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vocabulary dates • pronunciation /ə/ • reading news stories • critical thinking evaluating news headlines •
word focus on • grammar there was/there were • speaking important dates
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Vocabulary dates Critical thinking evaluating
news headlines
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 Work in pairs. Read the headlines again and
discuss the questions.
1 Can you guess what the stories are about from
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 the headlines?
Thuy’s
birthday 2 Do the headlines make you interested in the
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15 16 16 17 18 19 wedding 21 story? Why or why not?
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parents’
22 23 24 25 26 anniversary 28 Word focus on
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the questions. Then ask and answer the questions
29 30 31 7 Work in pairs. Underline the expressions with on in
family with your partner.
lunch
1 Is it your birthday on Tuesday next week?
1 on the calendar. Then listen again and repeat 2 Do your classes start on October 4th?
9.8 Listen and choose the dates you hear
www.english0905.com 2 ordinal numbers for October. Listen and Grammar there was/there were
3 Are you on vacation today?
the dates.
4 Are you on social media?
9.9 Work in pairs. Take turns saying the

check. Then say six ordinal numbers for your
There was a big change in Samoa this week.
partner to write.
There were two rules for counting a person’s age.
24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th
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the present tense?
3 Pronunciation /ə/ 8 Look at the grammar box. What are these forms in
9.10 Listen and repeat the sentence.
9 Complete the sentences with there was or there were.
Notice the unstressed sounds of the
underlined letters. 1 some interesting stories in the
news today.
The third of October. 2 Last week a lion on the streets of
Rome.

Reading 3 Geneva last year.
a conference with AI robots in
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4 Look at the news headlines (A–C). Which 4 a big moment for sports fans last
country is each news story about? weekend—choosing the next Olympic city.

Speaking my life
5 Read the news stories. Are the sentences
true (T) or false (F)? 10 Think of three important dates from your life.
1 The weekend in the United Arab Emirates Where were you? Who were you with? What
is three days long. happened?
2 Samoa and New Zealand celebrate New
Year at the same time. 11 Work in groups. Take turns talking about one of
3 Most South Korean people are happy with the important dates.
their new ages. On April 19th last year, I passed my driving test!
I was with my parents and my sister.

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