2. TOPIC:
Conflicts and resolutions
TEXTS
Reading and listening: an article about Alfred Nobel; an extract from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Reading: an article about Aung San Suu Kyi.
Listening: a conversation about a person you admire.
Writing: writing about: What you admire you character?
Portfolio: Video clip about What you admire you character?.
SPEAKING AND FUNTIONS
Talking about Nobel peace Prize winners.
Discussing ways to resolve a conflict.
Discussing characters from Pride and Prejudice.
LANGUAGE
Grammar: past perfect passive; past perfect continuous.
Vocabulary: conflict and solutions.
Pronunciation: linking sounds.
3. Home work: The Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu
Kyi, Kofi Annan, Lech Walesa, Mother Teresa, The first World War.
Look at the picture and try to explain to us what you know about them?
Read the lesson and answer the book.
Rules: We form the past perfect passive with the past perfect form of the verbs be/ have +
the infinitive / past participle of the main verb.
Example:
Dan Brown wrote The Da Vince Code ( past simple)
She was cooking dinner when I got home ( past continuous)
When I opened the door, I realized somebody had stolen my computer ( past perfect)
Now rewrite the sentence into a passive form by changing the underline verbs:
Was written
Was being cooked
Had been stolen
In pair try to answer the exercise from the book and delivered the sheet to me at the end of
the class.
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4. Home work: Write the disciplinary procedures at your school?
And ask this questions:
What do you think about the school system?
Are there any parts of it that you change?
Write you own proper school rules
Rules:
1. We use past perfect continuous to talk about continuous/single actions that began before /
at the same time as a specific time in the past. Example:
Because they had been working so well together, they became really good friends.
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PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Is the past before the past.
And we ask how long? question to use this form?
She had been living there for 10 years now.
Subject + had + been + ing (verb) .
5. Vocabulary words:
1. Fall out
2. Sort things out
3. Get stuck
4. Make up
5. Resolving conflicts
6. Make a compromise
7. Talking sides
8. Stay neutral
9. Face up
10. Trouble maker
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1. I think it’s over there.
2. I’d like these three things, thanks.
3. I think that’s the thief in there.
4. There are thirty things in those three bags.
1. Work in pair and make a dialogue between you, first arguing and then resolve the conflict.
Write and practice before you came in front the class.
6. Read and answer the student book page 58-59 in pair.
Writing: writing about: What and why you admire you character?
Portfolio: Make a Video clip about What and why you admire you character?