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1 reading • Crazes 1 LaNgUage FOCUs • used to
Reading • Crazes I can identify the purpose of a text. I can talk about past habits and states.
THINK! How do crazes start? Who can make money from them? 1 Study the sentences from the interview on 3 Look at the pictures of Michael in the past
Aim page 12. Then choose the correct answers to and Michael now. Use the ideas in 1–6 to
complete the rules.
write sentences about his life ten years ago.
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Identify the purpose of a text. z z r r s s People used to watch the best pole-sitters. Use affirmative and negative forms of used to.
Did people really use to buy pet rocks?
THINK! An interview with Miley Jones, rULes He didn’t use to live in London.
Michael,
Read out the title of the text and check an expert on the history of crazes 1 We use used to + infinitive when we talk about at home in
New York,
that students understand it. Focus on a regular action or state in the past which we 2006
do / don't do now.
the photos and ask students if they HOW DO CRAZES START? 2 The negative form is didn’t use to / didn’t used to.
Well, crazes generally start in
recognise any of the crazes they show. the playground when we’re 3 The question form is Did … use to / Did … used to .
Read the questions with the class and young. We see someone IS THAT HOW CRAZES BECOME SO
elicit answers from individual students. Ask doing something fun and POPULAR QUICKLY? 2 Complete the online article with the words in
obviously we want to join them.
more questions, if necessary, to encourage Absolutely! Things can quickly become a the box. Michael, at work in
students to say more, e.g. Do you think that WHAT WAS THE STRANGEST craze. Before, people didn’t use to have didn’t to use used used London, 2016
CRAZE?
companies sometimes start crazes? Would Pole-sitting, probably. In 1924, smartphones, but now we can post online
games scores or photos immediately.
it help them to sell things? Is it possible to Alvin Kelly sat on a pole for HOME ABOUT CONTACT ARCHIVES
deliberately start a craze? How? Could you thirteen hours. Amazingly, it WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE CRAZE?
Pet rocks. In the 1970s, Gary Dahl started
became popular, and people used
use TV or the internet? to watch the best pole-sitters. The selling a pet rock in a special box with In the 1920s, dance marathons used to be
popular in the USA. People
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to
record was twenty-one days. instructions.
ANSWerS compete for prizes in competitions which 1 work in an office 4 wear smart clothes
use
2
lasted for weeks. People
Students’ own answers. HOW DO CURRENT CRAZES DIFFER DID PEOPLE REALLY USE TO BUY to dance perfectly all the time, but they 2 have longer hair 5 wear glasses
PET ROCKS?
FROM PAST CRAZES?
Things like toys and card-collecting Yes, they did. Apparently, he sold always moved their feet. And they didn’t 3 live in the USA 6 like playing games
exercise 1 used to be popular. Now crazes often millions of them. No one really 3 to dance twenty-four hours a 4 Use IT! Write true and false sentences
Read out the question and the possible start online, when people see and knows what the next craze will be. day. They rested for fifteen minutes every about your past habits. Use affirmative and
hour. The competitors used
4
negative forms of used to and the words in the box.
copy funny ideas for photos or videos
answers. Point out to students that for on social media. eat twelve times a day for energy.
this task they do not need to understand be be interested in cry go
have like play watch
every word in the text, but they just need
to understand what the writer is trying to 1 Read the interview with an I used to watch cartoons with my sister when I was
little.
expert on crazes. What is the
achieve. Students then read the interview purpose of the article? Work in pairs. Read out your sentences. Guess
and choose the correct answer. Check the a to give information whether your partner’s sentences are true or
answer with the class. b to sell digital products false.
c to help people start a new craze I used to watch cartoons with my sister when I was little.
ANSWer
1.08 Read and listen to the interview again.
a to give information 2 Write questions for answers 1–5. 3 VOCaBULary pLUs Use a dictionary to What cartoons did you use to watch?
1 In 1924. (When ?) check the meaning of the words in blue in The Minions. I think that’s true!
exercise 2 e 1.08 2 For thirteen hours. the text.
Read out the first answer and ask (For how long ?) 4 Use IT! Work in groups. Say what you Finished?
?)
students to scan the text quickly to find 3 On social media. (Where ?) think of the crazes in the interview. Take a Write questions to ask a partner about his / her
4 He sold pet rocks. (What
past habits using Did you use to … ? and the
the date 1924. Ask them to read that 5 Millions. (How many ?) vote on which is the silliest, the strangest and topics in exercise 3 on page 11.
the most fun.
section of the interview carefully and
write the question for answer 1. Discuss 12 Fads and fashions Fads and fashions 13
the answer with the class. (When did the
craze of pole-sitting start?) ANSWerS exercise 4 USe IT!
Students read the interview again and Students’ own answers. Allow students time to prepare their ideas
write the remaining questions. With Workbook page 12 exercise 5 individually. They then discuss their ideas
weaker classes, students could work in in small groups. Ask some students to
pairs for this. Check answers with the class. Optional activity: reading tell the class about their discussions. Take
ANSWerS With books closed, write the following a class vote to decide on the silliest and
1 When did the craze of pole-sitting on the board: strangest craze, and the most fun.
start? 1 Gary Dahl
ANSWerS
2 For how long did Alvin Kelly sit on 2 twenty-one Students’ own answers.
a pole?
3 Where do crazes often start 3 1970s More practice
these days? Students discuss from memory what Workbook page 12
4 What did Gary Dahl do / sell in the name and numbers refer to. They Practice Kit Reading 1
the 1970s? then open their books and scan the text
5 How many pet rocks did he sell? quickly to check their ideas. You could
do this as a race to motivate students.
exercise 3 VOCABULArY PLUS Check answers with the class.
Students use a dictionary to check the ANSWerS
meaning of the blue words. Check that 1 Gary Dahl started the pet
students understand the words and elicit rock craze.
or point out that they are all adverbs, 2 The record for sitting on a pole was
and they all comment on the whole twenty-one days.
sentence or express the writer’s opinion in 3 The pet rock craze started in
some way. the 1970s.
T24 Unit 1