English 3 Class 6 Recent Events

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Universidad del Valle

Facultad de Humanidades Inglés con fines generales y académicos III


Escuela de Ciencias del Lenguaje Alan Hernández
Dpto. de Culturas y Lenguas Extranjeras Source: Interchange 2 / English Grammar in Use
AIM: At the end of this session, you will be able to describe recent past events and experiences.
You will also be able to talk about someone’s activities lately.

DESCRIBING RECENT PAST EVENTS

1. A) Which of these accidental inventions do you think is the most interesting? The most
useful?

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B) Search on internet for any other things that were invented accidentally. Present one of
those inventions.
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2. A) Listen to the following stories about lucky breaks. What were the people doing before they
got their lucky breaks? What were their lucky breaks?

What they were doing Lucky break


1. Yang Zhifa
2. Gwyneth Paltrow

B) Listen again. How did the events change their lives?


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3. Some adverbs are often used in storytelling to emphasize that something interesting is about
to happen. Which of these adverbs are positive (P)? Which are negative (N)? Which could be
either (E)?

4. Listen to the following conversation and practice. Then, listen to other people at the party.
What has happened since they last saw each other?
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5. Grammar point. Present perfect continuous.
6. Choose the questions from the image below. Then ask them to someone near you. Tell us
what they have been doing lately.

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