Lesson 1 Funny stories

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Lesson 1 Funny Stories
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Do you find this picture funny? Read the
headlines and predict what each story is about.
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Match the words with the definitions.
get on or into a train, ship etc
withdraw
person who manages business for others
board
agent
take back, draw back
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make or be slow or late
passenger
person being conveyed by bus or train etc
delay
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Words from the passage B and definitions
overlook
answer
ignore
mature
old enough to made decisions
reply
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make something more clear
hesitate
pause in doubt
clarify
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• Read the first and last lines of the
• stories, look at the pictures and
• match the stories and the picture
• with the headlines.
• A / 3 / Check your spelling
• B / 1 / Family harmony
• C / 2 / memory loss

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• Read the three stories and then answer
• the following questions
• 1. Why does the woman write a
• cheque for 50?
• 2. why does the girl decide to change
• her response when her father asks
• her the second question?

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• 3. What does the man mean when he
• says Do you know who I am?

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• answers
• 1. Because she doesnt know how to
• spell 40.
• 2. Because she thought she could have
• been to Thailand with her mother.
• 3. The man means that he is a very
• important person.

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Voice your opinion

• Which of the stories do you like
• most? Why? retell your favorite
• story. Do you have your funny
• stories? If yes, share your own
• funny story with the whole class.

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Phrase picking up

• have trouble/difficulty in doing sth.
• cash a cheque
• withdraw from
• open/ close a bank account
• forgetful

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• board a flight
• boarding card
• push ones way to the front
• check in/ check out

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• Read the following sentences from
• anecdote C
• One unfortunate counter agent was
• dealing with all the passengers
• when an angry man, who had been
• queuing for some time, pushed
• his way to the front.

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• more examples
• 1. I was in the town centre then, where I
• had been doing some shopping.
• 2. I had been thinking about this for
• some time when one day I saw the
• boys mother in the street.

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What is Past Perfect Continuous?

• long activities in the past that happened before
  other past events
• She was rescued by a man who had been
  working in a nearby garage.

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• b. the repeated actions that happened before a
  particular point in the past
• We had only been driving for about fifteen
  minutes when Jill asked me to stop the car.

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• c . An action that was still in progress
• and had not been completed at a
• particular time in the past.
• I had been waiting for the train for
• over an hour when they announced
• that it had been cancelled.

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• Finish Ex 5
• 1.She was very tired after she had been working
  for hours without a break.
• 2.Their clothes were muddy because
• they had been playing football.
• 3.She was fired because hadnt been
• coming to work on time.

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• 4.She was very angry because she had been waiting
  her boyfriend for half an hour.
• 5.His ear ached because she had been talking on
  the phone for hours.
• 6.He was messy because he had been repairing his
  car all afternoon.

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• 7.She was very scared because she
• had been watching a thriller on
• TV.