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Listening
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1.Look at the piture .
What do you do at a crossroads?
What do you think the expression “at a crossroads in life” means?
Can you give any examples?
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VocabularyHowever, Mary’s company doesn’t need her for this position any more.
Mary is a secretary .
She is fired . She lost this job.
Mary is made redundant.
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Redundant /rI"dVndJnt/(adj): no longer needed for a job and therefore out of work
• When the factory closed 800 people were made redundant.
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Megumi is Japanese. She moves to America.
Megumi emigrates from Japan to America.
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emigrate /"emIgreIt/(v):to leave your own country to go and live in another
They emigrated from Ireland to Australia twenty years ago.
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scuba-diving /"sku:bJ daIvIN/(noun): swimming under water using special equipment for breathing
Scuba-dive (v)
We want to learn how to scuba-dive.
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Trap /tr&p/(noun) a piece of equipment that you use for catching animals
Trap /tr&p/(verb): (often passive) to keep people in a dangerous place or a bad situation
Many people are trapped in low-paid jobs.
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Put sth off : to move sth to a later time; to delay doing sth
She put her essay off until the last minute.
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Retirement /rI"taIJmJnt /home : the act of stopping working forever
Retirement home :the home for people who took retirement,
Carol may move to a retirement home next year.
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2.Listen to the people who have reached a crossroads in their lives. Complete the chart.
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3.Listen again and check your answers. What reasons do they have for and against their possible choices?
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What do you think?
What would you do if you were:
Andy Lucy Maureen
Discuss each situation with a partner, and then with the class . Does everybody agree what they should do?
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4.Listen to Andy , Lucy, and Maureen a year later . Were you right?
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Thanks for attention!