6 Use the grammar table to help students notice the three groups of adjectives: short (one-syllable), long (two or more syllables) and irregular. Teach / Elicit the spelling rules for each type of adjective. Ask students for some additional examples of each one. Ask students to say whether the statement is true or false.
Note that additional irregular adjectives are far – furthest (which comes up in the reading on SB page 107) and little – least (when little means ‘a small amount of’).
Answer True
Refer to the grammar reference on SB page 142, now or at the end of the lesson and go through it with them.
7 Tell students to look at the quiz on SB page 106 and find superlative forms. Ask: Which adjectives are short, long or irregular? Which spelling rules do they follow? Why?
Answers
the biggest, the highest, the coldest, the most expensive, the most polluted, the cleanest
Extra ideas: Ask students to make the opposite of each question, eg Which is the smallest city in the world? They should then try to answer them.
Do a short drill to practise superlatives, eg Teacher: hot
Students: the hottest Teacher: expensive
Students: the most expensive Teacher: good
Students: the best etc
8 3.40 Give students time to work individually or in pairs, then play the audio for them to check their answers. Play the audio again, pausing for students to repeat each line.
Ask: Which spelling rules did each adjective follow? You could also point out here that the superlative form of friendly can be friendliest or most friendly.
Answers
1 the hottest 2 the lowest 3 the oldest 4 the most dangerous 5 the friendliest 6 the most unfriendly
Transcript
1 Bangkok is the hottest capital city in the world. It has an average temperature of 25° Celsius.
2 Amsterdam is two metres below sea level.
It is the lowest capital city.
3 People have lived in Damascus since about 6000bc. It is the oldest capital city.
4 Mogadishu and Cape Town are two of the most dangerous cities in the world.
5 In a survey, tourists said that people in Tokyo and Lisbon were the friendliest people in the world.
6 On the other hand, people in Moscow and London were the most unfriendly.
Reading
9 Ask students to look at the photo and read the headings. Elicit ideas for what the article is about and what its purpose is. Ask if any students know which city is in the photo (it’s Reykjavik). Put students in pairs to read the article and guess the cities. Ask them to explain what clues helped them to find the answers.
Check the meaning of any new words, eg survey, tourist, equator, furthest, nearest.
Unit 12 185 Answers
1 Tokyo (Japan) 2 Moscow (Russia) 3 Quito (Ecuador) 4 Reykjavik (Iceland)
10 Give students time to read the sentences and do the exercise individually. Tell them to compare answers with a partner, then ask volunteers to give their answers and explain why.
MA Students who finish early can make two more sentences.
Point out the use of the least in the grammar note below the exercise and refer to the grammar reference on SB page 143.
Answers
1 false: The cleanest city is also one of the safest cities.
2 false: The nicest city is the most expensive.
3 true
4 false: The most unfriendly city is one of the most dangerous cities.
5 false: It’s the second highest city in the world.
6 true
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Did you know?Wellington is in New Zealand, Canberra in Australia. Ask: What’s your capital city? Which is the nearest capital to it? How far away is it?
Movies & Music
Read through the questions and text first and check any new vocabulary, eg romantic drama, simply.
Extra questions for class or for homework Movies
What’s the most famous line from this film?
(Play it again, Sam – though in fact, Rick actually says: Play it, Sam when he’s asking the pianist to play and sing the song he shared with Ilsa.)
The film is set in the early 1940s – what was happening at that time?
The film is basically a love story. What’s your favourite movie love story and why?
Note: If you can find – or get students to find – a still or a clip of the film online, you can ask: What are they wearing? What do / don’t you like about that style of clothes? What do the clothes tell you about the period?
Music
What other songs do you know by this singer? (What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Private Dancer, etc)
The song is often used as an anthem. If you had to choose an anthem, what song would you choose?
Answers Movies
Name of film: Casablanca Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman Famous song: As Time Goes By
Music
Title: Simply the Best (or sometimes just The Best)
Also sung by: Bonnie Tyler
Culture notes: Casablanca is a love story set in Morocco during the first years of World War II. Café owner, Rick, is shocked to see Ilse and her husband walk into his café. Rick and Ilse had met and fallen in love in Paris earlier in the war. Will she choose him now, or will she stay with her husband? The song As Time Goes By was written in 1931 by Herman Hupfeld and sung in the film by Sam, played by Dooley Wilson.
