Ticket 2 English Unit 1 The Gift of Youth

Ticket 2 English Unit 1 The Gift of Youth

Vocabulary: Qualities of Youth

  • Adventure: willingness to take the risk.
  • Imagination: the mental ability to form new ideas.
  • Passion: intense enjoyment, interest, or excitement.
  • Ambition: a strong desire to do or achieve something.
  • Vigor: physical strength or good health.
  • Creativity: the ability to generate new methods or innovative ideas.
  • Vitality: the state of being strong and active.
  • Talent: natural aptitude, ability, or skill.
  • Audacity: courage, fearlessness, disposition to do something.
NounsAdjectives
VitalityVital
ImaginationImaginative
PassionPassionate
TalentTalented
AudacityAudacious
EnthusiasmEnthusiastic
SkillSkillful
VigorVigorous
AdventureAdventurous
CourageCourageous
MotivationMotivated
CreativityCreative
AmbitionAmbitious
GiftGifted

Some Youth think adults are: old-fashioned, intolerant, severe, bossy, undemocratic, mean, nosy, authoritarian

Some Adults think youths are: rebellious, intolerant, strong-headed, thoughtless, careless, immature, untidy, disobedient, and adventurous.

Functions: Expressing Opinion

Asking About Opinion

  • What do you think about….
  • In your opinion, …?
  • What’s your opinion….?
  • Any initial thoughts on …?
  • Do you have any particular views on …?
  • Are you for or against…..?
  • Do you think that …..?
  • If I asked your opinion about …………, what would you say?
  • Would I be right in saying …?
  • How do you feel about …?
  • Do you share the view that …?
  • Please tell me your opinion on …
  • Would you agree that …?

Expressing Opinion

  • I think…
  • As far as I’m concerned,…
  • To my mind,…
  • According to me,…
  • Some people may disagree with me, but …
  • As I see it, …
  • It seems to me that…
  • In my point of view / my opinion,….
  • From my point of view…
  • To the best of my knowledge, …
  • To my mind / To my way of thinking, …
  • I am of the opinion that…
  • I have come to the conclusion that …
  • Personally speaking / Speaking for myself, …
  • I’m no expert (on this), but …
  • I take the view that. ..
  • My personal view is that…
  • In my experience…
  • As far as I understand / can see/see it,…

Agreeing

  • I agree with you / I do agree
  • You’re definitely right.
  • I share the same view
  • I couldn’t agree more.
  • We seem to be on the same wavelength.
  • It’s so nice to meet someone who thinks that way too.
  • That is logical.
  • I can’t argue with that.
  • (I have) No doubt about it
  • That is a more convincing argument, I must admit.
  • That’s a good point.
  • I see your point.
  • (That) makes sense (to me).

Disagreeing

  • I’m afraid. I can’t agree with you.
  • No way.
  • I disagree with you.
  • I don’t agree with you.
  • That’s not always true.
  • You could be right, but..
  • It’s hard to argue with that, but…
  • I’m not sure I agree with you
  • I think you’re wrong
  • I can see a hole in that argument.
  • That’s not the way I see it.
  • Sorry, but I am not convinced.
  • It is quite old-fashioned to say that.

Grammar: Gerund and Infinitive

Click here to see this lesson: GERUND AND INFINITIVE LESSON

Writing: Descriptive Essay

A descriptive paragraph or essay is characterized by the use of Adjectives. It tells how something looks, feels, smells, tastes, and/or sounds. A good description is a word picture; the reader can imagine the object, place, or person in his or her mind. When describing a person, you should speak about the physical appearance of that person and of his/her personality.

  • what does s/he look like? (physically)
  • How does s/he dress?
  • what does s/he look like? (personality)
  • What attracts you to that person?
  •  What do you like most about him or her?

