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.
Speaking practice - Environment
Have students respond to and discuss the following questions:
- Are there many environmental problems in your country?
- Are people concerned about environmental problems in your country?
- Do you think enough is being done to deal with these issues?
- Do you think older people have as much awareness of environmental problems as the younger generation?
Useful terms: carbon footprint / carbon emissions / alternative energy / eco-friendly / renewable energy / global scale / toxic waste / artificial environment / scale back / throw away / run out of
15mins: Test: 58 listening practice - part 2
**15mins: **Test: 58 reading practice - part 7
10mins: Writing practice - Supporting arguments: Do you agree or disagree with the perspective of the author in reading part 7? Write a short response stating your opinion. Use evidence from the article to support or dispute the author's claims.
**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.
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.
- queen
- colony
- wood
- (enough) feedback
- staircase
- sandbags / bags of sand
- intelligence
- (mathematical) model