Remember when · trigger memories. Some people collect things for themselves, others for a son, daughter or grandchild when they die. _____ This is a personal collection of texts

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Remember when …

Memories • The past continuous (revision) • Mementos • The simple past & the present perfect (revision) • Personal firsts • much / many / a lot of

Focus 1 Memories

What kind of music do you associate with these photos? Choose captions from the box.

punk ● country and western ● hip hop ● opera ● classical protest songs ● rock ● jazz ● soul ● Turkish pop ● salsa reggae ● techno

Speaking 1Group workGroup work

Speaking 1Group workGroup work

What is your favourite and least favourite kind of music? Why?

Useful language

I love … because it reminds me of …

My favourite kind of music is … because …

I can’t stand … because it’s so …

I (never) listen to … because …

I used to love …, but now …

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Unit two Remember when …

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Read some answers to an online survey about memories and circle the expressions used to talk about remembering.

What triggers memories for you? Words? Objects? Smells? Tastes? Sounds? Music?

Posted 23.5. All of those things, but mainly music. When I’m listening to my car radio and they play an old song, it often makes me think of something in the past. I used to be a big Abba fan so whenever I hear one of their songs, it takes me back to my youth!! From JAN

Posted 23.5. Songs, of course, but most of the time these are only romantic memories … Certain foods often bring back memories of people and places. Whenever I eat spaghetti carbonara, I remember staying overnight at a friend’s house when I was at school. It was the only thing her mother could cook and she made it every time I went to stay. From EVE

Posted 24.5. Certain smells remind me of places I’ve visited or worked in. For example, I worked in a hospital for two years and there was a kind of soap we always used. When I smell that, I remember all my colleagues and the fun that we had. And music, of course. I play in an orchestra so music is very important to me. When I hear some pieces of music, my mind goes back to when and where we played them. From JOHN

Reading 2Reading 2

Now discuss: what triggers memories for you?

Complete these sentences with the expressions from exercise 2.

She reminds me _________ my first boss – a real dragon!These photos certainly take me _________ to the good old days.Whenever I watch Desperate Housewives, it _________ back memories of when I lived in the USA.Do you _________ our first English lesson?Do you know what that sports car _________ me think _________ ?Every time I walk past that restaurant, my _________ goes _________ to that meal we had there two years ago.

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Group workGroup work

Vocabulary 3Vocabulary 3


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Three callers on a radio show talk about musical memories. Write the number of ‘their’ songs next to the artists.

Rod Stewart Elton John Shakira

Phil Collins Madonna Queen

Now work in groups and compare your own musical memories. Use the expressions you learned in exercise 2.

Remember The past continuousWhile I was getting ready for the operation, the nurses put on some music.● We often use the past continuous with the simple past. The past continuous

describes the background situation and the simple past tells us about a specific event that happened in the middle of it.

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Complete the story of how Linda met her Spanish boyfriend with the past continuous or the simple past.

Practice 5Practice 5

Listening & Speaking 403

Listening & Speaking 403

Useful language

Whenever I hear …, it reminds me of ...

I heard ... again recently / the other day and ...

I was living in … at the time.

Choose one of the following topics and fi nd out if your partner remembers all the details.

his / her last train or plane journey the last lesson last fi lm he / she saw

Ask these questions and three more of your own.

When did it start?Who was sitting next to you?What were you wearing?What was the best thing about it?

Report any interesting information to the class.

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Practice 6Pair work

Practice 6Pair work

My friend Amy and I _________1 (stay) at a hotel very close to the beach. The food _________2

(not be) very good there so we often _________3 (go) to a nearby supermarket to buy something

to eat. Anyway, one day, I _________4 (stand) by the ice cream counter when this good-looking guy

_________5 (come up), _________6 (take) a carton of ice cream and _________7 (walk) away

again. I _________8 (fi nish) my shopping and _________9 (go) over to the checkout. My heart

_________10 (jump) because he _________11 (wait) there to pay. He _________12 (look at)

all the food in my trolley and _________13 (say), “Are you staying at the Hotel del Mar? The food’s

terrible, isn’t it?”

