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1 Ask students to complete the exercise. Check their answers. Answers 1 is shorter than 2 is cheaper than 3 is more expensive than 4 are smaller than 5 are bigger than 2 Ask students to complete the exercise. Check answers in open class. Answers Students’ own answers OPTIONAL EXTENSION In pairs, students think of examples of the following: The best places for young people to hang out at the weekend. The cheapest places to go shopping. The worst film they have seen recently . Elicit examples from different students around the class and try to develop a class discussion. 3 Ask students to complete the exercise. Check answers in open class. Answers 1 the most fantastic 2 faster than 3 the least interesting 4 bad as 5 the greatest 6 more fun than 4 Ask students to complete the exercise. Walk around and monitor students for accuracy. Check in open class and accept all sensible answers. Suggested answers 1 best 2 more 3 cheap 4 better/higher 5 less 6 harder DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING Give less confident students the answers in a jumbled order and a few extras to help them complete the exercise ( less, best, harder, good, expensive, better, more, most ). Ask stronger students to think of two correct options for each gap where possible (e.g. best/most fantastic, more/much more, cheap/affordable, miles better, etc. EXTRA SUPPORT Work intensively on the dialogue to help students internalise the language. Give students two minutes to memorise the dialogue. Then ask students to close their books and together try to reproduce the dialogue on the board. Finally, ask them to act it out in pairs. Digital game Encourage students to play the digital game for extra practice. Homework Workbook Unit 4: Grammar 2, page 31 On-the-Go Practice SPEAKING Interview Student’s Book, page 48
Lesson aims • Talk about hopes and ambitions • Practise an interview
The Speaking video in this unit focuses on hopes and dreams. People talk about their hopes and ambitions for the future. Students answer some comprehension questions and then listen out for expressions to talk about future hopes and plans. LEAD-IN Revise useful vocabulary for speaking exams. Ask students to write lists of the words in groups and organise them into the categories. Then go around the class and ask each group to name one word for each category. The group that has the most words wins. 1 Play the Speaking video for students to complete the exercise. Play the video again, if necessary, before checking their answers. Answers Jordan would like to follow her father’s example and become a police officer. She would also like to have a happy family and a healthy life. Drea would like to be a primary school teacher and would like to have a family and children. Sophie would like to go to university to perhaps do a PE course, and continue doing gymnastics. Maisie is going to do a creative writing course. She plans to go and live in New York with a friend and would like to become an author. 2 Play the Speaking video again, so students can number the phrases in the Phrase expert box. Pause the video from time to time if necessary. Check answers in open class. Answers 1 My ambition is to … [Jordan 00:39] 2 In the future, I’d like to … [Drea 00:56] 3 At some point, ... [Drea 01:07] 4 I’m hoping to … [Sophie 01:28] 5 I’m not sure, but … [Sophie 01:33] 6 I’d (really) love to … [Maisie 01:37] 7 I’m looking forward to … [Maisie 01:40] 8 We are planning to …[Maisie 01:44] Speaking video worksheet Ask students to also complete the Speaking video worksheet on the Resource Centre for more detailed comprehension exercises and more practice of the key phrases. Answers The video and answer key for the Speaking video exercises and Worksheet can be found in the Teacher’s Resource Centre. 3 In pairs, students discuss the photos. Elicit answers from different students around the class. Suggested answer I can see a young woman who looks as if she might be working as a mechanic. The photo makes me feel inspired because the young woman looks as if she enjoys her job. Yes, I would like to be like the young person in the photo because I think she has a good job. Her job could be interesting.
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