The Best is a song written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight. It was first recorded by Welsh singer, Bonnie Tyler (who also sang Total Eclipse of the Heart), but it wasn’t a big hit until Tina Turner released it. The song is used by several sports teams and athletes around the world as their anthem or theme tune.
Lesson 2 Is this the coolest place to stay? pp108–109
Aims
The focus of this lesson is to practise could and had to to talk about possibility in the past, and to learn vocabulary for talking about hotel facilities.
You first!
Ask students for their opinions about the room.
Ask for adjectives to describe the photo, eg cool, cold, icy, freezing, shiny, dark. Explain that cool means cold but it can also mean nice or amazing.
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Reading 1
1 Discuss the questions as a class. Point out that the third question (Can you see any animals?) may seem strange, but ask students what they can see (there’s a whale tail in the background). Ask students to look at the map and tell you where this place is.
Background information: At the Ice Hotel, all the bedrooms are designed by different people and there are lots of wonderful different designs, which change every year.
This one is an ‘underwater’ bedroom.
2 Ask students to predict what information will be in the article. They should use the photo and the map to help them with ideas. Give students time to write their guesses individually (and no, they can’t use the words ice or
hotel!), then gather all the ideas and write them on the board.
3 Set a time limit for students to read the article quickly. Circle any words on the board that come up and check the meaning of any new vocabulary, eg Arctic Circle, blocks, melts, thermal, sleeping bag, reindeer.
4 Ask students to work in pairs and take turns to close their books and quiz their partner. Student A can ask questions 1–3, student B can ask questions 4–6.
MA Students who finish early can think of two extra questions to ask about the article.
Answers
1 false: There are several Ice Hotels around the world.
2 true
3 false: They are about –5˚C.
4 true
5 false: The hotel melts in spring and they have to rebuild it every winter.
6 true
5 Tell students to work in pairs to ask and answer the questions, then discuss them as a class.
Extra ideas: Tell students to go to www.
icehotel.com and find out how expensive it would be to stay a night at the Ice Hotel.
Ask: What’s the best way to get there from where you are now?
Ask students to find out about other unusual hotels in the world.
Reading 2
6 3.41 Ask students about hotels they have stayed in. Ask: Which was the best? What did you like about it? Which was the worst?
What did you dislike? Ask students to read the Travelwise website information and work out the missing words. Ask: What is the purpose of this website? Who wrote the information?
Ask students to give a reason for each of their answers and to say what clues they used within the text. Play the audio for students to check their answers.
Answers
1 the most expensive 2 the most delicious 3 the friendliest 4 the most amazing 5 the hardest
Transcript
A One of the best
It’s one of the most expensive hotels I have ever stayed in, but also one of the best. I strongly recommend it.
B Slow service, but wonderful food
There was only one restaurant, so we had to eat there. It was expensive and the service was very slow. But when it came, the food was excellent. It was the most delicious food I’ve ever eaten in my life!
C Expensive
The drinks in the Ice Bar were the most expensive I’ve ever had, so I only had one!
But the hotel staff were the friendliest I’ve ever met.
D Fantastic place
It’s the most amazing place I have ever stayed in. There were lots of activities, from ice sculpting to snowmobile rides.
We had to pay for them and they weren’t cheap, but they were great. We even saw the Northern Lights.
E Very cold
The sleeping bags were nice and warm and very comfortable, but the bed was the hardest I’ve ever slept in. I couldn’t sleep.
And I couldn’t get up either because it was so cold. One night was enough!
Unit 12 187 7 Discuss the comments on the Travelwise
website in more detail. Teach / Elicit the phrase a bit of both (partly positive and partly negative). Ask: Which is the most interesting comment? Find out how often students use websites like this and whether they think they are useful or a good idea. Ask: Have you ever posted a review of a hotel or restaurant online? Was it positive or negative or a bit of both?
Answer
All the comments are both positive and negative – a bit of both
8 Tell students to cover the website comments, then set a time limit of two
minutes to answer the questions. Students can write the answers in their notebooks. Ask them to check their own answers or exchange books with a partner.
Answers
1 a) the service in the restaurant b) the beds
c) the hotel
d) the sleeping bags e) the activities
2 a) It was expensive and the service was slow.
b) It was excellent and delicious.
c) They were very expensive.
d) They were very friendly.
e) It was very cold.