English, Class 9, Unit 9
Work and Leisure
A story by Maugham · A poem by Davies · Causatives and passives
What You Will Learn
📖Read Maugham's story of two brothers and Davies's poem about leisure
🔇Spot silent letters in words like doubt, island and knight
🔧Use have, get and make to talk about work done for us or forced on us
📊Turn a bar chart into a paragraph, and active sentences into passive ones
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We work to earn our leisure.
Presenter notes: Introduce the unit with a question: if you never had to work again, would your life be better? Take two or three quick answers, then say that a story and a poem in this unit give opposite replies, and the grammar teaches how to talk about work done for us.