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🏠 Find Your Perfect Place to Live

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INSTRUCTIONS:

👥 1. Form Groups
Get into groups of three or four.

🌆 2. Imagine Moving!
You’re going to a new city 🏙️ to study English 📘 for a few months! You need to find a place to stay 🏠.

🧠 3. Brainstorm
Think of features you would like in your accommodation. What’s important to you? 💭

📄 4. Read and List Pros & Cons
Each group member takes one option to read in detail. Make a list of pros ✅ and cons ❌ for your choice. Pay attention to the underlined words!

📢 5. Share with Your Group
Explain your option’s pros and cons to your group, and make sure everyone understands the underlined words.

🗳️ 6. Vote and Decide
Vote as a group to pick the best place to stay.

🏆 7. Share with the Class
Tell the class which option your group chose and why you think it’s the best!

Use the following flashcards to review vocabulary

Post-Test Fun: Snakes and Ladders!

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After your hard work on the test, it’s time to relax and have some fun! Join us for a game of Snakes and Ladders, where you can roll the dice, answer questions, and climb your way to victory. This game is a great way to unwind and reflect on what you’ve learned. Let’s get started!

Snakes and Ladders Game 🐍🪜

🎲 Instructions:

  1. 👥 Number of Players: 2-4 players
  2. 🎯 Objective: Be the first to reach the finish 🎉 by moving across the board, answering questions, and having fun!
  3. 🔄 How to Play:
    • Each player starts at square 1️⃣.
    • 🎲 Roll the dice and move forward the number of spaces.
    • 🪜 If you land on a ladder, climb up to the top.
    • 🐍 If you land on a snake, slide down to its tail.
  4. ❓ Answer a Question:
    • When you land on a question square 🛈, pick a card and answer the question.
  5. 🏅 Winning the Game: The first player to reach the last square wins! 🎉

Have fun, relax, and reflect on your test! 😄

Would rather

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Rather is an adverb that we can use to express a specific preference. It goes after the modal verb would and before a verb in the base form.

We use would rather with the base form as an alternative to would prefer. Remember that would prefer is followed by a verb in the infinitive form.

Grammar patterns:

would prefer + infinitive

would rather + base form

Examples:

I’d prefer to go on vacation in July instead of August

I‘d rather go on vacation in July than in August.

Would you prefer to stay in or to go out tonight?

Would you rather stay in or go out tonight?

We can use would rather to talk about what we would prefer another person to do. For that case we use the past tense, even though we are talking about a present or future preference.

Grammar pattern:

would rather + someone + simple past

Examples:

I’d rather my students took notes during class.

She‘d rather her boyfriend gave her flowers for her birthday.

I‘d rather my students didn’t use their phones during class.

The students would rather their teacher didn’t give them homework every day.

 Grammar Practice

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 Speaking Practice

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Let’s sing!

This song is perfect to practice “rather than”

Third Conditional

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We use third conditional sentences to talk about unreal (imaginary or hypothetical) past situations and their consequences.

We use the past perfect or the past perfect continuous in the if- clause (condition)

We use would have + past participle or could have + past participle or might have + past participle in the other clause (consequence/ result)

Difference between “Would have” and “Could have” – Third Conditional

 Grammar Practice

Level of difficulty: ⭐

Put the words in the correct order.

 Speaking Practice

Level of difficulty: ⭐⭐

Student A:

  1. Choose one box
  2. Open the box
  3. Read the sentence out loud

Student B:

  1. Close your eyes
  2. Listen to your partner
  3. Make a sentence using the third conditional.

Student C:

Write the sentence on a piece of paper

Switch roles <>

✍️ Writing Practice

Choose a card. Write a comment (reply) below 👇 with your opinion.

Second Conditional

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We use the second conditional to talk about hypothetical or imaginary situations in the present or future.

In the if-clause we use simple past or past continuous.

In the other clause (consequence/result), we can use would, could or might.

For the verb be we usually start our sentence with If + subject + were

For examples:

If I were rich, I’d buy a Ferrari

If he were/ was rich, he’d buy a Porsche.

When we want to give advice, we always use If I were …

Examples:

If I were you, I wouldn’t go there.

If I were you, I’d travel to Brazil instead of Australia.

More information about If I was and if I were 👇

Difference between if I was and if I were

If you are still confused, you can find an easy explanation in your first language in the link below 👇:

🇪🇸 Spanish /  🇵🇹 Portuguese/ 🇨🇳 Chinese/  🇷🇺 Russian/  🇺🇦 Ukrainian/  🇹🇷 Turkish/ 🇯🇵 Japanese

Second conditional

 Grammar Practice

Level of difficulty: ⭐

Put the words in the correct order.

 Speaking Practice

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  1. Spin the wheel
  2. Complete the sentence about your partner.
  3. Read the complete sentence to your partner.
  4. Explain to your partner why?
  5. Were your guesses right or wrong?
  6. Switch roles <>

✍️ Writing Practice

Choose 5 cards.

Write 5 sentences using the second conditional.

Share your sentences below 👇 (reply)

Indirect Questions

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We use indirect questions when we want to ask a question in a more polite way.

Let’s compare direct questions and indirect questions:

  • In indirect questions, the word order is subject + verb.
  • We don’t use do/did in the second part of the question.
  • You can use if or whether in questions without a question word (yes/no questions)

Learn more about

Direct questions

Subject questions

 Grammar Practice

Level of difficulty: ⭐

 Speaking Practice

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Change the direct question into an indirect one

Discuss the question with your group. Give as many details as possible

Future Perfect vs. Future Continuous

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Future Perfect

We use the future perfect (will have + past participle) to say something that will be finished before a certain time in the future.

  • This tense is frequently used with the time expressions by + day/time or in + time expression
  • by + a time expression = at the latest
  • We form the negative form with won’t have+ past participle
  • We make questions by inverting the subject and will (Will you have + past participle …?)

Future Continuous

We use the future continuous (will + be + verb+ing) to say that an action will be in progress at a certain time in the future.

Let’s compare it with the simple future:

We‘ll have dinner at 8 o’clock (= we will start dinner at 8 o’ clock)

We‘ll be having dinner at 8 o’clock (= we will start dinner before 8 o’clock/ at 8 o’clock we will already have started eating)

  • We sometimes use the future continuous, like the present continuous, to talk about things that are already planned or decided
  • We form the negative with won’t be + verb+ ing
  • We make questions by inverting the subject and will (Will you be + verb+ing…?)
Drag the arrows <> to compare the future perfect and the future continuous

If you are still confused, you can find an easy explanation in your first language in the link below 👇 :

Future Continous and Future Perfect

Related topics

Simple future (will/ be going to/ be + verb + ing)

 Grammar Practice

Level of difficulty: ⭐

  • Complete the sentences using the future continuous or the future perfect.
  • Flip the tile to check your answer
  • Write down the sentences in your notebook

 Speaking Practice

Level of difficulty: ⭐⭐

Discuss each prediction with your group. Decide:

a) if you think it will happen

b) if you think it will be a good thing

Give as many details as possible

✍️ Writing Practice

Choose a card. Write a comment (reply) below 👇 with your opinion.

a) Do you think it will happen?

b) Do you think it will be a good thing?

Verb get

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Get is one of the most common verbs in English. There are more than 280 definitions of the verb get. But don’t worry! You don’t have to memorize all the definitions. You need to learn how to use the most common phrasal verbs and verb phrases.

The most common definitions of the verb get are:

  • arrive
  • become
  • receive
  • buy
  • obtain
  • understand
 Vocabulary Practice

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Part 1

Part 2

Quiz

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