Focus_5_2E_Photocopiable_Resources_Instructions.pdf

1
Family legend has it my great-
grandma was a daredevil
(1.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise words related to personality
Interaction: groups of 6
Type of activity: mingling and information exchange
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 set of 6 cards (Worksheet A) per group of 6,
1 Worksheet B per student
In class: (1) Divide students into groups of six. (2) Give
each student a work card from Worksheet A and ask them
to read stories about their imaginary great-grandmothers.
(3) Tell students they are going to tell their stories to
each other. They will also have to remember what each
great-grandmother was like, character-wise. Remind them
that they must not show their work cards to each other or
read out the answers placed upside-down on the cards.
(4) Students mingle in their groups and tell their stories to
each individual student. Encourage them to refrain from
reading out the whole text – they should try to speak from
memory as much as possible. (5) When everyone has
finished, give students the questions from Worksheet B
and get them to write the answers. (6) Ask one person
in each group to read their answers out and the other
students to correct any mistakes.
Optional follow-up: Ask students if they have ever met
any of their great-grandparents and how much they know
about them.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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2
Would you have done
the same?
(1.4 Use of English)
Aim: to practise future in the past
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: choosing the correct option,
information and opinion exchange
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 worksheet per student (A or B)
In class: (1) Divide students into pairs, Student A and
Student B. (2) Give Students A and Students B their
respective worksheets. (3) Tell students that at first they
are going to work individually. Ask them to read the
stories and circle the best options. Set a time limit of
three minutes. (4) Check the answers with the whole class.
(5) Tell students to work in pairs. Explain that they should
not look at each other’s worksheets. (6) Ask students to
take turns to retell the stories one at a time. Encourage
them to embellish their stories with extra details. The
student who has just heard a story has to say what they
would have done in the situation presented.
Optional follow-up: You may want to ask students in
which of the situations it would have been most difficult
to make the decision.
Answers for Students A and Students B:
1 on 2 would, supposed 3 about 4 on
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3 Dear Editor
(Focus Review 1, Writing)
Aim: to practise the use of formal language
Interaction: individual/pairs
Type of activity: matching and gap-filling
Time: 10 minutes
Materials: 1 worksheet per student
In class: (1) Tell students to work individually. (2) Hand out
the worksheet and tell students to match the expressions
from the list with the correct categories. (3) Check
the answers with the whole class. (4) Ask students to
work in pairs and identify informal words or expressions
used in sentences 1–9. Tell them to pay attention to
the categories in the table and point out that the number
of informal words or expressions in each sentence
is indicated in brackets. (5) Check the answers with
the whole class. (6) Ask students to work in pairs and
replace the informal words or expressions with the ones
from the table to make the sentences sound more formal.
Explain that they will sometimes need to change the
form of some words, e.g. make them plural. (7) Check
the answers with the whole class.
Answers:
full forms: do not, it is
formal quantifiers and qualifiers: on numerous occasions,
a significant number
indirect forms of addressing the reader: Should you
require any further information
single verbs: to develop, to contact, to support, to evolve
formal words and expressions: a dispute, dispirited, it
should be emphasised, to share your dilemmas with,
powerful, a conversation
spoken discourse markers: anyway, actually
question tags: will you?
1 actually, big powerful 2 It’s It is 3 Anyway, stand
by support, down-in-the-mouth dispirited 4 loads
a significant number, chats conversations 5 don’t do
not, pour our hearts out to share our dilemmas with
6 rows disputes 7 will you? 8 I must stress It should be
emphasised, really often on numerous occasions
9 If you need any more info Should you require any
further information, get in touch with contact
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4 A couple of whingers
(2.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise exaggerated language and vocabulary
related to exams
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: memory game and drilling
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 2 sets of 12 cards (A and B) per pair
In class: (1) Divide students into pairs. (2) Give each pair
two sets of cut up cards: Set A and Set B. Ask students to
put the cards face down in two columns, with cards from
Set A placed on the left. (3) Students take turns to turn
over one card from each column at a time in order to find
pairs of sentences with similar meanings. The sentences
are taken from a dialogue between two ‘whingers’. When
they find a matching pair, they remove it from the game
as a trick. When the sentences do not match, they put
the cards back in exactly the same place they took them
from. The student with the most tricks is the winner.
