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‘Oh ... umm ... w ill you be at orchestra on M onday?’ because this was on a Saturday 
and I said, ‘Well, kind of depended on today really,’ and they said, I said, ‘When 
w ill I get to know?’ and they said that the person who sorts out the auditions would 
phone me ... umm ...and so they said, ‘Oh come along on Monday,’ so I thought, 
well, do I take that as a ‘yes’ or do I take that as ... umm ...? You know, you just don’t 
know, so I went home and I was actually going out that evening and quickly phoned 
my parents and said, ‘ Er, dreadful! Horrible! They’ll ring m e,’ and nobody phoned me 
for the rest of the weekend. Monday evening ca - time to go to orchestra, nobody 
had phoned me so I thought, well I’d better go because nobody’s told me not to 
go, and ... umm ... they - som eone came up to me just before we started and - no, 
actually, I think it was in the interval - and said, ‘Oh I’m pleased you got in,’ which 
after all that, you know to me it was such a big thing - you know, I’d been practising 
for a long time - when it’s som ething that you want to do and just suddenly, erh, 
you’re in.
a W h a t problem s, if any, w o u ld you expect stu d en ts to have w ith this tape? (T he speaker uses 
a ‘British n o rth e rn English’ v ariety o f English; she speaks reasonably clearly, b u t w ith m any 
to pic shifts, etc.) 
b W h a t actio n w ould you take to co u n ter these problem s?
H Som e students finish before everybody else 
(pages 184-185)
1 W h a t k in d o f activ ity co u ld y ou have ‘u p y o u r sleeve’ to give to g ro u p s o f stu d e n ts w ho finish 
b efo re som e o f th e o th e r g ro u p s in th e class? C an y o u th in k o f exam ples?
2 L ook a t th e p h o to g ra p h ic c o m p e titio n ac tiv ity o n pages 124-125. W h a t w o u ld y o u do in these 
situations?
a O ne g roup decide o n th e w in n er b efore th e others, 
b O n e g ro u p still haven’t decided on the w in n er even after th e rest have, 
c O n e g ro u p d o n ’t seem to be c o n c en tra tin g on th e activity; th ey are talking ab o u t so m ething 
else.
d O n e g ro u p keep asking you for help to do th e activity.
e O n e g roup say ‘We d id a p h o to g rap h ic c o m p etitio n w ith th e last teach er’ w hen you give 
th e m th e sheets o f paper.
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Jeremy Harmer 
How to Teach English
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