PARTE I. DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CONTENIDO DE LA UNIDAD
B. Accesibibilidad de los elementos de la página
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Students turn to the entry for fund-raiser in their dictionaries. Elicit or highlight the following information: – fund-raiser is a noun.– fund-raiser describes a person that collects money for charity.
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Students look at the photos and select photo 2 as a fund-raiser, because running marathons is a way of collecting money for charity.•
Students look up the words and match them with thephotos. Check the answers.
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Ask: What’s the difference between a paramedic and asurgeon? [A paramedic is trained to treat people in
emergency situations, but isn’t a fully-qualified doctor. A surgeon is a doctor who performs medical operations.]
This unit includes
Vocabulary: transport • transport collocations • weather • boats • expressions with come
Grammar: present perfect (affirmative) • present perfect (negative and interrogative) • just, already, yet
Skills: talking about how you get around • reading and listening to an article about an amazing achievement • talking about sightseeing
Writing: a holiday email Workbook pages 34–41
Reading
pages 36–37Warm-up
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Look at the unit title and ask students: How can you travelwhen you go on a journey? [by plane, by train, by boat,
by car, on foot]
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Read the title of the reading page, Alone on the water. Ask students: Do you like travelling by boat? Could you travelalone? Why? Why not?
Before Reading
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Students look at the photo and answer the questions in pairs. Then discuss the questions as a class.Background Notes
The English Channel is the stretch of water between southern England and northern France. At its narrowest point it is only 20 miles / 32 kilometres wide. On a clear day it is possible to see France from England.
Read
Exercise 1
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Students read the Reading tip. Check that they have understood by asking: What does the first paragraph of anewspaper article often contain? [a summary of the story] What is contained in the other paragraphs? [more details]
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Students read the first paragraph to answer the two questions. Check the answers.ANSWERS
1 She has just sailed the English Channel. 2 Because she is completely paralysed.
Exercise 2
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Students read the rest of the article and number the events in the right order. Check the answers. ANSWERS1 She played a lot of sports. 2 Her legs started to hurt. 3 She couldn’t walk any more.
4 She couldn’t use her arms or hands any more.
5 A friend took her sailing for the first time. 6 She started to design her own boat. 7 She had sailing lessons.
8 She sailed alone across the English Channel.
Exercise 3 $ 1.24
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Play the CD while students read the text a second time and choose the best answers. Check the answers, asking for justification.ANSWERS
1 c (Suddenly, she’s happy and free. Sailing does that to her.) 2 b (By the time she was 15, she couldn’t walk any more.) 3 a (Then, two years ago, a friend took her sailing for the first
time.)
4 b (The controls of her boat come from her wheelchair and she can steer the boat with her mouth.)
5 c (She has become the first disabled person to sail across the Channel.)
Optional Activity: Reading skills
Aim: To focus on paragraph organization.
Preparation: Write the following questions on the board.
What are Hilary’s plans for the future? [5] How does Hilary control her boat? [4] Why is Hilary paralysed? [2]
When did Hilary first go sailing? [3] What effect does sailing have on Hilary? [1]
Students number the questions in the order the
paragraphs appear in the text. Then they close their books and answer the questions in the correct order.
Understanding Ideas
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Students read the questions and think of possible answers.•
Students discuss their answers in pairs.•
Bring the class together to compare answers.Teaching Tip: Past and present
Do this activity with the whole class by asking students what they thought Hilary’s life was like in the past when she became paralysed. [She thought her life was over, she was unhappy, she didn’t go out, she didn’t meet new people, she didn’t think about the future.] Then ask students to contrast these ideas with Hilary’s life in the present. [She has an aim in life, she’s happier, she goes out more, she meets new people, she makes plans for the future.] SAMPLE ANSWERS
1 Sailing has given her more confidence, and it has given her an aim in life.
2 Because she couldn’t use her limbs any more and so she needed another person to help her all the time.
3 She’s a good example because she shows people that you can enjoy life even if you have an enormous problem.
Vocabulary
Teaching Tip: Phrasal verbs
Students need as much exposure as possible to phrasal verbs in order to remember them. Whenever you come across a new phrasal verb write a gapped sentence on the board and get students to complete it in as many different ways as possible, e.g. I took up ______ because I wanted to
______ . [I took up yoga because I wanted to relax. I took
up jogging because I wanted to get fit, etc.] Students can make a note of their favourite sentence as an example.
