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 8 Living together
Unit summary Unit opener
Practised and tested in 13 star tasks and tests
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Personality adjectives: charming, generous, jealous, lazy, Aims
loyal, proud, selfish, sensible, sensitive, strong, stubborn, talkative, Learn personality adjectives.
thoughtful, unpredictable, vain 3 Develop cultural awareness and expression.
Relationships and phrasal verbs: fall out, get on with, look 7 Develop linguistic communication.
up to, make up, pick on, put up with, tell off, turn to 2 Develop learning to learn competence.
Conflict: battle, independence, intimidate, peace, ruled, violence 4 Develop sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
Word builder: difference, diversity, happiness, independence, 5 Develop social and civic competences.
sadness, tolerance, violence
1 Develop digital competence.
Learn it!: sensible and sensitive; attend and assist
Exercise 1
Grammar Ask students to look at and, in groups, discuss the people in
The first conditional: If + present simple = will + infinitive the photos. Encourage them to think about what they are
The second conditional: If + past simple = would + doing in the photos and whether that says something about
infinitive what kind of people they are.
will for promises Elicit feedback. Discuss whether first impressions are a reliable
guide to someones character.
Useful language
Exercise 2
Talking about Chinese zodiac signs
Focus students attention on the adjectives in the box, check
If you are born in , you will be the meaning of these and drill pronunciation. Students will
What will you be if you are born in ? probably know some of the adjectives already. Encourage
I think is a because stronger students to explain or translate the adjectives for
I dont think he / she is a because the rest of the class. Pay particular attention to the false friend
Writing about a sports event sensible (exercise 5 also focuses on this).
is a sports event for Ask students to work in pairs and decide which words are
positive qualities, which are negative and which can be both.
It takes place every year(s) in
Conduct class feedback. Encourage debate, as some of the
There are different sports
answers are a matter of personal opinion.
It takes place in and lasts for days / weeks.
SUGGESTED ANSWERS
Functional language Positive: charming, generous, loyal, sensible, strong, thoughtful
Negative: jealous, lazy, selfish, stubborn, unpredictable, vain
Apologizing
Both: proud, sensitive, talkative
I apologize for
Im so sorry. Exercise 3
Im really sorry about Ask a student to read the instruction and question. You could
Ill do better next time. start the exercise off by telling the class two positive and
It wont happen again! negative qualities that you think you have. Give them examples.
Next time Ill remember to (+ infinitive) Ask students to think about their own qualities. Some
students may not be comfortable doing this, so you may want
Thats all right.
to give them the option of doing this exercise silently and not
Never mind. asking for feedback.
Dont worry about it. If you and your class feel comfortable with this, conduct some
class feedback at the end and share examples.

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 Exercise 4 $3.13 Exercise 7 $3.14 Audio script pT140
Focus students attention on the comments and ask them to Tell students they are going to listen to an interview with an
choose adjectives from exercise 2 to match each one. Do the expert on the Chinese zodiac. Play the recording for them to
first one as an example if necessary. listen and check which animal year they were born in.
Allow students to compare their answers in pairs before playing Conduct class feedback. Were their ideas in exercise 6 correct?
the recording for students to listen and check their answers. Do they think their birth animal reflects their personality?
ANSWERS
Why / Why not?
1 proud
Optional activity
2 selfish
3 stubborn Ask students to choose 35 personality adjectives to describe
4 vain their best friend or a member of their family. They can be
5 talkative positive adjectives or a mixture of positive and negative.
6 unpredictable Encourage them to tell each other about their chosen person,
giving reasons for their choices of adjectives, e.g. My older
Exercise 5 sister is quite generous. She often lets me borrow her clothes
Read through the Learn it! box with the class. Ask students if andjewellery.
the word sensible exists in their language. Ask: Does sensible They could do the same thing for themselves, though some
have the same meaning in your language as it does in English? students might find this embarrassing.
Point out that many English words that look similar to
words in the students language also have similar meanings.
However, the point here is that some English words that look
Culture note
familiar actually have different meanings. Thats why they are Chinese New Year
called false friends. Celebrations for the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival,
Ask students to copy and complete the two sentences in their begin in January or February. The festival lasts for fifteen
notebooks. days and involves family gatherings, rituals, lighting of
lanterns, special food, fireworks and processions. Each year is
Check answers with the class.
represented by a different animal on a twelve-year cycle.
ANSWERS
1 sensible
Exercise 8
2 sensitive
Play the video for students to watch and interact with.
v Vocabulary practice
v Interactive video
13 star tasks to practise the vocabulary. Also available on the
Tests and Resources Multi-ROM. Round up: Unit 8
Episode 8: Important relations
Optional activity Duration: 3.55 minutes
Ask students to write their own sentences with sensible Topic: Talking about the important people in your life
and sensitive. Tell them to leave gaps in order to test Task: Answer the interactive question at the end of the video.
their classmates. Then invite some students to read their
sentences aloud and elicit answers from the rest of the class.
Video scripts are available on the iPack Resources tab.
Further practice
Exercise 6 Vocabulary, Workbook page 64
Vocabulary reference, Workbook pages 112113
With books closed, write zodiac on the board and elicit what Vocabulary worksheets, Tests and Resources Multi-ROM
this means for students. Elicit anything they know about the
Chinese zodiac.
Open books and ask students to look at the zodiac wheel. Ask
them to work in pairs to think of the English word for each
animal. Refer them to the text to check their answers.
Now ask them to read about each animal in more detail and
decide which animal reflects their personality best. They can
discuss this in pairs or small groups.
Conduct class feedback. Ask some students to say which
animal year they think they were born in and explain why.
(You could ask them to guess which animal you are.)

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