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Unit 12
Life’s firsts Fiction; Reading
Warmer
To revise past simple verb forms, Fiction
give students a verb in the infinitive
and ask students to say the past
tense to get a point. Do this two or
three times with different verbs and
then get students to play Past forms
tennis. In pairs, one student says an
infinitive verb and the other person
must reply with the correct past form
as quickly as possible.
1 12.06 Before students listen
and read, get them to cover the
text on page 116 and just look
at the title and pictures. In pairs,
give students two minutes to
think about the answer to the
question. Before students read
and listen to the introduction, tell
them to focus on checking their
answer.
It’s a very small island with not many
people and no cars.
2 12.07 Check/clarify: jewellery,
jugs, counter, chewing gum, judo,
admitted defeat.
For stronger classes, you could
ask them to try to complete the
gaps with the time expressions
before listening to check.
1 c 2 f 3 d 4 b 5 e 6 g
7 a 8 h
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T116 Life’s firsts | Unit 12
12.06 Look at the picture. What kind of place is this?
1 Read and listen to the introduction to check your ideas.
Bullring Kid and
Country Cowboy by Louise Clover
‘So are you looking forward to our holiday, Fizza?’ asked her dad.
‘No,’ thought Fizza.
‘Yes, she is!’ interrupted her mum. ‘Aren’t you, darling?’
Fizza smiled falsely […].
Fizza McIntyre is a city girl from Birmingham, UK. One year her parents hire a
holiday cottage on the very small island of Sark, where there are no cars. Fizza
goes along, to keep her parents happy. She doesn’t know that a big adventure is
going to start.
2 12.07 Read and listen to the rest of the extract.
Complete the gaps with the missing time expressions (a–h) below.
a Then, lifting her nose into the air e For over an hour
b Later, after supper f In five minutes
g Eventually
c By the time you get back
d As she began the climb back up the hill h For a moment
And so it was that Fizza found herself on ‘the island onto the grass until Imran admitted defeat and went
that time forgot’ with absolutely nothing to do. inside to play a game of cards with Rubel.
Her mum’s voice brought her out of her dream and
As the sun began to drop down from the sky like a
back to the present moment. great big orange, Fizza continued to practise her judo
‘Why don’t you go and explore, Fizza?’ said her mum. moves. 6 , she got tired
‘ 1 , I’ll have supper ready. and stopped. She looked out at the dark grey sea and
Oh! And get your dad a newspaper, please.’ breathed in deeply. And for the first time since she had
Fizza went down the hill towards the little village at the arrived on Sark, she found herself listening. She could
bottom. 2 she had discovered hear the birds singing goodnight to each other, and
the sound of sheep bells and a boat in the distance.
two bicycle hire shops, three shops that sold jewellery
and jugs, and a tiny post office which was also 7 , she breathed in deeply
a supermarket. Fizza went up to the counter. and she found that the evening air of Sark smelled
sweet. It was completely different from the heavy city
‘Do you sell newspapers?’ she asked a small
grey-haired lady. smell of her much-loved Birmingham. Such beauty
‘Sorry,’ she said, ‘they haven’t arrived from Guernsey suddenly made Fizza McIntyre feel alive and she
decided to show the island how good she felt.
today. Try tomorrow.’
‘What is this place?’ thought Fizza. ‘There aren’t even ‘Goodnight, Sark!’ she shouted as she jumped high in
any newspapers!’ the air and then fell on the grass.
Laughing at herself for being silly, she picked herself
She thanked the lady and left the shop. up and turned to go indoors, but immediately she
3
, she passed a group of girls
of about her age. They were chewing gum and wearing came to a stop.
short skirts. They looked just like the ‘cool’ girls from Sitting in a tree beside the cottage was a red-haired
school, which made Fizza smile. boy who looked about the same age as her.
‘Some things never change,’ she thought, ‘wherever you 8 they stared at one another
go.’ And she began to run back towards the cottage. until her attention was taken by a small brown rabbit
4 , Fizza and her dad that ran past her. She took her eyes away from the
practised judo in the field behind the cottage. boy for just a few seconds and during this time he
5 they threw one another completely disappeared.