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3 Ask students to complete the exercise in pairs or groups. Check answers in open class. Answers Students’ own answers 4 Ask students to complete the exercise. Give them one minute to do the task. Pair check before open class check. Answer c OPTIMISE your exam Multiple choice Ask students to read the tips. • Students are often tested on their understanding of words or phrases in multiple-choice reading exams, as Exercise 5, questions 1, 3, 5 and 6. • Point out that students should always look around the word to see if the text actually defines the word, restates the word in another way, or provides a synonym or an antonym. Sometimes the text gives examples that help explain the word in question. • When students are tested on their ability to deduce the meaning of words from context in exams, there will always be clues in the text to help them do this. The next exercise will allow them to practise this exam technique. 4.01 Ask students to complete the exercise. Check answers in open class and elicit the evidence. Answers 1 A 2 C 3 B 4 B 5 A 6 D FAST FINISHERS Ask students to find as many words as they can in the text that they don’t know and underline or highlight the clues in the context that help deduce their meaning. OPTIONAL EXTENSION Play the recording of the text and ask students to underline words or phrases in the text related to leisure activities. 4.01 Exam Exam task 5 In pairs, students compare the items they have selected. Feed back in open class and ask students to share the words they found and explain the meaning of any difficult vocabulary. Answers Students’ own answers Homework Workbook Unit 4: Reading, pages 28–29
READING Multiple choice | An article Student’s Book, pages 42–43 Lesson aims • Deduce meaning from context • Practise a multiple-choice exam task LEAD-IN
Ask students to look at the unit title of the text Step out of your comfort zone and the photo, and elicit what ‘comfort zone’ means ( doing the same things over again during leisure time ). Elicit what day of the week people in their country usually refer to when they talk about free time. Ask students what they think the unit is going to be about ( fun activities with friends, routines, trying new things ). 1 Watch the video. Pause it when necessary to allow students to make notes. Elicit answers from students around the class. Answers Olivia: perform on stage in London Josh: climb Everest; learn (some basic) German Emily: learn a foreign language (maybe Portuguese); go to Portugal; go whale watching; live in Lisbon Harry: visit Iceland; see the Northern Lights; perform on a big stage (in front of lots of people) 2 As a class or in groups, ask students to share some of their hopes and dreams for the future. Answers Students’ own answers EXAM SKILL Deducing meaning from context Ask students to read the tips. • Highlight that spending time looking up words can slow down reading, and in most exams, students are not allowed dictionaries. • Point out that a better strategy to infer meaning is to use the context, the words and sentences surrounding a particular word, cultural knowledge and simple common sense. With practice, the guesses students make will be accurate enough for them to understand the author’s ideas and will make them better, faster readers. • Emphasise that this skill can not only help increase their vocabulary, it will also help them improve their writing. • Explain that in the subsequent exercises, students will see how being able to guess the meaning of words from context can be useful in reading exam tasks.
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