Unit 1: Who You Know Similarities
Unit 1: Who You Know Similarities
Unit 1: Who You Know Similarities
Unit 1
WHO YOU KNOW
COLLOCATION DOMINOES
SIMILARITIES
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TEACHERS NOTES
Monitor to ensure that Ss are using verb tenses correctly.
When they have finished, they can check their answers by
comparing texts.
JOBS FAIR
Unit 2
YOURE THE DIRECTOR
SHAPES OF YOU
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CELEBRITY FACTS
IN YOUR DREAMS
TEACHERS NOTES
the class and worksheet B to the other half. Explain to Ss that
they have the basic facts of the beginning of a story, and they
are going to continue it and finish it. Give Ss enough time to
think about how they will tell the story and how they will finish
it, and go round giving help where necessary.
When they are ready, arrange Ss into pairs. Review the
language for telling a story and keeping a story going from unit
2.3. Ss tell each other their stories, and their partner listens
and responds, using the language youve reviewed. When they
have finished, invite some Ss to tell you how they ended their
stories and ask Ss which they found the most interesting.
Unit 3
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
IDIOM WARS
INVENTIONS
Unit 4
THREE JOBS
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TEACHERS NOTES
Arrange Ss into A and B pairs and distribute the A and B role
cards. Tell Ss not to look at each others role cards. Give Ss
a few minutes to read through the information on role cards
1A and 1B. Explain that Student A has to answer Student Bs
questions and provide information, and Student B has to ask
for the information that is missing from his/her role card and
then complete the role card. When they are ready, ask Ss to
role-play the situation. Monitor and help where necessary.
When they have finished, ask Ss to swap roles and do the
same for role cards 2A and 2B. At the end of the activity, ask
Ss to choose which job they would like to apply for, and why.
As a follow-up you could review the strong adjectives
vocabulary from unit 4.1, and ask Ss, in pairs, to use different
adjectives to describe the jobs. Elicit their ideas for feedback.
Answers:
Role card 1B: Trainer: Main duties: training new staff, giving
workshops, writing a training program
Personal qualities: decisive, a good communicator, a good
leader
Inventor: Main duties: creating new technology, developing
existing technology
Personal qualities: able to think outside the box, highly
motivated, hard-working
Sales representative: Main duties: finding new customers,
selling new technology to existing customers
Personal qualities: competitive, a risk-taker, ambitious
Role card 2A: Entertainments manager: Main duties: finding
new acts, planning the entertainments program
Personal qualities: a good leader, a risk-taker, able to think
outside the box
Deckhand/Caretaker: Main duties: general maintenance,
cleaning, repairs
Personal qualities: hard-working, motivated
Travel agent: Main duties: selling the cruise package, finding
new customers, helping guests with their questions during
the cruise
Personal qualities: a good communicator, competitive,
decisive
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TOP TIPS
COALITION GOVERNMENT
TEACHERS NOTES
Divide the class in half and give worksheet A to one half
of the class and worksheet B to the other half. Give Ss five
minutes to read the information and check they understand
the activity and the vocabulary. Tell Ss in each half of the
class to work together to plan two or three reasons for each
priority. Explain that each student should write their own
notes as they will work with a student from the other group
later.
Arrange Ss into A and B pairs and tell them not to look at each
others worksheet. Review the functional language for reaching
agreement from unit 4.3. Ss discuss the points and try to reach
agreement on each issue. Monitor and help where necessary.
At the end of the activity, find out if and how they managed to
agree.
Unit 5
GIVE US A CLUE
WORD-BUILDING RACE
Answers:
WHICH PHONE?
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TEACHERS NOTES
Answers:
Unit 6
HOW EMOTIONAL ARE YOU?
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CONDITIONALS RACE
MIXED EMOTIONS
TEACHERS NOTES
As an extension, Ss could discuss which of the situations have
really happened to them, and what happened.
Unit 7
GIFTED!
Answers:
MIXED ABILITIES
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TEACHERS NOTES
SOUND INVESTMENTS
Unit 8
DO YOU GET ON?
PELMANISM
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WHERE I LIVE
INTERNET RELATIVITY
Worksheet A: 1 C 2 A 3 B 4 D 5 F 6 E
Worksheet B: 1 E 2 F 3 A 4 C 5 D 6 B
Then ask Ss, in their pairs, to make sentences that are true for
them, using the underlined phrases and finishing them with
their own ideas. Elicit any interesting answers for feedback.
Unit 9
THE HISTORY OF MY COUNTRY
TEACHERS NOTES
box and their own ideas to invent its history. Tell Ss that they
dont have to use all of the ideas in the box, and they dont
have to complete all of the sections, as long as they include
events from a range of time periods. Encourage them to make
the history as interesting as possible and go round and help
where necessary.
When Ss are ready, ask each pair to present their history to
the class. The other Ss listen and choose the most interesting
one.
GUESS MY COLLOCATION
BAD DECISIONS
AMAZING FACTS
SCHOOL QUIZ
Unit 10
GREEN TEST YOUR SCHOOL
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TEACHERS NOTES
DO YOU AGREE?
AT THE RACES
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Answers:
REPORT THAT!
WHEN IN ROME