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Interchange5thEd Level2 Unit08 Extra Worksheet

This document provides instructions for an activity called "Reading Race" where students will work in pairs to answer questions by scanning a reading text on a classroom wall. The reading text discusses various New Year's traditions around the world such as eating 12 grapes in Spain and Mexico, choosing clothes carefully in Brazil based on color meanings, giving red envelopes with money in China, and destroying an effigy in Colombia and Ecuador. It asks 10 questions for students to answer by finding the responses in the reading text.

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Interchange5thEd Level2 Unit08 Extra Worksheet

This document provides instructions for an activity called "Reading Race" where students will work in pairs to answer questions by scanning a reading text on a classroom wall. The reading text discusses various New Year's traditions around the world such as eating 12 grapes in Spain and Mexico, choosing clothes carefully in Brazil based on color meanings, giving red envelopes with money in China, and destroying an effigy in Colombia and Ecuador. It asks 10 questions for students to answer by finding the responses in the reading text.

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Unit 8 Extra Worksheet Notes

READING RACE

Aim: Give Ss practice scanning a text for specific information.


Preparation: Make one copy of the worksheet for every two Ss. Cut the
copies in half. Make copies of the Reading on page 55 to be hung on a
classroom wall.
Comment: Use with the Reading on page 55.

■ Give each S a worksheet. Ss read the questions. Answers


■ Explain the task. On the word “Go,” Ss go to the 1. to make good luck enter the house and bad luck
Reading texts hanging on the classroom walls and leave
scan the text to find the answers. Then Ss return to
their places and write the answers on the 2. Spain and Mexico
worksheet. The S with the most correct answers 3. Brazil and China
wins. 4. Because colors have meaning./Because white is
■ Model the task. Then Ss complete the task. Set a for peace, yellow might mean success, and red
time limit of ten minutes. means love is in the air.
■ Ss read the text to check their answers. 5. it brings good luck
■ Option: Have Ss compare their answers in pairs 6. red envelopes with money
for extra speaking practice. 7. a dummy (filled with sawdust, newspaper, or old
clothes)
8. Ecuador
9. Germany
10. Nobody knows!

Interchange 2 Teacher’s Resource Worksheets © Cambridge University Press 2017 Photocopiable


READING RACE
1. Why do the Irish hit the walls and doors with bread on New Year’s Eve?

2. In what two countries do people eat 12 grapes on New Year’s Eve?

3. What countries have New Year’s traditions that relate to color?

4. Why do Brazilians choose their clothes carefully on New Year’s Eve?

5. What do the Chinese believe about the color red?

6. What do Chinese people give to friends and family on New Year’s Eve?

7. What do people destroy on New Year’s Eve in Colombia?

8. In what other country do people destroy this?

9. Where has watching a movie become a New Year’s tradition?

10. Why do they watch the movie Dinner for One?

1. Why do the Irish hit the walls and doors with bread on New Year’s Eve?

2. In what two countries do people eat 12 grapes on New Year’s Eve?

3. What countries have New Year’s traditions that relate to color?

4. Why do Brazilians choose their clothes carefully on New Year’s Eve?

5. What do the Chinese believe about the color red?

6. What do Chinese people give to friends and family on New Year’s Eve?

7. What do people destroy on New Year’s Eve in Colombia?

8. In what other country do people destroy this?

9. Where has watching a movie become a New Year’s tradition?

10. Why do they watch the movie Dinner for One?

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