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Unit 7
Rose-tinted glasses Reading

Warmer
Write the following four situations on
the board:
You have an important exam
tomorrow.
You are going to perform in the
school play this evening. ‘You’ll never find a RAINBOW f you look down!’
i
You are going to visit your cousins
this weekend.
Ask students to grade from 1 (not Who said that? No, it wasn’t me. It was Charlie Chaplin and I love it. You should know that I wasn’t exactly
born an optimist myself. I was actually quite a worrier until I discovered the power of inspirational quotes.
worried at all) to 10 (very worried) Try me. Send me a worry, and I’ll send you a quote. For free. If you like the quote, please let me know.
how worried they would feel in Positive messages help me, too, and so far, all the feedback has been positive!
each of these situations. Discuss in A SHALL I STAY OR SHALL I GO? B DRUMMER BOY
pairs and after a few minutes, invite Hi, I don’t know what to do. I’ve got an aunt and I got this drum kit for my 16th birthday.
students’ reactions, prompting them uncle in the US, and they’ve invited me to go there There’s a band at my school. They’re great,
to try to explain their answers. for a month or so. Sounds cool, doesn’t it? But I’m but their drummer, Luca, is leaving at the end of the
school year – his family is moving to another town.
worried there won’t be anyone my age to hang out with.
They live in a smallish sort of town, and they haven’t got The band have asked me if I want to audition and
any kids themselves. It may sound weird, but I feel that Luca has offered to teach me. But I’m not sure I’ll
whatever I decide, I’ll probably regret it later! Can you be good enough. I don’t think I should get my hopes
1 Set a three-minute time limit and help? I hope so. up. I’d be so disappointed if I didn’t get in.
tell students to read quickly and
not worry about understanding 1 Hmm. Yes, I understand that’s not an easy REAdING
every word. situation. But I don’t think that means you should 1 Read this webpage quickly. Who is it for? What are
just sit around complaining that everything’s gloomy.
It’s for people who worry. The worries Maybe what Anne Frank said will help you to be more the two worries mentioned by the people who’ve
mentioned are about a decision to optimistic: ‘How wonderful it is that nobody needs posted on the website?
to wait a single moment before starting to improve
take a trip and being good enough to the world.’ 2 7.03 Read and listen to the webpage again.
play drums in a band. 2 Look, this is for you, and it’s by Mahatma Match the answers with the worries. There is one
Gandhi. I’ll say no more. It’s all in the quote. extra quote.
2 7.03 Ask students to underline ‘Man often becomes what he believes 3 Read the webpage again and answer the questions.
himself to be. If I keep on saying to
the parts of the webpage that myself that I cannot do a certain thing, 1 What does the writer have in common with the
two worriers?
helped them decide on their it is possible that I may end by really 2 What is the difference between the writer and the
becoming incapable of doing it.
answers. On the contrary, if I have the belief two worriers?
that I can do it, I shall surely acquire
A 3 B 2 the capacity to do it even if I may 3 Are the two worriers equally pessimistic? Why (not)?
4 What is the writer referring to in the third answer
not have it at the beginning.’ by saying, ‘And remember the rainbow!’?
3 Check/clarify: inspirational, 3 My quote for you is by Winston 4 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
SPEAKING
hang out with, weird, drummer, Churchill: ‘A pessimist sees the difficulty 1 What kind of person is the owner of this website?
audition, gloomy, acquire the in every opportunity; an optimist sees Would you like to get to know them? Why (not)?
the opportunity in every difficulty.’
capacity. Even if you are right, there 2 Do you think quotations can cheer you up when
you’re down?
are probably about a
1 The writer used to be a worrier, too. million things you can do 3 How would you react if you were in the situation
there that you can’t do
2 The writer can see the positive in at home! So I’d say, go. of one of the two worriers?
their situations. 3 Worrier A is And remember the rainbow! 4 Look at the extra quote. What kind of problem
could this quote be an answer to?
less pessimistic seeing both positive 5 Which of the three quotes do you like most? Why?
and negative sides of the situation. 70
4 the Charlie Chaplin quote
4 Give students time to read the Culture notes
questions. Clarify any difficult
vocabulary. When students have Charlie Chaplin (16 April 1889–25 December 1977) was an English comic actor
completed the exercise, regroup and director. His most famous films were The Kid (1921), Modern Times (1936)
and ask them to repeat the and The Great Dictator (1940).
exercise with new partners. Anne Frank (12 June 1929–1945) was a German Jewish teenager who fled with
her family to Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. The
family went into hiding for two years. During that time, Frank wrote a diary of
her experiences. In 1945, the family was discovered and sent to concentration
camps where Anne died at the age of 15, probably from typhus. Her diary was
published in 1947 as The Diary of Anne Frank.
Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869–30 January 1948) was the leader of the Indian
independence movement until India became independent from Great Britain in
August 1947. He was an advocator of non-violent revolution.
Winston Churchill (30 November 1874–24 January 1965) was a British politician.
He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951
more to 1955. He was named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll.

Workbook
Reading p68, Ex.1–4

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