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Vocabulary word building (2): prefixes
and opposites, other prefixes and suffixes
Dangers at sea Skills Listening: a TV news report;
Reading: a newspaper article
QUICK REVIEW Containers Work in
pairs. Take turns to say a container.
Your partner says as many things
as possible that can come in that
container: A a tin. B soup, beans, ....
Speaking and Listening
Work in groups. Discuss these
questions.
1 When did you last go to the
beach? Where was it? What did
you do there?
2 Do you have a favourite beach?
If so, where is it?
3 What kind of problems can
people have at the beach?
IBJ a Before you listen, check these
words with your teacher or in a
dictionary.
• HELP WITH LISTENING Linking (3): review
• •
a shark attack
• • a Look at this sentence from the news report. Notice the links. Then
bite (bit, bitten) oxygen www.english0905.com
choose the correct words in the rules.
b B 34 Listen to a TV news So what turns ....... an ....... area~lr/-of the~ljl-ocean ... )nto~;w;..,a dead zone?
report. Answer these questions. • We usually link words that end in a consonant sound with words that start with
1 What has happened in the USA? a consonant/vowel sound.
2 What are dead zones? • When a word ends in a consonant/vowel sound and the next word also starts
3 What causes dead zones? with a consonant/vowel sound, we often link these words with a / w/, / j/ or / r/
sound.
4 How many dead zones are there
in the world? b Work in pairs. Look at these sentences from the beginning of the news
c Listen again. Choose the • report. Draw the consonant- vowel links and complete the extra linking
• sounds.
correct answers. •
•
1 There have been six/eight shark • A British tourist has been.._.attacked by~/jl-a shark off the coast of Texas,
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attacks in the USA this year. • making it the~; ;..,eighth shark attack in America this year. We now go~; I-over
•
2 The tourist was attacked a long • live to~; r--Andrew~ r--Evans for~; ;..,a special report. Andrew, t ;..,understand
•
1
way from/quite near the beach. • 1
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• that the man didn't do~; f..-anything unusual to cause this attack .
3 He was bitten on the arm/leg. •
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4 The dead zone off the coast of • c Look at Audio Script B34 p166. Check your answers. Then listen to
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Texas is quite small/very big. • the news report again and notice the different types of linking.
•
s There are a lot/a few more dead
zones than there were five years Reading, Vocabulary and Speaking
ago.
6 The evening is a good/bad time a Before you read, check these words with your teacher or in a dictionary.
to go swimming near a dead . . • • •
zone. conscious estimate a park ranger harm a lifeguard attach
7 The Texas Wildlife Department
b Look at the title of the article. What do you think happened to Jesse?
are/aren't telling people to stop
swimming in the sea. c Read the article. Were you correct?
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