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Unit 9
It’s a mystery! Reading; Writing

3 9.06
1 That she was going to have a IT’S A MYSTERY! UNIT 9
horrible time working with Grant 3 9.06 Read and listen to the extract again.
Cooper for the next ten days. Answer the questions.
2 The back of a letter. 1 What did the flowers help the woman to forget?
2 What did she draw the picture on?
3 Because she only had 30 minutes 3 Why did she stop drawing?
to get to the airport. 4 Why did the woman jump backwards?
4 Because a dog bit her. 5 How did she knock over the second lot of flowers?
6 Why was the blonde woman upset?
5 Her bag flew through the air and SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
SPEAKING
knocked them over. 4 1 Has the woman really been bitten?
6 Because her expensive white shoes 2 Will she find out more about the dog?
were covered with dirty water. 3 What will she find out?
4 Monitor and prompt students WRITING
to keep talking, but as this is a Explaining a mystery
fluency activity, do not interrupt 1 INPUT Read the article opposite. Who does the
to correct mistakes. At the end of writer think is responsible for the crop circles?
the exercise, listen to some of the 2 Write the underlined expressions in the correct
students’ ideas and encourage columns.
open class discussion. I’m sure I’m reasonably I’m not sure
sure
Mysterious patterns
1 Write on the board 1 Where appear in local field overnight
might you see this text? 2 What
is the purpose of the text? Give 1 1 This isn’t the first time such a thing has
ANALYSE The article has three paragraphs.
students two minutes to read the 3 What does the writer talk about in each one? happened and it probably won’t be the last
time either. For decades, crop circles have
article quickly and think about the been fooling experts, who are still asking,
PLAN Read about a mystery. Then write three
answers. 4 sentences about it. Use a different expression from ‘What exactly causes these patterns?’
The writer thinks that some Maths Exercise 2 in each sentence. 2 2 Some people say aliens might create this
students were responsible for the MISSING phenomenon. They suggest that aliens come
to Earth at night and leave these patterns in our
crop circles. HELICOPTER fields. These people are definitely wrong. Even if
aliens from other planets existed, how could they
2 Check/clarify: reasonably. An army helicopter with a pilot, co-pilot and land a huge spaceship without anyone noticing?
It would be impossible, of course.
Draw students’ attention to: twelve soldiers on board has disappeared off 3 3 Humans must have made these crop circles,
the north coast of Scotland. The last contact
• Word order: be + definitely/ with the helicopter was more than 12 hours ago, just as they must have made all the others,
when the pilot radioed that everything was OK.
but I’m not certain how they did it. Obviously,
most probably + adjective. No distress signal was received and, despite a it can’t have been done by just one person;
huge search over sea and land, no sign of the it must have been a group and, more than
• Obviously is followed by a helicopter has been found. What has happened likely, quite a large one. Also, it’s clear that the
comma and appears at the to army helicopter 487? person, or people, behind the design must be
extremely intelligent because these patterns are
beginning of the sentence. extraordinarily complex. It was most probably
5 PRODUCE Write a blog entry (200 words) explaining organised by a group of Maths students from
• More than likely sits between what you think happened to the missing helicopter. a university. It’s the kind of thing that students
like to do as a joke. But whoever did it,
two commas and appears in they’ve certainly got people talking.
the middle of the sentence.
I’m sure: definitely, of course, must 91
have, Obviously, can’t have, it’s clear,
certainly
I’m reasonably sure: more than likely, 5 Encourage students to organise their writing as outlined in Exercise 3 and to
most probably use modals of deduction.
I’m not sure: might, not certain
3 Point out that in a well-structured Activity idea
piece of writing, each paragraph Peer correction
should have its own purpose. On completion of the writing task,
Paragraph 1: How long the mystery of ask students to exchange their blog
crop circles has been around entries with another pair for them
Paragraph 2: The idea that crop to read and evaluate on the basis
circles are created by aliens of content (How interesting were
Paragraph 3: The writer’s opinions, the ideas?); organisation (Did each more
supported by reasons, about who paragraph include a clear and
made these crop circles Practice Extra
distinct idea like the model answer?); Unit 9 Master it!
4 You could divide the class into communicative purpose (Were you
small groups so that they can convinced by it?); and language Workbook
share ideas before writing (Were past modals used correctly?). Developing Writing p87
individually (they could do this for They should avoid focusing solely on Tests
homework). accuracy. Unit, extension and skills test 9
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