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Upper-Intermediate - Units 11-20 | |
Unit 11 Learn all sorts of interesting hints and tips, for example, How can you make lipstick last longer? How can you stop powder paint sticking to a toddler? Answers are all in this site. Students could be asked to look at some of the tips and then report back using the clauses of purpose practised in Unit 11. Alternatively try Inventions.com: http://catalog.com/impulse/invent.htm. Ask students to choose an invention, print a picture or write down the name and ask other students to guess the use. Could be extended to include their views. Unit
12 Choose a dish from your area and make notes on the ingredients and method and give a summary to the class. Alternatively find the strangest food you can, again make notes on ingredients and method and tell the rest of the class. Unit
13 Both auction sites. Before the lesson get a good idea of what is available especially as regards gadgets and hi-tech equipment. Try and find some pictures of ‘things’, print them off and take them to the lesson and ask the students to work out their uses. Finally send them to the site to check their guesses. Unit
14 Use these questionnaires as an extension of the one in the coursebook. The first is from an insurance company and will give you on-the-spot feedback. The second is a fitness questionnaire, the third is to test how green you are. One or all of these questionnaires could be done by the class and as they feedback they should be asked 'how much influence on where they live has on how they live'. Unit
15 Why not try the newspapers for recent lucky escape stories. Go to the front page of any newspaper , look for the search box and type "lucky+escape" there will be a good selection from the recent past. It would be a good idea to check before the lesson and to guide the learners to certain stories. Ask them to read and give a summary making sure they use the unit’s target language (If+had+3rd form of the verb…would+have+3rd form of the verb) Unit
16 Use this site to encourage students to write about their favourite song/book etc. Students use the format in the course book to write or tell the others about their favourite band, very often there are also clips of music. If the exercise is written the work should contain a link to the relevant page. Unit
17 Why not ask your students to do some fantasy shopping? Set a scenario, for example: there is going to be a class party, or you have won some money and have decided to spend it all on your classmates. Then give them an imaginary but realistic sum of money and ask them in pairs or groups to decide what they are going to buy, making sure they do not overspend. As a feedback ask each group to explain their choices, reminding them to focus on the language areas covered in the unit. Unit
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19 This investigation by the Canadian Discovery Channel provides some very interesting background information on Stonehenge as well as some very good examples of the target language from this unit (i.e. speculating about the past). There are also links to investigations about Easter Island and the Nazca plates. Students could be asked to do a Grammar Safari and look for examples of past modals and examples of different ways in which uncertainty is expressed for the past. Unit
20 Controversial but effective site, analysing the darker side of advertising. Great for discussions. Could be used before starting the unit as a springboard or after reading the text. Good place to visit is the "spoof ads", alternative examples of very famous publicity campaigns, students could be asked about what point the ad is making and about their reactions to these campaigns |
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