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A Things you always/often/usually/never do.
b Things that you are doing right now or around now (using at the moment, this week, this month etc.)
Work in pairs for 3 minutes.
Student A: choose one of the two photographs on the following page and describe it to your partner. What is going on in it? What the people are doing? You have about 1,5 minutes.
Now Student B: describe the second photograph to your partner and mention as many details as you can. Talk for 1,5 minutes.
WRITING
You have decided to join an English-language club on the Internet. Write a brief description of yourself for the database. You can write up to 100 words.
You will find details of the task in your work book.
UNIT 4
A HAPPY LIFE
LEAD-IN
Discuss in class.
What do you think is the happiest time of a person’s life: when you are a child or an adult?
2 A market research organization did a survey to find out who are the happiest people in Britain! They interviewed over 5,000 people.
Here are the results of the survey. At what time in their lives are British people happiest? When are they least happy? Why do you think this is?
READING
Read and listen to the text.
The happiest person in Britain
What does he do?
He has a steady job in an office in London. After a hard day at work, he relaxes in front of the television or watches a video. He doesn’t go out every evening, but two evenings a week he meets friends for a drink in the local pub. He owns a pet, usually a dog, and takes it for a walk every day after work. He spends on average £120 per week.
Where does he go?
At the weekend, he regularly eats in restaurants, goes to see shows, and plays a sport (usually golf). Most weekends he puts on a pair of old blue jeans, and potters in the garden. He usually goes on holiday abroad more than once a year.