to the shop and change it.

two
A: Can I speak to Bart, please?
B: I'm sorry. He isn't home at the moment.
A: OK. I`ll afterward.

3
A: Excuse me. Could I talk to you for a moment?
B: I'thou really busy at the moment. Could you in v minutes?

4
A: That's my pen yous're using!
B: No, it'southward not. It's mine.
A: No, it's mine. !

5
A: Can yous lend me 50 euros, Nick?
B: Information technology depends. When can yous ?
A: Tomorrow. I'll become to the bank first affair in the morn.

Vocabulary Revision. Prepositions.

Consummate the questions with the right preposition.

almost for of to with

i. What did you dream last dark?
two. What radio station practise you lot usually listen ?
3. What do y'all talk with your friends?
4. Did you wait a autobus or a train today?
5. Who do you usually agree in your family?
6. Are you going to write anybody tonight?
7. What do you recall this volume?
eight. What are you thinking at present?
nine. Exercise you often fence people?
x. Who was the first person you lot spoke this morning?

Vocabulary Study. Ordering a meal.

Match the phrases and the pictures. Put 1-8 into the gaps.

a) grilled salmon
b) T-os steak
c) mushroom soup
d) tomato and mozzarella salad
due east) baked irish potato
f) rare steak
m) fried chicken
h) grilled prawns

Watching and Speaking.

Picket how Allie and Mark are ordering a meal in the restaurant.

one. What do they order for starters?

2. What does Allie order for her main course?

iii. What kind of potatoes practise they order

iv. How does Mark want his steak — rare, medium, or well done?

5. What are they going to drink?

Role-play the situation: yous are a client and your partner is a waiter. You lot are going to order something. What would you say in this case?

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