Giáo án powerpoint Elementary Solutions UNIT 7

THIS UNIT INCLUDES
Vocabulary  countries  nationalities  make, do, have and take  events in life  freetime activities  expressions of interest and sympathy
Grammar  past simple affirmative: irregular verbs  past simple: negative and
interrogative
Speaking  20 questions game  talking about famous people and your weekend
Writing  an email message


Look at the photos. Match the people with the countries they were from. Choose from the
countries below.


the USA

Poland

Germany


Britain

Rusia

Spain


Work in pairs. Can you think of famous people from the other countries?


Match the countries in exercise 1 with the
nationalities below

the Czech

Czech

Australia

Australian

Belarus

Belarusian

Brazil

Brazilian

Egypt

Egyptian

Britain

British

France

French

China

Chinese

Germany

German

Croatia

Croatian

Italy

Italian

Republic


Jamaica

Jamaican

Slovakia

Slovakian

Japan

Japanese

South Africa

South African

Lithuania

Lithuanian

Spain

Spanish

Poland

Polish

Sweden

Swedish

the Republic

Irish

Turkey

Turkish

Ukraine

Ukrainian

the USA

American

of Ireland
Romania

Romanian

Russia

Russian


Australia Australian

the Czech Republic

Czech

Belarus

Belarusian

Egypt

Egyptian

Brazil

Brazilian

France

French

Britain

British

Germany

German

China

Chinese

Italy

Croatia

Croatian

Jamaica

Italian
Jamaican

Japan

Japanese

Slovakia

Lithuania

Lithuanian

South Africa South African

Poland

Polish

Spain
Sweden

the Republic of Ireland Irish

Slovakian

Spanish
Swedish

Romania

Romanian

Turkey

Turkish

Russia

Russian

Ukraine

Ukrainian

the USA

American


Listen to four biographies. Match them with four of the people in exercise 1

1 __________________________
James Dean
Maria Sklodowska Curie
2 __________________________
Ludwig ban Beethoven
3 __________________________

4 __________________________
Florence Nightingale

Listen again. Match each person with two of the sentences below

Florence Nightingale
1 __________________________
was born in Italy.
Ludwig ban Beethoven was deaf from the age of 40.
2 __________________________

3 __________________________
Maria Sklodowska Curie worked in Paris.
4 __________________________
studied at an American university.
James Dean


Listen again. Match each person with two of the sentences below

Ludwig ban Beethoven died in Austria.
5 __________________________

6 __________________________
died in an accident.
James Dean
7 __________________________
Maria Sklodowska Curie married a French person.
8 __________________________
started a hospital
Florence Nightingale

1
Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous composer. He was born in Germany. Beethoven’s father was a music
teacher. As a child, Beethoven was a brilliant musician and he soon started to compose music too. He
composed some of the greatest and most important music in history. The amazing thing is, after the age of 40,
Beethoven was completely deaf, but he continued to compose music. He died in Austria at the age of 57.


2
James Dean was a very famous flm star. He was born in the USA. He studied drama at the University of
California. Dean’s first job was in a television advert for Pepsi Cola. He acted in three very famous films and
he was soon a very popular and famous actor. Dean loved fast cars. He died in a car crash at
the age of 24.


3
Florence Nightingale was born in Italy. Her parents were British and they were very rich. When Nightingale
was seventeen, she decided to become a nurse. Her family weren’t very happy about this because they
wanted Florence to get married and
have children. During a war with Russia, Nightingale helped British soldiers who were sick. When she
returned to England, she started a hospital in London. She died in England, at the age of 90.


4
Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867. Maria was a very intelligent student at school, but
she couldn’t go to university because she was a woman. So she worked as a teacher and studied secretly in
Warsaw. Later she moved to France and studied science in Paris. In 1895 she married Pierre Curie, a French
scientist. They worked together and discovered many important things in science and chemistry. She died in
1934 at the age of 66.

Think of a famous person who is alive today.
Your classmates have 20 questions to guess the person. The questions must be yes/no
questions. Use the ideas below to help you.


Look at the photos. Who was this man? Why is he famous?
Read the text and check.
The man is Nicolaus Copernicus. He proposed that the Earth went around the
Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus
/ˌnɪkəˈleɪəs kəu'pɜ:nɪkəs/

Toruń
/Polish ˈtɔrunj/


Regular:

studied, appeared, died

Irregular:

was, came, had, spoke, began, thought,
went, said, wrote

Read the Look out! box. Then complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs
below.

1 Alexander Bell ________ the made
first telephone call in 1876.
2 In the fourteenth century, many people _________ that the Earth was flat.
thought
3 Isaac Newton discovered gravity when an apple _______
from a tree onto his head.

fell


Read the Look out! box. Then complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs
below.

4 In 1926, John Logie Baird ________ the first television.
built
5 Marie Curie worked in Paris, but she _______from Poland.
6 Charles Darwin ________ writingbegan
On the Origin of Species in 1859.
7 Apollo 11 _______ about 76 hours to travel from Earth to
the Moon.

took

came


was

became

grew

Complete the text. Use the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
began
sang

took
read
made
spent

left

won


What are the past simple forms of the verbs below? Put them into pairs
that rhyme. Then listen and check

read – said
grew – knew
bought – caught

id – hid

kept – slept
made – paid

saw – wore
sold – told
sent – spent


Look at the list of activities (1-10). When did you last do
them? Write sentences. Use the time expressions below.

5 spend some money
1 do the washing-up
2 buy some clothes
3 read a magazine
4 take an exam

6 wear a hat
7 go to the cinema
8 send a text
9 make a phone call
10 write a letter