Teacher Guide
After reading the text leading up to each gap, the students should have a feel for what type of comment fits next. They can eliminate some and use the linking expressions to help give clues. Discuss keywords that give hints about the tone of the writer and give other examples to help get the students familiar with their use. For example 'however', 'but', 'even' 'although'. After choosing one of the sentences, they should read it out within the text and make sure it sounds right, even considering the sentence that immediately follows it. If in doubt, try the other options too.
10mins - Conversation: Speaking part 3: Here are some things that many people believe are important if students want to feel happy at school, and a question for you to discuss.
Draw a diagram on the whiteboard with the following information:
Question: How important are these if students want to feel happy at school?
1. Good friends
2. After school activities
3. Subjects they enjoy
4. Friendly teachers
5. school rules
Follow up: Decide together which is the most important thing that makes students feel happy at school.
**10mins - **Review: Collocations - words that commonly go together in a language. Brainstorm a list of common English collocations with the class.
A collocation is two or more words that often go together and have a particular meaning different from the singular words when they are separate. Collocations are word patterns repeated throughout the English language that 'sound right' to native speakers.
These are some commonly used collocations from Reading part 4 -
Take into account / As far as I'm concerned / at least / get in touch / to get used to (sth) / make arrangements / make sense / no point / no chance / under control / no difference between / have trouble
10mins - Activity: Write the following categories on the board: Take, break, have, catch, and do. Read the following list, and have students determine which box they belong in.
Take - part in, care of, your time, place, advantage of, a shower
Break - a promise, the rules, a record, the ice, a habit
Have - a good time, sympathy, a problem, a baby, a word with, a shower
Catch - fire, sight of, a thief, attention, a glimpse of
Do - homework, an activity, business, nothing, housework, washing up
10mins - Worksheet: 19 collocations
15mins - Test: 50 reading practice - part 6
**05mins - **Warm down: Goodbye, see you next time.
**00mins - **Homework: Complete the next section of the online homework.
1) Read the entire text to understand the context.
2) Read the sentences before and after the gap and think about what information could be missing.
3) Look at the words directly before and after the gap. Consider a logical and natural way to link the two phrases.
4) Look out for words that move backwards and forwards in the text, such as it and this.
5) If you think two sentences can fit into a gap, leave them and move on to the next question. As you fill gaps with sentences, you will narrow down the remaining options.
- C
- A
- G
- F
- D
- E