Teacher's Guide. Unit 4
Teacher's Guide. Unit 4
Unit summary • Divide the class into pairs or small groups to ask and answer
the questions. Go round monitoring and helping with
Vocabulary vocabulary as necessary.
Vocabulary (practised and tested in 1–3 star tasks and tests) • Invite some students to tell the class something they learned
Money: buy, cash, coins, donate, earn, notes, pay for, pocket about their partner.
money, prize money, save, sell, spend, win Exercise 2
Verbs and prepositions of movement: climb (up), crawl • Focus students’ attention on the pictures and elicit or explain
(under), dive (into), fall (off ), hop (onto), jump (over), run that the man is very rich. Ask students what is happening in
(around), slide (down), stand (on), swim (through), walk (along) each of the small pictures.
Extra vocabulary (practised and tested in 2 and 3 star tasks • Read the question aloud and model the sentence
and tests) beginnings. Elicit a few example endings. Ask students to
annoyed (adj), broke (adj), messy (adj), pleased (adj), rich (adj), write their own sentence endings.
tidy (adj) • Invite some students to read their sentences to the class. Ask
bridge (n), net (n), slide (n), tunnel (n), wall (n) other students: Do you agree? Why? / Why not?
bride (n), get married (v), groom (n), valuable (adj), wedding (n)
Learn it!: earn, win; a third, a quarter, half Optional activity
Write on the board the sentence beginning: If I’m rich one day,
Grammar … . Elicit a few example endings to the sentence using will
be going to for future plans and intentions and won’t, and review the first conditional. Ask students to
complete the sentence with their own ideas.
be going to and will for predictions
Invite students in turn to read their sentences to the class. If
Present continuous for future arrangements
ideas are repeated, write these on the board, e.g. I won’t work. /
I’ll live in a big house.
Functional language
When all students have read their sentences, point to the
Paying for something in a shop (practised and tested in
ideas on the board, and ask: Can money make you happy?
1–3 star tasks and tests)
What things can money buy you? What things can’t it buy? Elicit
Can I pay by card? a range of answers.
I’m sorry, we only take cash.
There’s a cash machine … Exercise 3
That comes to / That’s … • Play the video for students to watch and interact with.
Here’s your change / receipt.
v Video: Part-time jobs
I’d like to return this.
• Duration: 2.30 minutes
Can I have a refund, please?
• Topic: A teenager who works in a bakery.
Have you got your receipt?
• Task: Answer the questions at the end of the video.
• Video scripts are available on the iPack Resources tab.
Warm-up
Aims
• Talk about money and attitudes to money.
• Give advice about money.
5 Develop social and civic competence.
Exercise 1
• Read through the questions with the class. Make sure that
students understand everything. Allow students time to think
about their answers.
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Optional activity
Ask: Do you have any arrangements for next weekend? Give
some examples of arrangements you have, e.g. I’m meeting
some friends on Saturday. Ask students to write one or two
sentences about an arrangement they have.
Invite students in turn to read their sentences to the class.
Language in action
Aims
• Write about something that is special to you.
5 Develop social and civic competence.
7 Develop competence in linguistic communication.
Exercise 7
• Read the task with the class. You could give an example by
talking about something that is special to you, saying when
you got it and why it is special to you.
• Allow students time to write their sentences. Monitor and
help while they are working.
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Exercise 2 ANSWERS
a 4th paragraph b 1st paragraph c 3rd paragraph
• Focus students’ attention on functions 1–3. Ask students to
d 2nd paragraph
read the highlighted sentences in the letter and match them
to the correct functions. • Ask students to read the model text again and find useful
formal phrases for the following:
• Check answers with the class.
1 starting the letter
ANSWERS
2 giving the reason for writing
1 The final year students are holding the event.
2 We think you will enjoy this informal event. 3 asking someone to write back
3 The school orchestra is also going to play. 4 ending the letter
Check answers, and encourage students to use these phrases
Look at language – and, but, because (of) and when they write their own formal letters of invitation.
due to ANSWERS
1 Dear Mrs Davidson
Exercise 3 2 I am writing to invite you to …
• Ask students to find examples of the words in the model text. 3 Please respond to me on …
Make sure they understand the words in context. 4 I look forward to hearing from you. / Best wishes,
• Ask students to copy the rules carefully into their notebooks
and choose the correct answers to complete them.
• Check answers with the class.
Writing task
• Encourage students to copy some of the example sentences v Writing preparation
in the model text into their notebooks, or to write their own • Interactive task to order a letter of invitation.
example sentences to help them remember the language
points. Exercise 5
ANSWERS
• Tell students they are going to write a formal letter of
invitation. Invite a student to read the two situations aloud.
1 but 2 and 3 reason for 4 noun or pronoun
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