Web International Lower Intermediate Salon
Lower Intermediate Salon Preparation Sheet
Lower Intermediate Salon List: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Express Yourself. At the Auction. City Life. At the Office. Just Talk About It. My Achievements. Who Wrote What About Me? 8. An English Personality. 9. Characteristics 10. Good Grammar. 11. Staying Healthy. 12. Team Exercises. 13. Information Sharing.
14. Giving Advice.
15. TV News.
16. A Question and Answer Game. 17. Friends.
18. Finding A Place To Live.
19. Getting To Know Each Other. 20. What Would Happen If? 21. Pronunciation Practice 22. Alternative Endings 23. Travel.
24. Pronunciation
25. The Action in The
Picture. 26. Cooking &
Recipes 27. Making
Conversation
28. Fashion in the
Workplace
29. Have Your Hair
Cut 30. Feelings
31. If This Is The
Conditional… 32. A Tense Lesson. 33. Why Work? 34. Making Choices 35. In My Opinion. 36. Adverbs.
Salon 1 Think about some emotions and answer the questions.
What makes you happy? I am happy because I can dance with my wife. What makes you sad? I am sad because I lost my job.
What makes you embarrassed? I am embarrassed when I speak in class.
Answer the following questions:
? What makes you happy? ? What makes you sad?
? What makes you frightened? ? What makes you angry? ? When do you feel lazy? ? When do you feel calm? ? When do you feel lonely? ? Are you laid back?
Write about your friends and families emotions. Explain reasons why they may be:
My mother is ANGRY because I DID NOT DO MY HOMEWORK.
My sister is HAPPY because HER BOYFRIEND GAVE HER A PLATINUM RING.
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HAPPY:
SAD:
TIRED:
LAZY:
EMBARRASSED:
LONELY:
Review these words and phrases:
Express, emotion, happy, sad, excited, frightened, impatient/ patient, angry, lazy, tired, calm, laid back, embarrassed, promise, lonely, get out of, obstructive, firefighter, pilot, dentist, IT specialist, sales representatives, optimistic, stockbroker, construction, mayor, offer, counter
Salon 2 Learning Points: do some research on auctions ? What do we usually sell at auction? ? Who is at an auction? ? How do auctions work?
? Why do we use auctions to sell things? ? Have you ever been to an auction?
Vocabulary: What kind of language do we use at an auction?
o auctioneer o gavel
o going, going, gone o bid
o opening bid
minimum raise
Salon 3 Think about: If you had to move to another country, which aspects would concern you most?
o o o o o o o o o o o
language food
worries about crime hygiene weather housing customs TV channels
missing your home country beggars insects
Think about: what makes a city a good place to live? List 5 things. Think about: what makes a city a bad place to live? List 5 things.
Salon 4 What would you say in these work situations? Look up any words that you want to know to talk about the problem:
? Your computer doesn?t work so you talk to the IT staff.
? You are new and you don?t know where to go for help so you want to talk to your boss.
? Your report is late but you are waiting for information from your colleagues. You are
worried that your boss will be mad.
? Your colleague likes to listen to loud music and you can?t concentrate.
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What does it mean to give someone the benefit of the doubt?
Practice making sentences with these words:
surf ? email
? General Manager ? fax
? message ? HR director ? secretary ? instructions ? staff ? fax
? reservations ? an employee ? email
? Your co-worker wants to gossip with you but you don?t like to hear bad things about people.
internet
Salon 5 Review these words and phrases:
Hotel manager, hotel guest, hotel cleaner, hotel cook, Dustbin, Rubbish, trash can, Litter, dirty, Asia, health, police, summary, speech
Note Taking
We all need to practice taking notes. Think about all of the ideas, sentences, thoughts, or any general thing related to the topics below:
DOGS
HOUSES
GOOD FOOD
WEATHER
When finished, think of ways to begin a speech with this language, and write the opening and closing sentences. For example, on the topic of DOGS: I am here today to talk about DOGS, because I love my pet dog and it is so cute. To finish, we might end with the following: In conclusion, I love my dog because it really is my best friend.
Opening Language:
I am here today to talk about… I want to say a few words about… My topic for today is …
Let us talk about an important subject, …
Closing Language:
To sum up my speech, … In conclusion, … Finally, …
To bring things to a close, …
Salon 6 Review these words and phrases:
Taboo, Achievement, flag, noise, wedding, shoot, gun, Accomplish, difficult, soldier, satisfaction, strive
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Achievements
Achievements are accomplishments, which can be important skills or activities we have done in our lives. Some accomplishments in a person?s life may be: to learn to walk; to visit a famous tourist site; to earn money in your first job; to get a boyfriend/girlfriend.
Please list 5 accomplishments in your life:
One accomplishment of mine is I learned to drive a car.
We often use phrases to talk about our accomplishments. One common one is by the time I was [Age], I [state the accomplishment]. By the time I was 18, I learned to drive a car. By the time I was 31 I married my spouse.
Please list the time/age of 5 of your accomplishments: By the time I was 23 I learned to swim.
Salon 7
Review these words and phrases:
Appreciate, Resent, Consider, Avoid, Detest, Mind, give up, put off, face, deny
Gerunds
Gerunds are nouns formed from verbs: walking, talking, thinking, listening.
A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence that a noun ordinarily would, for example: subject, direct object, subject complement, and object of preposition. Gerund as direct object:
? They do not appreciate my singing. ? I will give up smoking next year.
My sister loves shopping at expensive department stores. Please write some example sentences with gerunds:
I love ______________________________________________. I enjoy _____________________________________________. My mother likes _____________________________________. My father dislikes _____________________________________. My boss loves ________________________________________. My best friend likes ___________________________________.
My old teacher can?t stand _______________________________________. We avoid ______________________________________________.
Salon 8 We must all talk about our home life, our work life, and our leisure time. Please write a paragraph about each. For example:
My wife and I live in a small apartment in the west of the city. We rent the apartment because it is too expensive to buy an apartment. We like the apartment because it is warm and the neighbors are friendly. There are many cheap restaurants near our home, but we must walk a kilometer and a half to the supermarket. It is even farther to the subway. However, the buses are very close.
Write a paragraph about your home:
Write a paragraph about your job (or your studies): Write a paragraph about your leisure time:
Review these words and phrases:
Personality, Outrageous, lie, honest, truthful, Competent, Modest, personal, influence, education, Subject, Machine, ability, cost, use
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Salon 9
Describe the following people. Write 2 sentences for each person:
a) a member of your family
b) a friend
c) your boss
d) your English teacher
Salon 10
Review these words and phrases:
Hopscotch, kangaroo, koala, curtain, socks, post, cough, immediately, available, refrigerator, painful, neither…nor…,
Grammar
This class will help you train your ears to correct grammar.
1. I did it ____ my own. by on
2. I went there ____ a vacation. for on
3. I ____ my homework before class. made did
4. I played with her for ____ first time yesterday. a the
5. He was ____ a hurry. in on to
6. She danced with the ____ children. other others
7. Some were very happy _____ I wasn't. and but
8. She hurt ____ leg. the her
9. ____ groom wore a sharp black tuxedo. A The
10. The child skipped ______ the street. long along
Salon 11 What do you do to stay healthy? List 5 things.
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