Cutting Edge - Upper Intermediate - Students' book [antikvár]

module1Past, present and futurePart A TaskSpeaking and reading: The people's century Vocabulary: past, present and future time pinrases Preparation for task: tliree generations of a family talk about their lives Task: talk about your past, present and futureSpeaking and reading1a) The extracts on pages 6-7 come from a book called The People's Century. Look at the photographs, and read the captions. What kind of people do they show? Where did they live?b) Read extracts from Interview/s w/lth these people, and match them with the photographs. Which words and phrases gave you clues as to who was talking?2 a) Look at the words and phrases in the box. If necessary, check the meaning In your minl-dlctlonary or with your teacher.full of hardship exciting, good fun secure and conventional unconventional horrific carefree irresponsible tedious pointless appealing tragic materialistic heroic admirableb) Which of these words or phrases apply to each person's life? Can you think of any other words to describe their lives? Explain your answers in groups.Ernst Weckerling was a German infantryman during World War I, when nearly nine million men died.Yvonne Mouffe grew up in a coal producing area of Belgium in the 1930s, a decade of economic depression and industrial unrest.Luigi Cavaliere was a cinema projectionist in Rome during World War II.Suezo Uchida worked in a factory Japan in the 1950s, a time when the Japanese economy grew very fast.Ron Thelin was a hippy who dropped out of college in San Prancisco in the late 1960s.Jaqui Ceballcs was a feminist in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.I Discuss the following questions.Would you like to hove token port in any of these events? Imagine you had a time machine. Which other centuries would you choose to visit? Explain why How do you think our present age will be remembered?/ u'ouU hve to know what it Wits/will be like in