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Good citizensDiscuss these questions:

1) How would you define a good citizen? Give examples

2) What kind of behavior would you expect a good citizen to have?

3) List the duties of a good citizen.

4) Rank these citizen duties:

To be active in social organizations

To always obey laws and regulations

To try to help people who are worse off than they are

To try to understand the reasoning of people with other opinions

To take care of the environment

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Different cultures

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Do you have any experience of dealing with people from other countries and how people communicate indifferent situations in those cultures? Discuss this question in your group.

Your own culture

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How do people communicate in your country?What are people’s social expectations in your country?How do these differ from the information given in the fact files in the previous activity?You could also consider the following areas:

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Surely you need more practice?

Choose the correct option a or b

Activity 4

Do this carefullyRewrite these sentences. Put the adverb or the adverbial phrase in brackets into the correct position in the sentence.

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Extreme Sports Tours!

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Student A Student B

Extreme Sports Expert (candidate)

You are applying for a job as an extreme sports guide (mountain

climbing, rafting, rappelling). You are sure you have what it

takes, you have the appropriate training and the physical

condition to guide and assist tourists in extreme sports tours.

Activity 6 Student A

Useful language:

Readily / completely / incredibly / precisely

Hardly / barely

Straight / fast

In a …way / manner

Tag questions: checking + agreement

Surely that would…?

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Travel Agent

You are looking for a guide for your special travel agency, which is

mainly involved in Extreme Sports Tours (mountain climbing,

rafting, rappelling). You are interviewing a candidate. Make sure

they have what it takes, that is to say, the appropriate training and

the physical condition to guide and assist tourists in extreme

sports tours.

Activity 6 Student B

Useful language:

Do you … fast? in an orderly fashion?

… readily / completely / incredibly / precisely

The candidate should … in a … way

Tag questions: checking + agreement

Surely you can / have …?

Animal Verbs

Match the name of the animal with the photo and read the introduction to animal verbs on Textbook page 121.

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duck

bug

hound

parrot

clam

chicken

pig

snake

wolf

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What do they mean?

Match the animal idioms with their meanings by working them out through the examples.

Activity 8

1. Stop bugging me.

2. It snakes through downtown.

3. You wolfed that down.

4. He tries to duck out of hard work.

5. The press hounds him day and night.

6. He’s just parroting what the teacher said.

7. He clammed up when we asked him.

8. It looked so dangerous that he chickened out.

9. We pigged out on all the desserts.

a) ate very quickly.

b) follows a twisted path.

c) repeating or copying.

d) bothering / annoying.

e) avoid doing.

f) chased or followed.

g) did not do it because too frightened.

h) said nothing.

i) ate a lot or too much.

Activity 9

What about you?

Is there anything that’s been bugging you lately? How hungry do you have to be to wolf down your dinner /

lunch? What do you do if a co-worker of yours is trying to duck out of

his responsibilities? If somebody challenged you to do some extreme sport, would

you chicken out of it? What advice would you give to this friend: “Every time I try

talking to him, he clams up!” Is there anything you can’t help pigging out on? How would you try avoid the press if you were hounded by

them? When you are on vacation, do you enjoy walking down roads

that snake through woods and mountains? Did you ever parrot lessons when you attended elementary or

high school?

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Let’s get together to study

Activity 10

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Student

Activity 10 Student A

You are researching for an essay on a particular topic. Choose a subject thatyou know. Jot down some notes on the topic in order to tell your classmateabout it. Ask them what their essay is about and show interest in the topic byresponding and keeping the conversation going.

Useful Language:

Really? / Are you? / Yeah, wasn’t it? / No, it doesn’t, does it? / Did he really? / Please do / I hope-think- suppose so / I’m afraid not / I doubt it / Me too / Me neither

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Student

Activity 10 Student B

You are researching for an essay on a particular topic. Choose a subject thatyou know. Jot down some notes on the topic in order to tell your classmateabout it. Ask them what their essay is about and show interest in the topic byresponding and keeping the conversation going.

Useful Language:

Really? / Are you? / Yeah, wasn’t it? / No, it doesn’t, does it? / Did he really? / Please do / I hope-think- suppose so / I’m afraid not / I doubt it / Me too / Me neither

Activity 11

You are planning …

IDEA 1: You are members of a school committee to do volunteer work in your town; you are discussing tasks like cleaning up parks and monuments, painting schools, sorting out donations to be given to poorer people in the community, giving coaching classes to elementary school children in the area they may need , etc.

IDEA 2: You are members of a committee to organize the end-of-the-year party at the office; you are discussing what kind of celebration to have, where to hold it, what to do about food and drink, what music to choose, whether to give out prizes, etc.

During the discussion, use Tag questions to check information, for agreement, and for opinions; Adverbs and adverbial phrases; expressions to show interest