Later, while we _________14 (sit) and _________15 (hold) hands in one of the beach restaurants,

I _________16 (thank) my lucky stars that the hotel _________17 (have) such a hopeless chef.


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Focus 2 Mementos

Listen to the song Memento and tick the objects the singer mentions.

Listening 704Listening 704

lock of hair

Paris metro ticket T-shirt from a concert ring

baby shoeslocket

Turkish evil eye pendant key chain

lock of hair

Paris metro ticket T-shirt from a concert ring

baby shoeslocket

Turkish evil eye pendant key chain

What memento does he have of their first meeting? Have you ever kept any of these things as a memento of a person or an event?

Complete the table with examples of mementos you have.

Talk about things you have kept to remind you of events or people.

Speaking 8Speaking 8

Mementos of …

my own past a school report

holidays a teapot from China

my family and friends my grandmother’s ring

events an old ticket from a Sting concert

Mementos of …

my own past a school report

holidays a teapot from China

my family and friends my grandmother’s ring

events an old ticket from a Sting concert


I always buy souvenirs to remind me of places I’ve visited. My shelves

are full of them!

I have some jewellery that has been in the family for

generations. I never wear it but I would never sell it or give it away.

I think I’ve kept the tickets and programmes from every concert I’ve

ever been to.

I always buy souvenirs to remind me of places I’ve visited. My shelves

are full of them!

I have some jewellery that has been in the family for

generations. I never wear it but I would never sell it or give it away.

I think I’ve kept the tickets and programmes from every concert I’ve

ever been to.

Useful language

Why have you kept … for so long?

Why did you buy …?I can’t throw it away

because …… gave it to me when …I collect … The … has been in the

family for …It reminds me of …


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Remember The simple past & the present perfectMy grandmother gave me the ring when I was 1�.● We use the simple past to talk about past actions and events which are completely

finished. If we say when something happened, we always use the simple past.

Have you ever been to a Sting concert? ● We use the present perfect to talk about things that have happened sometime

before now. It is not important when. It is only important that they have happened.

The ring has been in the family for three generations.● We also use the present perfect to talk about situations that began in the past and

have continued until now. The situation may continue into the future.

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Complete with the simple past or the present perfect.

How long ___________1 (you / have) that poster?I ___________2 (buy) it after I ___________3 (see) the Rolling Stones. That ___________4 (be) before they ___________5 (become) famous.

I ___________� (never be) interested in collecting things, but when my grandmother ___________7 (die) last year, I ___________� (inherit) her collection of china cats. I don’t know what to do with them.___________� (you / think) of selling them on eBay?I can’t do that! They ___________10 (be) in the family for years. My great-grandmother ___________11 (start) the collection when she was a child.

Do you remember that school trip we ___________12 (go on) to Brighton?I certainly do. I ___________13 (not eat) rice pudding since that trip! As far as I remember, we ___________14 (not eat) anything else. Horrible!That’s funny because rice pudding ___________15 (become) one of my favourite foods since that trip. I __________1� (just make) some for lunch …

Correct the mistakes in these sentences.

1 Linda hasn’t seen her Spanish boyfriend since years. ___________________________________________________________2 I went shopping yesterday and have bought a new laptop. ___________________________________________________________3 Steve is a doctor in Cardiff for over twenty years. ___________________________________________________________4 This vase was in our family for years so I can’t throw it away. ___________________________________________________________5 I haven’t seen you at the gym last week. ___________________________________________________________


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There are many ways of recording memories. Choose the right heading for each defi nition.

scrapbook ● digital scrapbook ● memory box ● diary ● sketch

Pre-task 11Group work

Pre-task 11Group work

Now listen to some people talking about how they record memories. Then discuss the following questions in your group.

Have you ever written a sketch for a birthday party or wedding?Have you ever kept a holiday diary?Have you ever compiled a DVD or a video of important events in someone’s life?

Plan a memento of your English class.

At the end of this course, it will be nice to have a memento of your English class. Use the ideas in the Pre-task to make a list of possible ‘products’. Decide on your favourite idea. Think about what you can do now, and how you are going to collect materials during the rest of the course.Each group presents their ideas, and the class votes for the best suggestion.Agree: a) how to organize the collection of materials and b) who is going to do what.

