What’s
happened recently?
1 VOCABULARY
Topics in the news
A Match the topics with the sentences from the newspaper. You’ve got two minutes! Listen and check.
B What do you think? Which topics are you interested in? Which ones do you think are the most important?
2 PRESENTATION
What’s happened recently?
A Listen to Danny’s email. Which of these topics are mentioned?
B Listen again and follow the text. Then complete the sentences using words from Danny’s email.
Danny’s writing to his friend Callum, who used to live at Mandela Court.
From: danny8g@electramail.co.uk
Subject: News
Hi Callum
Sorry I haven’t written recently. I’ve been busy because we’ve had four tests at school this week. What about you? Has anything interesting happened recently?
Everyone’s fine here. Beth and Andy are getting married soon and Mum has bought me a suit for the wedding! Beth sends you her love. Dad and Mum aren’t here at the moment. They’ve gone to Thailand on holiday.
What else has happened? Luke has just won a big maths competition – he’s in the local paper this week. And Winston and Lorina have had another baby. They’ve called him Justin. There’s a new leisure centre in Sydney Street. I’ve been there a few times and it’s very good.
Have you seen the news today? There’s just been a terrible earthquake in Nepal. Luke and I are going to collect money at school for the disaster fund.
I hope your family are OK. Say Hi to them from me. Anyway, the football has just started on TV so I’ll say goodbye now.
Write soon.
Danny
3 GRAMMAR
Present perfect (+ just)
Read the examples and complete the explanation.
4 PRACTICE
A Complete the sentences with the present perfect form of the verbs in the list.
B Describe the four faces and imagine what has just happened. Use happy, upset, angry, frightened.
Remember!
Pretekli deležnik glagola be je been:
Danny has been busy this week.
Pretekli deležnik glagola go je lahko been ali gone.
Danny has been to the leisure centre. = He was there but now he has come back.
Mr and Mrs Gray have gone to Thailand. = They are there now.
C Complete the sentences with has/have/hasn’t/haven’t + been or gone.
Try this!
Find five past participles. What do the other words mean in your language?
FORGOTTEN BEAN MET BEGUN STARTER FINISHED PLANT DONE
Answers: forgotten, met, begun, finished, done
5 PRONUNCIATION
/ɒ/ /ʌ/ /əʊ/
A Listen and practise the three different ways of pronouncing the letter ‘o’:
1 /ɒ/ dog gone clock hot foggy
2 /ʌ/ love done come glove month
3 /əʊ/ no closed phone snow goat
B Say these words and put them in the right group. Then listen and check.
6 SPEAKING AND LISTENING
The latest news
A What can you say about the photos?
B Listen to the news and match the news items with the photos.
C Read the questions, then listen again and find the answers.
7 WRITING
Your news
Use what you know
Write an email to a friend or relative telling them your news. Invent some news if you want to.
A new family has just moved into our street.
My brother Billy has won a medal at the Olympics.