Teacher Guide
In this exercise, sometimes several of the answers seem possible but if the students read the passage again and pay attention to the details, they will find that there is always only one correct response - often the other responses could be assumed but are not stated explicitly in the text. The answers are found in order in the text.
**10mins - **Conversation: Discuss a typical teenager's weekly routine in the teacher's home country compared to Italy. Ask their opinion about which is more interesting, more fun, more useful, more entertaining, safer, more expensive, healthier etc.
**05mins - **skill practice: Discuss using language functions, such as evaluating, expressing opinions, hypothesising, justifying, persuading. Give examples.
10mins - Review: Reading and Use of English Part 5 evaluates a candidate's ability to understand the writers meaning of a text including expression of opinion, attitude, purpose, main idea, tone and implication.
- There are 6 multiple choice questions, which follow the order of the text.
- Ask students to read the text for worksheet 31 reading practice, and then write down what they think the writer's attitude and main opinions are. Encourage them to write sentences utilising the language functions discussed earlier in the lesson.
- Warn students about 'word-spotting' or assuming an answer is correct because it contains a word that also appears in the text.
15mins - Worksheet: 31 reading practice - part 4 - review the answers.
**15mins - **Test: 31 reading practice - part 3 - review the answers. Discuss examples for each type of writing. Ask the student about what tone should be used for each one, and who the reader might be. Discuss effective planning for each type of writing. What would you want to include?
**05mins - **Warm-down, goodbye, see you next time.
**00mins - **Homework: Complete the next section of the online homework.
1) You will need to read the text for detailed understanding of opinions, emotions and attitudes and tones.
2) The final question is usually about the global meaning of the text or opinion of the author.
3) The questions follow the order of the text, but there may be more than one answer in any given paragraph.
4) When you find an answer in the text, underline it.
- C
- B
- A
- B
- A
- B