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exTenSIOn ACTIVITy

One way to consolidate the language area covered in this 

unit is to ask students to do research on a famous person 

or someone in the news and write five sentences about that 

person using the present simple. They read their sentences 

to the class and the class identify who the person is. 

Alternatively, you could do this as a ‘20 Questions’ activity 

where students ask you / each other 

yes

/

no

 questions to 

find the identity of your person.

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1.4 Speaking

Listening for gist

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1:16–1:18

 

With lower-level classes, as a pre-listening 

activity, find out what students did last weekend; who likes 

camping and who hates camping; who travels a lot for work or 

pleasure; and who dislikes travel. This will get students using 

some of the language in the recording and help them to ‘tune 

in’ before they listen and complete the task.