Homework: Check

Vocabulary for Media Pg. 61

Fluency Markers, fill in the gaps Pg. 16

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Speaking: Part 1

Turn to Pg. 51 in your Fundamentals book

and practice the questions about television

and cinema with your partner.

Use fluency marker and language to express

like or dislike.

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HandoutRead the handout quickly and decide what the best title is:1. How to get a high score in reading.2. Introduction to IELTS reading.3. The importance of reading.

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Read the handout again quickly

and answer these three

questions:

1. How many points is each question

worth

2. How many minutes long is the

test?

3. How many questions are there?

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Read the handout one final time and

answer these 3 questions:

1. What are three types of writing you can read

to improve your reading?

2. What should you do when you’ve finished the

reading task?

3. Will you have extra time to transfer your

answers at the end?

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When you read for Gist, you must read

quickly while finding the main idea.

What strategy can you use to

accomplish this?

Discuss techniques with your partner

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“One of the biggest strains on students in the

amount of exams they have to sit. Exam preparation

causes anxiety and stress and number of exams that

students must prepare for has increased substantially. For

instance, students must now prepare for SATS as well as

their finals.”

what is the best heading for this paragraph?

1. Students sit a lot of exams

2. Exams cause a lot of stress

3. Causes of anxiety

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Skimming

Skimming is reading a text to get the gist, the

basic overall idea, rather than concentrating on

absorbing all the details. For instance, many

people skim read a newspaper article just to get

a quick overview, or a text could be skimmed to

see whether it's worth reading in detail.

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Skimming

A good skimming strategy involves

reading the first sentence of a

paragraph. As the first sentence

should be the topic sentence, you

should clearly understand what that

paragraph is about.

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We often preview a question to

look for clues that will help us

find the answer.

What kind of clues can we look for and

how will they help us find the answer?

Discuss strategies with your

partner.

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Scanning.

Scanning is another technique we can use to

quickly read a passage. When we scan we are

looking for specific facts or pieces of

information. This is why it is useful to preview

the question. Then we know what keywords

we are looking for and what form the answer

will be in.

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Reading for detail

True false or not given question, you

need to understand the text fully to

be able to answer. Therefore you must

read the text carefully.

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Reading for detail

Because a text can be very long, we

should first scan for the key words to

find the relevant section, then read

that section for detail.

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Turn to Pg. 53 and look at exercise 1.

This task asks us to match the

extracts to the topics, therefore we

are looking for the main idea of the

extract.

Which reading skill should we use

to find the main idea?

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For Exercise 2 we need to find details.

What skill would we use to find

this information?

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For Exercise 3 we need to show that

we have understood the text, which

skill do we need to use?

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

These two sounds are very similar. We

don’t use the tongue to produce these

sounds.

Instead it is the amount of air

released and lip position that make

these sounds.

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Hold a piece of paper in front of your

mouth and practice the two sounds.

Which sound makes the paper move

more?

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

So the /p/ sound releases a more

powerful burst of air.

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Practice again and decide which

sound is caused by a short release of

air.

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Practice again and decide which

sound is caused by a short release of

air?

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Practice one more time. This time with

your fingers on your throat.

Which sound is voiced?

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

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/b/ /p/

Weak release of air Strong release of air

Longer release of air

Quick release of air

Voiced Voiceless

Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Turn to Pg. 209 and complete

conversation at the top of the page

with either B or P.

Then we will listen and check your

answers.

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Look at the word: Kill

Its sounds are [kil]

If we reverse the sounds [lik]

We have the word lick

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Pronunciation: /b/ and /p/

Complete exercise 2 by reversing the

sounds and writing the words

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Homework:

Complete the reading activity on Pg.

59-60

Reading Academic Texts

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