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Unit summary                            3      Adventure                              CLIL p92                                                                        SON ĐOÒNG CAVE
                                                                                                  Language focus reference p101
                                                           Vocabulary • Natural features
              Vocabulary                                   I can express my preferences about places and activities.
              Natural features: beach, cave, cliff, desert,
              dune, falls, ocean, rainforest, river, sea,     THINK!  Can you name two natural features that
                                                      Việt Nam is famous for? Which ones have you visited?
              valley, waves
              Extreme adventures: climb up, cycle     1  Complete the table with the words in blue in the
              down, dive off, sail around, surf         quiz. Then compare your answers with a partner's.
                                                              Land           Water
                                                                        sea
                                                                                                                                                                        1.24   Watch or

              Language focus                                                                                                                                      3   listen to Max, Alicia
              Present perfect simple and present                                                                                                                    and Elizabeth
              perfect continuous                                                                                                                                    talking about places
                                                                                                                                                                    and activities. What
              Present perfect simple + just, still, yet                                                                                                             place would each
                                                          1.23   Do the quiz with a partner. Then listen
              and already                             2   and check your answers.                                                                                   person like to visit?
                                                                                                                                                                  Key pHrAses
              Speaking                                                                                                                                            Talking about preferences
              I can request and respond to                                                                                                                        Would you rather … ?
                                                                                                                                                                  Which would you prefer: … or … ?
              personal news.                                                                                                                                      I’d love to       .
                                                         of                                                                                                       I’d much prefer to    .  .
                                                                                                                                                                  It’s my dream to
              Writing
              I can use relative clauses to describe a                                                                             You can surf some of the world’s biggest   4    Use IT!  Work in pairs. Ask and answer
              sport.                                                                                                              waves in the Atlantic ocean off the   questions 1–4 using the key phrases.
                                                                                                                                  beaches of Ireland and Portugal. Which of
                                                                                                                                  these is not an ocean?            Would you prefer to … ?
                                                                                                                                      Indian                        1  explore Cát Tiên National Park or a
            Vocabulary • Natural                               The Red Sea is a great place for scuba-diving.      The Grand Canyon is an enormous, deep           North   2   go scuba-diving or surfing
                                                                                                                                                                      rainforest
                                                              Which of these is not a sea?
                                                                                          valley. The river which made it is the … .
                                                                                                                                     Pacific
            features                                               The Yellow Sea             Nile                                                                  3   visit a volcano or a cave
                                                                   The Black Sea              Colorado                                                              4   travel to America or Australia
             Aim                                                   The Blue Sea               Congo                                In the Gobi March, competitors run
                                                                                                                                  250 kilometres through the dunes of
             Express your preferences about places                                                                                the Gobi Desert. The race is part of a
             and activities.                                        In Quảng Bình, Việt Nam, there      Brazil is a fantastic place for   four-race desert challenge which also   Finished?
                                                                   is an enormous cave called
                                                                                           adventure. You can visit the
                                                                                                                                  includes the … .
                                                                   Sơn Đoòng. It holds the world's   spectacular falls at Iguazu, or watch         Sahara, Atacama and the Antarctic   Think about two places of interest in Việt Nam.
                                                                   largest natural cave with a   the wildlife in the Amazon rainforest,         Alps, Andes and Himalayas   Use the key phrases to talk about which one
            THINK!                                                 volume of ... .         which is bigger than … .                   Islands, Highlands and Lowlands   you'd prefer to see and why.
            Focus on the photos and elicit a few words                   28.5 million m   3 3          the USA
                                                                      38.5 million m
                                                                                               South America
            for natural features that students already                 48.5 million m   3        Western Europe
            know, e.g. sea, mountain. Teach the phrase
            natural features.                     30                                                                                                                                            31
            Read out the questions and elicit answers
            from individual students. Ask more
            questions to encourage students to say   exercise 2  e 1.23             Optional activity: Vocabulary
            more about places they have visited, e.g.   Students do the quiz in pairs. Encourage
            What was it like? What did you see and do   them to guess answers that they don’t   Ask students to close their books and
            there? What other natural features would   know. With stronger classes, you   write on the board a name or clue
            you like to visit in your country? Why?  could set a time limit for this to make it   for each of the words in the quiz, e.g.
                                                                                    Red (sea), Grand Canyon (valley), Nile
             ANSWerS                           competitive. Play the audio for students   (river), Sơn Đoòng (cave), Niagara (falls),
            Students’ own answers.             to listen and check their answers. Check   Amazon (rainforest), Pacific (ocean),
                                               answers with the class, and see who got   surf (waves), holidays (beach), Atacama
            exercise 1                         the most correct answers.            (desert), Gobi March (dunes). Divide
            Read out the example answer and elicit   ANSWerS                        the class into teams. Teams take it in
            an answer for the ‘Land’ column. Students   1  c    2  b    3  b    4  c    5  b     6  a  turns to choose one of the words on
            then complete the table. They can use                                   the board and make a sentence using
            their dictionaries to help, if necessary.                               the correct natural features word, e.g.
            Check answers with the class, and check                                 The Grand Canyon is a valley in the USA.
            that students understand all the words.                                 If their answer is correct, award them a
            Model the pronunciation of words that                                   point and cross the word off the board.
            your students might find difficult, e.g.                                If their answer is not correct, don’t give
            ocean, volcano.                                                         the correct answer, but move on to the
             ANSWerS                                                                next team. Continue until all the words
            Land:  valley, cave, rainforest, beaches,                               are crossed off the board. See which
            dunes, desert                                                           team has the most points.
            Water:  sea, river, falls, waves, ocean





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