Review 3 · Units 7–9

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Remember these?Vocabulary
4. 4Match the wordsVocabulary exercise
5. 5Amina's big decisionVocabulary exercise
6. 6Listen: Daniel's career changeListening comprehension
7. 7Grammar from units 7–9Grammar rule
8. 8Grammar checkGrammar exercise
9. 9Find the mistakeGrammar exercise
10. 10Say it naturallySpeaking practice
11. 11A decision that changed my lifeSpeaking practice
12. 12Let's discussDiscussion
13. 13Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: match the wordsVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: grammar from units 7–9Grammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a career storyDiscussion

Words

• gut feeling/ˌɡʌt ˈfiːlɪŋ/

  a strong feeling that something is right or wrong, without a clear reason

• snap decision/ˌsnæp dɪˈsɪʒn/

  a decision made very quickly, without much thought

• reliable/rɪˈlaɪəbl/

  that you can trust or depend on

• pattern/ˈpætərn/

  a regular way in which something happens again and again

• overthink/ˌoʊvərˈθɪŋk/

  to think about something too much, so that it becomes harder

• launch/lɔːntʃ/

  to send a rocket or spacecraft into the air

• descent/dɪˈsent/

  a movement down, toward the ground

• touch down/ˌtʌtʃ ˈdaʊn/

  to land on the ground

• alarm/əˈlɑːrm/

  a sound or light that warns you about a problem

• remittance/rɪˈmɪtns/

  money that a person working in another country sends to their family

• make ends meet/ˌmeɪk ˌendz ˈmiːt/

  to have just enough money to pay for the things you need

• depend on/dɪˈpend ɑːn/

  to need someone or something in order to live or succeed

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Before we look back at the last three units:

1. What is one thing you have stopped doing this year, and one thing you have started?
2. Have you ever watched a historic event live? What was it?
3. Who in your family has made a big sacrifice for the others?

Grammar rule

Grammar from units 7–9

Unit	Grammar	Example
7	verbs that change their meaning with -ing or to: remember, forget, stop, try, regret	I'll never forget looking down at our town. I stopped to call my wife. I tried studying with another student.
8	the past perfect continuous: had been + -ing	I had been working as a mechanic for six years when…
9	mixed conditionals: past → now, and now → past	If she hadn't given me that lesson, I would still be fixing engines. If I didn't love flying so much, I would have given up.

Three things to watch: stop + -ing (quit) is not stop + to (pause to do something); state verbs usually stay simple (had known, not had been knowing); and in a mixed conditional, each part keeps its own time (had + past participle for the past, would + verb for now).