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Good Times: Vocabulary
Good Times: Vocabulary
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b Make sure your students read the items in the box before they listen 1 I’m going to have a party this weekend.
again. Check students have understood they have to match the 2 My parents are going to decorate the house next week.
speakers to the items. Play the recording. Students then check in 3 I am going to have a holiday abroad this summer.
pairs. Play the recording again if you think students would benefit 4 I’m going to buy some new clothes this weekend.
from it. Check as a class. 5 My friends and I are going to have a picnic tomorrow.
6 I’m going to make a cake tomorrow afternoon.
ANSWERS: 7 My best friend is going to leave her job next month.
Speaker 1: the hairdresser’s, drive Speaker 2: the beach, relax
Speaker 3: food, dance PRONUNCIATION
See Teaching tips: Helping students with pronunciation, page 22.
2 12.2 Give your students time to read through all of the
sentences. Play the recording and pause after each one to give 1 Write the first sentence from exercise 1a on the board and
students time to write the word. Students check in pairs and then as model it. Ask students if the pronunciation of to is strong like
a class. /tuː/ or weak like /tə/. Play the recording of all of the sentences
again and ask students to identify if they use the strong or
Although there is a pronunciation section later on this page, set the
weak pronunciation.
groundwork for it now by drilling the sentences and encouraging
students to use the weak form of to /tə/. 2 Drill the sentences chorally and individually, making sure
students use the weak form /tə/.
ANSWERS:
1 meet 2 drive 3 work 4 relax 5 have 6 dance 2a Give students some time to think about their plans and write
sentences about them. Circulate and offer ideas if students are
having difficulties.
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b Elicit some model questions that students could ask and put
them on the board. Students then work in pairs to ask and answer reading (PAGeS 108–109)
questions about their plans. In feedback, ask for the most interesting 1a Focus students’ attention on the photos and the questions. Students
or exciting plans. work in pairs to discuss the questions. Elicit ideas and put them on
the board.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE b Students quickly read the article to see if their ideas were correct.
You might like to give a time limit of three minutes to encourage
Study, practice & remember: Practice 1
students to read quickly and to find just the answers to the
workbook: Grammar focus 1: going to for future intentions, pages two questions.
59–60; Pronunciation: Weak forms of to, page 60
ANSWERS:
vocabulary (PAGe 108) from left to right: winter in Japan, summer in Sweden and autumn
in the USA
weather and seasons 2 Give your students more time and encourage them to read the text
See Teaching tips: Working with lexical phrases, page 21. in more detail to check if the statements are true or false. Ask them
to underline the part of the text that shows them the answer. This
Culture notes will help with feedback later. Students check in pairs and then as
a class.
In many cultures, and especially in the UK, the weather can act as a
good topic of conversation for small talk when you don’t really know
ANSWERS:
somebody that well and you want to fill the silence. You can easily
practise this with students by bringing up the topic of the weather 1 T
in short conversations at the beginning of class or outside the 2 F (Two million people come to see the sculptures.)
classroom. Talk to them about the weather on your way to work, over 3 F (It’s when day and night are of equal length.)
the weekend, on your holiday, etc. 4 F (They watch theatre performances in the streets.)
5 F (They celebrate it on the Friday and Saturday nearest to June 24th.)
There are not many examples of extreme weather in the UK. It gets
6 T
much colder and there is more snow in other places on the same
7 F (They are most popular in the north-east of the USA.)
latitude, and they usually also have more sun and higher temperatures
8 T
in the summer. However, it is the changeable nature of the weather in
the UK that probably leads to it being such a popular topic of discussion.
In recent years it has looked as if the weather patterns might be reading, exercise 2: Additional activities
changing, with wetter summers and colder winters. This has added This is one of the longest texts that students have read so far
yet another element to the conversation; is this all because of global and there may be quite a lot of vocabulary that students are not
warming or is it just a natural variation? sure about. Don’t encourage students to ask you about all of the
vocabulary they don’t understand as this might take a long time,
1 Students work in pairs to discuss the questions. Check the answers will force people to focus on what they don’t know rather than what
as a class. If your students come from different countries, encourage they do know, and will demand a lot of thinking on your feet. Instead,
them to compare their different weather patterns and seasons. If adopt one or more of the following ideas:
they come from the same country, ask them if they have a favourite • Ask students to find words associated with a theme. In this text,
or least favourite season. you might ask students to underline all the words associated with
2 Students work individually to match the phrases in the box with the celebrations. This will help students to start developing a basic
pictures. They check in pairs and then as a class. During feedback, understanding of words even if they don’t fully understand them.
