Listening

1.Look at the piture .

What do you do at a crossroads?

What do you think the expression “at a crossroads in life” means?

Can you give any examples?

VocabularyHowever, Mary’s company doesn’t need her for this position any more.

Mary is a secretary .

She is fired . She lost this job.

Mary is made redundant.

Redundant /rI"dVndJnt/(adj): no longer needed for a job and therefore out of work

• When the factory closed 800 people were made redundant.

Example:

Megumi is Japanese. She moves to America.

Megumi emigrates from Japan to America.

emigrate /"emIgreIt/(v):to leave your own country to go and live in another

They emigrated from Ireland to Australia twenty years ago.

Example:

scuba-diving /"sku:bJ daIvIN/(noun): swimming under water using special equipment for breathing

Scuba-dive (v)

We want to learn how to scuba-dive.

Example:

Trap /tr&p/(noun) a piece of equipment that you use for catching animals

Trap /tr&p/(verb): (often passive) to keep people in a dangerous place or a bad situation

Many people are trapped in low-paid jobs.

Example:

Put sth off : to move sth to a later time; to delay doing sth

She put her essay off until the last minute.

Example:

Retirement /rI"taIJmJnt /home : the act of stopping working forever

Retirement home :the home for people who took retirement,

Carol may move to a retirement home next year.

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2.Listen to the people who have reached a crossroads in their lives. Complete the chart.

3.Listen again and check your answers. What reasons do they have for and against their possible choices?

What do you think?

What would you do if you were:

Andy Lucy Maureen

Discuss each situation with a partner, and then with the class . Does everybody agree what they should do?

4.Listen to Andy , Lucy, and Maureen a year later . Were you right?

Thanks for attention!