Teacher Guide
10mins - Introduction: Conversation - Discuss modern art with the student, ask the student to speak about their opinions on modern art, their favourite and least favourite galleries, artists they admire and specific pieces of work that they appreciate.
05mins - Revision: Book work - Discuss the chapters of the book that were set for homework at the end of the previous lesson.
05mins - Comprehension: Answer the comprehension questions that accompany the newly read chapter(s) of the book.
10mins - Mini Task: Semantic Precision. Explain to the student that a semantic field is a group of words that can all be related to each other. Give the student the sentence below and tell them they are to insert the correct word into the gap. Explain that grammatically, all the words COULD fit in the gap, but only one is truly correct due to it belonging to the right semantic field.
The rain .......... down slowly under his coat collar, making him feel thoroughly damp and miserable.
A) crept B) waded C) trickled D) teemed
Answer: C) trickled
Once confident that the student has successfully completed and understood the task, instruct her/him to write a definition of each of the four answer words on the whiteboard.
15 mins - Test: 10 listening practice - part 2
Answers: geese, stopover, first officer, fuel, degree, vague desire, sense of calm, safari, antisocial hours
10mins - Creative Task: A Day In The Life. Using an elaborate and complex range of vocabulary, the student is to write a factual piece of writing, detailing a day in her/his life. The writing is to be structured following the daily routine of the student, beginning with waking up and having breakfast and finishing at the end of the day.
The student MUST use the following words/phrases: habitually, sustain, routinely, dedicate time, clockwork, penultimate and consecutive.
05mins - Warm down: I will set the student chapters of the book to read for homework whilst contemplating any new themes and/or characters that may have appeared.
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) Write 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 of information (e.g. nouns, proper names, etc.) and will generally be single words or very short noun groups (e.g. adjective plus noun). 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.
- geese
- stopover
- first officer
- fuel
- degree
- vague desire
- sense of calm
- safari
- antisocial hours