The present
Vocabulary:Materials and possessions
Grammar: Present simple passive
languaje to go: Describing the origins of products
MADE IN THE USA
Vocabulary and speaking
1. Match the materials in the box with objects on the poster
wood=madera= H
silver=plata= A
leather=Cuero= F
cotton= algodon= G
glass=vidrio= B
metal= metal= D
lycra= Licra= E
gold= oro= C
2. In pairs, talk about material.
1 Name as many things as you can made of wood or glass
Can made of wood chest and tables
Can made of glass Eyeglasses and Mirrors
2 Do you prefer silver or gold jewellery?
I prefer gold
3 Do you wear more cotton or lycra?
Wear more do cotton
4 Have you got any leather clothes?
Yes, have leather clothes jacket.
5 What's your favourite possession made of metal?
My favourite possession made of metal bicky
6 What's your most expensive possession? What material is it?
My violin is material wood.
Grammar focus
5. Look at1. what the example below and answer these questions.
1 Which is more important in the passive sentences?
a) The boxes and silver
b) The people who make, sell or buy them
2 How do we from the present passive?
a) be+ past participle b) do + infinitive
present simple (passive and active)
Passive |
Active |
Where are they made?
What are they made of?
The boxes are made in Hungary
all my silver is bought in mexico |
Where do they make them?
What do the make them of?
they make the boxes in Hungary
I buy all my silver in mexico |
Practice
7 complete the sentences with the correct from of used to and a verb from the box
wear (x2) drink play go open eat |
Example: In the UK in the 1920s, most people
didn't use to drink (not) coffee but now a lot of people do.
1 ________________________men_______________doors for women in your country fifty years ago?
2 People_______________(not) in restaurants as often they do now
3 When you were young _______________ you __________ a hat and tie when you went out?
4 Fifty years ago, a young man and women ______________ (not) for walks alone together. But that's all changed now
5 We always___________________ shoes when I was a child. Now a lot of children wear trainers
6_______________ your parents_____________________ game with you when you were young?
Get talking
8 In pairs, discuss how things have changed
1 Look at the photos above and talk about past customs in Britain
2 Were these customs the same for people where you come form?
3 What other customs have changed? think about:
- clothes
- entertaiment
- Food and drink
- politeness
- family life
- holidays