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Post-task Teaching Guide


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Post-task Teaching Guide

Who does what?product

scrapbook

content

class project

photos

photosNinaTom

Who does what?product

scrapbook

content

class project

photos

photosNinaTom

Useful language

How about making (a scrapbook)?Who is good at (taking photographs)?Let’s take a group photo next week.Should we write a diary of each lesson?How shall we divide up the work?Someone will have to …

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This is where you write your personal thoughts, experiences and observations. Some people write every day, others if some-thing interesting happens or when they are on holiday.

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This is when you act out things that have happened to you and a friend or family member. People often do something like this for a special occasion like a birthday or a wedding.

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This is a collection of small objects and documents which trigger memories. Some people collect things for themselves, others for a son, daughter or grandchild when they die.

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This is a personal collection of texts and photos on the computer. It is easy to share and you can print it out or even make a DVD.

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This is a book where you stick lots of different mementos like photos, newspaper cuttings, pressed fl owers, letters, tickets and drawings.

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Focus 3 There’s always a first time!

Before you read about four people’s personal fi rsts, match the activities and the probable age of each person at the time.

Between

started own business

became lead singer of a band

won a beauty contest

wrote fi rst book which became a bestseller

Between 10 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59 60 – 69 70 – 79 80 – 89 90 – 9910 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59 60 – 69 70 – 79 80 – 89 90 – 9910 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59 60 – 69 70 – 79 80 – 89 90 – 99

started own business

became lead singer of a band

won a beauty contest

wrote fi rst book which became a bestseller

Now read the text about P.D. James and complete the table below.

Name Age Activity Further details

For thirty years P.D. James worked as a civil servant in many departments of the Home Offi ce

including the police. She had always wanted to write novels but didn’t begin her fi rst one until her late 30s as she didn’t have much time. She was 40 years old when her fi rst book was published. She wrote a detective story because they are always popular and she thought it would be easier to fi nd a publisher. Since then she has written 19 books. A lot of her stories have also been fi lmed for TV. Her fi rst hero was Adam Dalgliesh, a detective at New Scotland Yard. Later she created Cordelia Grey, a private eye. She has won many writing awards on both sides of the Atlantic.

Work in groups of three. Read about three more people, then ask and answer questions to complete the table.

Student A goes to page 52. Student C goes to page 53. Student B goes to page 52.


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Grammar much/many/a lot ofP.D. James didn’t have much time.● We use much with uncountable nouns – usually in questions and negative

sentences.

She has won many awards.● We use many with plural countable nouns.

A lot of her stories have been filmed.I’m sure she has earned a lot of money with her bestsellers.● We use a lot of with both countable and uncountable nouns.

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Tell each other your key words and guess the topic. Then ask and answer questions to find out about the others’ firsts.

Now exchange information with your partner.

There’s a first time for everything. Choose a topic from the list below and note down key words or phrases about it.

Pair workPair work

Speaking 15 Group work

Speaking 15 Group work

Tell the class one interesting memory from your group.

Your first …

job/boss date/love

skiing holiday tattoo

holiday without parents English lesson (as an adult)

driving lesson hobby

computer …

Make some notes about the first place you remember living in. Use the ideas in the box.


Not many people lived in the village.A lot of tourists came there in the summer.There was always too much traffic. Too many cars for the narrow roads.

We had a lot of animals – cats, dogs and chickens.

Not many people lived in the village.A lot of tourists came there in the summer.There was always too much traffic. Too many cars for the narrow roads.

We had a lot of animals – cats, dogs and chickens.

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population interesting sights parks and trees shops traffic your own home

That sounds like your first date.

You’re right. I was fifteen at the time.

You must mean your first skiing lesson.

That’s right. I broke my leg on the second day.

1) broken leg

2) two hours in the bathroom

Documents

Remember when · trigger memories. Some people collect things for themselves, others for a son, daughter or grandchild when they die. _____ This is a personal collection of texts