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UNIT 1: LIFESTYLE - MOVING WITH THE TIMES

Session 1: Speaking
Lead in activity
- What sort of clothes do you think American-Indians wore in the 1970?
- In your village how did people dress in the past?
- Which clothes do young people wear nowadays?

Learning context: As a student of Tle, you hear two native English speakers
discussing about the ways of life. You decide to join the
discussion in order to give your opinions and also learn
more about the traditional ways of life and the modern
ones.
Announce of the lesson: In today’s lesson, we will be talking about lifestyle /
the ways of life / how people behaved in the past
and how they behave nowadays.
I- VOCABULARY: Words related to lifestyles
Words related to traditional lifestyle Words related to modern lifestyle
Generosity, tolerance, Disrespect, greed, growth,
commitment, respect consumerism, materialism

Activity 1: Look at the pie graph and complete the text with the words in the
box. (Far Ahead Tle / p.7 / exo.2)
growth / half / impact / remains / third
Indian society is changing fast. Urbanization and economic (1)………… are
reshaping Indian life. Indians both embrace the changes and worry about
their (2) ………… on their traditional way of life. Roughly (3) ………… (52%)
of Indians surveyed complain that their traditional way of life is getting lost,
compared with about a (4) ………… (34%) who believe it (5) ………… strong.
Solution of Activity 1
1- growth 2- impact 3- half 4- third 5- remains

Activity 2: Say whether these statements are from a teenager or an elderly

person. Say the statements you agree or disagree with and give
reasons. (Far Ahead Tle / p.7 / exo.4)
1- They’re so selfish and disrespectful these days.
2- We have more freedom than our parents did.
3- We’re lucky to be able to express our individuality by dressing uniquely
4- Children should be seen and not heard.
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5- We girls had a tough time. Thank goodness things are different now.
6- All they’re interested in is buying new clothes and gadgets.
7- The majority of youngsters are loyal, respectful and caring.
8- Society’s values are evolving, not deteriorating.
II- LANGUAGE FUNCTION: Expressing past actions that have a link with
the present time
a- We use present perfect simple to express actions of the past that have
a relation with the present time.
Example: Many teenagers have developed remarkable skills in using
computer.
b- We use present perfect continuous to express actions of the past that
continue in the present time.
Example: Governments have been looking for solutions to insecurity.
Activation 1: Consider the tenses given and complete the sentences with the
correct verb form given. (Far Ahead Tle / p.10 / exo.2)
1- Many teenagers (develop) an addiction to computer games. (present perfect)
2- Elderly people often (find) it bard to adapt to modern life. (present simple)
3- Individualism (become) the norm in the modern world. (present continuous)
4- People (look) for ways to overcome misery and poverty. (present perfect continuous)
5- Habiba (constantly / post) stupid jokes on my social network page. (present
continuous)
6- My sister (not finish) her medical studies yet. (present perfect)
Solution of Activation 1
1- have developed 2- find 3- is becoming 4- have been looking
5- is constantly posting 6- hasn’t finished

Activation 2: Fill in the gaps with the appropriate forms of the verbs in
brackets. (Far Ahead Tle / p.10 / exo.4)

I (1) …… (live) in London for 8 months now. I (2) …… (study) medicine here.
I (3)……(not see) my parents for 6 months. But I (4) …… (not feel) sad
because I (5) …… (speak) to them on Skype every week. In my view, modern
technology (6) …… (change) people's lives for the better. I (7) …… (not
understand) people who criticize it. OK, some kids (8) …… (use) computers
a lot. My sister (9) …… (constantly /chat) on Facebook. That's no big deal!

Solution of Activation 2
1- have been living 2- am studying 3- haven’t seen 4- don’t feel 5- speak
6- has changed 7- don’t understand 8-use 9- is constantly chatting
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HOMEWORK: How respectful are teenagers in the Ivorian society today?
Conduct a survey on this issue and present your results to
the class.

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UNIT 1: LIFESTYLE - MOVING WITH THE TIMES

Session 2: Reading
Lead in activity
- What can you see in the picture?
- Who are the people in the photo?
- Where do you think they come from?
- What do you think is their destination?
- Why are they living their countries?

Learning context: Some of your friends have decided to migrate away from
their continent. In order to learn more about this
phenomenon and eventually sensitize your friends, you
and your classmates of Tle…. of … read a passage about
migration during an English Club session.
Announce of the lesson: Today, we are going to read two paragraphs about
migration.
Text
In search of a better life – a migrant’s story
My name is Sanga. I'm 26 years old. I come from a small village in
Nigeria. Two years ago, I tried to reach the Canary Islands but I was caught
and deported back to Nigeria. Now I'm on my way to try again.
My childhood in Nigeria was hard. My father died when my brothers
and I were still very young, and my mother didn't have a job. We were very
poor and she had to struggle every day to find enough food for all of us. I
realized that if I wanted to escape poverty and improve life for myself and
my family, I had no choice: I had to leave Nigeria, even if it meant leaving
my home and family. I had to find a good job somewhere to be able to send
money back to them.
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I- VOCABULARY: Words and expressions related to migration
Task 1: Read the whole text and match the words in column A with their
synonyms or definitions in column B. One word in column B is not
concerned (Adapted task). Example: 6-a
Column A Column B
1- migrant (title) a- saved, freed, liberated
2- hard (L4) b- voyaged, moved from one place to another
3- improve (L7) c- person who travel from one place to another
4- travelled (L10) d- shouting, crying
5- journey (L14) e- difficult
6- sailing (L19 ) f- ameliorate, get better
7- screaming (L20) g- disease
8- rescued (L21) h-trip, voyage, excursion
9- detention (L22) i- travel on the water
j- imprisonment, incarceration

