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Unit 6
Better together Listening; Vocabulary
9 Ask students to work individually
before comparing their ideas in
pairs.
10 6.04 Tell students not to worry
about understanding every word
for now, but to focus on listening
to check their ideas and to put
the pictures in order.
A 3 B 4 C 1 D 2
11 6.04 Check/clarify:
Kindergarten, ponytail, paddle,
panicked, inside out.
This exercise is closely modelled
on Listening Part 2 of the
Cambridge English: First exam.
Ask students to predict the words
or type of words that could go
in each space before they listen
a second time. Tell students not
to worry about other difficult
vocabulary at this stage as this
will come up later.
1 ponytails 2 shoulder
3 everything 4 fault 5 excited
6 dragon 7 swim 8 trust
12 At the end of the exercise,
listen to some of the students’
ideas and encourage open class
discussion.
13 Check/clarify: pod, hatchet, hip.
Ask students to try to match the
phrases before playing the audio
again to hear them in context.
During feedback, ask: Is there a
similar phrase in (their L1)?
1 d 2 c 3 e 4 g 5 f 6 b
7 h 8 a
14 Check/clarify: identical, upset,
choir.
1 look like two peas in a pod
2 get on like a house on fire Activity idea Fast finishers
3 know each other inside out
4 have a shoulder to cry on Ask students to close their books and write as many of the Vocabulary phrases
5 fallen out from page 59 as they can remember. They can then open their books to check.
6 clear the air
7 bury the hatchet
8 joined at the hip
15 This exercise can be done as a
mingle activity with students
changing partners every few
minutes.
Workbook p56
Homework
Ask students to write five sentences
comparing themselves to a member
of their family using some of the
comparative structures in the rule box.
BETTER TOGETHER UNIT 6
LISTENING VOCABULARY
Friendship idioms
9 Put the pictures in order to make a story about
Carlotta and Lily. Write 1–4 in the boxes. 13 Match the idioms with the definitions.
1 to look like two peas in a pod
2 to get on like a house on fire
3 to have a shoulder to cry on
4 to bury the hatchet
5 to know someone inside out
6 to be joined at the hip
7 to clear the air
8 to fall out
A C a to have an argument and not be friends any more
b to do everything together
c to get on with someone really well
d to be so similar that you can’t tell one from the other
e to have someone to listen to your problems
f to know somebody very well
g to become friends again after an argument
h to forget the bad feelings between you
14 Complete the story with the correct form of the
idioms from Exercise 13.
B D
My identical twin sister, Ana and
. People often
I 1
10 6.04 Listen to the interview to check your ideas. call me Ana by mistake because we look so
11 6.04 Listen again and complete the sentences. similar. As well as looking like each other,
we have the same interests, too, and we
. We spend a lot
2
1 In Kindergarten, both Carlotta and Lily wore their of time together. We are in the same class at
.
hair in
2 If Carlotta was upset, Lily was always a school and we know everything about each
to cry on. other. We 3 . When .
I’m upset, I know I 4
3 They were best friends and they did Ana always knows how to cheer me up.
together. We sometimes argue but we have never
4 It was Carlotta’s that 5 with each other.
they fell out. If we did, I think Ana would be the one to
5 Lily was very about talk things over to 6 .
She hates arguments and she’s always the
the fancy-dress competition.
6 Carlotta stole Lily’s idea for the one to 7 and make
friends again.
costume. Ana and I do everything together. We are both
7 Lily was the only person who knew that Carlotta in the school choir and we both love swimming.
couldn’t
8 It took quite a long time for Lily to . My grandma says we’re 8 .
Carlotta again.
12 SPEAKING Work in pairs and answer the questions 15 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Think of some characters
SPEAKING
SPEAKING
in pairs. in a film or a book who are good friends.
Describe their friendship to another pair using
1 Do you agree that Lily was right to be angry the idioms from Exercise 13.
with Carlotta?
2 Do you understand why Carlotta did what she did? workbook page 56
3 Have you ever had a big fight with a good friend?
Are you friends again now?
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Workbook
Listening p60, Ex.1–3
Vocabulary p56, Ex.4–5
Vocabulary Extra p57, Ex.1–3
Worksheets
Vocabulary Worksheets 6
Unit 6 | Better together T59