Optional follow-up: Ask students who seems to be the
‘bigger whinger’: the girl or the boy. Get students to tell
each other if they have a tendency to complain about
tests and exams.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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5 Third time lucky
(2.3 Grammar)
Aim: to practise modal verbs for speculating
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: guessing game
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 set of 10 cards per pair
In class: (1) Write Third time lucky on the board and ask
students if they know what the phrase means. If necessary,
explain that it is used when someone has failed to do
something twice and hopes to be successful the third time.
(2) Divide students into pairs. (3) Give each pair one set
of cut up cards and tell them to place them face down in
a draw pile. (4) Ask students to imagine they are revising for
different end-of-school exams using past exam questions.
(You may want to point out that some of the questions are
open questions that draw on their general knowledge,
whereas others contain a few options to choose from.)
(5) Students take turns to pick up one card at a time, say
what subject the question involves and read it out to their
partners. They mustn’t show their cards to each other.
Their partners are allowed to make three attempts at the
correct answer. The answers are only accepted when they
are spoken in full sentences so that students use language
for speculating. Before the last attempt, students can use
the phrase Third time lucky. They collect the questions they
answered correctly as tricks and the student with the most
tricks is the winner. (6) Ask students about the results.
Optional follow-up: Ask students which of the questions
might have been used in real end-of-school exams.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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6 Live and learn
(Focus Review 2, Speaking)
Part 1
Aim: to extend vocabulary related to education
Type of activity: matching
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work individually and complete
the table with the words and phrases from the box. (2) Ask
students to check the answers in pairs before checking
with the whole class. (3) Tell students to work in pairs
and write three–four questions about exams using the
vocabulary from the table. (4) Re-pair students to ask and
answer the questions.
Answers:
1 take, sit 2 revise for, cram for 3 flunk, fail 4 sail
through, pass 5 end of year, mock, entrance, placement,
written, practical
Part 2
Aim: to practise speaking
Interaction: individual/groups of 3–4
Type of activity: multiple choice and discussion
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to select the correct word for
each sentence. Do the first example together. (2) Check
the answers with the whole class. (3) Tell students to
decide individually if the statements are true or false.
(4) Put students into groups of three or four to discuss
their answers.
Answers:
1 command 2 articulate 3 qualification, fulfilment
4 grounding 5 literate, tertiary 6 tuition, crash
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7 Win a dinner for two
(3.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise words related to food
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: guessing game and information
exchange
Time: 15 minutes
worksheets and tell them to fill in the gaps with the words
provided. There is one extra word. Set a time limit of two
minutes. Remind students not to show their worksheets
to each other. (3) Give the answers briefly to the whole
class. (4) Tell students they have a chance to win a dinner
for two in a restaurant if they choose the correct answer
to the quiz question asked by this particular restaurant.
The correct answers are marked with a chilli symbol.
(5) Students read their quiz questions and options A, B
and C to each other and guess the answers. They should
remember which questions they got right. (6) When
everyone has finished, tell them that there is an extra
condition for getting the prize – to win a free dinner
in a given restaurant, both of the questions (i.e. for
Student A and Student B) must be answered correctly.
Ask each pair whether they have managed to qualify for
the free dinner in any of the restaurants.
Optional follow-up: You may ask students which of
the restaurants they would fancy going to and why, or
if they have found out anything new from the quiz. You
may also want to elaborate on the following points:
1 Eggplant is the American word for aubergine. Star
fruit is a tropical fruit, native to south-east Asia. It is also
known as carambola. 2 A traditional Greek salad consists
of cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, feta cheese and olives.
It’s seasoned with olive oil and dried oregano. 3 The Baltic
Sea has very low salinity, mainly because of the huge
amount of fresh water flowing into it from numerous
rivers. As a result, various fish and shellfish species living
in it are much smaller than their counterparts living in the
neighbouring North Sea. Baltic mussels, clams, cockles
and prawns are so small that they cannot even be used
as seafood. 4 Sticky rice with mango is the most popular
summer dessert in Thailand. It is made of a special kind
of glutinous rice cooked with coconut milk, sugar and
salt. It is served cold with sliced ripe mango. As to dairy
products such as fresh milk, yoghurt or butter, they are
not used in traditional Thai cooking.