Solution of Task 1
1- c 2- e 3- f 4- b 5- h 6- i 7- d 8- a 9- j

Task 2: Read the first two paragraphs (from text on p.12 Far Ahead Tle) and
choose the correct answer for each question from the
propositions. (Adapted from Far Ahead Tle / p.13 / exo.3)
1- How old is Sanga?
A- He is 16 years old
B- He is 36 years old
C- He is 66 years old
D- He is 26 years old
2- When did Sanga try to reach the Conakry Island?
A- In 1926 B- 2 days ago C- There are two years past
D- 2 months ago
3- Why was Sanga's childhood hard?
A- His parents died when he was young.
B- His father didn't have a job.
C- His mother brought him and his brothers up alone.
D- Unemployment was high
4- Why did Sanga decide to leave his homeland?
A- In order to study.
B- Because of civil war.
C- Because he couldn't get a job.
D- To get his family out of poverty.
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Solution of Task 2
1- D 2- C 3- C 4- D

Task 3: Read the first two paragraphs again (from text on p.12 Far Ahead Tle)
and decide if the following statements are True or False. (Adapted
activity)

1- Sanga is a young African of 26 years old from Guinea Conakry. Solution

→ FALSE (He is from a small village in Nigeria) of Task 3
2- When his father died, Sanga’s family lived in poverty. 1- False
3- Sanga succeeded to reach the Conakry Island. 2- True
3- False
4- Sanga was a big boy when his father died.
4- False
5- Sanga wanted to go out to find money and help his family. 5- True
II- LANGUAGE FUNCTION: Expressing an action in the past
1- The simple past tense (preterit) permits to express actions that are
completely finished.
Example: The police caught Sanga and deported him back to Nigeria.
2- The past perfect simple tense is used to make clear that one action
happened before another in the past.
Example: Sanga had travelled through Niger, Libya, and Algeria, and
then he finally reached Morocco.
Activation: Complete the text with the correct tense of the verbs in
brackets (Far Ahead Tle / p.14 / exo.5).
Last month I (1)………..(travel) to Ngoundere to visit my uncle. I (2)
……….. (leave) Yaoundé early and by midday I (3) ……….. (drive) halfway.
Everything (4) ……….. (go) well until I (5) ………..(reach) the forests. Two
days before, it (6) ……….. (rain) heavily so the road (7) ……….. (be) very
muddy and slippery. As I (8) ……….. (drive) around a bend, I (9) ………..
(force) to stop suddenly. A timber truck (10) ……….. (turn) over and (11)
………..(block) the road. There (12) ……….. (be) queues of vehicles and
their drivers (13) ……….. (shout) at the truck driver. But the truck
couldn't be removed until the next day I (14) ……….. (look) forward to
meeting my uncle whom I (15) ……….. (not see) for a year. What a
disappointment!

Solution to Activation
1- travelled 2- left 3- had driven 4- went 5- reached
6- had rained 7- was 8- was driving 9- was forced 10- had turned
11- was blocking 12- were 13- were shouting 14- was looking 15- hadn’t seen

HOMEWORK:
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- Far Ahead Tle / p.14 / exo.1
- Far Ahead Tle / p.14 / exo.2
- Far Ahead Tle / p.14 / exo.3
- Far Ahead Tle / p.14 / exo.4

HOMEWORK: Give personal answers to these questions.

1- What other things do you think Sanga could do to improve their living
conditions instead of going abroad?
2- What do you think about people who risk their life trying to go to
Europe?
3- In your opinion, what are the reasons why young Africans want to
leave their continent for Europe?
4- Are you ready to try an illegal migration opportunity? Why?

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UNIT 1: LIFESTYLE - MOVING WITH THE TIMES

Session 3: Listening
Lead in activity
Imagine life when your grandparents were very young:
- Which basic services were absent?
- Where did they get water?
- How did they get light in the nights?

Learning context: During the English class, the students of Tle…of…are

listening to a text read by their teacher about the basic
services today. You listen carefully in order to be able to
compare nowadays life to life in the past.
Announce of the lesson: Today’s activities will be based on your capacity to
listen carefully to a person.
Listening strategy
In order to succeed your listening activities, you have to listen carefully.
When you listen, you should take notes about key words and other relevant
information.
Task 1: Listen to the teacher reading the para1 about how basic services
have changed life and make notes about the relevant information.
(Adapted task)
Text
(From FAR AHEAD Tle, page 152)
I turn on a tap in my home and get running water for whatever I need. I
can’t believe the changes since my childhood. When I was a child everyone
in the village used river water for drinking and cooking. The villagers also
did the washing up, washed their clothes and bathed in the same river. I
shudder when I imagine the quality of the water we drank. The bad quality
of the water resulted in so many water borne diseases. I don’t know how we
survived! There was just one hospital run by missionaries in the whole area.
People had to trek for many days to get there. Serious cases were
transported to the hospital on bamboo stretchers carried by four men on
their shoulders.

