LISTENING UNIT 5
Follow-up to Unit 5, Extract 2 Look at the following expressions which occurred in the conversation. Try to work
out their meaning with your partner. How many of them can be interpreted literally?
- I beg your pardon! - pushing back the frontiers of science
- Oh, Frank, you know what I mean! - to get away from it all
- from the cradle to the grave - to have a roof over their heads
- the party's over
Can you remember which speaker used which expression? If not, listen again.
Make sure you know exactly what each expression means in the context of this
conversation.
LISTENING UNIT 6
Look at the recording script for Unit 6, Extract 2. Write five new questions based on
the script. The answers should be no more than three words. Give the questions to
your partner.
Now close the book and listen to the extract once more without looking at the
script. Try to answer your partner's questions.
LISTENING UNIT 7 Listen to the lecture on child language acquisition again (Unit 7, Extract 2).
Make a note of all the 'signpost words' that you hear. Compare your list with your
partner.
Look at the recording script. The signpost words have been written in bold. Do you
agree with them all? Did you find any others?
Now write a summary of the lecture in 150 words.
Supplementary Activities
READING
UNIT 1 Exercise A Look at the titles, sub-headings and opening paragraphs of some of the articles in
a newspaper or magazine.
Pick some that you think are helpful to the reader and some that are not.
Cut out the complete articles and take them into class.
Discuss the articles as a group, by referring to the orientation questions in this unit.
Can you improve on any of the titles/sub-headings?
Exercise В Pick an article from a journal or magazine that you think has a good introduction.
Cut off the title, sub-heading and first paragraph.
Exchange these with a partner.
Discuss what you would expect to read about in your partner's article.
Read the whole of your partner's article when you have finished your discussions.
Find an article in a newspaper or magazine that contains a lot of factual
information.
Write five questions on the article.
Check with your teacher that you have chosen the right sort of information to test
and make sure that the questions can be answered using three words or less.
Exchange your passage and questions with someone else.
IELTS Reading Using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS, complete the following sentences using words from the reading passage 'Salty rice plant boosts harvests' on page 40. Write your answers in boxes 14-18 on у our answer sheet, Some farms have been ...(14)... because the soil is too salty.
The research team hope to assist in the adaptation of other ...(15)... to salt water.
Supplementary Activities
...(16)... of farmland is ruined annually.
The team aims to develop rice plants that ...(17)... excess salt.
The team must wait for ...(18)... before they know whether they have been successful.