Lesson 64: Unit 119 - Listening / Reading / Speaking
A lesson based on an authentic text about a dream on the beach and a dialogue between Anna and Peter at the party. You practise five verb tenses in context, along with key vocabulary.
About this lesson
In this lesson you will read and listen to two authentic texts in English — a lyrical essay about a memory of the beach and a conversation between two friends who have met at the party. You will sort verb forms according to tense (Present Perfect, Present Perfect Progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive and Present Simple) and fill in phrases taken directly from the texts. You will expand your vocabulary with words such as "fascinating", "trainee", "preliminary" and "ambulance", encountered in a real context. The lesson ends with speaking questions in which you need to use what you have learned and talk freely about yourself.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Understand and complete key phrases from the text about the beach dream.
- Recognise and distinguish five verb tenses: Present Perfect, Present Perfect Progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive and Present Simple.
- Use the vocabulary from the dialogue between Anna and Peter correctly.
- Answer questions about the text and about yourself, using the appropriate verb tense.
- Talk freely about habits, work and hobbies, applying the perfect tenses.
Lesson vocabulary
- to catch up on Anna and Peter are catching up on the latest news.
- wedding I'm going to my cousin's wedding at the weekend.
- research I've been doing a lot of research for my new book.
- fascinating The trip to India was fascinating.
- completely I've completely changed my job.
- trainee I'm working as a trainee paramedic now.
- preliminary I have passed all preliminary tests.
- in such a short space of time I have never learned so much in such a short space of time.
- amazing She does an amazing amount of work.
- ambulance An ambulance must arrive in less than 15 minutes after the call.
- desire The desire to see that dream again has never left me.
- endless I was feeling some kind of endless happiness.
- unpleasant Unpleasant noises and smells rush into my room.
- lonely The beach was completely lonely.
- disappeared The dream seemed to laugh quietly and disappeared.
In other languages: Български