| Author(s): Vaughan Jones Susan Kay Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780333757604 Publisher's resources are available for this book. |
Speaking : images of the 20th century
Ss discuss four pics of epoch making events.
Listening : four individual speakers discuss one of the events each.
Gapped script (people talking about memorable images of the 20th C) + recording ; mulitple choice grammar exercise
Short listening (T 02) + analysis; gap-type exercises.
Short listening (T02)to introduce the structure ; pairwork : Os and Xs game.
(6) Various sentences gapped for 'have', 'do' and 'be'. Can serve as part of an introduction to the uses of auxiliaries.
Short listening (T04) for intonation. Pariwork practice with prompts.
(9) Reading : 'Image queen. Madonna's changing images(challenging)
(11) Listening and speaking : men and self-image. Short interviews with 4 men in the street.
'Image queen'. Reading passage (challenging) on Madonna's changing images.
Listening : interviewing men about self-image and clothes. Bookwork : order words in interviewer's questions. Speaking practice ; error corrections exercise ; pairwork : info-gap type activity on the Beckhams
Board game with dice - general personal questions
(1) Reading : three young people talk about embarassing parents.
(2) Listening (i) Parents talk about meeting daughter's boyfriend for the first time.
(ii) Boyriend talks about meeting girlfriend's parents.
Verb + infintive
Verb + object + infinitive
Verb + ing form
Verb + preposition
Bookwork : dividing verbs into verb + infitive vs verb + object + infinitive (help to do vs help smbdy to do) ; make and let ; pairwork : rules for children.
(1) Listening (Girl talking about staying with an English family.
(2) Ordering segments of tapescrips
(3) Ss write true sentences about themselves from prompts and discuss with partner
Ss read and listen to sentences and match vowel sound with underlined sound in the sentence.
Adjective + infinitive (difficult to do sthg etc.); adjectives + prepositions (interested in, allergic to etc.)
(1) Ss read and listen to 2 short dialogues with different register. (2) Compare words and phrases. (3) Role play (choice of two situations)
(1) Ss read informal letter (letter to a penfriend) and replace inappropriate formal words and phrases with less formal ones from a given list.
(2) Write a letter to a penfriend.
(1) Reading : California Gold Rush
(2) Listening : Sam Brannan (Gold Rush millionaire)
Short section following from reading Gold Fever (p24) dealing with metaphorical use of :
deluge, drift, flood, stream, trickle
(1) Bookwork : gap filled passages with listening to check answers :(1) funny story (2) limerick
(2) Rules for use of articles : mulitiple choice exercise
(3) Practice : Ss make statement from prompts
Read money sayings, underlined schwas, listen and check.
Money Talks
Mulitple-choice exercise with pairwork follow up.
breadwinner, rainy day, broke, blow money, splash out, worth a fortune
(Second and third contionals)
(1) Short listening (money)
(2) Matching : if clauses to result clauses
(3) Analysis of sentences.
(4) Discussion in groups (if you goverened your country...)
(5)Sentence comletion
(6) Grammar reference notes
(1) Listening: four people talk about treasured possessions.
(2) Anecdote - talk about a treasured possession (prompts)
A day in my very wealthy life
Gap fill using : as soon as, while, by the time, then, when, as, during, until, after, just as.
Listening (with script) : six health-related problems - hay fever, cold etc.
(1) Listening : five dialogues with problems (health related) and sympathetic (or not) responses.
(2) Listening focusing on stress (to convey feeling).
(1) Listening (advice about healthy lifestyles)
(2) Gap fill focusing on key phrases
(3) Write reply letter to someone wanting to be more healthy
Ss mark word stress on sentences sounding either sympathetic or unsympathetic.
Write a reply as a health expert to someone who wants to lose weight.
Language reference box.
Listening (dialogue) containing:
put my foot in it; a shoulder to cry on; neck of the woods;
fingers in a lot of pies; up to my eyes; make my mind up;
get it off your chest; play it by ear
reading : I know it's bad for me but I still can't stop
(giving up smoking)
Eleven phrasal verbs in reading text (I know it's bad for me but I can't stop - smoking) + subsitution type exercises.
Extract from Nick Hornby The sugar mouse ritual ; football vocab (see vocab) ; 2 short listenings (memories of particular football occasions - personal)
(1) Two short listening passages, one with gaps, one with multiple choice selection to introudce target language.
(2) Grammar notes etc on verbs that change meaning when followed by gerund or infintive: remember / forget; stop; try; like; love; hate
(3) Gapped text for consolidation.
'Will and would" in follow-up analyis to Listening A Man and his Car
'Used to' compared with 'would'
Grammar notes + making sentences from prompts (short exercise)
'Will and would" in follow-up analyis to Listening A Man and his Car
Short listening (woman complaining about colleagues) with various ways of expressing annoyance
(1) Listening ; wedding rituals in different countries;
(2) Speaking : Ss prepare and tell wedding anecdote;
(3) Ss make statements beginning Marriage is... Page of words as prompts.
Listening : lovers parting after an evening together + gapped script.
(Contains a very long list of leave taking comments)
(1) Text messaging - short reading
(2) Reading : Online (Interview with Jessica Adams, author of Single White E-mail)
(3) Listening - interview with Lara Croft (fictional character from the computer game Tomb Raider)
(4) Reading - Has technology ruined childhood?
(1) Analysis using examples from reading : (Online - Jessica Adams page 53)
(2) Listening : six dialogues. Ss decide if verbs are dynamic or stative.
(3) Short error correction exercise (individual sentences)
Present perfect simple vs continuous
Analysis of sentences from the Lara Croft listening (page 56).
