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Unit 5 · Period 5 / Integrated skills
- friendship
- using -ing forms as adjectives
- using past participles as adjectives
- ‘reduced’ relative clauses using -ing forms and past participles
- phrasal verbs with on and out
- writing short essays
Which way of writing to friends works best?
1 Discuss the questions in pairs or small groups.
- Activity 2: listen to two people discussing the questions in Activity 1.
- Activity 3: listen again and complete the notes with words from the conversation.
- Activity 4: work in pairs. Add any extra points to the notes, then prepare to write a short essay.
Unit 5 · Period 6 / Writing
Write the essay, then spot the mistakes in a letter
1 Work in pairs. If necessary, finish planning the essay that you started in Period 5.
- Activity 3: read the informal letter. Find the mistakes and correct them on the line underneath.
Unit 6 · Period 1 / Reading and vocabulary
Revision: leaving the city for a simpler life
- Activity 2: read the article. Then complete the tasks on page 59.
- Part 1: match the words from the text with their meanings.
- Part 2: use the words in Part 1 to complete the sentences below.
- Part 3: list the positive and negative points about the writer’s new life.
- Activity 3: discuss the questions in pairs or small groups.
Unit 6 · Period 2 / Reading and vocabulary
How did sending messages change over time?
1 Look at the pictures. Then discuss the question below in pairs or small groups.
- Activity 2: read the text about developments in communications technology. Then complete the tasks on page 61.
- Task 1: choose the best title for each paragraph.
- Task 2: answer the questions.
- Task 3: choose the best answer. Circle A, B or C.
Unit 6 · Period 3 / Language
Tenses and verb forms: circle, complete, correct
1 Circle the correct tenses.
- Exercise 2: circle the correct verb forms.
- Exercise 3: complete the sentences with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets: past simple, past continuous or past perfect simple.
- Exercise 4: correct the mistakes in the sentences.
- Exercise 5: complete the sentences with might / may / could or will and the verbs in the box.
- Exercise 6: circle the correct verb forms.
Unit 6 · Period 4 / Language
Future forms and reduced relative clauses
1 Rewrite the sentences using a future form: will do, present continuous or going to.
- Exercise 2: if the sentences are correct, put a tick in the box. If there is a mistake, put a cross in the box and correct the sentence.
- Exercise 3: complete the sentences with the past participle or -ing form of the verbs in the box.
- Exercise 4: replace the relative clauses with reduced relative clauses, using either the past participle or -ing form.
Unit 6 · Period 5 / Writing
Put a story in order, then write your own
1 Put the sentences of the story in the right order.
- Activity 2: write the story in the right order, joining some of the sentences together using the words in the box.
- Activity 3: work in groups of three. Look at these first sentences of stories. Choose one each.
- Activity 4: write two or three more sentences of the story. Then pass your paper on to the next student.
Unit 6 · Period 6 / Writing
Complete a letter, then plan your own
1 Read the letter from Mahmoud to his friend Larry, who is studying in another country.
- Activity 2: compare your answers with a partner.
- Activity 3: look again at the letter. Then decide what each paragraph is doing.
- Activity 4: discuss with a partner what information you could include in a similar letter.
- Activity 5: write your letter together. Then exchange letters with another pair.