Life

Lead-in

  • Can you talk about a happy memory from your childhood? Why was it a happy memory?
  • Why do people have problems with teenager’s attitudes?
  • What can schools do to help make kids behave better?

Presentation

Pre

  • What did you want to be when you were a child?

Top Down

  • What does the text talk about?
  • Kimberly’s career
  • Kimberly’s child
  • Kimberly’s likes and dislikes
  • Kimberly’s childhood
  • Kimberly’s ancestry
  • Kimberly’s favorite pet
  • Kimberly’s career
  • Kimberly’s child
  • Kimberly’s likes and dislikes
  • Kimberly’s childhood
  • Kimberly’s ancestry
  • Kimberly’s favorite pet

Alexis Bledel Biography

Kimberly Alexis Bledel was born in Houston, Texas, to Nanette (Dozier) and Martin Bledel. Her parents are both Spanish speakers (her mother was born in Arizona and raised in Mexico, and her father was born in Argentina), and Alexis’s ancestry includes Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, and French.

Alexis made her television debut in Gilmore Girls (2000), after spending years in front of the camera as a model. Bledel’s parents encouraged her to try community theater in Houston when she was 8 years old, hoping it would help their daughter overcome her shyness. She went on to perform in productions of Our Town, The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin, and later was scouted in a local mall to model. She began her modeling career while still in high school, traveling all over to locations like Tokyo, Milan, New York and Los Angeles. After graduating, she enrolled at NYU as a film major. In the Spring of 2000, Bledel landed a manager through her modeling agency and headed to Los Angeles for her first pilot season, where she quickly landed the coveted role of Rory on Gilmore Girls (2000).

When she’s not working, Bledel enjoys writing, reading, shooting photography, going to the movies and spending time with her family. She got married to actor Vincent Kartheiser, with whom she has a son.

Source

Bottom Up

  • True or False
  1. She was born in Texas but her Mother was born in Mexico.
  2. Alexis’s ancestry includes Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, and French.
  3. When she was around eight years old, she was really shy.
  4. After graduating, she enrolled at NYU.
  5. Kimberly enjoys writing, reading and shooting photography but she doesn’t enjoy going to the movies and spending time with her family. 
  1. She was born in Texas but her Mother was born in Mexico. False
  2. Alexis’s ancestry includes Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, and French. True
  3. When she was around eight years old, she was really shy. True
  4. After graduating, she enrolled at NYU. True
  5. Bledel enjoys writing, reading and shooting photography but she doesn’t enjoy going to the movies and spending time with her family. False

Post

  • Look at number 5. How similar are you to Kimberly?
  • What is the appropriate age to start working?
  • What kind of jobs should children be able to have?

Target Language

Life Events

Expressions

  • Be born
  • Grow up
  • Choose a career
  • Leave your parents’ house
  • Graduate in (a career) / graduate from (an institution)
  • Get a Job
  • Marry someone / Get married to someone
  • Adopt / have a baby / have a child / have children
  • Get divorced
  • Retire

Examples

  • I was born in 1989.
  • I grew up in the city.
  • I chose to be a teacher.
  • I left my parents’ house when I was 25.
  • I graduated in Biology.
  • I got a job in a bank.
  • I got married to the love of my life.
  • I have three children.
  • I don’t want to get divorced.
  • I think I will retire by the age of eighty.

Controlled Practice

  • Match the words to their meanings. There is one example.

  1. Adopt

  2. Get a divorce

  3. Get married

  4. Grow up

  5. Graduate

  6. Be born

(   ) To become older and more mature; to progress toward adulthood.

(   ) Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or high school.

(   ) An official or legal process to end a marriage.

(   ) Having a wife or husband.

(1) Legally take (another’s child) and bring it up as one’s own.

(   ) Come into existence.

  1. Adopt

  2. Get a divorce

  3. Get married

  4. Grow up

  5. Graduate

  6. Be born

(4) To become older and more mature; to progress toward adulthood.

(5) Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or high school.

(2) An official or legal process to end a marriage.

(3) Having a wife or husband.

(1) Legally take (another’s child) and bring it up as one’s own.

(6) Come into existence.

Freer Practice

  • Ask and answer the following questions.
    1. In what year were you born?
    2. Are you married?
      • If so, to whom?
      • If not, do you want to get married?
    3. Are you graduated in something?
      • If so, when did you graduate?
      • If not, what do you want to graduate in?
    4. Do have a job?
      • If so, what do you work with?
      • If not, what do you want to work with?
    5. Do you have kids?
      • If so, how many kids do you have?
      • If not, how many kids do you want?
    6. What do you think about adoption?

Production

  • Create 10 sentences about your own life using the Past Simple and the Target Language.

Homework

Choose the best option for each sentence.

Example: There were / was someone out there. > There was someone out there.

  1. They get / got married three years ago.
  2. That woman wants to adopt a kid / kids.
  3. I think I will retire / rettire.
  4. Those kids are growing / grow up really fast!
  5. She was born / borned in the 80’s.
  1. They got married three years ago.
  2. That woman wants to adopt a kid.
  3. I think I will retire.
  4. Those kids are growing up really fast!
  5. She was born in the 80’s.

Complete the blank spaces using the given words

ADOPT – GROW – RETIRE – MARRY – DIVORCE – CAREER

Example: I want to ____ .> I want to retire.

  1. He needs to choose a ____.
  2. They are thinking about a kid they met. They want to ____.
  3. She is really tired of him. I think she needs to get a ____.
  4. I wonder when they are going to ____ up.
  5. He feels lonely. He should ____ someone.
  1. He needs to choose a career.
  2. They are thinking about a kid they met. They want to adopt.
  3. She is really tired of him. I think she needs to get a divorce.
  4. I wonder when they are going to grow up.
  5. He feels lonely. He should marry someone.

Complete the blank spaces using words from the target language.

Example: I want to ____ married! > I want to get married.

  1. He will ____ tomorrow.
  2. They ____ up in Brasilia.
  3. Karla left her parents’ ____ when she was 18.
  4. Francis ____ a job in a school yesterday.
  5. They got ____ and are really happy.
  1. He will graduate tomorrow.
  2. They grew up in Brasilia.
  3. Karla left her parents’ house when she was 18.
  4. Francis got a job in a school yesterday.
  5. They got married and are really happy.

Put the words in the correct order

Example: married / tomorrow. /  will / get / She > She will get married tomorrow.

  1. are / sad / divorce. / I’m / a / because / getting / they
  2. a / have / going / to / She / are / They / baby. / pregnant! / is
  3. they / Do / think / should / you / kid? / a / adopt
  4. Helen / happy / she / is / really / because / graduated.
  5. needs / retire. / is / 70 / old, / years / Louis / to / he
  1. I’m sad because they are getting a divorce.
  2. She is pregnant! They are going to have a baby.
  3. Do you think they should adopt a kid?
  4. Helen is really happy because she graduated.
  5. Louis is 70 years old, he needs to retire.

Find and correct the mistakes.

Example: They was going to have a baby. > They were going to have a baby.

  1. There was people running.
  2. They were fighting because she don’t want to travel.
  3. They were thinking about having baby, but not anymore.
  4. Clara pretend to be graduated, but she’s not.
  5. Peter wants to married Geovana.
  1. There were people running.
  2. They were fighting because she doesn’t want to travel.
  3. They were thinking about having a baby, but not anymore.
  4. Clara pretends to be graduated, but she’s not.
  5. Peter wants to marry Geovana.

Writing

Write a short text about your life goals.

Example: I want to graduate and…

Culture

  • Here is a song about life. Watch the video and read the lyrics.
  • What do you think about the song written by Frank Sinatra?