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Speaking Matters
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Speaking matters
A1–C1
• ‘Find it’ smartphone activities allow students to bring live content into the lessons and personalize the learning experience. • Professional development ideas integrated into every unit of the Teacher’s Edition, offering opportunities to reflect and to try out new teaching ideas.
Evolve is a versatile general English course that gets students speaking with confidence. • Digital, mobile-friendly content that can be used in a variety of teaching situations, from classrooms to fully remote. • Dedicated speaking lessons based on immersive tasks that really get students talking. • Peer models and content from real students throughout the book provide interest and realistic targets.
Authors Lindsay Clandfield, Ben Goldstein, Leslie Anne Hendra, Mark Ibbotson, Ceri Jones, Philip Kerr, Kathryn O’Dell 6 Levels: Beginner to Advanced 90–120 teaching hours
UNIT OBJECTIVES ■ talk about your home ■ talk about furniture
3.1
WELCOME TO MY HOME
LESSON OBJECTIVE ■ talk about your home
COME IN
■ offer and accept a drink and snack ■ write an email about a home-share ■ choose things for a home
A quick, convenient online test of general or business English that’s easy to administer and aligned to the CEFR. Page 75
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A
living room
bedroom
3
wall
kitchen
picture
door
B
window
dining area
bathroom
floor
1 VOCABULARY: Rooms in a home A 1.29 Listen and repeat the words in the pictures. Which words are rooms? Which words are things in rooms? B PAIR WORK Talk to a partner. What’s your favorite room in the pictures? C Now do the vocabulary exercises for 3.1 on page 142.
2 LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT A 1.30 Alina gives a video tour of her family’s home. Listen and read. How many rooms does she talk about? a six b seven c eight B 1.30 Listen again. Answer the questions.
Hi! Welcome to my new home. I mean, my family’s new home. We live in an apartment, not a house. OK. First, this is the living room , with my mom’s favorite picture on the wall . And this is the dining area . It’s good for family dinners, or pizza with my friends. And this is the kitchen , through the door ! My mom and her friend are in there now. OK, and this is the bathroom , the family bathroom. And here, this is my parents’ bedroom , with a second bathroom. And this is my bedroom, with two windows . Oh! This is Milka. She’s our cat. And this is Sergei’s room. He’s my brother. Hey! T-Rex is on Sergei’s bed! Bad dog! On the floor! Now! T-Rex is Sergei’s dog. OK, now say “hi” to the camera, T-Rex. Welcome to our apartment!
Fantastic! Students who are normally shy spoke naturally because they had more time to develop their speaking.” María Teacher, Mexico “
1 What is on the wall? 2 Who is in the kitchen?
START SPEAKING
3 How many bathrooms are in the apartment? 4 What are the names of the cat and the dog? PAIR WORK What are your favorite rooms? Talk to a partner. For ideas, watch Felipe’s video.
Look at the picture. Where is this house?
A
C
Who is in the house?
B
What is in the house?
C
ACCURACY CHECK Use the when you talk about a specific thing in your home: the floor in the kitchen , the window (in my room), or the picture on the wall .
What are Felipe’s favorite rooms? Are your favorite rooms the same?
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