Not another Demo lesson

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Not Another Demo Lesson

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

• What would it mean for you to "live your life in your own way"? What would this involve?
• What, if anything, stops you from doing this?

by Lavinia – Ioana Udrea

Ethics Specialist at

Pasiune. Entuziasm. Vise.

Before we start…

• What is your favorite way to relax? How difficult is it to find time for yourself?

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Writing Activity

Practise your listening

Read and learn about:

• Which is the main idea of this video? What makes a great coach?
• What do you think about coach’s inspirational speech?
• Can you apply some inspiring ideas from the video into your life?

“. . . The nineteenth century brought with it a burst of new discoveries and inventions that revolutionized the candle industry and made lighting available to all. In the early-to-mid-nineteenth century, a process was developed to refine tallow (fat from animals) with alkali and sulfuric acid. The result was a product called stearin.

Stearin is harder and burns longer than unrefined tallow. This breakthrough meant that it was possible to make tallow candles that would not produce the usual smoke and rancid odor.

Stearins were also derived from palm oils, so vegetable waxes as well as animal fats could be used to make candles . . . “

• Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about candles before the nineteenth century?
• a) They did not smoke when they were burned.
• b) They produced a pleasant odor as they burned.
• c) They were not available to all.
• d) They contained sulfuric acid.

• The ZED Box

• Imagine that you are given a “smart” or magical box, known as the Zed box. If you open the Zed box, you may be given the thing that you want or value most in life. (The box can`t change the past.)
• You have to write down the one thing you would most want the box to give you.

• So, the thing I would want the most is:

English in use

Thank you for your attention!

Use

1) repeated actions

My friend often draws nice posters.

2) things in general

The sun rises in the East.

3) fixed arrangements, scheduled events

The plane flies to London every Monday.

4) actions in the present - one follows after the other

First I get up, then I have breakfast.

5) instructions

Open your books at page 34.

6) with special verbs

I understand English.

Form

infinitive (3rd person singular he, she, it: infinitive + -s)

Present Simple

Signal words

• These words tell you what tense you have to use. For the Simple Present these are adverbs of frequency:

always

often

usually

sometimes

seldom

never

• Other phrases of time can occur, like:

every day, week, year;

on Mondays

after school