1 Unit Lessons for life Opener 1

1b
What makes us who we are?
Lesson at a glance
• vocabulary and listening: personality and identity
• wordbuilding: binominal pairs
• pronunciation: linking in word pairs
• grammar: the continuous aspect
• speaking: situations in your life
Vocabulary and listening 
personality 
and identity
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CPT extra! Revision activity [before Ex.2]
• Pre-teach self-portrait (= a painting of yourself). Ask
students to discuss the questions about the photo in
pairs. In feedback, elicit ideas and open up a class
discussion.
EXAMPLE ANSWERS
1 because he doesn’t want us to see his face; because he 
wants to show his face through his portrait; because he 
doesn’t want the viewer to compare his real face with 
his portrait
2 He looks thoughtful, wise, serious, intelligent, calm.
Teacher development
Critical thinking and photos
Encourage critical thinking by using the photos in the 
Student’s Book. Here, for example, ask students to look 
closely at the photo and to answer these questions: What 
is the message of the photo? Is it spontaneous or staged 
and what makes you think this?
The possible message: An artist does not want his photo 
to be taken, but ironically we can see his face anyway in 
the portrait; the painting shows the image of himself he 
would prefer us to see, not his real self.
Real or staged: At first glance, the Paris painter seems to 
be hiding his face as he sees a photographer aiming his or 
her camera at him. However, when the viewer looks more 
closely, the image looks staged because the man’s cloak 
hanging behind the easel follows exactly the line of the 
cloak in the painting.