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1. Santa Cecilia Catholic School
Subject: English
Level: Intermediate
Teacher: Miss Xiomara Mejía H.
Date: February 12th, 2008

3. UNIT 3:
Lesson A:

4. Objectives
 To tell mystery stories.
 To talk about possibilities.

5. and

6. COLLOCATIONS:
Words that are frequently
used together.

7. Look at the pictures:
What’s happening?
Example: The man is commiting a crime.

8. More vocabulary:
police
patrol car
police station

9. victim / robbery
witness
jail / prison

10. trial
court
evidence guilty (opposite: innocent)

11. thief
burglar:
a thief who enters
a building
with intent to steal.
kidnapper

12. Look at the photo.
Who is this famous detective?
Where is he from? Why is he famous?
Sherlock Holmes is an
imaginary detective
who appears in sixty stories
created by the Scottish author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
What makes Sherlock
Holmes so special?
Well, he was very intelligent
and successful.
He always arrested the
criminal
with the help of his partner,
Dr. Watson.

13. Other famous detectives from movies,
T.V. and books:
Perry Mason
(Creator:
Erle Stanley
Gardner)
(From Agatha Christie’s books)
Inspector Clouseau (Pink Panther series)

14. The Dodd Diamond:
Listen to the conversation
between Detectives Stye and Frye.
How did the criminal steal the diamond?

15. Talking about possibility
 It is likely (that)…
 I doubt (that)…
 I bet (that)…
 It doesn’t seem possible (that)…
 It’s unlikely (that)…
 There’s a good chance (that)…

16. Examples:
 I doubt that you have lunch at Tony Roma’s
every day. It’s too expensive.
 It’s unlikely the criminal walked into the
room. There’s an alarm on the floor.
 I bet the criminal jumped through the window.
 There’s a good chance that you like
chocolate. I know you love sweets.

17. Grammar: Stative verbs
They describe states or conditions
They are not usually used in continuous
tenses. Example:
I know many words in English.
Incorrect: I’m knowing many words in English.

18. Thinking verbs: Having verbs:
Believe, know, think, Belong, have, own,
forget, remember, possess.
understand.
Feeling verbs Sensing verbs
(emotions): (experience with eyes,
Appreciate, dislike, ears, etc.):
hate, like, love. Feel, hear, see, smell,
sound, taste.
Other verbs:
Appear, be, cost, look, mean,
need, prefer, seem, want.

19. Examples
 I hate chocolates.
 She believes in UFOs.
 Jose owns 3 motorcycles.
 In the summer, Alex prefers to go to the beach.

21. Web - references
http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/stativex.html
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/gra
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/stativ

22. THANKS FOR
YOUR
ATTENTION!