Review 6 · Lessons 26–30

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3The five points of unit 6Grammar rule
4. 4Listen: Minerva's messageListening comprehension
5. 5Which form?Grammar exercise
6. 6A message to the neighborsGrammar exercise
7. 7Find the mistakeGrammar exercise
8. 8Say it naturallySpeaking practice
9. 9A year in reviewSpeaking practice
10. 10About youGrammar exercise
11. 11Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: which sentence is correct?Grammar exercise
2. 2Homework: my year at workGrammar exercise
3. 3Homework: build the sentencesGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a year in reviewDiscussion

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Before we look back at unit 6:

1. Is there a farmers market or an outdoor market near you? What can you buy there?
2. Which of this unit's five points do you use most when you speak English?
3. What do people in your town like to do on a Saturday morning?

Grammar rule

The five points of unit 6

Lesson	Point	Example
26	in general: a plural or uncountable noun (no article), the + a singular noun for a whole type, the + an adjective for a group	Libraries are free. The steam engine changed how goods were made. The city should do more for the poor.
27	a great deal of, plenty of, a handful of, hardly any, none of	There's plenty of bread, but hardly any butter. None of the stores had eggs.
28	three-part phrasal verbs: they never split	Who came up with this game? The game they came up with is great. (not came it up with)
29	hedging: seem / appear + to…, tend to, it looks as if	The bus seems to have left. Tourists tend to stay downtown. It looks as if we'll need more chairs.
30	softeners: a bit, slightly, not very, I'd say, I'm not sure	The hotel is a bit old, and the pool isn't very big, I'd say.

Five things to watch: no the for things in general, and no -s after the + adjective (the young); a great deal of only with uncountable nouns, and never hardly no; the object after the last small word (put up with it); the base verb after to, or to have + past participle for something earlier; a bit only with negative words, and a bit of a before a noun.