We recently commemorated 100 years since the sinking of the
Titanic. Belfast holds a special relationship with this unlucky
ship, as it was built here. The memorial garden has been
renovated and the brand new Titanic museum has just opened. This
important occasion was the inspiration for a lesson dedicated to
important events in our lives. In Unit 9 Life & Style Global
Elementary, Part 2 deals with life events and rites of passage.
First I wrote a few years on the board: 1984, 2001, 1998, 2006.
I told my students that each year represented an important event
in my life. In pairs they had to guess what the event was.*
After briefly discussing about it and checking if they guessed
it right or wrong, I asked them to do the same about themselves.
I asked them to move around the class and try to guess about
each other’s important events. We then looked at exercise 1
under Vocabulary and Speaking. They had to match the two columns
together and we then checked the answers. I asked them if each
sentence was true or f