Page 38 - Think 4. Teacher's Book B2

Unit 2
On the road Listening; Functions

7 Check/clarify: migration, caribou
/ˈkær.ɪ.buː/, a bar-tailed godwit, ON THE ROAd UNIT 2
freshwater eel /iːl/. LISTENING
Put a copy of the photos up on 7 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the photos and the maps. Which animals in the photos
SPEAKING
the board and do the exercise make which journeys on the maps?
as a class before students open
their books. Tally students’ ideas
on the board, but do not give the
answers at this stage.
8 2.02 Tell students not to
worry if they don’t understand
every word, but to just focus
on checking they’ve matched A B C
the right journey with the right
animal. 1 2 3
A 2 B 3 C 1
9 2.02 Before playing the audio
again, ask students to answer as
much as they can from memory.
1 A 2 C 3 B 4 A

10 Monitor to help with any
difficulties, but do not interrupt
2.02 Listen to the radio quiz to check your
SPEAKING

as this is a fluency activity. If 8 ideas. Write 1–3 in the boxes. 10 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
students are struggling to answer 1 Which of these animals do you think is the most
amazing and why?
2.02 Listen again and choose the correct

question 1, you could ask them to 9 answer, A, B or C. 2 What animals migrate to and from your country?
come up with a list for question 2 1 What is this quiz round about?
first to give them more to discuss. A animal migration FUNCTIONS
B famous animals Introducing (amazing) information
C animals in nature 11 2.02 Listen again to the radio quiz. Complete
11 2.02 Pause after each phrase 2 What’s the most amazing fact about the the phrases used to introduce information with
bar-tailed godwit’s migration?
and ask students to repeat the A It’s the longest migration of any bird. the missing words. …
1 Believe it or
phrase using suitable intonation. B It does it in a day. 2 Did you that …?
Encourage students to sound C It does it without stopping. 3 Would you me if
3 How many times in their life do freshwater eels
I told you …?
enthusiastic! find themselves in the Sargasso Sea? 4 What’s most about …
1 not 2 know 3 believe A one is …
B two
4 impressive C three 12 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Person A thinks
SPEAKING
4 What makes the caribou’s journey more difficult? of something amazing that he/she knows.
12 Give a couple of your own A They make it on foot. (Invent something if you want!) Person A
gives the information to person B, using one
examples before students do B They have to do it through heavy snows. of the expressions in Exercise 11. Then A and B
C They make it four times a year.
the exercise. Encourage them to change roles.
continue the conversation where 23
possible. This exercise can be
done as a mingle activity with
students changing partners after Activity idea Extension
each dialogue.
Ask students to add further examples of groups of people to the list in Exercise
6 (e.g. army, association, committee, congregation, crowd, gang, household,
Homework jury, movement, network, team, tribe, unit). They could think of words in their L1
and use dictionaries to translate, if that helps.
Ask students to write five sentences
about members of their family
including non-defining relative
clauses. Give them an example to
get them started, e.g. My father,
who was born in France, moved to
England in 1984.

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Workbook
Listening p24, Ex.1–2

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