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GETTING AROUND TOWN
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GETTING AROUND TOWN
Unit Overview
TOPIC
Places in a town
VOCABULARY
Places in town
AND READING
A description of a town
GRAMMAR
Prepositions
READING
A trip to Edinburgh
VOCABULARY
Compound nouns
PRONUNCIATION
Compound nouns
LISTENING
A conversation about a visit to Edinburgh
WRITING
An article about a city
Resources
GRAMMAR REFERENCE AND PRACTICE: SB page 151; TB page 249
WORKBOOK: pages 60–63
PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEETS: Grammar worksheet Unit 14;
Vocabulary worksheet Unit 14
TEST GENERATOR: Unit test 14; Term test 2
WARMER
Write
Where I live
on the board and then divide the board
into two columns with the headings
things I like
and
things I don’t like
. As a class, brainstorm one or two ideas,
e.g.:
things I like
things I don’t like
lots of parks
nowhere to go when it rains
Encourage the students to copy the table into their
notebooks and in small groups, write down some more
ideas.
ABOUT YOU
If necessary, pre-teach the difference between a village
(a rural settlement), a town (an urban area usually with
a market and a population of between 1,000 and 20,000)
and a city (an urban area usually with more people and
a cathedral and/or a university). If you did the Warmer
activity, encourage the students to use these ideas when
they ask and answer the questions.
VOCABULARY
READING
AND
Places in town
1
Ask the students to look at the map first and in pairs,
describe what they can see. Next, ask them to find
the things on the map. Check that they can say the
things correctly by asking them to listen and repeat, in