Answers:
1 dietary 2 starched 3 smoked 4 sizzling 5 dining
Quiz answers: See the worksheet.
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8
A dozen tips on how to get
bigger tips
Aim: to practise phrasal verbs
Type of activity: matching and discussing
Time: 10 minutes
Materials: 1 set of cards per pair
In class: (1) Tell students that they are going to work in
pairs. Give each pair one copy of sentence beginnings
and one set of cut up cards. (2) Ask students to complete
each sentence beginning with two cards. Set a time
limit of five minutes. (3) Get students to compare their
answers with other pairs. (4) Check the answers with the
whole class. (5) Ask students to evaluate the usefulness
of the tips for waiting staff. Get them to decide which of
the tips might be handy for getting more generous tips.
Optional follow-up: Ask students what they expect from
the person who is waiting on them in a restaurant.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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9 Let’s eat out
Part 1
Aim: to extend vocabulary related to social situations
and food
Type of activity: gap-filling and listing
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work individually and
complete the sentences in section A with the words from
the box. Explain that the form of some words needs to be
changed. (2) Ask students to check the answers in pairs
before checking with the whole class. (3) Tell students to
look at section B and in pairs to think up example food
items for each of the adjectives. (4) Check the answers
with the whole class, allowing any appropriate responses.
Answers:
1 talk, breaking 2 awkward, grab 3 conversation,
laugh 4 recluse, strike 5 company, chatting 6 hanging,
together
Part 2
Interaction: groups of 3–4
Type of activity: discussion
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work in groups and decide
which of the places presented in the photos they
would choose for the events in the calendar. Ask them
to justify their choices by stating the advantages and
disadvantages of each option. (2) Discuss their choices
with the whole class.
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10 Top 30 Album Chart
(4.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise word formation
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: board game
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 Worksheet A and Worksheet B, some dice
and 2 coloured counters per pair
In class: (1) Divide students into pairs. (2) Give each
pair the worksheets and a dice. (3) Each student places
a different coloured counter (or a small object, e.g.
a rubber, paper clip, pen top, etc.) on the starting point,
marked START on Worksheet A. (4) Students take turns
to throw the dice. The one with the highest score starts –
throws again and moves the counter forward the number
of places shown on the dice. When they land on a given
vinyl record, they must complete its title on Worksheet B
with a noun formed from the root word in capitals.
If the answer is not correct, the student moves back to
their previous position. If the other student lands on the
same record after the first player gave the correct answer,
they have to think up another album title with the same
noun formed from the word given in capitals. If the first
player agrees that the answer is correct and the title is
acceptable, the student stays on the record. There are
three penalty positions called total flops and two bonus
positions called smash hits. When a player lands on a total
flop, they move back to their previous position. When
they land on a smash hit, they move forward the number
of places shown on the dice. The first player to reach the
finish space is the winner. (4) Monitor the game and help
to clear up any doubts concerning the correctness of the
answers.
Optional follow-up: Ask students how easy it would be
to guess the music genre of the album from its title. (For
example ‘spitting bars’ in 6 is a colloquial expression for
rapping.) You may also ask them which titles they find
intriguing, predictable, banal or tacky.
Answers:
1 piracy 2 affluence 3 resurgence 4 wayside
6 consistency 7 abundance 8 authenticity
9 reluctance 11 arrival 12 awareness 13 brainchild
14 mainstream 16 prominence 17 popularity
18 soundproof 19 ascendancy 21 diligence
22 carelessness 23 backlash 24 downturn
26 simplicity 27 attachment 28 predominance
29 Effectiveness 30 portability
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Keyboard shortcuts for my
desktop pet dragon
(4.3 Grammar)
Aim: to practise infinitives
Type of activity: ordering and information exchange
Time: 15 minutes
respective worksheets and tell them that they should
not show them to each other. (3) Explain that the aim of
the exercise is to find shortcuts for managing a desktop
pet dragon. (4) Ask students to work individually and
put the jumbled sentences on their worksheets in the
correct order. Set a time limit of five minutes. (5) When
everyone has finished, students take turns to read their
arranged sentences to each other. If the order of the
arranged sentence is correct, the student who checks the
answer can read out the shortcut. If it is incorrect, the first
student has two more attempts to correct it.
