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Unit 3: Life stories
Unit 3: Life stories
Grammar/ Reading Part
Reading comprehension: Gretna scene
I. Answer these questions:
1. How can you get married if you are 16 in England?
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2. Where can you get married at 16?
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3. How many guests were there at Marie’s wedding
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4. Were there Marie’s parents?
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5. When did they know about their daughter’s wedding?
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6. What did her mother do when she know about Marie’s wedding?
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7. When did Mrs. Schearer do after that?
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8. What’s the end of the story?
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II.
What is true from the story?

1. Marcus and Marie both live in Gretna.
2. Marie lived with Marcus when she was 13.
3. There were about 20 guests at the wedding.
4. His mother was there.
5. Her mother was there, too.
6. Her mother didn’t know about their wedding until the day after.
Class: CP 009- Edulink Center
Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate
Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong
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7. Her parents were very happy when she got married.
8. Marie’s mother hit Marcus very painfully.
III.
Can you rewrite the story in five or ten sentences?

Grammar questions:
1. Do you know the form of the Simple Past Tense?
TO BE VERBS
2. Describe how to use this tense?
3. How to put “ed” to make past form of the regular verbs?
• Verbs with “e” ending?
Class: CP 009- Edulink Center
Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate
Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong
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• Verbs with a vowel + a consonant ending?
• Verbs with “y” ending?
4. Irregular verbs

Class: CP 009- Edulink Center
Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate
Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong
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Unit 3: Life stories
Unit 3: Life stories
Vocabulary/ Reading Part
Vocabulary: Money
Spider gram:
Reading and Writing: The Witch of Wall Street
- Wealthy: ['welθi]
- poor: [pɔ:(r)]
New words
Witch ['wit∫]
Class: CP 009- Edulink Center
Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate
Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong
Money
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- To sell: [sel]
- rich: [rit∫]
- To buy: [bai]
- stock [stɔk]
- exchange: [iks't∫eindʒ]
- mean [mi:n]
- fortune: ['fɔ:t∫u:n]
- cheap [t∫i:p]
- generous ['dʒenərəs]

- tax [tæks]
- free [fri:]
- To pay [pei]
- stocks and shares [∫eə]
- bank [bæηk]
- To cost [kɔst]
- millionaire [,miljə'neə]
- price [prais]
- To work [wə:k]
- To count [kaunt]
- expensive [iks'pensiv]
- property ['prɔpəti]
- diamond ['daiəmənd]
- job [dʒɔb]
- jewellery ['dʒu:əlri]
- mortgage ['mɔ:gidʒ]
- To lose [lu:z]
Genius: ['dʒi:niəs]
Revenge [ri'vendʒ]
Chamber pot ['t∫eimbəpɒt]
stroke [strouk]
To Injure ['indʒə]

Class: CP 009- Edulink Center
Course: Life Lines – Pre Intermediate
Teacher: Dang Thuy Duong
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