Unit 1 City and village

Activity 2a

Objective: to stimulate PP ideas about the topic PP work in pairs looking at the pictures and answering the questions. Check the answers by asking one P to answer and then letting others add anything else they know. (The answers are in the text in 2b)
Activity 2b

Objective: to practise reading for specific information

PP read the text and check their answers in 2a. They guess the meaning of the new words from the context.

Activity 2c

Objective: to develop strategies to guess the meaning of unknown words

PP read the text again and check their answers to 2a.

Activity 3

Objective: to relate the information from the text to personal experience

PP answer the questions about the National Olympic committee of Uzbekistan.

NOTE: The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established on January 21 1992. The President is Ruziev Sobir Sabitovich. It is located at Almazor 15/1, Tashkent 70003. There are 13 members who work in the office there. Across the Republic there are 111 members who include some Sports School Directors and officials. The goals of the Committee are to develop sporting relations with other countries, to organise sports competitions in the Republic and generally to develop sport in Uzbekistan. There is an Executive Committee meeting four times a year, which is attended by the 13 members.