Adjectives and in Past simple an Telling stories and exag: Look at the photos of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In pairs, discuss the following questions. 1 Have you been to Rio for Carnival? 2 Would you like to go? Why? / Why not? 3. What do you know about it? Match the pairs of adjectives which are similar in meaning, Example: hot ~ boiling _ = [hot fascinating good packed tired enormous crowded bad big fantastic awful exhausted Describe the photos using the adjectives from Exercise 2. SFM Complete the dialogues below with a suitable adjective or intensifier. 1A: Were you __hot? B: Hot? | was absolutely — | 2 A: Were you really _? B: Yes, | was ___ exhausted! 3 A:Wasit______ crowded? B: Yes, it was really__! 4 &: Was the stadium — big? Bi: Big? It was absolutely _! 5 A: Was the music __? 8: Good? It was _____ fantastic! CD Now listen and check your answers, ‘When do we use the Intensifiers really, very and absolutely?Listening 5 GQ usten to Sara talking about her visit to Carnival. What did she think of 6 Listen again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? 1 Sara was staying in Rio. 2 It was raining when she arrived 3 They were planning to cancel the carnival because of the rain ‘4 When the rain stopped, the camival started. 5 An audience of 70,000 was waiting in the ‘Sambadrome, 7 Look again at the sentences above. Underline verbs in the past simple and irc) verbs in the past continuous. Grammar focus 8 Combine these sentences to make rules about the past simple and the past continuous. 1 The past simple .. 12 The past continuous .. 3 Sometimes the past continuous 2)... is used to describe a longer action or event ‘which is interrupted by an action or event in the past simple tense, b) ... describes an action or event in the past. } ... describes a situation over a period of time in the: past. Its often used to set the context toa story, Practice a 9 Complete the sentences using the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Example: | met (meet) Tom yesterday while | was: waiting (wait for bus. 14 (go) to the cinema twice last weekend 2 He (drive) very fast, when he {see) a dog run across the road in front of him, 3 Julia listen) to loud music, 50 she not / hear) the doorbell 4 {you / see) Pablo at the party? He (weet) an orange shirt 51 _ (make a lovely dinner, but he wasn’t hhungry so he {not / eat) anything, 6! (enjoy) the lesson so much yesterday ‘that |__ (not realise} it was time to go. Get talking... 10 In pairs, tll your partner a true story about you. First set the context. Then describe the action but RRR IMAG OR. SOURS ALO NS TAKE GONG more interesting, These ideas may help you, * You met a famous person * You did something very dangerous ‘© You had an accident ‘You went to a strange place ‘You found something interesting '* You fll in love. Your partner must decide which information is true and which information is exaggerated .. and writing 11 Write your story as part of an informal letter to a friend. Exaggerate some of the story to make it more interesting. ‘A: Lav her when Iwas walking down the road. B: Did she look good? 4 A: Good? She looked absolutely fantastic! > GRAMMAR REFERENCE PAGE 108“get f Vocabulary Sleep Grammar Subject and object questions Language to go Asking about and describing Vocabulary and speaking ‘1_ In pairs, discuss the following questions. ‘What is your favourite / least 2 Match the phrases about sleep with the correct definitions. Phrases Definiions 1. a mornin 2 stay 3 oversieep 4-have an early night a perso . 5 not be able to keep (your) | d) stop sleeps eyes open 2) begin to slees 6 have a lien 4) go to bed lat usual 7 be an eatly riser g) stay in bed later a 8 wake up ) go to bed earlier than usual 9 fall asleep 3) be in a bad mood in 10 get out of bed on the 3) find it dificult to stay wrong side times during the day | 3 Describe the people in the pictures using the phrases from Exercise 2 Reading / 4. Read the text and say which of the pictures are described. | Vie has eaten his two slices of toast and is on his third cup of tea and first cigarette of the day when Marjorie enters the kitchen in her dressing gown and slippers. ‘Smoking’ she says, condensing into a single word aa argument well known to both of them. Vic grunts, He glances at the kitchen clock. ‘Shouldn't Sandra and Gary be getting up? I won't waste my breath on Raymond: “Gary doesn't have school today. The teachers are on strike “What about Sandra?" ‘Tm taking her to the doctor's! “What's the matter with her? Marjorie yawns evasively‘Oh, nothing serious. “Why can’t she go on her own? A giel of seventeen should be able to go to the doctor's without someone to hold her hand “L don't go in with her, not unless she wants me to. just wait with her! Vie regards his wife suspiciously-You're not going shopping with her afterwards? ‘Marjorie blushes, Wel, she needs a new pair of shoes ‘Adapted from Nice Work by David Lodge