Teacher’s notes Exam Roundup – Unit 8 Type of activity: individual work/pair work Focus: vocabulary connected with travelling and first aid; skills: speaking, reading (multiple choice), knowledge of lexical and grammatical structures: matching with word building New vocabulary: sticky tape, emergency blanket, sterile gloves, distilled water, insect repellent, jet lag, travel sickness word families related to the following nouns: health, treatment, illness, care, danger, vaccine Level: Pre-intermediate/Intermediate Time: 45 minutes Preparation: one copy of the ‘Exam Roundup Unit 8’ worksheet per student Procedure: Warm-up
(5 min)
Give the students copies of the “Exam Roundup Unit 8”, divide them into pairs and ask them to discuss the questions next to the picture. Monitor the activity and allow the students to use their books if they need to recollect some words or expressions related to the questions. Remind them to use the Present Continuous tense to describe the activities in the picture. Task 1
(7 min)
Ask the students to look at the first aid kit in the picture and individually match the items from box A with the objects in the photograph. Then allow them to compare their answers in pairs, and help them if they have any doubts. Before moving to the second part of the activity, make sure that the students understand what the words in box B stand for. You may either present them with real-life objects or ask the students to define the words in English. If they are not familiar with the vocabulary, provide the explanations yourself. Then ask the students to work in pairs, discuss and decide which three things from the list they want to include in their kit. Task 2
(6 min)
Ask the students to look at the table and inform them that it contains words arranged in word families. Ask them to work individually and fill in as many words as they can. Then ask them to compare their answers in pairs. Finally, check the activity as a class and provide all of the correct answers, making sure that the students know their correct spelling and meaning. © Macmillan Polska 2014
KEY: 1. health, 2. treat, 3. Illness, 4./5. careful/ careless, 6. danger, 7. vaccinate Task 3 – Poziom rozszerzony
(7 min)
Ask the students to read the text and individually complete the gaps with the correct form of the words in the box. There is one extra word that they don’t need to use. They should refer to the table in Task 2 if they have any problems. Then check the activity as a class and explain any doubts your students have, as well as the new vocabulary from the text. KEY: 1. vaccinated, 2. careful, 3. ill, 4. danger, 5. treatment Task 4
(7 min)
This activity is intended to be a follow-up class discussion on the basis of the text in Task 3. Ask the students to go back to the text and answer Question 1, underlining the fragment(s) in the text that helped them to make the decision. Then ask them what they decided to put into their kits in Task 1 and note their answers on the board (so that the content of all of the kits is clearly visible). Ask them which kit would be most helpful for the woman in the text. If you have a more talkative group, you may consider discussing the contents of more kits and deciding the ways in which they could be useful. Finally, ask Question 3 and allow volunteers to share their experiences in class. KEY: 1. B Task 5 – Poziom podstawowy
(9 min)
Ask the students to read the remaining three texts and choose the correct answer (A–C) for the question about each text. Then check the activity as a class. Explain any words and expressions that your students don’t know, with a focus on jet lag and travel sickness. KEY: 1.B, 2.C, 3.A Task 6
(4 min)
Ask the students to work in pairs and answer the questions in the task. Monitor the students while they are speaking. You may assign them a homework writing task, which will be the answer to one of these questions.
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