Module 4 Activity Notes

4A Test tips 1 4B Eyewitness accounts

Aims Aim
To practise understanding connectors to link ideas; To To practise the past simple and past continuous in
revise useful Reading test tips questions and statements.

Test link Activity type

Reading Parts 1, 2 and 3 An activity involving finding the differences between
two eyewitness accounts of the same events
Activity type
Matching sentence halves Classroom dynamics
Pairs
Classroom dynamics
Pairs Time taken
15–20 minutes
Time taken
15 minutes When to use
After 4a, Vocabulary, Activity 6, Page 59
When to use
After 4a, Reading, Activity 5, Page 57 Preparation
Make one copy for each pair. Cut into two activity
Preparation sheets (Student A and Student B).
Make one copy of the activity sheet for each pair of
students. Procedure
1 Tell students that they will both be getting an
Procedure eyewitness account of the same event, but
1 Divide students into pairs and give each pair a their accounts are not the same. There are nine
copy of the activity sheet. differences.
2 Explain that the activity contains a list of exam 2 Divide students into pairs. Give each student a
tips. Give them a minute to scan the sentences and copy of their respective activity sheet. Make sure
decide which paper the tips are for (Reading). Ask that each student in each pair has a different
them to write their answer in the gap above the version of the eyewitness account. Tell them not to
table. show their partner their activity sheet.
3 Students complete the tips by matching 1–8 3 Students should take it in turns to ask and answer
with A–H in pairs. They can write their answers questions to try to find out what is different in each
in the gaps. Encourage them to look out for the version of the event. They can ask Wh- questions or
connectors and reference words (e.g. they, one, it) to Yes/No questions. They can ask the same questions
help them. if they like. Read through the example questions
4 Get feedback by reading out the tips as a class. and answers before they start and check that they
5 Ask students, in their pairs, to come up with one understand what to do.
or two more useful Reading test tips. Give them a 4 During the activity, students should underline any
minute to brainstorm ideas. Elicit ideas from the differences they find and write them in the spaces
class. provided. Tell them they shouldn’t tell their partner
what the differences they have found are. They
Answer key should only answer the questions their partner
1 C 2 E 3 G 4 A 5 B 6 D 7 F 8 H asks.
Suggested Reading tips: 5 When they have finished, ask them to compare
Read the instructions so you know how many words or numbers
the differences they have found with their partner.
you can use in each gap.
Were they the same? Ask them if they managed to
Try to predict what kind of word might be missing from a gap.
Underline the key words in a question and then scan the text to
find all nine differences.
see where the answer might be.

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 Module 4 Activity Notes

Answer key 4C Find the animal

1 the flu/food poisoning
2 runny nose and high temperature/stomachache and generally
wasn’t feeling well Aim
3 alone/with brother To practise vocabulary related to animals and
4 just after 3 o’clock/just before 3 o’clock geographical features
5 heard a loud bang/heard a strange noise
6 black car/blue car Activity type
7 a man and a woman/a woman and her son
8 the man was injured/the boy was injured A word puzzle
9 police arrived around 3.30/police arrived around 3.15
Classroom dynamics
Groups of 3

Time taken
10–15 minutes

When to use
After 4b, Vocabulary, Activity 4, Page 65

Preparation
Make one copy of the activity sheet for each group.

Procedure
1 Divide students into groups of three. Give each
group a copy of the word puzzle.
2 Tell students that they have a list of dictionary
definitions for words that all relate to nature.
Pre-teach creature (anything that is living,
including animals and insects). They should read
the definitions carefully to find the word in each
case. The word should fit in the puzzle. Make
sure students understand that the last clue is for
two words When students have found the words,
they will find the creature in the shaded vertical
column (butterfly). From there they will need to
find the final piece of the puzzle, which is the type
of creature a butterfly is (insect). The first group to
fully complete the puzzle and find the hidden word
(insect) is the winner.
3 Elicit answers to the puzzle.

1 habitat 2 octopus 3 lobster 4 waterfall 5 nest 6 lizard 7 fur

8 hill 9 life cycle
Shaded word: butterfly
Hidden word: insect

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