1. Unit 1 All About Me People and relationships!!
“All About You”: pastimes and preferences
--What’s your favorite…?
--I like to …
--How often do you …?
“All About Me”:
--My study?
--My leisure time?
--My career?
--People in my life?
People and relationships!!

2. People in my life… People in my family…
cousin, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister
People in a school where I study…
tutor, supervisor, headmaster, principal, dean, classmate, schoolmate, co-disciple
People in a company where I work…
boss, supervisor, colleague, coworker

3. Unit 1 All About Me Topic: Introductions and relationships
Function: Informal and formal introductions
Vocabulary: Relationships and life events
Lessons:
Lesson A—The people in my life
Lesson B—Special people

4. Objectives After studying this unit, you should be able to:
1. Know the vocabulary about relationships.
2. Use the conditional clause “–if” to put forward a question.
3. Explain your answer by using “-because”.
4. Describe people around you.
5. Introduce people, formally or informally.
Are you clear about what you are going to learn in this unit?

5. Lesson A
Read about these people in Mario’s life and finish Exercise A (Page 2).
Think about people in your life and write down 6 similar statements.
Pair work: who would you talk to in the situations below? (Page 3)
--Who would you talk to if…
--I’d talk to…, because…

6. Situations You have some troubles in the office.
You quarreled with your parents.
You feel unsatisfied with your present life.
You want to talk about your future.
You fall in love with someone but you don’t know what you should do.
You worry a lot about your study.

7. Nosy Nora Listen to Track 2-1-1 and find out the meaning of “nosy”.
Listen to Track and do exercise B.
Group discussion:
--What are some people nosy about?
--Do you know any nosy people?
appearance, personality, profession, family background, house, children, etc.

8. I’d like you to meet…
Useful expressions of informal and formal introductions (Page 4)
Listen to Track and underline the way to introduce people.
Practice the conversations in Track
Exercise D:
when a famous person is introduced…

9. Celebrities …one of the greatest soccer players of our time.
…one of the greatest novelists of our time.
…CEO of the Microsoft company.
…diplomat of the UK in China.
…well-known TV show presenter.
…the most reputed/talented architect I’ve ever known.

10. Is it you? Homework: write about people special to you.
Classroom activity on Page 6.
--the simple present tense
--the present continuous tense
Listen to Track and talk about special people in your life.
My parents are important to me because they always trust me and when I am in trouble, they always can help me or let me feel supported.
Homework:
write about people special to you.

11. Talking about special people
I think the two most important people in my life are…
The most important person in my life is…
The special person in… is…
…is a very important person to me.
…is/are important to me because…
Do you have special memories of them?

12. Lesson B-Video Part I: Special people/Memories
1. Watch the video three times and finish the exercises A and B on Page 13.
2. Useful expressions:
--Memories are very important to me.
--One of my happiest memories is…
(the simple past tense)
Talk about memories. (Homework)

13. Part 2 A favorite keepsake
Vocabulary:
blind date, bracelet, souvenir, keepsake, pendant, jewelry, reminder, etc.
Do the exercise in “Preview”.
Watch the video and finish exercises on Page
Talk about your memories.

14. Some personal characteristics
ambitious
cooperative
creative
hardworking
independent
modest
outgoing
friendly
patient
reliable
responsible
self-confident
honest
sincere
lazy
conceited
insecure
unreliable
indecisive
unimaginative
insincere
Homework: write about a person special to you in about 60 words and you should include your memory of them—an event.