Jason AndersonDreams can Come True Page 4 First Time Buyers Page 8 ‘Aesop's Fables Page 14 In Actual Fact Page 18 E-mail Madness Page 22 We're in Business! Page 26 Mystery Movie Star Page 32 Chicken Tonight! Page 36 The Natural Solution Page 38 Room 101 Page 44 Lev Intermediate Upper int. ‘Advanced Intermediate Upper int. Advanced Intermediate Upper int Intermediate Upper int. Intermediate Upper int. Upper int. Advanced Upper int. Advanced Intermediate Upper int. Upper int. Advanced Intermediate Upper int. Advanced oa ‘Areas Sleep and dreams; psychoanalysis furnitures erior design ‘Animals; ‘making mistakes; parts of the body News: newspapers, the law; crime; ‘the family Emails & the internet; computers; buying & selling Business / work; restaurants; the internet; animals Films; celebrities & gossip, Food; cooking / recipes The environment; farming / agriculture; culture & history Likes and, dislikes; society and culture’ Contents er oan Making deductions (this suggests, ‘you might be); making suggestions (imperatives, ‘you should, etc) There is/are for description; eas prices; have to / need for expressing necessity Time expressions: reported speech; ppast simple and narrative tenses Forming / asking phrasal verbs Question forms; asking for information; making arrangements Future tenses; going to & wil; ‘st conditional Modal verbs of deduction (might, could, can't); direct and reported speech; past simple passive Imperatives for giving instructions; countable and ‘uncountable nouns The passive voice; mixed tenses; contrasting past and present forms Expressing strong ‘emotions, esp. dislikes, 2nd conditional cy aed Each student receives 1 of 4 letters and the response from a psychoanalyst. The other students must try to ‘guess what the dream Students take on the roles of estate agents and flat hunters, gazumping each ‘other in this realistic role play. Students read and retell 2 of ‘Aesop's most famous fables. ‘Then they have to predict and complete the missing phrases and sentences from another famous fable. 3 versions of 1 story as reported by 3 different newspapers. Students work in teams, correcting factual errors in all 3, to arrive at the correct version of the story, Student pairs write ‘e-mail’ corresponding with each other to negotiate the sale and purchase of second hand computers. (No computers necessary!) Jigsaw Communication Task: 3 different texts about original and unusual business ideas. Up to 6 teams compete to discover the identity of each thers’ mystery movie stars by reading out fascinating facts about the stars Student teams race to separate 2 recipes for chicken dishes with only. the ingredients and their culinary skills to help them! Jigsaw Communication Task 3 environmental good news stories about how traditional farming methods are benefiting both the locals, and the environment. After reading about the choices of an actor, students come up with their own nominations of things they want to send to Room 101, Dream Facts: 10 unusual facts about dreams. But which are true and which are false? Discussion and agreement task. Furnishing the Flat: Students work in pairs to decide how to divide, ‘organise and furnish the new flat. Discussion and agreement task. Fable Farm: Student teams are given a moral and have to think up a short fable to lustrate it. They then tell the rest of the class. Censored: Rub out and replace activity in which students practise retelling the story ‘Computer Time Race: Student teams have 5 minutes to answer all 5 parts to 5 questions ‘about computers! ‘We're in Business: In teams, students think of original business ideas and role-play an interview with the bank manager. ‘Movie Pitch: Based on the facts that the students learn about famous movie stars, students come up with ideas for the perfect movies for their stars. Chicken Piti-Pir: Students have to work out the stages in this delicious Portuguese recipe. Pair ‘work task. Project Ichar: Students are called upon to help an Indian village combat environmental problems. Group project. Room 101 Presentation: Students present their cases land vote on the strongest ‘nominations. Class presentation and debate.Hungry for Haiku Page 62 i Great Inventions Page 66 Natural Born Killers Page 72 118) “It’s the Way | Tell bans Page 78 119) What Happened Next? Page 82 120} The Ghost of the ‘Séance Page 86 ery Upper int. Advanced Upper int. ‘Advanced Intermediate Upper int. Advanced Intermediate Upper int. ‘Advanced Upper int. ‘Advanced Intermediate Upper int. Advanced Upper int. Advanced Intermediate Upper int. ‘Advanced Intermediate Upper int. Advanced Intermediate Upper int. ‘Advanced Language aed Idioms and Past simple; proverbs; expressing habitual history / past actions traditions (used to, would) Crime (murder); courts & trials, love & affairs Past simple, past continuous; question forms; expressing emotion; agreeing and disagreeing Survival; the Conditional environment; structures; future travel forms (going to, willy; agreeing and disagreeing Newspapers, Question forms; journalism, __reported speech; football & tabloid news sport; flying register & airports Poetry; Describing places, places / things and people; geography; word order in thythm in sentences language Inventions; Passive voice; communication; superlative science & adjectives; technology; infinitive of media purpose Animals, ‘Superlatives; asking nature, the questions; giving environment advice; reporting statistics Stories /jokes; Present simple humour; in jokes; direct, culture and speech; spoken cultural discourse markers stereotypes jokes Storytelling; Narrative tenses; ‘cars; mistakes; will / might for crime and law prediction; expressing opinion; agreeing and disagreeing Crime / Grammar revision; detective narrative tenses esp stories; houses past continuous; furniture there was / were for descr om Summary After studying some common idioms in English, students play ‘Call my Bluff” in teams, to try to guess the true origins of these idioms. Students prepare for and ‘act out all the parts in an exciting murder trial. ‘Whole class role-play. Decisions Maze Activity: Teams of students work ‘together to survive on and escape from a desert island. Teams take a front page tabloid scandal all the way from interviewing the protagonists at a press conference to completing the front page of the finished paper. After studying the rules of Japanese Haiku poetry, students try to order word ‘ards to complete haiku poems, then they go on to ‘write their own haiku. Jigsaw Communication Task: 3 texts about the history of 3 recent communication inventions: the internet, ‘mobile phones and faxes, Teams of students get 1 of 4 fact files on different ‘killer’ animals. They then become experts and answer ‘questions from other teams about their animals ‘Students in teams analyse the ‘ingredients’ of a good joke, then go on to practise ‘nd tell their own joke, ‘getting the biggest laugh that they can, ‘Teams of students try to agree on what happened next at several stages in an amusing short story, ‘then they compare their predictions with the inal story Students try to identify grammar mistakes to win clues that will help them to solve a complex Sherlock. Holmes murder mystery. reac Revision Activity: Students analyse and correct, mistakes in the form and Usage of the idioms from ‘the lesson, ‘rial Report: Students work in teams to write a brief article, reporting the details of the trial for a national newspaper. Group Discussion: Students compare the different routes they took through the maze, and speculate on other, now hypothetical options. reported speech by completing sentences based on the interviews from Front Page News. Haiku Classroom Poster: Teams create posters based (on the Japanese haiku poems that they have created. Group project task. But When? Quiz: Teams match dates with inventions. Family Fortunes: Teams play ‘the popular TV game show inclass, ‘Amazing Animals Quiz: ‘Students work in teams to decide which of 10 ‘amazing facts about animals are true and which are false. Joke Race: Two teams Of students race to ‘communicate jokes and write them on the board, But they can only whisper. What Happened Next Group discussion, encouraging students to retell stories about mistakes they made in their past. Party Suggestions: How to turn the Ghost of ‘the Séance into a whole school team activity.