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Unit 19 Lesson 4
Well-being
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• gone through a short poem
• classified words
• transformed sentences
• done a matching exercise
• described the everyday activities of some people
A Look at this old saying. What does it mean? Do you agree?
B On World Health Day, students of a college invited the World Health Organisation representative as chief guest. The chief guest ended her speech with a poem. Read the poem and in pairs try to explain it. Then write a title for the poem in the box.
"We squander health
In search of wealth,
We scheme and toil and save;
Then squander wealth
In search of health,
And all we get is a grave.
We live and boast of what we own,
We die and only get a stone"
C Write in your own words the thoughts expressed in this poem. Do you agree with the poet's point of view?
D Work with your partner and put the following words as used in the poem into three categories:
1 Words used with a positive meaning: .................................................................
2 Words used with a negative meaning: .................................................................
3 Words used both positively and negatively: ........................................................
search, scheme, toil, boast, die, stone, save, get, health, Squander, grave, live
E Rewrite the sentences below in your own words, using the words/phrases given. The first one is done for you.
1 We waste health in search of wealth.
Although it affects our health, we work hard to be rich.
2 We scheme and toil and save our wealth.
In order to ___________________________________.
3 We spend our wealth, to regain our lost health.
___________________ so that ___________________.
4 We boast of what we own, but when we die we get only a stone.
Although ______________________________
5 It is not worth wasting health in search of wealth.
It is wise ______________________________________
F Match the persons mentioned with the speech bubbles below.
G
1 a doctor
2 a nurse
3 a day-labourer
4 a nurse
5 a village health visitor
6 a pharmacist
1. You must have these blood tests done at once.
2. With today's 70 taka. I'll buy fish for my children!
3. His temperature has been normal since last night
4. Ah! Those sweets are so tempting.
5. Don't forget to vaccinate your children at the right time.
6. These capsules contain iron and calcium.
H Now write 3 sentences about what each person mentioned in task G normally does in her/his course of work.
Focus:
Skills.
Reading,
writing, speaking.
Functions.
Expressing habitual action.
Grammar/Structure.
Simple present to express habitual action/universal truth, markers - although, in order to. Vocabulary.
squander, scheme, capsulc,calcium.
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Unit 19 Lesson 4
Well-being
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• gone through a short poem
• classified words
• transformed sentences
• done a matching exercise
• described the everyday activities of some people
A Look at this old saying. What does it mean? Do you agree?
B On World Health Day, students of a college invited the World Health Organisation representative as chief guest. The chief guest ended her speech with a poem. Read the poem and in pairs try to explain it. Then write a title for the poem in the box.
"We squander health
In search of wealth,
We scheme and toil and save;
Then squander wealth
In search of health,
And all we get is a grave.
We live and boast of what we own,
We die and only get a stone"
C Write in your own words the thoughts expressed in this poem. Do you agree with the poet's point of view?
D Work with your partner and put the following words as used in the poem into three categories:
1 Words used with a positive meaning: .................................................................
2 Words used with a negative meaning: .................................................................
3 Words used both positively and negatively: ........................................................
search, scheme, toil, boast, die, stone, save, get, health, Squander, grave, live
E Rewrite the sentences below in your own words, using the words/phrases given. The first one is done for you.
1 We waste health in search of wealth.
Although it affects our health, we work hard to be rich.
2 We scheme and toil and save our wealth.
In order to ___________________________________.
3 We spend our wealth, to regain our lost health.
___________________ so that ___________________.
4 We boast of what we own, but when we die we get only a stone.
Although ______________________________
5 It is not worth wasting health in search of wealth.
It is wise ______________________________________
F Match the persons mentioned with the speech bubbles below.
G
1 a doctor
2 a nurse
3 a day-labourer
4 a nurse
5 a village health visitor
6 a pharmacist
1. You must have these blood tests done at once.
2. With today's 70 taka. I'll buy fish for my children!
3. His temperature has been normal since last night
4. Ah! Those sweets are so tempting.
5. Don't forget to vaccinate your children at the right time.
6. These capsules contain iron and calcium.
H Now write 3 sentences about what each person mentioned in task G normally does in her/his course of work.
Focus:
Skills.
Reading,
writing, speaking.
Functions.
Expressing habitual action.
Grammar/Structure.
Simple present to express habitual action/universal truth, markers - although, in order to. Vocabulary.
squander, scheme, capsulc,calcium.