Exercise 1
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Students match the highlighted words in the text to the definitions. Check the answers.ANSWERS
1 wheelchair 2 over 3 took up 4 dream 5 disease 6 design 7 sucks 8 exhausted 9 blows 10 confident 11 steer 12 limbs 13 paralysed 14 spread 15 disabled
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Give students more information about the words fromthe text and ask them to make notes in the Vocabulary Notebook section of their Workbooks (see Workbook pages 58–69).
blow is an irregular verb which means to push out air from your mouth. The third person form is blows and the past simple form is blew.
confident is an adjective that means you are sure about your own abilities. The adverb is confidently.
design is a regular verb which means to plan something for a particular purpose. The third person form is designs and the past simple form is designed. Design is also a noun.
disabled is an adjective that means you cannot use a part of your body normally. We use the disabled to refer in general to people who are disabled.
disease is a countable noun for a particular illness that has a name, e.g. malaria. The adjective is diseased.
dream is a countable noun for a series of events that happen in your mind while you are sleeping. Dream is also a verb and a dreamer is a person who thinks a lot about ideas instead of about real life.
exhausted is an adjective that means very tired. limb is a countable noun for a person’s arm or leg. If someone is out on a limb, they are alone and without the support of other people.
over is an adjective that means finished.
paralysed is an adjective that means unable to move a part of your body. The verb is paralyse and the noun is paralysis. spread is an irregular verb which means to affect a larger area. The third person form is spreads and the past simple form is spread.
steer is a regular verb which means to control the direction in which a vehicle is going. The third person form is steers and the past simple form is steered.
suck is a regular verb which means to pull air or liquid into the mouth. The third person form is sucks and the past simple form is sucked.
take sth up is a phrasal verb which means to start doing something regularly, especially a hobby. The third person form is takes up and the past simple form is took up. wheelchair is a countable noun for a chair with large wheels used by a person who can’t walk.
Exercise 2
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Students find the words in the text and read the sentences which contain them.•
Read out these prompts and check the meaning ofthe words:
– A person who works on a boat [sailor]
– Fully, totally [completely]
– Something you have done [experience] – A pipe [tube]
– A place for boats on the coast [harbour] – Before [by the time]
– The parts of a machine used for operating it [controls]
– The stretch of water between France and the UK [the Channel]
Exercise 3
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Students work individually. Check the answers. ANSWERS1 icy and freezing 2 hot and sunny 3 stormy 4 cloudy and warm 5 rainy 6 windy 7 foggy 8 snowy and cold
Quick Test: Missing letters
Write on the board the words from Vocabulary substituting a line for the vowels in each word, e.g. d_s_bl_d. Students in pairs race to complete the words. The winners are the first pair to complete all the words.
Optional Activity: Give a presentation
Aim: To give a presentation about another disabled person who has done something special.
Preparation: Write the following questions on the board.
Who is the person?
What is his / her health problem? What can’t he / she do?
What has he / she done / achieved? What special equipment did he / she need? Who helped him / her?
How does he / he feel about it?
Students research their person for homework and answer the questions.
Students in small groups give a short presentation about the person, using their notes to help them.
Students find a photograph of the person and write a paragraph about them to display on the classroom wall.
More practice
Vocabulary
page 38Target Vocabulary
Living again!: blew confident design disabled disease dream exhausted limbs over paralysed spread steer suck taken up wheelchair
The weather: chilly humid mild severe showery unsettled
Boats: bow hull mast port rudder sail starboard stern
Expressions with come: come and go come apart come on come out come round come true
Activate
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Focus on the words in the box and review their meaning by asking a few questions, e.g.What’s another word for your arms and legs? [limbs] What did you do when you pushed air out of your mouth?
[you blew]
How do you describe a person who cannot use a part of their body normally? [disabled]
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Students complete the sentences. Check the answers.ANSWERS
1 disease, disabled 5 paralysed, wheelchair
2 spread 6 design, dream
3 blew 7 steer, confident
4 taken up, limbs 8 exhausted, over