Optional follow-up: Ask students how many shortcuts
they have completed. You may also get them to comment
on the idea of having a virtual desktop pet.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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12 Tech talk
Aim: to extend vocabulary related to modern technology
and to practise speaking
Interaction: pairs/groups of 4
Type of activity: categorising, brainstorming and
discussion
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 worksheet per pair
In class: (1) Tell students to work in pairs to complete
the spidergrams with the ideas from the box. (2) Check
the answers with the whole class. (3) Ask students to
think of some more ideas to add to each spidergram.
(4) Discuss students’ ideas with the whole class. (5) Tell
students to work in groups of four and decide which
three pros and three cons of using modern technology
they consider to be most important. (6) Ask students to
briefly report back to the class and give reasons for their
decisions. Discuss any interesting ideas with the whole
class.
Answers:
Negative aspects: security breach, identity theft,
electronic footprint, cyberbullying, information overload,
phishing, being tracked, cyberstalking
Positive aspects: a mine of information, rapid access to
data, cost efficiency, up-to-date news, social networking,
civic engagement
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13 Honey is money
(5.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise collocations about work and money
Interaction: pairs
Time: 10 minutes
Materials: 1 Worksheet A and Worksheet B per pair
In class: (1) Tell students they are going to play a board
game in pairs. Ask them to imagine that they are applying
for a job at a honey producer’s and that the game is a
language test used in the recruiting process. Explain that
they will only get the job if all their answers are correct.
(2) Each player has to start on one of the outermost shaded
hexagons, either on the left or on the right, and move
to the opposite side of the honeycomb. Players can only
move one cell at a time, but any direction is allowed. They
must avoid the cell with a bee in it and they must not take
cells that have already been occupied. (3) Students take
turns to move across the board. When they choose a cell
with a given number they must look at the corresponding
sentence on Worksheet B, choose the correct word from
two italicised options, and note it down on the board. (They
will find out if their answers are correct once they have
finished the game, i.e. when one of them has reached the
other side of the board.) (4) When a pair has finished, give
them the answer key so that they can check their answers.
(5) Ask students if they were able to get the job.
Optional follow-up: Draw students’ attention to the
double meaning of the word drone in Hexagon 17,
which can mean both a male bee that doesn’t work and
a remotely-operated flying machine. Ask students if they
have heard about any uses of drones in business.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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14 Copywriters wanted
(5.3 Grammar)
Aim: to practise gerunds
Type of activity: gap-filling and guessing
Time: 15 minutes
Student B. (2) Tell students they are going to work
individually at first. Give Students A and Students B their
respective worksheets and tell them to complete the
advertising slogans with one word. Set a time limit of
three minutes. Remind them not to show their worksheets
to each other. (3) When everyone has finished, give
the answers briefly to the whole class. (4) Get students to
work in pairs. They should take turns to read their slogans
to each other and guess what kind of product or service
provider is being advertised. They have three attempts
to get the answer right. They award each other two
points for a correct guess and one point for a descriptive
answer (e.g. a definition). (5) When they have finished,
ask students about their scores.
Optional follow-up: Ask students if they would be
interested in working for an advertising company as
a copywriter.
1 spending 2 in 3 making 4 being 5 Having 6 on
7 making
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15 Cohesion
Aim: to practise writing a cohesive text
Type of activity: gap-filling and matching
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work individually. (2) Hand
out the worksheet and tell them to complete the gaps
with the correct words. (NOTE: the first letters have been
given.) (3) Check the answers with the whole class. (4) Ask
students to work in pairs and complete the sentences
with the correct words or phrases from the box. Tell
them to write the numbers of the tips used in particular
sentences. (5) Check the answers with the whole class.
