Objective Advanced Unit 2: Living life to the full

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Unit 2: Living life to the full

• Objectives: 
• Listening: Tedtalk assignment
• Speaking: Discussing what living life to the full entails and the ingredients of living a happy life.
• Writing: Writing a letter
• Grammar: Dependent prepositions
• Reading: CAE reading and Use of English part 2

Living life to the full

• What do you think 'living life to the full' is about?

• What's your bucket list? What would you want to do in order to live life to the full? Think of at least 5 activities and exchange your ideas with you neighbour. 

• Look at the photos on the next slide. Does this generate more ideas?

Do whatever makes you happy

The ingredients to a happy life

What makes a good (happy) life?

• You are going to watch a TedTalk about what makes people happy. 'Lessons from the longest study on happiness'. 

• But, before we start, write down what you think you will be hearing in this TedTalk.

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• Check your predictive notes. Were they correct? Discuss your ideas and the TedTalk with your neighbour.
• Do you agree with the conclusion of the study discussed by Robert Waldinger in the TedTalk? Can you relate to it?

Conditionals Check-up

1. If I ...... you, I would listen to your mother.
2. ....... you want to leave early, ask for permission first.
3. If she ...... (not/to oversleep), she ...... (not /to miss) the test.
4. He ..... (to be) so disappointed when he ..... (to hear) the news.
5. If she ...... (to speak) Spanish, she ..... (to apply) for this job last year
6. If he ...... (not /to break) his leg, he ...... (to go) out with us tomorrow!

Conditionals Check-up

1. If I ...were... you, I would listen to your mother.
   
2. ..Should..... you want to leave early, ask for permission first.
   
3. If she .hadn't overslept..... , she ..wouldn't have missed....  the test.
   
4. He ..will be... disappointed when he ...hears.. the news.
   
5. If she ...spoke... Spanish, she could have applied... for this job last year
   
6. If he ..hadn't broken....  his leg, he ..could go.. out with us tomorrow!

Need more explanation?

More excercises:

• CONDITIONAL EXERCISES
• 0,1,2,3, mixed Conditionals

Dependent prepositions

Essentially, dependent prepositions exist because they are attached to the word that comes before them. Or, very simply, when you use certain words in English, you HAVE TO follow them with a specific preposition. Why? I have no idea! There is no logic to this! You just have to learn that some English words are always followed by a particular preposition and without them, the sentence is not complete.

Dependent prepositions

Dependent prepositions can come after three types of words: adjectives, verbs and nouns. Let me give you an example of each:

• after an adjective (I’m interested in photography)
  
• after a verb (Many young adults still depend on their parents)
  
• after a noun (There is no solution to the problem)
  

The problem is that we don’t always use the same preposition after each type of word – you can be interested in, but keen on, or aware of! All three of these words are adjectives, but each is followed by a different preposition. This is the problem with this. 

Dependent prepositions

• So, this leads to the question, how can I learn which preposition goes with which word? 
• You simply have to roll up your sleeves and memorise them.

Exercise dependent prepostions:

Use the following link to do the online exercise on dependent prepositions:

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/verb-preposition/2/

Be sure to check your answers. If your score is below 75% you wil need to keep practising this grammar.

Today's objectives:

• Learning to distinguish formal from informal writing
• Writing a letter of application

Unit 2: Lesson 2

What do you think are typical characteristics
of formal writing?

Formal writing

• The tone is polite, but impersonal
• Avoids using contractions and slang
• Avoids  using abbreviations
• Maintains a serious tone
• Uses proper punctuation and capitalisation
• Sentence structure tends to be varied and includes lengthy and complex sentences

Informal writing

• The tone is more personal
• Freely uses contrations and slang
• Freely uses abbrevations
• May use humour and more casual tone
• Uses proper punctuation and capitalisation
• Sentence structure tends to be shorter and has the character of spoken English

Let's have a look at this email

• Ex 1
• Ex2
• Ex3
• Ex4

Or:

Dear Mr Taylor

Dear Mrs Taylor

Dear Miss Taylor

Dear Ms Taylor

Yours sincerely

<<Name in full!!!

Letter

structure

Writing folder 1

• As a warm-up exercise: do ex. 1 - 4.
• Then examine exercise 5. What do you think should be the tone (or register) of this letter? Informal, neutral or formal?
• Examine exercise 6 and start writing a draft of your letter. Before you start, think about how many paragraphs you're going to write and what the content of each paragraph should be. Bring your letter to school tomorrow!

Objective Advanced unit 2

Do:

Dependent prepositions: ex. 1 + 2 + Corpus spot on page 17

Reading: ex. 2 on page 18

Vocabulary: Vocabulary spot + ex. 1  on page 18*

Writing Folder: Ex. 1 - 6 on pages 20 and 21*

* Finish these exercises in week 37

Living life to the full!

Reading

Listening

speaking

• Does Internet help us live life to the full?
• Does it help us to be stupid?
• Are you addicted to internet?

Let's read the article

Complete gaps 1-16 with a preposition

• What do you enjoy about where you live?
• Why are you studying English?
• What interesting things have you done lately?
• What are your plans to the future

Writing folder 1