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Unit 8
List it! Culture; Writing

4 When students have seen the
highlighted words being used in LIST IT! UNIT 8
context, ask them to try to work 4 VOCABULARY Match the highlighted words in the
out the meaning of the phrases. article with the definitions. 2 ANALYSE Read the essay again. Ten things are
Compare their meanings with the 1 bright and colourful 5 delicate underlined. Five of the things are mistakes,
6 can be seen
2 way
the other five are correct. Find an example of:
definitions in the book. 3 the top of something 7 died out • a spelling mistake
1 vibrant 2 course 3 summit 4 where sea meets land 8 explosions • a mistake with the verb tense
4 shore 5 fragile 6 visible 5 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions. • a mistake with the wrong choice of
SPEAKING
connecting word
7 went extinct 8 eruptions 1 Imagine you could choose one of the seven wonders • a mistake with a preposition
to go and see. Which one would it be and why?
2 Think of two things from your country that you • a mistake which is a missing word
5 Monitor and help with vocabulary could campaign to be included on a list of seven 3 Correct the mistakes in Javed’s writing.
and ideas as necessary. After wonders of the natural world. Give reasons to
support your choice.
students have discussed in pairs, 4 Look again at the list of kinds of mistakes in
Exercise 2.
regroup them into small groups 1 Are there other kinds of mistakes that
for students to report back WRITING people make in writing? What are they
An essay
(e.g. punctuation)?
on their discussions and share 2 Does the list in Exercise 2 show the kinds of
INPUT Read Javed’s essay. What can you see
opinions. Hold a class vote to 1 from the top of Mount Bromo, if the weather mistakes that you have sometimes made in
decide which natural wonder is is good? your writing so far using this book? If you’ve
made other kinds of mistakes, what were they?
the most popular. A wonder of the natural world 3 Make a checklist for yourself of ‘Mistakes I
should try not to make when I write in English’.
My choice for a wonder of the natural world 5 PLAN You’re going to write an essay entitled:
1 Set a two-minute time limit to is Mount Bromo in Indonesia. Indonesia ‘A Wonder of the Natural World’.
encourage students to read has many wonderful volcanoes 1 and Mount 1 Choose a natural wonder in your country or
Bromo, on the eastern side of the island
somewhere else in the world.
quickly for gist and focus on the of Java, is 2 … most beautiful. It rises 3 up 2 Make notes about why you think this is a good
of a large plain known as ‘the sea of sand’.
questions. Encourage them not to It’s just over 2,300 metres to the top of choice for a modern wonder of the world.
focus on every word for now. the crater, which can be reached on foot. 6 PROdUCE Write your essay (200–250 words).
The crater is huge and the views across
one of the most beautiful sunrises in it are amazing. Inside the crater, there • Make sure you state clearly what your choice is
the world are other smaller volcanoes, so you have and say where and what it is.
the effect of having one volcano inside
another. It is a popular tourist attraction • Give reasons for your choice being a ‘wonder
of the world’.
2 This can be done as a class and sometimes 4 there can be quite a big • When you have written your essay, read
crowd of people there. Most people 5 spend
competition with pairs competing the night before in a nearby village called it through again and use your checklist of
personal mistakes to make sure that there are
Cemoro Lawang. They get up really early
to be first to find the mistakes. the next morning and make the 45-minute no mistakes in your writing.
spelling: 7 verb tense: 8 walk to the top in time to see the sunrise
over the far side of the equator. If you are
connecting word: 1 preposition: 3 unlucky, there will be too many clouds, 6 but
missing word: 2 on a clear day it is 7 won of the most beautiful
sunrises you will see anywhere in the world.
Mount Bromo is still active and occasionally
3 Remind students that they only erupts, so you need to be careful when
need to write corrections for visiting it. In fact, in 2004, two people
8 had been killed by rocks that were thrown
numbers 7, 8, 1, 3 and 2. into the air 9 by an eruption. However, such
1 but 2 the 3 out 7 one events are extremely rare and when there
is danger of activity, the local authorities 10 …
8 were killed make sure that no one goes up.
4 This exercise is designed to get
students thinking about the 81
mistakes they make when writing.
Ask students to work individually
to note down their answers Homework
to each question. If available,
ask students to refer to pieces You could set the writing task for homework. As a follow-up in the next lesson,
of writing they have recently ask students to exchange their essays with another student for them to read
produced to help them create and make comments and suggestions. Tell them not to correct every error, but
a checklist. to look for the following:
What further information would you like?
5 Divide the class into small groups In what ways could vocabulary be improved?
so that they can share ideas and
make notes in preparation before Are there any corrections from the checklist that could be made?
writing individually (they could do
this for homework).
Activity idea Mixed-ability more
6 Encourage students to make a The essay in Exercise 6 could be
plan before they begin writing done as a collaborative writing Practice Extra
their essays and to organise activity in class with pairs of students Unit 8 Master it!
their writing as outlined in the writing their essays together.
instructions. Remind students Workbook
that they should refer to their Developing Writing p77
checklist of past mistakes once Tests
they’ve written their essay. Unit, extension and skills test 8
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