2 Use similar time expressions to complete these sentences People first started travelling by train 2 We had a nice holiday last year we visited museums we went to a music club 3 There are a lot of cars in cities nowadays you could see a lot more bicycles in the streets I travelled by bus to meet a friend of mine who now lives in another y there was a huge railway station in the middle of the city, but it isn't there any more LISTENING O Listen to part of an interview with a 90-year-old silent movie actress called Mary Lennon. She was born in England but went to America to make films in the 1930s. Answer the questions. I When did she first go to America? 2 How old was she 3 How did she get there? 4 What did she do in New York? 5 How did she get from New York to California? 6 Where did she stop on the way? 7 What did she think of Los Angeles? 2 Match the questions and answers I Where were you born? (a) When I was 19 2 When did you go to America? (b)No, I wasn't. 3 Were you sick? (c)By train 4 How did you get to California? (d)In London 5 Were you and your friends bored? (e) No, they didnt. 6 Did your friends go to California with you?( Yes, we were WRITING Write a paragraph about one of these topics. 口 My first family holiday The most unusual journey Ive made 口 My first train ride The best journey of my life Example: The first family holiday I can remember was when I was five. At six o'clock in the morning, we went to the bus station and
PRONUNCIATION Word stress in sentences Work in pairs. Listen and underline the words which are stressed. These are the main ideas Interviewer: Did you travel by plane? Mary Lennon: By plane? No, of course not! We travelled by ship Interviewer: How long did that take? M ary Lennon Interviewer: Did you enjoy it? Mary Lennon: No! I hated it! Interviewer: Why? Were you sick? Mary Lennon: No, I was bored Now read the extract with a partner. EVERYDAY ENGLISH 1 Read these expressions and answer the questions Interviewer Mary Lennon Tell me Is that right? Not at all! Oh,I see absolutely Goodness! Definitely! I Why does the interviewer use these expressions? Is it possible for her to do the interview without them? 2 What do Mary Lennons expressions tell you? (a)She's very enthusiastic. (b)She's bored (c) She can't remember events from a long time ago 2) Complete each sentence with one of the expressions Interviewer: did you enjoy making films? Mary Lennon: It was good fun! Sometimes we made three films in a week Interviewer: Weren t you bored? Mary lennon: It was good fun Interviewer: But weren t you tired? Mary Lennon: We were exhausted. We had to get up at 4 am and we didn't go to bed until midnight Interviewer: Thats a long time. Mary lennon: It takes a long time to make a film
CULTURAL CORNER Read the passage and answer the questions I What are the main differences between a magnetically levitated train and an ordinary train? 2 What are the advantages of travelling on a Magley train? The Maglev the Fastest Train in the world The fastest train in the world, the and no noise. They travel very fast Transrapid Maglev, runs between and they use less energy. Shanghai's Pudong Airport and Longyang Station in downtown On December 31, 2002. Premier Shanghai, Travelling at a speed of Zhu Rongji and the German over 400 kilometres per hour, the chancellor attended the openi train can complete the 30*ilometre ceremony of the train service. Both journey in eight minutes leaders took the train to Pudong Airport. Maglev means"magnetically On November 12, 2003, the Maglev levitated". The Transrapid Maglev is the worlds first high-speed train reached a speed of 501 kilometres using magnetic levitation per hour on the track between technology.Magnetically levitated Longyang Station and Pudong, a trains travel in a vacuum between new world record speed for a train two magnets. There are no rails
TASK Talking about a trip you made to a tourist spot 1 Think of a tourist spot where you made a trip. Make notes on how to get the ge ere what you can do there what you like about it things that happened to you when you were there 2 Try to find some of the following items to illustrate your report photographs postcards magazine or newspaper reports maps souvenirs 3 Report back to the rest of the class MODULE FILE In this module, you have learnt: Vocabulary Past tense time expressions Nords to learn During the day, I looked out of the window. abandoned cassette circus colourful desert diamond expert farm fields Function helicopter kindergarten law meal Being polite motorbike park playground product Excuse me ecently scenery seaside shoot Could I (borrow your bike? soil tram supply Could I possibly (use your dictionary Would you mind(showing me your pass Words to revise Would you mind Gif I sat here? bicycle bus camel cinema cloud Im very sorry but (you can't change it distance famous ferry food The fact is that (it's out of date). government midnight passenger plane sand shine sports stadium Every day English swimming pool taxi theatre train Tell me weather z00 Is that right? Oh, I see. Grammar focus Goodness! Oh yes. The -ed form Not at all! Trained camels carried food and other Absolutely supples Definitel
i Social Survey-My Neighbourhood Task: Planning a presentation to give a brief report of your neighbourbood INTRODUCTION Vocabulary and writing 1 Look at the words in the box Which words do you use to describe buildings? apartment apartment block countryside five-storey high-rise building local mile (second)floor suburb stone 2 Read about the homes of the two students. Which one is more similar to yours? Sixteen-year-old Zhang Hua lives Fifteen-year-old Lin in the south of China, in the city of Xiaoyun lives in the Guangzhou. He lives with his parents countryside in southern in a suburb in the Liaoning, about fifty miles northeast of the city away from the city of They have a small Dalian. Her parents are apartment on the third farmers and have recently floor of a five-storey built a house on their land as their new apartment block. home. The house is two storeys high and is made of local stone Write three or four sentences describing your home Now work in pairs and compare your homes