At the end of this unit, students will be able to: understand texts and conversations about changes in their lives

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 READING

a

  Ask students to look at the pictures of Simon with his 

blog and guess the answers to the questions. They read 

the article quickly to check their ideas. Check answers 

as a class.

Answers

1 very unfit  2 running   

3  He can now run a long way easily and he has lost weight.

b

  Students read the blog again to do the true/false task, 

correcting the false sentences. Check answers as a class. 

Answers

2  F – He started afterwards.

5  F – He missed it, for two weeks after he’d fallen over.

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  WRITING  SKILLS

  

Linking: ordering events

a

  Tell students that when we write, we need to pay 

attention to putting events in a logical order because 

this helps the reader to follow the story. Read through 

the first few events from Simon’s story from the board 

using just the word then, e.g. Simon was overweight. 

Then he gave up smoking. Then he started to put on weight. 

Then he decided to do more exercise. Elicit what was 

wrong with your story (the use of then is repetitive and 

boring). Explain that we can and should use a variety of 

expressions to order events and indicate the beginning 

and the end of a story. Read through the words and 

phrases in the box and ask students to complete the 

rules. Check answers as a class.

Answers

to begin with; at first

After that; after a while; soon; then

In the end