• Play the recording while the students read. • Ask some general questions they might know from listening, e.g. Who is talking? (Answer: teacher and students.) Who do you think is the best student? (Answer: Emma because she has already finished her project.) • Read out the questions one by one and let students answer without looking at their books.
CD script Teacher
James Teacher Katie Teacher Emma Teacher Tony & Sam
Track 00 Now, everyone, I hope everything has gone well with your projects about space. And remember: you need to complete them by next Monday. James, how far have you got? I haven’t finished yet, but I’m going to soon. Good. And how much have you done so far, Katie and Daniel? We’ve nearly finished. Good! And Emma, have you nearly finished, too? I’ve already finished! Well done! Tony and Sam, have you finished yet? No. We haven’t started yet!
C GRAMMAR Aim: to reinforce the present perfect structure when used to talk about events and actions finishing in the present.
1 • Ask individual students to read out the sentences and copy them in their copy books. • Write the sentences on the board and discuss with the students the different components of the sentence. Try to elicit the reason why the present perfect is used in these sentences. Use timelines to illustrate the sentences:
• Appoint students to act out the sentences of James, Katie, Emma, and Tony and Sam. Say the teacher’s sentences and ask students to react, using their books. • Put students into groups of six and let them practise acting out the conversation. Note: Some students (the kinaesthetic ones) might enjoy standing up and acting out the conversation. Give them a chance to do so.
• Monitor the activity and encourage students to act out the conversation several times, swapping roles. • Ask a few of the groups to act out the conversation, without using their books if possible.
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D LISTEN AND READ Aim: to improve students’ listening for the gist skills. This activity also encourages students’ inferential skills. • Ask students: Do you remember Sam and Tony? (Answer: They are the students who had not done their space project yet in the last lesson.) • Ask students to read the introductory conversation between Sam and Tony. • Then tell students to read the statements in pairs and discuss if they think they are true or false without reading the conversation. (You may have to remind students that ‘ISS’ is the International Space Station.) • Tell students to close their books and listen to the conversation. • Play the recording. • Then let students look at their decisions about the true or false statements in pairs, and revise them if necessary. • Play the recording again, this time with the students following the conversation in their books. • Let them finalise their answers to the true or false statements.
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• Ask individual students to read out the statements and tell the class whether they are true or false. • Get reactions from the class and encourage them to correct the false statements.
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