New Inside Out

Listening

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  Listen to someone talking about his favourite book when he was a child and complete some sentences.
  
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  Listen to four stories to do with cons and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen and check the pronunciation of weak and strong forms of auxiliary verbs.
  
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  Listen to four jokes and write down the punch line. Then respond using the expressions given.
  
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  Listen to a conversation between two friends and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen and number the useful phrases for responding to a story they hear.
  
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  Listen and repeat useful phrases for responding to a story paying attention to the intonation.
  
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  Listen to extracts from five stories and respond with useful phrases.
  

Speaking

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  Discuss the difference between the types of stories given.
  
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  Tell a partner about one of the types of story they have heard recently.
  
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  Talk about books they likes as a child.
  
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  Tell a partner about a story they know following some guidelines.
  
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  Look at some pictures and describe what they might illustrate using the word con.
  
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  Practice reading some exchanges aloud so as to learn the pronunciation of weak and strong forms of auxiliary verbs.
  
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  Decide how the auxiliary verbs are pronounced in some exchanges.
  
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  Ask a partner questions with Do you ever…? Have you ever…? paying attention to the pronunciation.
  
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  Look at some cartoons about jokes and talk about similar jokes in their own language.
  
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  Discuss international and national humour with a partner.
  
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  Discuss the difference in some pairs of sentences containing discourse markers.
  
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  Memorize a joke and tell it to a partner.
  
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  Tell a joke from their own country to a classmate.
  
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  Think of an anecdote beginning with the sentences given and tell a partner their story including the useful phrases learnt.
  

Reading

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  Read a text about six-word life stories and discuss about it.
  
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  Match some famous people to six-word life stories.
  
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  Read a text about Michael Jackson’s life and career and answer some questions.
  
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  Choose the six-word story that best describes Michael Jackson’s life.
  
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  Read some sentences about Michael Jackson and answer questions about the use of future tenses.
  
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  Underline the correct verb tense in some phrases about events that did not take place.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about future forms as seen from the past on page 136 of the SB.
  
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  Read a definition of an urban myth and discuss about it.
  
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  Read a definition of the word con.
  
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  Discus some expressions containing the word story.
  
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  Underline the correct alternatives in sentences showing deception or belief.
  
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  Read an extract from a book on humour and answer some questions.
  
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  Match some discourse markers with the appropriate words from a text.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about discourse markers in writing on page 136 of the SB.
  
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  Match some useful phrases for responding to a story to the appropriate categories.
  

Writing

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  Write six-word life stories for three famous people.
  
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  Complete a glossary with words from a text about Michael Jackson.
  
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  Complete some sentences with the appropriate form of the verbs given , expressing the future as seen from the past.
  
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  Complete some sentences with future forms as seen from the past.
  
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  Complete some phrases with expressions to do with stories.
  
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  Write a short conversation containing expressions to do with the word story and read it aloud to the class.
  
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  Complete some sentences about situations showing deception or belief with the appropriate words.
  
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  Complete a glossary with words from a text about humour.
  
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  Complete some sentences by putting a discourse marker in the correct position.
  
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  Review how to write a descriptive narrative by completing the exercises of the Writing Extra section.
  
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  Revise all the grammar and vocabulary contents of the unit by completing the Review B exercises for Units 4-6.