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CONTENTSCONTENTS

UNITS 7 - 9: HEROESUNITS 7 - 9: HEROES

• Vocabulary:

---Character and Personality Adjectives

--- Campaigns // Causes and Issues

• Grammar:

--- Past Simple VS. Past Continuous

--- Use of Articles: a/an – the –zero article

CHARACTER & PERSONALITYCHARACTER & PERSONALITY

Read the descriptions below and fill in the

gaps to complete the adjectives from page

25 (Student´s Book)

• He is a soldier from the USA. He loves

fighting in times of war.

• He is courageous when he has to protect his country, but he doesn´t care about killing enemies or destroying towns and villages where innocent people live.

HE IS…HE IS…

C_ U _ _

AG_ RE_ _ IV _

B_ A_ E

• He is rich and powerful, but he is never

happy with his life.

• He always wants to have more and more

things, money and power.

HE IS…HE IS…

A_ B_ T_O_S

• She is a model housewife who spends the whole day doing all types of housework for her family.

• She also likes reading love stories and starts crying as soon as she watches a good soap opera.

SHE IS…SHE IS…

H _ RD - WO_ K_ _G

R_ M_ N _ _ C

S_ N S _ T _ _ E

• The Tibbetan monk Xiao Chang loves being in contact with nature and being relaxed most of the time.

• He also treats visitors very politely and never tells lies to people

HE IS…HE IS…

K_ N _

C _ L _

H_ N_ S _

• Mother Teresa spent her life helping poor people, especially orphan children found in the streets of Calcuta.

• She was also very clever and, from her heart, she gained a type of spiritual intelligence that isn´t found at any university.

SHE WAS…SHE WAS…

G _ N _ R _ U S

W _ S _

CAMPAIGNERS CAMPAIGNERS

Fill in the gaps with the correct word from

the box below

Election equal rights vote

hunger strike meeting speech

parliament protest march suffragette

Rights

EMMELINE PANKHURST EMMELINE PANKHURST

• Emmeline demanded --------- for women and men.

• She worked with her husband for women´s ---------.

• In 1903 she made a famous ----- at a public --------.

• Whenever she was jailed, she went on ----

• In 1903,Emmeline organised an important ----- in London.

• She wanted to give women the right to vote, at least in the local ----

• The British ---- finally granted the ----- to women.

• She was called a -----because of the cause she defended.

PAST SIMPLEPAST SIMPLE

A) Completed actions in the past

--- To talk about actions or events that started and finished in the past without connection with the present time

EXAMPLESEXAMPLES

• I saw a movie yesterday.

• I didn't see a play yesterday.

• Last year, I travelled to Japan.

• Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.

• Did you have dinner last night?

• She washed her car.

• He didn't wash his car.

B) A Series of Completed Actions

--- To talk about a series of completed actions in the past (the actions happened one after the other)

EXAMPLESEXAMPLES

• I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.

• He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the hotel at 9:00, and met the others at 10:00.

• Did you add flour, pour in the milk, and then add the eggs?

PAST CONTINUOUSPAST CONTINUOUS

A) Interrupted actions in the past

--- To talk about an action in progress in the past that was suddenly interrupted by another past action.

EXAMPLESEXAMPLES

• I was watching TV when she called. • When the phone rang, she was writing a letter. • While we were having the picnic, it started to rain. • What were you doing when the earthquake

started? • You were not listening to me when I told you to

turn the oven off. • While John was sleeping last night, someone stole

his car. • Sammy was waiting for us when we got off the

plane.

B) Parallel past actions

--- To talk about two actions that were happening at the same time.

EXAMPLESEXAMPLES

• I was studying while he was making dinner. • While Ellen was reading, Tim was watching

television. • Were you listening while he was talking? • I wasn't paying attention while I was writing

the letter, so I made several mistakes. • What were you doing while you were waiting? • Thomas wasn't working, and I wasn't working

either.

ARTICLESARTICLES

A // AN• When it is not clear which person or thing we

are talking about. ( = when we name or mention someone or something for the first time.

Eg: Paul went out of the house and saw a tall Japanese man in a red car.

• When it doesn´t matter which person// thing we are talking about ( = any)

Eg: I have to write your phone numer now. I need a pen.

• When we describe or refer to something or someone as an example of the whole group (as a collective noun)

Eg: A lion is an African animal. ( = lions are African animals)

THE• When it is clear which person or thing we are

talking about. ( = when we name someone or something that we mentioned before (in the same text or conversation)

Eg: Sam loves a Russian girl. The girl is very beautiful.

ZERO ARTICLE (no article )• When we make generalizations with plural

nouns

Eg: Teenagers hate tango.

• When we make generalizations with uncountable nouns

Eg: Japanese people eat rice every day.

• When we refer to languages

Eg: Can you speak Italian fluently?

MULTI – PART VERBSMULTI – PART VERBS

• SET UP: establish

• TAKE PART: participate

• PUT OFF: postpone

• COME BACK: return