W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

pre-listening Time: 10 min.
aim: 
introducing new words
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1. 
tell students to work in pairs. You may wish to rearrange pairs. Ask them to 
write antonyms to the following words. encourage students to use dictionary to 
look up unknown words. 
answers:
active
passive 
interesting 
boring
useful
useless
improving 
getting worse 
showing 
hiding
friendly 
unfriendly 
confidence
hesitation
winner
loser
health 
illness
While-listening Time: 15 min.
aim: 
listening for general information.
2. 
Divide class into two small groups. The first group listen to the first part 
of the tape (iroda). At the same time the rest of the group listen to Akbar. both 
groups listen to Rustam. (For this task you need two tapes and a larger room.) 
Ask the groups to mingle and exchange the information they heard. 
Tell students to look through the vocabulary notes in the table again. Ask 
them to remember the tape encourage them to tell the sentences where the 
vocabulary notes occur.
answers:
iroda:
Circle- bakery, hobby-no, problem-not sociable.
Rustam:
Circle -chess club, hobby-chess, problems-swimming.
Akbar:
Circle-dancing, hobby-dancing, problems-shy. 

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Teacher’s book
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TapE sCRIpT 28.
speaker 1: 
hi. i am iroda. i study at college and i feel bored after classes. My 
friends advised me to go to some clubs. But I have one problem – I 
do not have a hobby. I am interested in many things so I can not 
choose. My passion is eating desserts. i think i need to study how 
to prepare them. I also want to improve communicative skills, so I 
think i will go.
speaker 2:
Hello, my name is Rustam. I attend chess club and it is very 
interesting. I have many friends there. We always help each 
other if we have problems in our exercises. Sometimes we have 
competitions. I even won some of them, because I tried to do my 
best. It is very useful for my brain. But swimming is my weakness.
speaker 3:
Hello, my name is Akbar. I love dancing. I can not show my ability 
at home or at school. But at dancing club I felt very confident. We 
performed several times in the local scene. And I was not shy 
because my friends supported me.