Teacher Guide
10mins: Introduction:
Online homework: Discuss any problems or difficulties the student may be having.
Independent reading: Ask the student about what they have read in English during the last week. If you are reading a novel together, discuss the assigned reading and any vocabulary words/ writing assignments.
Questions:
1. Which images on a poster would be useful to raise environmental awareness? (2 mins)
(write the following list on the board)
1. recycling bins
2. a polluted river
3. a large pile of rubbish
4. a factory with smoking chimneys
5. waste metal
Now decide which of these would be least effective. (1 minute)
15mins: Test: 23 reading practice - part 3
- Exam tip: For R&UE part 3, read the whole text quickly first, thinking about what type of words are missing. (e.g., noun, adjective) Then think about the exact form of each missing work. For example, if the word is a noun, should it be singular or plural? Think about whether the meaning of the word will add to the sentence as a whole. Does it need a prefix, suffix, or both to make sense?
15mins: Worksheet: 23 listening practice - part 2
- Exam tip: Look at the words before and after the gap in the text. This will help you to decide what type of word you need, such as a preposition, an article, a pronoun or an auxiliary verb. Missing words may be part of phrasal verbs or fixed phrases.
15mins: Extension: Speaking practice: Discuss and answer the following questions. (Discuss the meaning of italicised words/phrases)
1. What have you read or watched that you consider trashy?
2. What are the things that you do to unwind?
3. What, on TV, do you consider to be compulsive viewing?
4. How often do you find common ground with new acquaintances?
5. What is something that you like to watch which is not everyone's cup of tea?
05mins: Warm down: Goodbye, see you next time. Encourage students to do additional reading for vocabulary building outside of the lesson. News articles, short stories, and novels are all great examples.
00mins: Homework - complete the next section of the online homework
Answers:
listening practice:
- destinations 2) graduate 3) economy 4) accommodation 5) warned 6) travel companies/agencies 7) resident 8) confidence
reading practice:
- cultivation 18) destruction 19) economic 20) endangered 21) extensive 22) growth 23) sensitive 24) plantations
1) Use the time before the recording starts to read the questions and underline key information. Try to imagine who the speaker is going to be and what they will be speaking about.
2) Look at the words on either side of the gap and predict what information you might hear.
3) Right down the actual words you hear, don't waste time trying to rephrase things. Some things will be said differently in the recording, and it's the candidate's responsibility to derive meaning.
4) Most questions will focus on concrete pieces ofinformation (e.g. nouns, proper names, etc.) and will generallybe single words or very short noun groups (e.g. adjective plusnoun), and that usually no more than three words are required.
5) Don't write extra information. You will only need one, two, or three words at most.
6) Don't panic if you miss a word, skip over it and immediately prepare yourself to hear the next answer.
7) If you didn't hear something on the first listening, try again in the second listening. If all else fails, make an educated guess.
- destinations
- graduate
- economy
- accomodation
- warned
- travel companies/agencies
- resident
- confidence