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Lesson 4 · Life and Death

Life and Death Presentation

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English 9, Unit 4

Life and Death

An essay and a poem · Sympathy and condolence · Present tense and agreement

What you will learn

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Read an essay arguing that death is a fiction and a poem about a calm farewell

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Express sympathy in conversation, from 'What a pity!' to 'my deepest sympathy'

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Write a condolence message and a caring reply to a friend's email

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Use the simple present, adverbs of frequency and subject-verb agreement

The essay's argument, step by step

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Nobody has died and come back, so nobody knows death
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Therefore the idea of death is a fiction created by ignorant people
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From the day you are born, you are slowly dying
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Every breath is the play of life and death
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Death is the one guaranteed event of every life
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We fear it only because we do not know what it is

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Presenter notes: Introduce the unit's theme gently: everyone in the room has known some loss, and this unit gives them the English to read about it, talk about it and write about it. Preview the two texts: a bold prose argument that death is a fiction, and Tennyson's calm farewell poem.