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Pre-Advanced 1 Unit 2

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Activity 1Film Genres

Find 10 film types in 10 minutes.

Activity 2

Comprehension questions

What’s the person’s name? Is he an author, a screenwriter, or other? What’s “The Maze Runner” about? Who are the most important characters? Why? What inspired him to make “The Maze Runner”? How have people responded to his work? What does he say about future works? Was the author open to the idea of making a movie

adaptation of the book? Is he happy with the result?

Activity 3A

Raccoon Platypus Beaver Parrot Mosquito

Rank these creatures according to how dangerous they can be to humans.

Activity 3B

Its bite can give you rabies.

It can bite your eyes

off.

Its venom can make a grown man

cry.

It can chew you in half with its big

teeth.

Its bite can give you malaria.

Match these creatures to the reasons why they are surprisingly dangerous.

Activity 4

Test your survival skills: Which of the following strategies would allow you to survive an encounter with an angry bear?

Play dead. Run like hell. Punch it in the nose. Speak soothingly. Look at it in the eye to show it who’s boss.Whistle a happy tune. Scream obscenities at it at the top of your lungs. Offer it some food. It’ll probably taste better than you. Spray bear repellent on your face.

Activity 5Title

A B

Interview with Les Stroud.

Activity 5 Student A

You are a reporter. You are interviewing Les Stroud, a famous Canadian wildlife and survival expert. Ask him about:surviving in the wilderness, scars, bear behavior and his quest for finding Bigfoot.

Useful Language:• How did…..?• What was the worst / the most …… situation?• Why did ……?• When …..?• Where ……?

Activity 5 Student B

You are Les Stroud, the famous Canadian wildlife expert.You are being interviewed. Use the following information to answer the reporter’s questions:

Wilderness: build a fire rubbing rocks, create a shelter inside a dead tree, eat worms and insects, etc.

Worst scar: on his shoulder (done by panther)

Bears: surviving a bear attack by playing dead, etc.

Bigfoot: secret symbols in trees used by Bigfoot tribes, Sasquatch footprints, blurry film evidence.

Activity 6Match each sentence with the correct picture

She left when he arrived.

She had left when he arrived.

She had been swimming when they saw her.

She was swimming when they saw her.

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It had been raining when he went out.

It was raining when he went out.

Ray had an accident when he came

home.

Ray had had an accident when he

came home.

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Activity 7

He gave the presentation when we arrived.

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He was giving the presentation when we

arrived.2

He had given the presentation when we

arrived.3

We arrived and then he started the presentation.

c

He was in the middle of the presentation when we

arrived.a

He finished the presentation before we arrived.

b

Match each sentence with its correct meaning.

Activity 8

a) She had read the book when I got there.b) She finished the book when I got there.c) She finished the book before I got there.

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a) He had just had dinner when I called.b) He was having dinner when I called.c) His dinner was half eaten when I called.

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3 a) She had a cold when I last saw her.b) I last saw her after she got better from the cold.c) She had been sneezing and coughing when I last saw her.

Pick the two sentences that are closer in meaning.

Activity 8

a) I shook his hand and then I spoke to him.b) I spoke to him after I had shaken his hand.c) I spoke to him when I shook his hand.

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a) She had been crying when I met her.b) She was crying when I met her.c) I saw and heard her crying.

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a) He learned to read when he was five.b) He had learned to read before he was five.c) He had been learning to read before he was five.

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Pick the two sentences that are closer in meaning.

Activity 9

What you KNOW

What you WANT to know

What you LEARNED

From the text From the video