Answers:
Tip 1: synonyms Tip 2: Substitute Tip 3: Refer
Tip 4: Link
1 As a result (Tip 4) 2 They (Tip 3) 3 pupils (Tip 1)
4 vital (Tip 1) 5 Since (Tip 4) 6 it (Tip 3) 7 labour (Tip 1)
8 ones (TIP 2)
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16 Travel battleships
(6.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise forming adjectives
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: game of battleships
Time: 10 minutes
worksheets and ask them not to show them to each
other. (3) Tell students that they are going to play a game
of battleships. Each player has two grids: one with eight
adjectives (ships) and one which is empty. The empty
one is to be used for recording the player’s shots at their
opponent’s ships. Students take turns to shoot at one of
the squares in the opponent’s grid. The opponent must
say whether the shot is a ‘miss’ or a ‘hit’. If a word-ship
has been hit, they say what letter is hidden in the square
and whether the word is placed vertically or horizontally.
The player can then guess the adjective. If they guess
correctly, the word-ship is sunk immediately. If they do
not, they will have to wait for their next turn to try to
uncover another letter and to make another guess.
(4) Set a time limit of ten minutes and stop the students
when the time is up, whether they have finished or not.
(5) Ask them how many word-ships they sank. Tell them
to compare their grids to find the remaining ones.
Optional follow-up: You may want to ask students when
they last played battleships and if they would play it to kill
time on a long journey. Encourage students to prepare
their own battleships grids to play another round.
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17
Nothing compares to a train
ride
(6.3 Grammar)
Aim: to practise advanced comparative structures
Type of activity: gap-filling and discussing
Time: 15 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students that they are going to work
individually and hand out the worksheet. (2) Ask students
to read the sentences and fill in each gap with one word.
Set a time limit of three minutes. (3) Check the answers
with the whole class. (4) Ask students to decide if they
agree with the sentences or not and to mark ‘yes’ or ‘no’
on the railway signals. (5) Tell students to work in pairs
and present their views.
Answers:
1 and, less 2 The, the 3 such, a 4 the, more 5 rather,
than 6 much, as 7 such, as 8 more, than 9 as, an
10 a, as
Optional follow-up: Ask students which of the sentences
they both disagree with and why. You may also want
to ask them what they like about travelling by train and
whether they think the rail services have improved lately.
You can elaborate on a few points related to some of the
sentences:
2 It is a general rule that the further we travel, the lower
the fare per kilometre is. That’s why the fare for a given
distance is not necessarily twice as high as the fare for
half of the distance.
3 The average travel time on the Eurostar between
London and Brussels is two hours and five minutes plus
a minimum of thirty minutes for check-in. In terms of
door-to-door times, flying is probably going to take a bit
longer. Although the actual flight on this route only takes
slightly more than one hour, if we take into consideration
the distance between the city centres and the airports as
well as the time needed for checking in, passing through
security and collecting the luggage, the whole journey is
likely to take a good three hours.
10 It is estimated that a high-speed train produces twice
as much CO2
per passenger kilometre as a non-high-
speed train. Also, high-speed railway systems don’t
necessarily reduce domestic aviation. A case in point
is Germany, with one of the largest high-speed railway
systems in the world and fast-growing air traffic on
domestic routes.
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18 Where to go
Part 1
Aim: to extend vocabulary related to travel
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: categorising
Time: 7–8 minutes
In class: (1) Ask students to look at the phrases and
decide whether they should be associated with road
travel (R), air travel (A) or both (B). (2) Do a few examples
with the whole class, then ask students to do the
remaining ones in pairs. (3) Check the answers together
when students have finished.
Suggested answers:
Road: bonnet up, congestion, crawling traffic, dead
battery, gridlock, queue of vehicles, steaming radiator,
stuck in a traffic jam, tollbooth
Air: cancellation, grounded, jet lag, red-eye, security
control, stopover, unattended luggage
Both: breakdown, delays, detour, diversion, flat tyre,
hold-up, overheated engine
Part 2
Interaction: pairs
Time: 6–7 minutes
In class: (1) Ask students to work individually and rank
the types of holiday from 1 to 12. Number 1 is the
one they would most like to go on. (2) Get students to
compare their ideas with a partner, justifying their choice.