make sure your students are pronouncing the final -y /i/ sound • Put students into pairs and allow them to ask you about a
correctly as it is commonly dropped. maximum number of words, for example two per pair. They should
identify which two words they want to ask you about and write
ANSWERS: them down before you start answering questions. This will force
A It’s foggy. B It’s cloudy. C It’s warm. D It’s windy. students to focus on the most important words that they are not
e It’s icy. F It’s cool. G It’s sunny. H It’s snowing. sure about.
i It’s cold. J It’s raining. K It’s hot. L It’s wet • Bring in dictionaries for students to use to find definitions of words
they are not sure about.
3 Students work in pairs to answer the questions. Compare ideas with • Show students how to find help with unknown words on
the class for a final feedback session. the internet.
• Ask students, in pairs, to identify some words they are not sure
vocabulary, exercise 3: Additional activity about. They should then pass these words on to another pair for
Write on the board: my last birthday, New Year’s Eve, my last holiday, them to find a definition.
yesterday, last weekend and add any important national holidays
like, for example, Independence Day. Tell students what the weather 3 Students work in pairs to discuss the questions. Check ideas as
was like for your last birthday and show the past of the expression a class.
introduced in the book, e.g. It was cold and raining. Put students into
pairs to talk about the weather on the other days. In feedback, see if
everybody can agree on what the weather was like.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
workbook: Vocabulary: Weather and seasons, page 60
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GRAMMAR ANSWERS:
would like to and want to for future wishes 1 July 5th–8th in the heart of the Highlands of Scotland
1 Read through the rules with your students. Try to elicit the 2 Barbara McDowell, Salsa Fling, The Protractors
difference in meaning between the two forms, but don’t push 3 Scottish haggis, Scotch broth, Scottish shortbread
this too much as it is quite subtle. Highlight: 4 drawing classes, face-painting, arts and crafts workshops
5 hotels and a campsite
• that basically they mean the same. 6 music and dancing
• that want to is stronger and more direct than would like to. 7 Auldhay Station, Aberdeen Airport
• the form: would like to + verb; want to + verb.
• the weak pronunciation of to /tə/ in both forms, the same 3a 12.6 Students listen to the conversation and identify which of
as that in going to on the previous page. the things on the website the people talk about. They check in pairs.
Play the recording again if you think students would benefit from it.
• the two different short answers to the questions: Yes, I do. /
No, I don’t. and Yes, I would. / No, I wouldn’t.
ANSWERS:
2 Check that students understand the time phrases.
They talk about the dates, the music, the food, the activities for
You may want to ask students to read Study 2 on page 160 for children and the accommodation.
a more detailed explanation of would like to and want to for
future wishes.
b Focus students’ attention on the Useful language box and make sure
students read all of the phrases before they listen again and tick the
ones they hear.
PRACTICE ANSWERS:
1a Do the first one as an example with the class. Students work When is the festival going to happen?
individually to complete the questions then check in pairs. What (music) are you going to have?
b 12.5 Students listen and check. How about (food)?
It’s going to be (at the beginning of July / at the end of November).
ANSWERS:
(Salsa Fling) are going to play at the festival.
1 Do, would 2 Are, would 3 Do 4 would 5 Are 6 Do, would We‘re going to have (cookery demonstrations).
We’ve got a lot of (activities for children).
c Students work in pairs to ask and answer the questions. There’s going to be (traditional Scottish dancing).
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
resource bank: Activity 12A Future walkabout (going to for future
intentions; would like to and want to for future wishes)
Task (PAGe 110)
Study, practice & remember: Practice 2 Speaking
workbook: Grammar focus 2: would like to and want to for future 1 Put students into pairs. Give the context by explaining that your
wishes, pages 61–62 students are going to plan a local festival using the questions from
Preparation, exercise 2 as prompts. Remind students to use the
language from the Useful language box, as well as would like to and
want to. Circulate and offer help and encouragement as necessary.
