Unit 16 Unit 16 What have I learnt? Can Do Skills
1 Read the newspaper article. Answer the questions.
1 Why are local residents complaining? 2 The adjective renowned means a) surrounded b) famous
c) protected 3 When someone says ‘Enough is enough’ this means that this person a) wants something to stop. b) wants something to continue. c) wants to have more of something. 4 What opinion does the writer have of the students? Support your answer with evidence from the article. 2 Write what the students said as reported speech. Example: (Amy) I will help with the beach clean-up. Max: The beach is often covered in litter. Kayla: We collected 10 bags of garbage on Saturday. Marie: I told my grandmother about the clean-up. Greg: We will return to the beach next month. 3 Rewrite this extract from an informal letter using contractions. Amy said that she would help with the beach clean-up. There is There’s always a lot of garbage on the beach so we have decided to do something about it. We are going to have a beach clean-up. We will collect garbage once a month. It is important to recycle as much as we can so I will help sort the garbage we have collected.
• Exercise 1: Remind students to answer questions in their own words as far as possible. They should not copy directly from the text. For question 2, they can use the context to work out the meaning of renowned .
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