Vocabulary and grammar: Life goals

VSchool: compound nouns

1Choose the correct words to make compound nouns with the words in bold. 

• 1headsportstime

   

  hall

• 2stafftexttable

   

  room

• 3playschoolnotice

   

  canteen

• 4scienceheadplaying

   

  laboratory

• 5sportsnoticetime

   

  table

• 6playingplaytext

   

  field

• 7noticeheadtime

   

  teacher

• 8playtimeschool

   

  uniform

VSchool: compound nouns

2Read the riddles below. Which person, place or object in exercise 1 are they describing? 

1It's wide and long, outside and green. It's here that football matches are seen.

2What time is maths? When's PE? We read this to know where we should be.

3Potassium, magnesium, burning hot. Wear a white coat when you're in this spot.

4It's a big indoor space where we jump and we run. Playing basketball here can be lots of fun.

5She's the most important person in our school. She may be kind, but don't break the rules.

Expressing probability

3Read a student's goals for next year at school. Then write what the student says. Use the words in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

1 study science – YES!

2 join the tennis club – YES (but not certain)

3 play for the football team – NOT LIKELY (but I'll try)

4 read more books – YES!

5 write for the school magazine – POSSIBLE

6 learn to speak French – POSSIBLE

7 get better at maths – NOT LIKELY (but I'll try)

8 get a part-time job – NO! (too busy at school)

• 1(certainly)

• 2(probably)

• 3(maybe)

• 4(definitely)

• 5(may)

• 6(perhaps)

• 7(might)

• 8(certainly)

Expressing probability

4Complete the secret diary with the words in the box. Then study the information about three famous scientists. Which one could have written the diary? 

MOVE
• perhaps
• definitely
• might
• probably
• 'll
• possible
• won't

This is my secret diary and nobody should read it. It's 1892, and I am currently a student at Luitpold Gymnasium, a high school in Germany, but not for long. Twenty years from now, I'll be famous, and very important. How? Well, I certainly 

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be famous for singing and dancing. Firstly, I hate singing. And secondly, I'm not very good at dancing. I'll 

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become a successful scientist. This isn't certain, of course, but it's very likely because I'm already very good at physics, mathematics and chemistry. At my school, they don't think I'm clever, but I know that I am. It's 

³  

 

that I 

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invent an amazing new machine. 

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I'll make a box with moving pictures, or I ⁶

 

 

 

make a telephone that you can carry in your bag. However, it's more likely that I'll think of a fantastic new theory. Maybe I'll receive a Nobel Prize for it. One thing is for certain: I'll 

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change the world.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Born: 27 March 1845, Germany

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901

Marie Curie

Born: 7 November 1867, Poland

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903;

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911

Albert Einstein

Born: 14 March 1879, Germany

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921

The diary could have been written by Wilhelm Conrad RöntgenMarie CurieAlbert Einstein.

5  Write about your personal goals for this year at school. Think about: subjects you'll study and do well in. sports and activities you'll try. new things you'll learn to do.

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