An Example of a Descriptive Paragraph (Describing a Person)

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(Topic Sentence) Bob is my best friend at school. (Supporting Sentences: Physical Appearance) I’ve known him since primary school. He is a tall person with a strong body. He has a round face with brown eyes. His hair is black and curly. Though he is young, he looks older than his age because of some wrinkles he has on his face. He also has dimples on his cheeks which makes him look handsome. Bob usually wears casual clothes. He is not keen on brands and fashion. (Supporting Sentences: Personality)As for his personality, Bob is a shy and introverted person. He does not like being around people. He is a brainy guy. We call him the geek because of his love for IT. Not to mention that he is an honest and trustworthy person. (Concluding Sentence) To sum up, Bob is one of the people I admire most.

Another Example of a Descriptive Paragraph

When I was two or three years old, I lived in a house that had a strange atmosphere. I do not remember anything about the house except the stairway. It was dark, squeaking, and quite narrow, and its steps were a little high for me to climb up. From the bottom of the stairway, it seemed like an endless climb to the top. Beyond the darkness at the top of the stairway, there was an elegant, middle-aged woman leaning against the wall. I had to pass her every time I went to my room, for my room was the first room beyond the stairs on the second floor. The woman wore a beautiful dress with a quiet pattern and a tinge of blue, and her peaceful eyes stared at me every time I went up the stairs. As I carefully climbed up the last step, her eyes became fixed on me. She didn’t talk, nor did she move. She just stood there and watched me climb up the stairs. One day I touched her, but she did not react. Her face did not change expression, nor did she even blink. She just kept staring at me with her glittering eyes. Later, we moved out of the house, and I never saw her again. Now I know that the woman was a mannequin. My aunt, who lived in the house used it for her dressmaking class.

82 COMMENTS

  17. Fatima Ait el Caid

    thank you so much for all this great work and effort Sir .. its very usful than i actually thought .. greetings from Marrakesh (:

    PS : please if you could add some exercies to challenge our abilites by the end of the unit .. it would nice

  19. thank you teacher nabil a lot you help me . also for the perfect paragraphe for the stairway and mannequin
    hhhh thank’s

  20. Traduire

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    Essayez avec l’orthographe thanks a lot it’s help very good
    شكرا جزيلا
    مساعدتها جيد جدا

  30. thank’s sir , this is my first time checking your website and i found it very helpful , and i enjoyed the story about the mannequin 🙂

  32. As an English oracticing for 21 years , I encourage you from the bottom of my heart for the effort you have made . This will , beyond any doubt , be of much help to the Moroccan students as long as it provides them with hand-on , up-to-date material . Nonetheless , I have a little remark which I hope you will receive with an open mind . My remark is about pronunciation ; I kindly advise you to watch stress , intonation , word transcriptionetc . This way you will make much better your valuable work and students will profit more . My remark is , by no means , demeaning to your work . On the contrary , it should be seasoning to so remarkable an effort .

    • Thanks a bunch Ssi Belkhadir for your encouraging words.
      The problem when recording videos is that one needs professional material and setting. When not having so, the results might not be as satisfactory. Yet I said اللهم العماش و لا بلاش 😀 .
      I do thank you for your remark.

  34. Dear brother Nabil,

    Thank you ever much for all the efforts you have put into this promising website, you’re honestly doing a great job. This year, I’ll be teaching with Ticket 2 English Second Baccalaureate classes and I’ve been meaning to ask if you had any ready-made lesson plans for it… I’d really appreciate it if you do, I just need to get inspired from the techniques and managerial tools…

    Looking forward to hearing from you,

    Your fellow teacher,

    Best of regards,

    Yassine

  36. hi sir thank u very much for your instractions .Please can u tell me how to present 2 year bac vocabullary exercises i really need them thanks again

    • Hello Anonymous.
      Set the setting by triggering their knowledge about the subject matter.
      Do one sentence as a sample.
      Give them time to do the other sentences.
      Make pair correction (that is students exchange their books with their friends and correct them)
      Make class correction. and you are done.

      I hope that’s clear 🙂

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