New Inside Out

Listening

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  Listen to people talking about new words and make notes about them.
  
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  Listen to shortened conversations about writing and show agreement or disagreement with the speaker.
  
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  Listen and repeat some place names paying attention to the pronunciation.
  
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  Listen and try reading a limerick aloud paying attention to the pronunciation and correcting the misspelled words.
  
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  Listen to people talking about socialising online and discuss about it.
  
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  Listen and fill in the gaps in a texts with useful phrases for getting your point across.
  
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  Listen to useful phrases for getting your point across and mark the main stress.
  

Speaking

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  Discuss some questions about new words with a partner.
  
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  Discuss how English and Internet affect their own language.
  
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  Talk with a partner about equivalent words for some new words given.
  
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  Talk with a partner about the types of written texts they write on a regular basis.
  
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  Think of five tips to give a person who wants to improve their writing.
  
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  Discuss some questions about socialising online including useful phrases for getting your point across.
  

Reading

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  Read possible titles for an article and discuss what it may be about.
  
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  Match some titles to the appropriate opening paragraphs.
  
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  Look at some new words and divide them into three groups trying to guess their meaning from the context.
  
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  Read a quotation about writing in the digital age and discuss about it.
  
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  Read a list of tips to give a person who wants to improve their writing and match them to the appropriate paragraphs in a blog.
  
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  Look at some words from an article and try to guess their meaning, then complete a glossary.
  
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  Read some extracts from further writing tips paying attention to certain words.
  
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  Look at some sentences and cut down the appropriate words without changing the meaning.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about avoiding repetition.
  
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  Read an article written by Mark Twain about English spelling and answer some questions.
  
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  Read some sentences and cross out the silent letters.
  
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  Read an extract from a conversation about socialising online and show agreement or disagreement.
  
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  Review the origins of new words by completing the exercises of the Vocabulary Extra section.
  

Writing

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  Complete sentences with vocabulary about new words.
  
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  Complete some phrases with words from a glossary and say whether they are true for them or not.
  
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  Fill in the gaps in a writing tip with the appropriate words and write a heading for the tip.
  
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  Make a conversation as short as possible using substitution and ellipsis.
  
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  Write a short exchange discussing the topic of computer games using the ideas in a flow chart.
  
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  Revise all the grammar and vocabulary contents of the unit by completing the Review D exercises for Units 10-12.