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2 Split up the pairs and put students into small groups. Students talk
ANSWERS:
about the festival they planned with their original partner. You could
end the activity by having the class vote on what they think is the 1 T
best festival. 2 F (There are many festivals.)
3 T
4 F (There are three nights.)
Share your task 5 T
The idea here is to give students a chance to ‘perfect’ their speaking 6 F (Tickets are free.)
in this context and provide them with a recording of a ‘polished’
version. This will provide extra motivation for students, as well as 3 Students match the paragraphs with the descriptions. This will help
extra practice. Students can either make an audio or video recording, students to structure their own writing later on.
depending on how comfortable they feel and what equipment is
available. Students could even use their mobile phones to do this. If ANSWERS:
possible, they’ll need a quiet place to make their recording. Students
a3 b2 c1
can either record themselves during the lesson, or as homework and
bring the recordings to the next class.
4 Give students some time to remember the festival they planned
Some additional ideas could include:
from page 110. Encourage them to make notes before they start
• Students film themselves talking about their proposed festival as if writing and to refer to the text about Boi Bumbá for inspiration. If
it were a television advertisement. students would prefer, allow them to write about a real local festival.
• Students record a conversation with a classmate with one person 5 Students work individually to write about their festival.
asking questions about the festival and the other one answering.
writing, exercise 5: Alternative suggestion
Instead of asking students to write individually, you might like to ask
Language live (PAGeS 112–113) them to do some collaborative writing. This can have the benefit of
encouraging weaker writers, improving group identity and changing
the focus of writing to make it more interesting. Some ways you can
do this include:
writing (PAGe 112) • having students work in groups of three and take responsibility for
writing about just one of the points from exercise 3.
information to promote a festival • suggesting students use an online program like Google Docs
to enable them to write collaboratively and produce one text
Culture notes between them.
Boi Bumbá festivals are held predominantly in the north and north- • putting students into groups and allowing them to decide how they
east of Brazil, in and around the Amazon. The biggest and most will produce the text.
famous of these festivals is held in Parintins, about 500 km from
Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas in Brazil.
There are many different versions of the festival, and as many
different stories about the origin. Basically, all the festivals start with a Speaking (PAGe 113)
play which tells the story of Francisco, a farmer, and his (usually) ugly,
pregnant wife Catirina, who wants to eat beef tongue. Francisco kills a Suggestions and offers
bull for his wife, but it turns out the bull is the farm owner’s favourite.
See Teaching tips: Using the video material in the classroom, page 24.
A priest and a doctor both fail to revive the bull and Francisco is just
about to be sent to jail when a shaman performs a ritual that finally 1 Focus students’ attention on the photo. Set a context by saying the
brings the bull back to life and spares Francisco from jail. The end of three women are organising a birthday party. Students then work in
the story is a huge party that celebrates the bull’s life and usually pairs to discuss the question.
spills out into the streets afterwards. 2a Students watch the DVD and answer the question. Make sure
The festival in Parintins is very popular with the residents of the students understand they only have to say how many ideas are
city and draws tourists from all around the world. There is a 35,000 mentioned, not what the ideas are. Students check in pairs and then
capacity arena for the play, and the tickets are all free. The main as a class.
problem with seeing the festival is getting to the city as it is quite
remote with access only by the Amazon River or plane. ANSWER:
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1a Focus students’ attention on the three photos. Students work in
pairs to discuss the questions. Elicit ideas and put them on the b Make sure students read the phrases for giving suggestions before
board. Make sure that students know the word bull to describe the they watch the DVD again to put them in order. They check in pairs
third picture. and then as a class.
b Students quickly read the text and check the answers to the
ANSWERS:
questions. Check as a class.
b, f, e, d, a, c
ANSWERS:
1 The photos show the Boi Bumbá festival. c If students don’t remember the answer, play the end of the recording
2 It takes place in Brazil. again for them to check.
3 They’re celebrating the story of a bull which comes back to life.
ANSWER:
2 Make sure students read the statements first and then the text to They decide to go to an open-air concert in the park.
find out if they are true or false. They check in pairs and then as
a class.
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ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
resource bank: Activity 12B The school party (Suggestions and offers)
workbook: Writing: Information to promote a festival, page 62;
Language live: Suggestions and offers, page 63
Students can now do Progress test 6 on the Teacher’s Resource Disc.
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