6 READING &
LISTENING EXTRA
ELEMENTARY UNIT 6 4 Look at the descriptions again and find the verbs in the table.
Complete the table with the past form of the verbs.
1 Who was your favourite teacher at
school? What was his/her name? Infinitive Regular + -ed Regular + -d Irregular Past form
How old were you? What can you
ask ✓ asked
remember about him/her?
have
2 Read the descriptions on the web
go
page. Do the teachers sound nice?
Are they like your favourite teacher? teach
smile
Forum: World Teacher’s Day
look
love
come
tell
show
decide
5 6.1 Listen to one of the teachers from Exercise 2 talking
about his/her first class. Which teacher is it?
6 Listen again and answer the questions.
On World Teacher’s Day we asked our readers to
1 How many students were in the class?
tell us about their favourite teachers. Here are 2 How many children were in the school?
some of your answers. 3 How many classes were there?
‘My first teacher was Mrs Davies. I was four years 4 How old were the children in the teacher’s class?
old. She was tall and had long dark hair. I went
to a small village school and she was my teacher 5 How long did the teacher stay at that school?
for three years. I can’t remember what she taught 6 How many children are there in the school where the teacher
me, but I can remember her smile. She always is teaching now?
smiled!’
‘My favourite teacher was Mr Morgan. He taught 7 Complete the extracts using the words in the box. Listen again
me science at secondary school when I was about to check.
13 or 14. He had grey hair and a big beard.
He always looked very serious but he had a great big different difficult funny little small
sense of humour! He loved science and he loved
teaching. He was the best teacher I ever had.’ 1 It was a very school.
‘Dani was a Spanish student. He was 21. He came 2 … one for the children, from four to seven, and
from Madrid and he was a language assistant at
one for the older children, from eight to eleven.
our school for a year when I was 16. He was great
fun. He told great stories and showed us photos 3 They were very sweet. And so ! I loved them!
and videos of his life in Madrid. I loved his classes 4 A four-year-old child and a seven-year-old child are very
so much I decided to study Spanish at university!’ .
Do you have a story about your favourite 5 It was in the beginning
teacher that you can share with us? REPLY
6 Now I teach in a school.
3 Match the sentences 1–6 to the 8 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions about your
teachers. Write A for Mrs Davies, first school.
B for Mr Morgan or C for Dani. 1 Where was your first school?
1 wasn’t a qualified teacher. 2 How many children were there in the school?
2 was a primary school teacher. 3 How many children were there in your class?
3 was a secondary school teacher. 4 How long did you stay at the school?
4 and were funny and made 5 Did you like it? Why/Why not?
their students laugh.
5 was always happy.
6 came from another country.
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