They should try to agree on a top three. (3) Tell students
to discuss which of the problems from Part 1 they might
encounter on their top three holidays. Encourage them to
think of other possible problems as well. (4) Ask students
to briefly report back to the class. Discuss any interesting
ideas.
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19 Double-Oh-Seven
(7.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise compound adjectives and collocations
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: matching game and discussion
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 set of 16 cards per pair
In class: (1) Tell students that they are going to play
dominoes in pairs. They will have to find matching
sentence fragments. (All the sentences refer to James
Bond films.) (2) Give each pair one set of cards and tell
them to place them face down except for one, which will
serve as the beginning of the sequence. (3) Students pick
up three dominoes each from the pile. They take turns to
put down a domino which completes the sentence or its
fragment. If a student does not have a suitable domino,
they pick up one card from the pile, or miss a turn when
there are none left. The first student to put down all the
dominoes is the winner, provided the draw pile has run
out. (4) When everyone has finished, get the pairs to
discuss the opinions about James Bond expressed in
the sentences and decide to what extent they agree with
them. (Pairs who have not seen any of the James Bond
films can discuss some other films that might match the
opinions.)
Optional follow-up: You may elaborate on the following
point: Skyfall from 2012, featuring Daniel Craig as James
Bond, is the highest-grossing film in the series, having
earned over $1 billion worldwide. You may also want to
ask students what they like or dislike about James Bond
movies and which film they like most.
Answers:
See the worksheet.
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20
Were I to express my
opinion …
(7.3 Grammar)
Aim: to practise advanced conditionals
Type of activities: error-correction and discussion
Time: 15 minutes
Student B. (2) Tell students they are going to work
individually at first. Give Students A and Students B their
respective worksheets and tell them to find one or two
language mistakes in each sentence. Set a time limit of
three minutes. Remind them not to show their worksheets
to each other. (3) When everyone has finished, give the
answers briefly to the whole class. (4) Get students to work
in pairs. They should take turns to read their sentences to
each other. The student who has heard the sentence has
to say to what extent he/she agrees or disagrees with the
presented opinion and justify his/her views.
1 Has Had, had have 2 Without But for, will would
3 don’t not 4 Would Should
5 under the condition on the condition
6 so long that as/so long as, will be are
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21 What a gig!
Part 1
Aim: to practise the use of adverb + adjective
collocations
Interaction: individual
Type of activity: matching
Time: 5 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work individually. (2) Hand
out the worksheet and tell them to complete the
collocations with the adverbs from the box. (3) Check the
answers with the whole class.
Answers:
bitterly: disappointed
completely: full, obvious
entirely: beneficial, reasonable, unconvincing
perfectly: arranged, genuine, reasonable
absolutely: essential, gorgeous, necessary, spectacular
deeply: concerned, disturbing, involved, moving,
offensive, upset
highly: critical, enjoyable, popular, profitable, successful,
unusual
Part 2
Aim: to practise the use of adverb + adjective
collocations
Interaction: pairs
Type of activity: gap-filling
Time: 5 minutes
(1) Tell students to work in pairs and complete the
sentences with the correct collocations. (2) Check the
answers with the whole class.
Answers:
1 absolutely gorgeous/spectacular 2 completely full
3 deeply moving 4 perfectly arranged 5 entirely
beneficial 6 bitterly disappointed/deeply upset
7 highly successful
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22 I’ve had a brainwave!
(8.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise phrases with mind and collocations
Interaction: pairs
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 Worksheet A, 1 set of 20 cards
(Worksheet B), a dice and 2 coloured counters per pair
In class: (1) Divide students into pairs. (2) Give each pair
a board (Worksheet A), a cut up set of question cards
(Worksheet B) and a dice. Ask each student to place
a different coloured counter (or a small object, e.g.
