C 4:02 Photo story E Think and explain

Suggested 10–12 Your actual Suggested 5–7 Your actual

teaching time: minutes teaching time: teaching time: minutes teaching time:

• After students read and listen, ask: • To review, have students compare their answers in pairs
When did Kate come home from her trip? (Last night.) as you circulate to answer any questions.
How was her trip? (Great.) Option: (+ 5 minutes) To personalize these new expressions,
How was the food? (Incredible.) ask follow-up questions; for example:
Did she go windsurfing? (Yes.) What is your kind of vacation? (I travel. I do nothing. I see
Did she go dancing? (No.) my friends.)
Did she go snorkeling? (Yes.) What is something you can’t wait for? (The weekend,
Language and culture summer vacation, the next song by [Alicia Keys],
basketball season, etc.)
• From the Longman Corpus: Get back is less formal
than return and is used more frequently in spoken
American English. F Personalization
Suggested 8–10 Your actual
teaching time: minutes teaching time:
D Focus on language • Have students take notes before discussing.
Suggested 2–4 Your actual
teaching time: minutes teaching time: • Encourage students to explain their opinions.
• Model the pronunciation of the underlined expressions.
Have students repeat after you. SPEAKING
• To review, have students read their phrases aloud. Pair work
Suggested 10–12 Your actual
Language and culture teaching time: minutes teaching time:
• In this context, incredible means very good. However,
it can also mean too strange to believe or very difficult to
• Tell students that they can check more than one box.
believe and have a negative meaning. For example: Option: (+ 5 minutes) For further discussion, show a world
A: The flight was delayed five hours, and they lost our map and ask students Where would you like to go for
luggage. vacation? Have students talk about places they would like
B: Incredible! to visit and why.
• Cool has several different meanings. As a casual
expression, it means very good; for example, The cruise
was cool. In the Photo Story, cool means That’s great news, extras
or I‘m glad to hear that. However, when talking about Workbook
temperature, cool means a little cold; for example, The days
were warm and the evenings were cool.

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