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A lifelong process Why did you decide to study here? How is it different from studying in your own country?
Unit objectives
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Reading and Use of English Part 8: studying the statements or questions before reading the text; using appropriately formal language Writing Part 2: report writing, reading task instructions carefully, organising the report clearly into sections with appropriate headings Reading and Use of English Part 1: selecting answers by considering collocations, dependent prepositions and meaning Listening Part 2: reading the gapped sentences before listening, checking that answers are grammatically correct Speaking Part 4: using appropriate language and conversation strategies Grammar: expressing ability, possibility and obligation Vocabulary: chance, occasion, opportunity, possibility
Starting off 1 As a warmer Ask students to tell each other what they remember about their first day at school. Ask one or two students to tell the whole class about any particularly interesting experiences. 2 Students work on their own for this exercise. Give them three or four minutes to fill in the table and make brief notes in support of their opinions. 3 Monitor discussions and have a whole-class feedback session to gauge whether there is any consensus on these educational issues. Extension idea Any of the propositions in Exercise 2 could be used for a class or group debate. Alternatively, at the end of the lesson you could ask students to choose one of the propositions and write a paragraph expressing their opinion as a homework exercise.
Listening | Part 2 1 As a warmer Ask students: Have any of you ever studied abroad? Encourage any who have done so to describe their experience to the class. Then ask: Why do people go abroad to study? For students who are using this course abroad, ask: 72
2 Before students listen, elicit ideas about what a European newcomer to a Middle-Eastern city like Abu Dhabi might notice or comment on. Make notes on the board as students suggest ideas. 3
Ask students to identify ideas from the recording that appear in the list on the board. Answer She comments on all these things except climate, transport and exams.
CD 2 Track 13 (The underlined words show the answers for the exam task in Exercise 5.) Three friends and I have come here for an Arabic course at the Advanced Language Centre as part of our degree at London University. In our first year we were offered the choice of several modern languages. Persian, Turkish and Arabic were available, but I was charmed by the Arabic lecturer, who had a huge smile and a 1passion for his subject. As the course developed, so did my fascination with Arabic, its different alphabet – and the culture. I researched the possibility of studying in a Middle Eastern country. In the end I decided this was the best place: the city has a lively cultural scene, and its 2colloquial dialect is the most widely understood throughout the Arab World. We arrived in September and got to our hotel at about 10 pm. Unfortunately, the staff were nervous about letting us stay, as we were a 3mixed group who were all unmarried. We eventually found another hotel, where we haggled over the price of rooms. We spent the next few days settling in and getting to know the city. Then our course leader arranged flats for us to look around. We chose a light, spacious flat, with a friendly and helpful landlady. It’s much better than I was used to in London. It was a fascinating time for us, but the 4culture shock was so great that within the first week one of our group returned home.
