Unit 20: The Cult of Celebrity
Tenses
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- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
- 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14 New Year, New Project
- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
- 19 A place to live
- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 1
Play the fame game, learn some new vocabulary and take a look at tenses in a celebrity style, as we take a look at the past, present and future lives of some very famous people.
Activity 2
When will I be famous?
When I'm rich and famous, I'm going to buy a huge house...
It's time to take a look at tenses. In this unit we'll have a look at the present simple, present continuous, present perfect and past simple tenses. We'll also look at the 'going to' future.
Let's meet Daisy. She's obsessed with celebrities - and she would love to be one herself. She likes the idea of being famous. She might get her chance if she gets chosen to be on a reality TV show called The Box. Let's see her audition video now and find out why she thinks she should be on the show.
To do
Take a look at Daisy's audition video. See if you can answer these questions:
- What is she doing now?
- What is she going to do when she is rich and famous?
- What are her hobbies and interests?
- What is her personality like?
- How will she change if she gets to be on TV?
Watch the video and complete the activity
Hi I'm Daisy... I want to be on this new reality TV show – The Box. Yes – me! I'm living at home with my parents at the moment. But when I'm rich and famous, I'm going to buy a huge house and have lots of cats and other things.
So why should I be on The Box? It's obvious! I'm really funny... I love singing... I love taking photos... I love people basically. I've got a great personality. I don't read books but I do watch a lot of TV. TV's brilliant!
What else can I tell you? Oh yes, I'm learning French... [counts in French] I'm very sensitive, but I don't cry if people are mean to me... I'm funny too - did I say that? I once auditioned to be in a musical but I didn't get through.
If I get to be on TV, it would be so cool. But it's not going to change me. I'll be the same old Daisy – honest.
So please, pick me.
So, that was Daisy. Did you manage to answer the questions? Here are the answers:
- What is she doing now? She is living at home with her parents
- What is she going to do when she is rich and famous? She is going to buy a big house and have lots of cats and other things
- What are her hobbies and interests? She loves singing, she loves taking photos, she watches TV and she's learning French
- What is her personality like? She is funny, she has a great personality and she is very sensitive
- How will she change if she gets to be on TV? She isn't going to change - she will still be the same person!
To do
It's time to check what you know about which tense is which. Take the test!
Which tense?
6 Questions
Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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Activity
Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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She is talking about something that is happening nowQuestion 1 of 6
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Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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This is her hope for the futureQuestion 2 of 6
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Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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This is something she does regularly at the momentQuestion 3 of 6
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Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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She's describing what she's like nowQuestion 4 of 6
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Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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She is talking about future plansQuestion 5 of 6
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Read Daisy's sentences. What tense does she use in each sentence?
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It happened in the past.Question 6 of 6
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Next
How did you get on? Find out if Daisy gets picked for the show in the next Session, plus we'll take a closer look at tenses. But now it's time to join Rob and Catherine for 6 Minute Vocabulary, where you can learn about words ending with -ic and -ical.
Session Grammar
present continuous = subject + ‘to be’ + verb-ing
- I am eating cake at the moment (present meaning)
- I am meeting my sister at the cake shop this afternoon (future meaning)
present simple = subject + verb
- I eat cake every day
past simple = subject + past verb
- I ate two cakes yesterday
present perfect = subject + has / have + past participle
- I have eaten six cakes this week
going to future = subject + am / is / are + 'going to' + verb
- I'm going to eat two cakes tomorrow
Session Vocabulary
reality TV show
television programme that shows ordinary people in real life situationspersonality
the part of a person's psychology that affects the way they behave in social situations; for example, being shy or outgoing
sensitive
(here) kind, caring and thoughtful about other people's feelingsauditioned
performed a short dance, song or act so that the person watching could decide if the performer is good enough to perform in something like a film