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Lesson 17 · Surprise

Surprise Presentation

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English · Grade 6

Surprise!

A palm reader's secret · Three past tenses · Twenty vowel sounds

What we will learn

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Express surprise for good news and bad news

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Read the story of a mysterious palm reader

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Use the past simple, past continuous and past perfect

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Hear the twenty vowel sounds of English

A Palm Reader: the story

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A traveller stops for the night in a poor mountain village
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An old man in rags takes his hand to tell his fortune
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The old man describes the traveller's past, and every word is true
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The traveller hesitates to hear about his future
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The owner returns, and the old man has vanished
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The owner calls him the village lunatic

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Presenter notes: Welcome the class. Ask two or three students to name the most surprising thing they have ever seen. Tell them today's unit is all about surprise: a strange story, the words we use when we are surprised, and some grammar and sounds along the way.