Teacher’s notes Exam Roundup – Unit 9 Type of activity: individual work/pair work Focus: vocabulary connected with personality and friendship; skills: speaking, listening (multiple choice), the knowledge of functional language and lexical and grammatical structures New vocabulary: obstinate, forgetful, introvert, outgoing, reserved, conscientious, opposites attract, get on with sb Level: Pre-intermediate/Intermediate Time: 45 minutes Preparation: one copy of the Exam Roundup Unit 9 worksheet per student Procedure: Warm-up
(6 min)
Give your students copies of the Exam Roundup Unit 9 worksheet, divide them into pairs and ask them to discuss the questions. Monitor the activity and allow students to use their books if they need to recollect some words or expressions related to the questions. Check if they use the appropriate tenses when answering the questions. After the students have finished, do a mini survey of the class. Ask the people whose best friends are very similar to them to raise their hands and count them. Then do the same for people whose friends are different from them. You may consider asking the students to give reasons for the result (no matter what these are). Task 1 – Poziom podstawowy
(6 min)
Ask students to read the text in task 1 individually and fill in the gaps with the correct answers (A, B or C). Then allow them to compare their answers in pairs, offering them help if they have any doubts. Then ask your students to explain what the expression “opposites attract” means. KEY: 1. A, 2. B, 3. C, 4. C, 5. A Task 2
(12 min)
Ask your students to gather in groups of three and tell them they are going to decide which of the people in the pictures are more likely to become best friends. Let them read the descriptions first and pre-teach the new vocabulary items. Ask them to choose a most suitable candidate for a best friend for each of the six people and give reasons for their choice. After they’ve done that in © Macmillan Polska 2014
their groups, ask them to find a different partner and share their group results in pairs. Monitor the activity and help your students if they encounter any problems. Task 3 – Poziom rozszerzony
(10 min)
Ask students to listen to two tapescripts concerning friendship and individually mark the correct answer (A, B or C). Read the tapescripts. Then check the activity as a class and help if students have any doubts and explain the new vocabulary from the text. KEY: 1. B, 2. B, 3. A, 4. A, 5. C, 6. B Tapescript: Text 1 Sam: Hi, Nick. Nick: Oh, hi, Sam. Sam: Hey, Nick, have you got any plans for the evening? Nick: Why are you asking? Sam: Well, Manchester’s playing Liverpool tonight. I thought we could watch it at my place. Nick: Sorry, I promised Susan I’d help her with Geography. Sam: You’re joking, right? You can’t miss this match – it’s the most important one in the season. Nick: I’ve already made my promise and I want to keep it. Sam: What is it with you and Susan? Is she your girlfriend, or what? Nick: No, she’s my best friend. Sam: That’s impossible - boys and girls cannot be best friends. Or maybe they can if they are cousins. But if they aren’t, there is always something more going on. Nick: Come on, Sam. The fact that YOU cannot make friends with girls does not mean it is impossible. Sam: Oh, just admit it. You like her a lot. Nick: Yeah, I do. She reads the same books and listens to similar music as I do and I really enjoy talking to her. But that’s it. Sam: You can say whatever you want, but you still prefer spending the evening with her than watching the football with me. It’s just unfair. Nick: I’m sorry, Sam. Maybe next time.
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