Unit 1 City and village

Activity 3a

Objective: to stimulate PP interest and ideas in the topic of the text Ask PP to read and answer the questions.


Activity 3b

Objective: to practise reading for gist I

Ask PP to read the text and follow Marco Polo's journey from Italy to China on the map on the next page.

Activity 3c

Objective: to practise inferring meaning where things are not explicit it the text , about their hobbies. Write the table on the BB (without the ticks!) and ask PP to copy it. (Or, if you think this will be too long, you draw it on the BB and let PP just note down the name of the child and the letter of his/her hobbies in their Ex.Bks)

PP listen and tick the appropriate hobbies for each person. Play the tape.

Play the tape again and stop after each text and elicit/check the answers.
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