New Inside Out

Listening

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  Listen to six people being interviewed about their shopping habits for a survey and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen to an extract from a radio programme about money-saving tips and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen to people discussing their experiences of bargaining and answer related questions.
  
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  Listen and notice how to is pronounced in several sentences.
  
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  Listen to a conversation between a customer and a market stall holder and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen people negotiating a solution to a problem and answer some questions.
  

Speaking

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  Talk with a partner about what they have bought in the last twenty-four hours.
  
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  Do a quiz about spending habits and discuss their answers with a partner.
  
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  Tell a partner how they would survive on 1 a day.
  
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  Talk with a partner about their experiences bargaining.
  
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  Practise saying sentences stressing the appropriate sounds.
  
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  Practise reading bargaining tips paying attention to the pronunciation of to and weak forms.
  
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  Tell a partner about a purchase they have made recently following some guidelines.
  
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  Discus the meaning of an English proverb and try to find a similar one in their own language.
  
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  Discuss exchanging items on internet.
  
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  Improvise conversations including useful phrases for negotiating.
  

Reading

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  Read some spending profiles and discuss about them
  
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  Look at some groups of words and circle the one which has a different meaning.
  
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  Look at some pairs of sentences and decide which ones sound more natural paying attention to prepositions in relative clauses.
  
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  Look at some pairs of sentences and underline the relative clauses distinguishing between defining and non-defining clauses.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about prepositions in relative clauses on page 138 of the SB.
  
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  Read an article about surviving on 1 a day and answer some questions.
  
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  read tips on bargaining from a tourist guide and decide which one is false.
  
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  Read a summary of a conversation about people’s experiences of bargaining and correct the mistakes.
  
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  Classify some words into two groups: cheap and expensive.
  
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  Underline the correct words in sentences with shopping tips.
  
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  Read an article about a website for exchanging unwanted goods and answer some questions.
  
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  Read a Freecycle e-mail exchange and add the missing articles.
  
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  Read and cross out the article alternatives which are not possible in some sentences.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about the use of articles on page 138 of the SB.
  
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  Read some conversations of people negotiating a solution to a problem and answer some questions.
  
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  Match some sentence halves from conversations useful phrases for negotiating.
  
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  Review the differences between British and American English by completing the exercises of the Vocabulary Extra section.
  

Writing

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  Complete a glossary with words from a text about spending habits.
  
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  Write five sentences describing their spending habits.
  
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  Rewrite some relative clauses to make them more informal.
  
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  Rewrite sentences to include a non-defining relative clause.
  
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  Write true sentences about shops or restaurants in their neighbourhood.
  
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  Complete sentences from an article with the appropriate words.
  
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  Write money-saving tips following some guidelines.
  
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  Complete some shopping tips to make them true for a visitor of their country.
  
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  Complete a glossary with words from an article about eBay.
  
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  Write a posting for an e-mail exchange.
  
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  Complete sentences with the appropriate articles.
  
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  Complete some useful phrases for negotiating, haggling and making a deal.
  
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  Revise all the grammar and vocabulary contents of the unit by completing the Review B exercises for Units 4-6.