New Inside Out

Listening

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  Listen to the answers of a quiz about cities of the world.
  
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  Listen to a radio programme about cities and fill in the gaps in some sentences.
  
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  Listen to people discussing a newspaper story about a survey and answer questions.
  
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  Listen to the classmate’s descriptions of cities and try to guess which one they are describing.
  
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  Listen to people talking about the city they live in and answer questions about its dangers.
  
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  Listen and notice the stress of sentences containing just, really or actually.
  
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  Listen and mark the main stresses in some sentences.
  

Speaking

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  Discuss about their own capital city and about the capital they would most like to visit.
  
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  Discuss some questions about four guidebook extracts.
  
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  Tell a partner about towns or cities that match certain descriptions.
  
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  Look at some tourist posters and discuss some questions.
  
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  Discuss about the attractive things a city can offer a visitor.
  
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  Compare cities with a partner.
  
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  Teach a partner some words from an article.
  
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  Discuss in small groups about busy cities, going out in the evening, etc.
  
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  Talk about the main dangers of the city.
  
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  Give advice to people going abroad.
  
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  Look at the photos of a London building and discuss some questions.
  
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  Discuss some questions about modern buildings in their own city.
  

Reading

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  Read and answer to a quiz about cities of the world.
  
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  Read the results of a survey about happiness living either in rural or urban areas and discuss about it.
  
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  Look at some sentences and underline the hedging expressions.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about hedging on page 136 of the SB.
  
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  Read four guidebook extracts describing four cities and answer some questions.
  
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  Match some adjectives to the appropriate definitions.
  
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  Read and match some verbs to an appropriate phrase.
  
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  Look at some adverbials and decide which of them have negative meanings.
  
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  Look at some pairs of sentences containing adverbials and answer some questions.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about inversions on page 136 of the SB.
  
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  Read and answer questions about their city attractions.
  
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  Match some questions about Leicester square with the appropriate answers.
  
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  Read an article about Leicester square and answer some questions.
  
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  Match some sentences to the appropriate places in an article.
  
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  Read some exchanges containing just, really or actually practising intonation.
  
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  Read comments on the design of a London building and show agreement or disagreement.
  
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  Review lexical sets and collocations with city and urban by completing the exercises of the Vocabulary Extra section.
  

Writing

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  Rewrite sentences using hedging expressions.
  
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  Write a newspaper story about a survey.
  
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  Complete some sentences with phrases from a reading text.
  
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  Rewrite some phrases so as to practise inversions.
  
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  Write a short description of a famous town or city in their country following some guidelines.
  
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  Fill in the gaps in some extracts from a conversation using just, really or actually.
  
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  Add emphasis to some sentences using the words given.
  
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  Write three sentences about modern buildings in London using emphasis.
  
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  Revise all the grammar and vocabulary contents of the unit by completing the Review A exercises for Units 1-3.