Unit 1 City and village

Activity 1 b

Objective: to read quickly for gist

Ask PP to read the text carefully and check their answer in 1a. Draw their attention to the importance of visual information as part of a text, particularly in advertising.

Activity 1 c

Objective: to respond to the text PP answer the questions. They could do this work in groups.
Activity 2a

Objective: to practise reading quickly to identify the parts of a text

PP read and do the matching.

Key: 1b 2a 3d 4c
Activity 2b

Objective: to raise PP awareness of strategies for inferring the meaning of unknown words

PP do the activity. Then you can check it like this. First ask your PP to say the translation of the words. Then in their mother tongue PP should tell you how they guessed. Help them to realise that they can often guess correctly without the help of the Wordlist or a dictionary if they pay attention to the context and what they already know, other forms of a word, words that are similar in mother tongue and in English, etc.