UNIT 3: LIFE STORIES ppsx

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UNIT 3: LIFE STORIES
1. Grammar
2. Speaking
3. Pronunciation
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1. GRAMMAR
1.1 The past simple tense
- STUDENT’S BOOK, PAGE 123
- Usage:
+ A completed action in the past
+ A completed situation in the past
+ A repeated action in the past
1.2 Grammatical structure: so … that …
Ex: Hetty became angry. She had a stroke.
 Hetty became so angry that she had a stroke
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2. SPEAKING
Use expressions to tell your life events, such as:
- I was born in ….
- I grew up in…
- I started school in…
work in
- I left school in ….
- I went to university/ college.
- I got a job in….
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2. SPEAKING

To make conclusion for your telling life story/ events:
Now my family/ I am living in….and I am
working/ studying at….
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3. PRONUNCIATION
3.1 –ed ending:
In 3 ways - / id/ or /t/ or /d /
Note that it is the sound that
is important, not the letter
or spelling.
For example
"fax" ends in the letter "x"
but the sound /s/;
"like" ends in the letter "e"
but the sound /k/.
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If the base verb ends
in one of these
sounds:
example base
verb*:
example
with -ed:
-ed
sound
/t/
want
wanted

/id/
/d/
end
ended
/p/
hope
hoped
/t/
/f/
laugh
laughed
/s/
fax
faxed
/S/
wash
washed
/tS/
watch
watched
/k/
like
liked
all other sounds,
for example
play
played
/d/
allow
allowed

beg
begged
3. PRONUNCIATION
3.2 Word stress
In words with more than one syllable, we usually
stress only one of the syllables
Ex: ‘problem
ex’pect
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Enjoy your learning
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