Focuses on dynamic vs stative verbs, incomplete vs incomplete / ongoing actions.
(1) Exercise : ,matching two sentences or segments containing linkers.
(2) Classifying linkers : addition, contrast, cause and effect (reason and result.
(3) Adding linkers to short news paragraphs.
(4) Essay writing: mobile phones, for and against.
Plan and write an essay on the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones. Basic planning advice. No specific language taught beyond the work on linkers (see grammar section for this unit)
Bookwork : make indirect questions from direct questions (Interview with Madonna) ; match questions and replies.
Board-type game for 3s testing ajective and verb + prepositions. Students have to make sentences from an adective or verb prompt.
Speaking : what would you take with you on a five-year space mission (+ prompts)
Substitution exercise
Gapped sentences (decide whether stative or dynamic and choose simple or continuous aspect; match with responses.
(1) Reading textA day at the seaside
Adapted from Notes from a big country
(humorous) by Bill Bryson
(2)Listening : I'll never forget you. Woman talks about a holiday romance.
(3) Follow up work on discourse markers
(Let's get back to the subject ; to put it simply etc.)
Includes a gapped text and another listening on the same topic to check the answers.
(4) Reading: Every postcard tells a story - analysis of types of postcard.
(5) Reading and speaking: Insider's guide. Ss read guide book extracts and guess cities. Then discuss their favourite citie.
(6) Speaking : the travel talk game.
Board game needing dice and counters. Each square has a travel-related speaking topic, e.g. 'the qualities of an ideal travelling companion'.
(1) Ss order sentences in a summary of the reading A day at the seaside (Bill Bryson)
(2) Focus on reporting verbs in the above exercise. Ss divide these into two lists: 'say' type and 'tell' type i.e. those that do and do not take a direct object.
(3) Dictionary reading exercise as follow up (dictionary extracts are printed on the page)
(4) Reading passage Where's my car : son steal's mum's car with multiple choice exercise focusing on reporting verbs.
adjective building
(1) Compound adjectives with 'well-' or '-conscious' (Uses examples from reading Every postcard tells a story, page 74.)
(2) Adjectives with prefixes:
un in ir im il
+ suffixes less ful ish (Matching exercises)
(3) Gapped text with root adjective prompts.
(1) pics of faces - male and female
(2) Collocations matching exercise (10 examples)
smooth skin sparkling eyes high cheekbones etc.
(3) Listening to consolidate - five people say what they think makes a face
attractive
(1) Reading: Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
(2) Reading & speaking: speed dating (3) Listening : Blind Date (Cilla Black)
It is thought / considered / reckoned etc.
(1) Word ordering exercise
(2) Matching + discuss statements with partner.
Rights and wrongs of.. (listening) ; Cindy Jackson (reading / gap fill)
(1) Examples and analysis
(2) Short gapped article on Cindy Jackson (woman who has changed her appearance through cosmetic surgery)
(3) Word ordering exercise
(4) Speaking - 'Where's the best place in town to get (your hair etc) done?'
(1) Adding suffixes to adjectives escribing personality to make other memebers of word family;
(2) Matching prefixes with stems (personality adjectives)
absent + minded etc.
Unreal conditionals - alternatives to if
(1) Gap fill exercise (individual sentences - dating related) using just imagine supposing assuming etc. instead of 'if'
(2) Pairwork - speaking using sentences in (1)
(3)Grammar reference box
Song Never Ever by the All Saints.
Gap fill + discussion.
(1) Discussion / reading on the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
(2) Describing paintings.
(3) Reading and listening : Frida Kalho.
Modals of deduction in present and past: describing and nterpreting paintings.
Link words in extracts from a conversation:
Can't have been
must have been
etc
(1) Ss guess when various objects were invented.
(2) Listening, speaking and reading: Trevor Bayliss and the clockwork radion (project to build radios for rural areas of Africa)
(3) Paragraphs about inventions gapped for time expressions.
Ss complete grid: nouns, adjectives and example collocations.
science, scientist, scientific, scientific research
Listening : 'The Playground Pound' -advertising to children - moral issues
Collocations relating to sales and advertising:
sales force / figures / pitch
etc.
(1) Listening : commercials;
(2) Reading : Levi 501s ad (launderette)
Listening and discussion : truth in the tabloids
Identifying important words in cleft sentences, then listening for stress.
Reading / listening : The Blair Witch Project.
Speaking : an anecdote about watching a film.
very, quite, absolutely, totally etc + adjectives.
Listening: people's reaction to a film.
(1) Reading : Robbie Williams
(2) Listening : memorable teachers
(3) Speaking : anecdote - favourite teacher
(4) Reading : Look at us now -people who proved their teachers wrong
(109) Education related vocab from Robbie Williams reading
(111) Collocations with education vocabulary:
fail + an exam; learn + by heart and others
Parents talk about teenage daughter's ambition to be a singer.
Review of all main future forms and uses based around a tapescript of an interview with a teenage girl about her plans to make it as a signer.
Listening, multiple-choice activity, fill in grammar analysis table
(120) Discussion : quotes beginning, 'home is...'
(121) Speaking and listening : Pictures of three rooms differently furnished. Pyschologist talks about the person who lives there.
(122) Speaking : describe your favourite room.
(126 - 7) Reading: The Freedom Ship
(project to build luxury floating community)
Arranging furnishings into logical lists; describing pictures of furnished rooms.
General review of quantity expressions including
few vs a few etc.
Language reference notes.
Speaking : morning routines; breakfast
Listening : different breakfasts from various countries.
Reading on a feng shui lifestyle / routine
Ss contibute texts to headings suggested on a roughed out webpage.