Unit 18
Speaking and listening: describe a place 1 Re-read paragraph 6 on page 149 and answer these questions. 1 What did Lydia see? What did she hear? 2 What did she taste? What did she smell? What did she touch?
2 Think of somewhere you went recently. What did you see, hear, smell, touch and taste there?
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Tell your partner about the place you went to. Describe it as vividly as you can – so that your partner can imagine being there.
I went to High Ridge to see my cousins.
I went to the airport to collect Grandpa.
I went to the botanical gardens.
Language Sequencing
When we read a report we want it to make sense. We expect the writer to describe events in the order in which they happened.
1 The writer of this report has mixed up the order in which things happened. Write the sentences in the correct sequence.
WB 4 p96
Title: A Trip to Fort George, Grenada 1 We arrived back at school at 3.00 p.m. 2 We walked back down the hill. 3 After a short drive we arrived at Fort George. 4 Yesterday morning, we all got on the bus outside school. 5 Inside the fort we saw cannons and walked on the walls. 6 We walked up a steep hill to the fort.
• Speaking and listening , Exercise 3 : Ask students what ‘vividly’ means. They should try to create a picture of the place that makes it seem real. They may not have experienced all the sensations in the place they are describing. For example, they may not have tasted anything. DA Sequencing: You may tell students that the first in the sequence is ‘4’. Some students could be given fewer than six sentences to sequence (for example, 1, 3, 4 and 5).
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