Solution of Task 1
Possible notes
- Running water
- River water
- Hospital
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Task 2: Listen carefully again to the teacher reading. Which services are mentioned?
Choose from the list. (Far Ahead Tle / p.15 / exo.5)
Running water / electricity / refuse collection / sewage treatment /
healthcare
Task 3: Listen carefully again and choose the correct answer for each
question. (Adapted from Far Ahead Tle / p.15 / exo.6)
1- When the woman was a child
A- Everyone used running water.
B- People washed their clothes in the river.
C- People had taps at home. Solution of
2- What makes the woman 'shudder'? Task 3
A- The bad quality of the water they used.
1- B
B- The difficulty of life at the time.
2- A
C- The survival of people despite the hard conditions.
3- B
3- What was the problem with the hospital?
A- It was too small.
B- It was very far from the village.
C- It was not clean.

HOMEWORK: After listening to this passage, which life style do you prefer,
the one of our grandparents or the one today?
In a presentation to your classmates, answer the question by
giving reasons to support your view point.

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UNIT 1: LIFESTYLE - MOVING WITH THE TIMES

Session 4: Writing a Letter of Complaint

Lead in activity
How will you feel if the following situations always happen in your living
area?
- Frequent power cuts so that people go for weeks without electricity,
- The water in tap comes white or reddish with sand.

Learning context: During an English club session, the students in TleA... of

… are learning how to identify the different parts of a
Letter of Complaint. You decide to fully participate in
order to produce one by yourself efficiently.
Announce of the lesson: Today, we are going to learn how to identify the
different parts of a letter of complaint. So, follow
carefully.
1- Definition: A Letter of Complaint permits you to communicate your
dissatisfaction about a particular situation and raise
issues to authorities or a company.
2- The layout: A good Letter of Complaint should have:
- The introduction where you mention the complaint (the problem) and
give brief details.
- The main body where you describe the consequences of the problem.
- The conclusion where you make suggestions and express your hope.
3- Writing Strategy: An effective letter of complaint should be:
- concise and easy to understand;
- factual (accurate) with only relevant details;
- polite so the reader will respond positively.
Remark: Don’t use contracted forms, abbreviations, informal expressions
and colloquial (idiomatic) language.

Activity 1: Consider the sample letter on page 16 and answer to the

following questions. (Adapted from Far Ahead Tle / p.16 / exo.2)
1- Why is Binta complaining? Which paragraph contains this information?
2- Who is Binta complaining to?
3- What is the writer doing in paragraph 2?
4- Which information is given in paragraph three? Give expressions that
justify your answer.
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Solution of Activity 1
1- Frequent power cuts; Paragraph 1.
2- The Manager of the National Electricity Board.
3- She gives consequences.
4- Suggestions and hopes. (I hope the supply…)

Activity 2: Read the paragraphs below. Which of them correspond to

introduction, main body or conclusion? How do you know?
A- Secondly, the girls who are forced into marriage often have to drop out of school and
cannot finish their education. This means that they are denied the right to choose
their own future and therefore to fully develop as independent human beings.
B-These are the reasons why I think that it is both important and urgent to ban forced
marriages. I do hope that UNICEF will be able to do more to ensure the rights of the
girls, and will help our community to put pressure on the government to make and
enforce laws banning forced child marriages. We are counting on your support.
C-I am writing to express my worries about the girls’ situation in my village. Many girls
are forced by their parents to marry very young, and I believe that this practice is not
acceptable. It is clear that these young girls’ basic rights are being violated, and that
forced marriages are harmful both to the girls and to society as a whole.
D- First of all, forced marriages are dangerous for the girls’ health and represent a
violation of their right to physical integrity. The girls are often forced to marry when
they are still very young, sometimes even before they are 15, and they are expected to
have children rapidly. But having children so young is dangerous, and they face
serious complications during pregnancy or childbirth. What’s more, the girls are more
exposed to domestic violence as they depend entirely on their husbands.

Solution of Activity 2
A- main body B- Conclusion C- Introduction D- main body
(there are details) “…I do hope…” “I am writing…” (there are details)

HOMEWORK: After studying the specificities of the letter of complaint with

your teacher, imagine you face one of the situations below:
1- There are frequent power cuts in your neighborhood and people go for
weeks without electricity.
2- The sewage system in your area has deteriorated and dirty water
accumulates in low areas. This is smelly and unhealthy.
3- The tap water in your building comes out reddish and muddy. You fear it
might transmit typhoid fever.
Choose one of the topics, follow the sample letter on page 16 then, write
down a complaint letter. (Far Ahead Tle / p.16 / exo.1)

FIN UNIT 1 – SESSION 4