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Unit 12
Life’s firsts Reading; Writing
3 Complete question 1 as a class.
Encourage students to think
about the correct answer to the
false statements.
1 F 2 T 3 T 4 F 5 T 6 F
4 Give a couple of your own ideas
as examples before students
work in pairs.
1 Check/clarify: to run a shop,
homesick.
Ask students to quickly read the
story and answer the question.
Her bad decision was to go to
university to please her parents.
2 Encourage students to underline
the language in the story.
If necessary, refer back to the
rules of wish / if only + past
perfect to express past regrets
and should have + past participle
to criticise past actions.
1 Pauline wished she hadn’t gone
2 If only you’d told 3 I wish she’d
told 4 Pauline should have made
3 Draw students’ attention to the
fact that each paragraph is about
a distinct point and that the order
is typical for a story.
a 2 b 1 c 4 d 3
4 This exercise can either be
set as homework or done as
a collaborative writing activity
in class with pairs of students
working together. Encourage
students to organise their writing
as outlined in Exercise 3 and to
use narrative tenses.
Activity idea Extension
This might be a good opportunity 1 Fizza went … the hill … the little village at the bottom.
to review prepositions as there 2 Fizza went … the counter.
are several of them in the extract.
Tell students they are going to do
a memory test. Ask them to work 4 Fizza and her dad practised judo in the field … the cottage.
with a partner and give them five 5 The sun began to drop … from the sky.
minutes to read the extract on page
116 again. Get them to focus on the
prepositions and the words before
and after them. To help weaker 1 down … towards
students, tell them you are focusing
on these prepositions: towards, up
to, past, behind, down, beside. When
the time is up, ask students to close
their books. Write these sentences
on the board.
LIFE’S FIRSTS UNIT 12
3 Read the rest of the extract again. Mark the statements T (true) or F (false).
1 The shop on the island never has newspapers.
2 Fizza sees some girls who remind her of her school.
3 Fizza and her father do judo together.
4 Fizza thinks that the air on the island is like the air at home.
5 She shouts ‘Goodnight, Sark’ because the island has made her feel good.
6 The boy she sees is chasing a rabbit.
4 SPEAKING Think about these questions. Then discuss your answers with other students.
SPEAKING
Imagine you can travel somewhere that’s completely different from where you live.
1 Where would you choose to go? Why?
2 What would you miss most about where you live now?
WRITING
A story about a bad ABOUT BLOG LATEST POSTS ARCHIVES
decision
1 INPUT Read the story. What was Pauline’s LEARNING FROM
bad decision, according to the writer?
2 Find sentences in the story with these EXPERIENCE?
meanings. How are the underlined
phrases expressed in the story? We asked readers to tell us stories about bad
1 Pauline regretted the fact that she’d gone
to university. decisions they or people they know have made.
2 It’s a pity that you didn’t tell us.
3 I think it’s a pity that she didn’t tell her Here’s this week’s story.
parents.
1 A friend of mine has a sister, Pauline, who’s six
4 It isn’t good that Pauline didn’t make her years older than him. She was always good at
own decision. school, but all she really wanted to do was to help
her parents in their small shop, and then perhaps
take it over when they were too old to run it.
3 ANALYSE The story has four paragraphs. 2 Pauline’s parents, however, really wanted her to go
Which of them: to university, so she spent three years at school
a is about a decision that the person made? working incredibly hard, studying for an exam
b gives background information about the for a famous university in another city. She passed,
person? and a few months later she left home to start
c gives the writer’s thoughts about the studying there.
whole situation?
d explains the effects of the decision? 3 From the first moment, Pauline wished she hadn’t
gone to university. She hated it. She’d been a
PRODUCE Think of a (true or invented) clever student at school, but the university work
was much harder. She didn’t make many friends
4 story about a bad decision. Write your either, so she was lonely and homesick. After six
story (200 words). months, she asked her parents to let her leave and
come home. They were very surprised when she
Think about: said that she’d never wanted to go to university.
• who the person is / was. ‘If only you’d told us!’ they said. ‘But I didn’t want
• the situation the person was in which
to disappoint you,’ was her answer.
meant that he/she had to make 4 Now Pauline is working in the shop and she’s very
a decision.
• the decision that the person made. happy. I wish she’d told her parents that university
wasn’t what she wanted – then she wouldn’t have
• what happened after making the decision. wasted six months of her life. Pauline should have
• what you or the person felt about it all made her own decision.
afterwards.
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3 She began to run back … the cottage.
6 Sitting in a tree … the cottage was a red-haired boy.
7 Her attention was taken by a rabbit that ran … her.
2 up to 3 towards 4 behind 5 down 6 beside 7 past
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Practice Extra Tests
Unit 12 Master it! Unit, extension and skills test 12
Final test
Workbook
Developing Writing p113
Unit 12 | Life’s firsts T117