UNIT 3

4 ESO – CONTENTS UNIT 3 “To the limit”

VOCABULARY

  • Health and endurance
  • Reflexive pronouns

GRAMMAR

  • Ability and obligation: can – could – have to
  • Must – have to
  • Possibility: could/might – must – can’t

READING & LISTENING

  • Long distance
  • Firewalkers
  • No stopping
  • Guessing meaning

SPEAKING & PRONUNCIATION

  • Guessing what things are like
  • Long and short vowels

WRITING

  • Living with a disability
  • Giving examples

PRACTICAL ENGLISH

  • A charity website
  • Suggestions
  • Dido: Here with me

doctorLet’s start with some HEALTH AND ILLNESS VOCABULARY exercises. The first ones are quite easy, and they get more and more difficult. Choose the ones that are suitable for your own level.

MODAL VERBS are auxiliary verbs which behave very differently from normal verbs. Here are some important differences that you must always bear in mind:

1.     Modal verbs do not take “-s” in the third person. (He can  speak Chinese)

2.     You use “not” to make modal verbs negative, even in Simple Present and Simple Past. (He should not be late)

3.     Many modal verbs cannot be used in the past tenses or the future tenses. (He will can go with us. Not Correct)

The most common Modal Verbs are the following: can, could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will and would. Now you are doing some exercises to practise them. Pay special attention to the modal verbs to express ability, obligation and possibility. If you need more information about modal verbs have a look at Verbos modales ~ English Modal Verbs (in Spanish) or listen to this video lesson.

A REFLEXIVE PRONOUN is a special kind of pronoun. It is usually used when the object of a sentence is the same as the subject, as you will see below. Each personal pronoun (such as I, you, and she) has its own reflexive form.

PERSONAL

PRONOUN

I

you

he

she

it

we

you

they

REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

myself

yourself

himself

herself

itself

ourselves

yourselves

themselves

Reflexive pronouns are used in three main situations. Read them carefully and do the exercises you have:

  1. When the subject and object are the same (I hurt myself)
  2. As the object of a preposition, when the subject and the object are the same (That man is talking to himself)
  3. When you want to emphasize the subject (I’ll do it myself)

Now you are going to make a DICTATION. You can choose between Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine, Keeping Ears Clean, Eunice Kennedy Shriver: Tireless Activist for the Mentally Disabled or Feeling No Pain: The World of Anesthesia. It may take a long to upload them, so while you are waiting you can listen to the song by Dido, Here with me, you have at the end of unit 3. Here you have the video in a karaoke version, with scenes from the movie “Love Actually”

HOMEWORK

  • If you haven’t finished all the exercises in this unit, or if you think you can do them better, try to do them again.
  • Practice the vocabulary of the unit before the exam doing all the games you have in English Alive! 4.
  • Do all the exercises from the PRACTICE-UNIT 3 from the “English Alive! MultiROM 4”. then fill in multirom chart with your scores and send it to cristina.itaca@gmail.com

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