2. • Lead in pictures showing big numbers (5 mins)
• Discussion questions – important numbers (10 mins)
• Vocabulary building – big numbers – spelling and pronunciation (10 mins)
• Listening – Quiz show – comprehension questions (5 mins)
• Listening – Quiz show – true or false questions (5 mins)
• Listening – Quiz show – true or false – reasons (5 mins)
• Grammar – comparatives – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar – comparatives – presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar – comparatives – exercises (15 mins) 65
• Fun facts about game shows and quizzes (10 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – sentence stress and comparatives (5 mins)
• Communication – comparatives practice – gap fill (15 mins) 95
• Reading – Pub quizzes – checking new vocabulary (5 mins)
• Reading – Pub quizzes – matching titles (5 mins)
• Reading – Pub quizzes – checking new vocabulary (5 mins)
• Speaking – Pub quizzes – discussion questions (5 mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)
3.
4. • What numbers do you see every day?
• The numbers I see every day are ..................................................
• What numbers are important to you?
• .............. is important to me because .............................................
• Do you have a favourite number? Why is it your favourite?
• Yes, I do. ............. is my favourite number because ........................
• How do you remember important numbers?
• I remember important numbers by .......................................................
• How many phone numbers can you remember in your head?
• I can remember ........ numbers in my head. They are ...................
16. 1. T – Blue whales can make a sound of up to 188 decibels, whereas a lion’s
roar is never more than 114 decibels.
2. T – The First World War lasted four years, from 1914 to 1918, but the
Second World War lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945.
3. F – …the Indian film industry produces about 1,000 films every year,
which is double what Hollywood produces.
4. T – The average temperature in July in Edinburgh is 15 degrees, and in
Sydney it’s 13 degrees.
17. 5. F – Gold weighs about 19 grams per cm and silver weighs only 10.5
grams.
6. T – Thirty per cent of the people who try to climb K2 die, usually on
the way down, whereas only five per cent of the people who try to climb
Everest die.
7. F – …out of every 100,000 people, six people died because of car
accidents in Italy, compared to seven in Belgium.
8. F – It’s better to do exercise in the afternoon, between 4.00 and 5.00.
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21. 1. -er
2. Because you double the final g.
3. Change y to i and add -er.
38. • a team /tiːm/ = a group of people who play a game together against
another group
• a quizmaster /'kwɪzmɑːstə/ = a person who asks questions in a game,
especially on TV
• an expert /'ekspɜːt/ = a person who knows a lot about something
• to cheat /tʃiːt/ = to do something dishonest in order to gain an
advantage, especially in a game, a competition, an exam, etc.
• to memorize /'meməraɪz/ = to learn something so that you can
remember it exactly
• to be a bad loser /bi ə bæd 'luːzə/ = to behave badly when you lose a
game
• to win /wɪn/ = to be the best or first in a game
42. 1. Carrots are sweeter than tomatoes.
2. Air travel is safer than train travel.
3. London is wetter than Milan.
4. A horse is heavier than a car.
5. Oranges are healthier than strawberries.
6. Istanbul is further north than New York.
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