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Unit 6
Better together Reading
Warmer
Write efistalv in the centre of the
board. Ask: Which word has been
mixed up? Elicit festival Ask: How
many festivals can you name? Write
some of their ideas on the board.
15 Get ing
Play the video and discuss the
question with your class.
1 Write the words from the
box on the board and check
understanding. Put a copy of the
two photos up on the board and
do the exercise as a class before
students open their books.
2 Ask a student to read out
their notes. The rest of the
class can try to guess which
photo it is.
3 6.01 Before students listen, ask
them to cover the email on page
57 and just look at the subject
line and photo and answer the
question.
4 1 comics and graphic novels
2 by their costumes
3 because you have more fun if you do
4 by taking selfies together
5 by competing (and not just
watching)
6 because they need enough time to
make costumes
5 Encourage students to express
themselves in English and to use
any vocabulary they have learned
from the email. Monitor to help
with any difficulties, but do not
interrupt as this is a fluency
activity.
Objectives
Functions and speaking Using intensifying
comparatives; Role play: The missing suitcase Videos
Grammar Comparatives; linkers of contrast ● Get
Vocabulary Ways of speaking; friendship idioms celebrated in your town or city? and Extension Worksheets
Values Doing good
Literature Little Women
T56 Better together | Unit 6
6 BETTER
OBJECTIVES
FUNCTIONS:
using intensifying comparatives
TOGETHER GRAMMAR:
comparatives; linkers of contrast
VOCABULARY:
ways of speaking; friendship idioms
Watch the video and think:
15 what festivals are celebrated
in your town or city?
A B
REAdING 4 Read the email again and answer the questions.
1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the 1 What kind of reading material are you most likely to come across
SPEAKING
at a Comic Con?
photos. What kind of festival do you 2 How can you tell that someone likes the same show as you?
think these people are attending? 3 Why should Matteo wear a costume?
How do they feel?
4 In what way(s) do people connect with each other?
dull | excited | enthusiastic 5 How can you enjoy the Casual Cosplay Showcase more?
miserable | self-confident | terrified
6 Why does Matteo have to make a quick decision?
SPEAKING
2 SPEAKING Choose one of the two 5 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
SPEAKING
people and imagine their thoughts. 1 Why do you think wearing a costume gives people self-confidence?
Make notes. Tell your partner the
2 Have you ever acted in a play or dressed as a superhero? How did it
person’s thoughts for your partner make you feel?
to guess who it is. 3 In what situations do you feel most self-confident?
3 6.01 Look at the subject line The missing suitcase
Amy put on her email. Why do you ROLE PLAY SPEAKING Work in groups of four. Students A and C: Go to page 127.
think Amy chose this subject line?
SPEAKING
Read and listen to the email to Students B and D: go to page 128.
check your ideas. Imagine you are going to Comic Con London with three friends.
You travelled to London by train.Your suitcase with your costumes
56 in has been lost. Agree together on what you should do.
ROLE PLAY Allow students six to eight minutes to prepare their role plays.
Monitor to make sure all students are on task. If students have access to a
recording facility (using their mobile phones, for example), they could record
their conversation and play it back to check their own pronunciation and
intonation. They can then repeat the exercise and listen for improvements.
Resources for this unit
All available online
Worksheets
ing: What festivals are ● Grammar and vocabulary: Basic, Standard
● Grammar video!: Linkers of contrast ● Project: Comics
Tests ● Communication: Bringing people together
● Unit, extension and skills test 6 ● Grammar presentation: Linkers of contrast
● End of term test 2 ● Literature Worksheets: Anne of Green
Gables, Bill the Bloodhound and The Yellow
Wallpaper
● Get ing and Grammar video! video
Worksheets