a rubber, paper clip, pen top, etc.) on the START cell. The
question cards should be placed face down in a pile next
to the board. (3) Students take turns to throw the dice
and move one cell at a time across the board as directed
by the arrows. Their dice scores determine the paths they
take. On the first turn, they have six options to choose
from. On the subsequent turns they take one of two
paths marked with symbols O or E. The symbols stand
for odd numbers and even numbers respectively. (If their
dice score is an odd number they follow the path marked
with an O, if it is an even number they follow the path
marked with an E.) (4) When a player lands on a cell, they
pick up a question from the pile and answer it in no less
than thirty seconds. If the answer is not accepted by the
other player (e.g. because it is off-topic or too short), the
student moves back to their previous position. (5) The
first student to reach the You’ve had a brainwave! cell
is the winner. (The game involves an element of luck as
players may end up on the losing cell, called You’ve lost
your mind, despite correctly answering all the questions.)
If students use up all the questions before they reach
the You’ve had a brainwave! or You’ve lost your mind
cells, they should place the cards face up and pick up the
questions they have not answered before. (6) Monitor
the game and help to clear up any doubts concerning
the correctness of the answers. (7) When everyone has
finished, ask students who ‘came up with a brainwave’
and who ‘lost their mind’.
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23 Rumour has it I’m a gossip
Aim: to practise passive reporting structures
Type of activity: sentence formation, guessing and
information exchange
Time: 20 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students that at first they are going to
work individually and hand out the worksheets. (2) Ask
students to look at the list of queries in the search box
and make sentences using passive reporting structures
as in the example provided. (3) Check the answers briefly
with the whole class. (4) Tell students to look at the
sentences again and to think of five real people that they
could describe. Tell them to write the people’s names
under the avatar icons in random order. Explain that each
description can only be used once. Set a time limit of
three minutes. (5) Ask students to fold the worksheets
along the dotted lines. (6) Divide students into pairs
and tell them to swap their worksheets. (7) Students
take turns to guess which sentences might describe the
people in the avatar icons. They should use the queries
in the search box to say the sentences, e.g. I’d hazard
a guess that ... is said to buy second-hand clothes. The
other student, however, may look at the sentences and
give a prompt. (8) Ask students how easy/difficult it was
for them to match the people with the descriptions.
Optional follow-up: You may want to ask students if
they visit celebrity gossip websites and what they think of
them.
Answers:
1 Someone famous who is considered to be a role
model. 2 An actor or a singer who is known to have their
own fashion line. 3 A public figure who is reported to
be suffering from a chronic disease. 4 A film star who is
said to have an exceptionally high IQ. 5 An actor who
is estimated to have earned millions from advertising.
6 A celebrity who is reckoned to be living with their
parents. 7 Someone famous who is known to have
participated in a talent show. 8 A celebrity who is
known to have changed their name. 9 A well-known
person who is believed to have been struggling with
low self-esteem. 10 A celebrity who is rumoured to be
considering retirement from show business.
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24
Let’s talk about
communication
Part 1
Aim: to extend vocabulary connected with the Internet
Interaction: pairs/individual
Type of activity: word snake and gap-filling
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work in pairs to find as many
Internet-related words and phrases in the word snake as
they can. (2) Check the answers with the whole class.
(3) Ask students to work individually and to complete
the sentences using some of the words from the word
snake. (4) Tell them to check their answers in pairs before
checking together as a whole class.
Answers:
Word snake: e-commerce, search engine, newsletter,
followers, file sharing, unsolicited email, blogging,
vlogging, crowdfunding, buddy, bookmarking, chatroom,
cookie, go viral, instant messaging, newsfeed, flash mob,
flaming
Gap-fill: 1 file sharing 2 go viral 3 crowdfunding
4 flash mob 5 unsolicited email 6 followers 7 flaming
Part 2
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work in groups to discuss
the questions. (2) Ask for a summary report from each
group once finished.
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25 Animal soap opera
(9.1 Vocabulary)
Aim: to practise animal idioms
Type of activity: gap-filling and storytelling
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: 1 Worksheet A and Worksheet B per student
In class: (1) Tell students that they are going to work
individually and hand out Worksheet A and Worksheet B.
(2) Ask them to read a scene from a soap opera on
Worksheet A and fill in each gap with one name of an animal.
