Reading: stories and coincidences
- Coincidences (stories about strange, unexpected events and connections)
- Misunderstandings (stories about people getting the wrong idea)
- Unintended meanings (stories about saying things that aren’t quite what you mean)
- Coincidences are events that unexpectedly happen at the same time for no clear reason, or finding an unexpected connection between seemingly random things or people.
- It has been calculated that the number of people you need to have a 50% chance of two of them sharing a birthday is 23.
- And when there are 48 people in a room, the probability goes up to 95%.
- The other part of the scientific explanation for coincidences is simply that there are so many events in people’s lives.
UNIT 3
- kept in touch – stayed in contact
- mentioned – said something about
- error – mistake
- colleague – someone you work with
- stranger – someone you don’t know
Period 4 / Language and vocabulary study
- I arrived at the hotel quite late and went straight to bed.
- I was talking to an old school friend when she mentioned another person called Jan.
- He fell while he was climbing the wall.
- Some guests left when Samir arrived.
- Some guests were leaving when Samir arrived.
- Some guests had left when Samir arrived.
- When I got home in the evening, I realised I had left the key inside the house.
- One day I noticed that the bananas I had bought about a week before were going brown.
Prefixes: co- and mis-
- Coincidences are strange, unexpected connections.
- The two men are co-founders of the university.
- Misunderstandings happen when people get the wrong idea.
- Error has the same meaning as mistake.
Unit aims
- telling personal stories
- using three past tenses together in narratives
- using prefixes (co- and mis-)
- using time phrases and pronouns to make stories cohesive
- writing personal stories or anecdotes