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Unit 11: The bucket list
The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’

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  1. 1 Nice to meet you!
  2. 2 What to wear
  3. 3 Like this, like that
  4. 4 The daily grind
  5. 5 Christmas every day
  6. 6 Great achievers
  7. 7 The Titanic
  8. 8 Travel
  9. 9 The big wedding
  10. 10 Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11 The bucket list
  12. 12 Moving and migration
  13. 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14 New Year, New Project
  15. 15 From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16 What's the weather like?
  17. 17 The Digital Revolution
  18. 18 A detective story
  19. 19 A place to live
  20. 20 The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21 Welcome to your new job
  22. 22 Beyond the planets
  23. 23 Great expectations!
  24. 24 Eco-tourism
  25. 25 Moving house
  26. 26 It must be love
  27. 27 Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28 Speeding into the future
  29. 29 Lost arts
  30. 30 Tales of survival

Session 3

Practise your present perfect tense and learn some new vocabulary as we meet a famous Scottish singing superstar and find out about her life story.

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Activity 2

Susan Boyle's present perfect life

More about Susan

We're getting to know Susan Boyle. Have you ever seen her in concert - or bought one of her songs?

Complete the activity

To do

Let's try to describe what she's achieved using the present perfect tense.

SuBo in the present perfect

8 Questions

Make present perfect sentences about Susan Boyle's life

ኣገናዕ፡ ፈተናኹም ዛዚምኩም
Excellent! Great job! ሕማቕ ዕድል! ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
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Next

How much do you talk about your life experiences with your friends? If you want to talk about them in natural English then limber up for our pronunciation workout that's coming on the next page.

 

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ምሉእ መወከስ ስዋስው ተመልከት

Session Vocabulary

  • audition
    a short test in which you sing, act, dance or play an instrument to show if you are good enough to be in a play, show, concert, etc.

    performance
    singing, acting, dancing or playing an instrument in front of other people

    debut
    first (often used to describe the first CD made by a singer)

    stardom
    being very famous, usually as a singer, actor or dancer

    to bully
    to act in a threatening way towards other people, often making them do something they don’t want to do

    celebrity
    famous person

    the press
    news media including newspapers, magazines, online news sites etc.

    award
    prize you get for an achievement

    to nominate
    to recommend someone for a prize or job

    to adopt
    to bring up someone else’s child as if they are your own child

    perhaps
    maybe

    inspiration
    (here) a person who you admire and try to be like

ምሉእ መወከስ ማህደረ-ቃላት ተመልከት

መራገፊ ማእከል

ትሕዝቶ ናይ ሓድሽ ትምህርቲ