Set a time limit of three minutes. (3) Check the answers
with the whole class. (4) Ask students to identify additional
animal idioms and expressions in the story and explain their
meanings. (5) Tell students to read the text again in silence
to remember the sequence of events with the help of the
pictures on Worksheet B. Set a time limit of three to five
minutes. (6) Ask students to put Worksheet A face down
on their desks. (7) Get students to work in pairs and retell
the story from the point of view of Dolly, looking only at the
illustrated story line. They should take turns to retell it one
‘frame’ at a time, not necessarily word for word, but using
all the animal idioms. (8) Once everyone has finished, ask
them if they think the characters’ names reflect their role in
the story.
Optional follow-up: You may ask students to write a new
version of the story from the point of view of one of the
other characters: Freddie, Matilda or Hubert.
Answers:
Words completing the gaps: 1 donkey, birds 2 goose
3 pigs 4 sheep 5 bull, dogs 6 duck 7 horses 11 cat
12 horse
Animal idioms and expressions:
a sheepish grin – a smile that shows you feel slightly
uncomfortable or embarrassed because you think you
have done something wrong
Cat got your tongue? – used to say to someone who is
not responding
like a lamb – quietly and peacefully
a snake in the grass – a person who cannot be trusted
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26 Inversion effects
(9.3 Grammar)
Aim: to practise inversion after adverbials
Type of activity: gap-filling and discussion
Time: 15 minutes
Student B. (2) Fold worksheets A and B along the
dotted line and give them to Students A and Students B
respectively, with the sentence side up. Ask students
not to unfold the worksheets or look at the other side.
(3) Get students to fill in each gap with one word. Set
a time limit of two minutes. (4) Check the answers briefly
with the whole class. (5) Ask students to turn over and
swap the worksheets. Tell them to write in the names of
any animals they want. The symbols of an eagle and of
a flock of geese indicate whether the words need to be
singular or plural. Set a time limit of one minute. (6) Once
everyone has finished, students unfold the worksheets
and take turns to read the full sentences to each other.
They discuss how probable the completed sentences are.
They should also think of more suitable words to make
the sentences likely or true.
Answers:
Missing words:
Student A: 1 would/will 2 no 3 when 4 Only 5 did
6 Not
Student B: 1 would/will 2 no 3 when 4 Only 5 do
6 Not
Possible sentence completions:
Student A: 1 (student’s personal choice)
2 bear/tiger (or another big cat) 3 seals/reindeer/whales
4 tiger/hippopotamus etc. 5 giant squid (It wasn’t until
2004 that the first images of a live giant squid were taken
in its natural habitat.) 6 chimpanzees/other primates
Student B: 1 (student’s personal choice)
2 snake (Sucking out the venom can do more harm than
the actual snake bite. The current medical advice is to get
to an emergency room as soon as possible.)
3 turtle/stingray/shark (or other big marine species)
4 polar bear/shark 5 very large animals/crocodiles (Lions
rarely attack very large prey such as fully grown male
giraffes, elephants, rhinos and such due to the danger of
injury. They occasionally kill and eat crocodiles venturing
onto land. They may also kill other predators such as
hyenas or leopards, but they don’t usually eat them.)
6 dogs/cats etc.
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27 Impact
Part 1
Aim: to extend vocabulary related to expressing opinions
and the environment
Type of activity: gap-filling and matching collocations
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Ask students to work individually and
complete the sentences in section A with the words
from the box. (2) Tell students to check the answers
in pairs before checking with the whole group. (3) Ask
students to look at section B where collocations need to
be completed with the words from the box. Do one or
two examples with the whole class first. (4) Let students
complete the remaining collocations in pairs. (5) Check
the answers with the whole class.
Answers:
A: 1 rule out 2 assume 3 appear 4 doubt 5 envisage
6 eradicate 7 regard 8 occur
B: 1 subject to 2 agriculture 3 land 4 crop 5 climate
6 weather 7 region 8 forests 9 water 10 rain
11 wave 12 environmental
Part 2
Time: 10 minutes
In class: (1) Tell students to work in groups of three or
four and discuss the questions. Encourage them to use
the vocabulary from Part 1, both sections A and B.
(2) Ask students to report back to the class. Discuss any
interesting ideas with the whole class.
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