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UNIT 5 – EXPERIENCE LIFE

UNIT 5 – EXPERIENCE LIFE. THE OUTLINE Discussion Reading comprehension Vocabulary ESP. What do the writers of the following quotes have to say about life? Do you think you live life to the full? What’s the motto of your life?

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UNIT 5 – EXPERIENCE LIFE

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  1. UNIT 5 – EXPERIENCE LIFE THE OUTLINE • Discussion • Reading comprehension • Vocabulary • ESP

  2. What do the writers of the following quotes have to say about life? Do you think you live life to the full? What’s the motto of your life? What goals have you set this month, this year, the next five years? To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. (H.C.Andersen) If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of This experience we call life. (Steve Maraboli)

  3. Reading comprehension, SB, p80-81. ARCTIC BOOT CAMP The Artic Circle – the southernmost latitude in the Northern Hemisphere at which the sun can remain continuously above or below the horizon for 24h. The northern lights – are bands of coloured light, mainly green and red, that are sometimes seen in the sky at night in the most northern countries of the world. A boot camp – a training camp for new members of the military, as well as an intensive training programme e.g. for improving one’s physical fitness. Lapland – the largest and northernmost region of Finland. Fika – a concept in Swedish cuclture meaning to have a coffee break.

  4. Vocabulary pp82-83 • Words commonly confused: ensure/reassuring; break/brake; past/go past/pass; approve/prove; affect/effect; quiet/quite • Commonly confused words in different contexts: lie/lay; except/expect; loose/lose; later/latter; breathe/breath; conform/confirm; subscribe/prescribe; storey/story; principal/principle • Revision of the verb forms ending in –en/-ise (lengthen, threaten, specialize, economise etc. • Phrases related to sounds and silence (let out a cry, be drowned out by, cut through, make no sound, mutter under one’s breath, keep one’s voice down, utter a single word) • Collocations raise/disguise voice; interrupt/fill the silence; wake up/jump at the sound etc.

  5. Sounds people make (Wellman Guy pp 65-66) + Idioms that comment on people (Advanced Vocabulary in Use – a handout pp90-91) ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Quantifying information (pp 68-71) BIT, BINARY, DIUGITAL, BYTE, KILOBYTE, MEGABYTE, GIGABYTE PROCESSORS – CPU, microprocessor, chip, silicon, semiconductor STORAGE – memory chip, RAM, ROM, hard disk and hard drive DISK V.DISC

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