UNIT 9 C: Noisy neighbours

Learning outcome:
Students will be able to use phrasal verbs and
quantifiers in order to talk about problems in
their neighbourhood.
 Contextualization
Speaking
Work in pairs. Tell your partner about your neighbours.
1. Who are they?
2. What are they like?
3. Do you have any problems with them?

Do you
have any
problems
with
them ?
What’s happening in the picture ?
Describe it in pairs.( 5 minutes )

• Tolerate
• live in a new
house
• Stop doing
• Be friendly
• Many hours
• Much noise
• Not Enough
space
• Remove
 Construction
• Read the letter and answer these questions.
1. Who moved in next door ?
a new couple
2. What goes on all night ?
parties
3. Who turns up at the next door ?
her neighbours’ friends
4. Who tells Yvonne to go away?
the new couple
5. What has Yvonne had to give up ?
her evening classes
6. What does she take off when she gets
2. Answer
home ? herthe
coat questions 1-4

from your students’ book.

7. What can’t she put up with any longer ?
the noise
8. Who does she get on well with?
all her other neighbours
9. Where doesn’t she want to go back to ?
to her parents’ house
 Phrasal verbs
3. Match these definitions
to the phrasal verbs in
bold in the letter.
a. start living in a new home move in
b. like someone and be friendly to him/her get on with
c. leave a place go away
d. continue go on
e. be standing and then sit in a chair sit down
f. tolerate put up with
g. stop doing give up

h. arrive at a place turn up

i. return go back
j. remove take off
 Problems in your neighbourhood.
Write eight sentences using :
too, too much, too many, (not) enough.

Example:
 In my neighbourhood
there’s too much traffic.
I can’t put up with it any longer.

Solutions:
I think the major should create new rules
for the drivers.
 Closing
• What did you learn today?
• How many phrasal verbs do you remember?
 REFERENCES
• Redston C. Face2face PreIntermediate. Second
Edition. Cambridge University Press 2012.