Unit 1: Free time Focus on reading: skimming and scanning

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1 Unit 1: Free time Fous on reading: skimming and sanning Learning objetives In this unit you will: wath a video of students talking about their free time, and disuss what they say read an advertisement about apps and answer questions on it think about the best strategies for providing short answers to questions read an online advertisement for a webzine for teenagers and answer questions on it pratise speaking about your preferenes and making suggestions A Wath, listen and talk 1 Wath and listen to some IGCSE students talking about their free time. a Make a note of three things that they enjoy doing, and three things that they do not enjoy doing in their free time. b Talk to your partner(s) about the things that you like and do not like doing in your free time. 4 B Speaking and voabulary 1 What do these pitures show? Disuss your ideas with a partner and write down at least five words or phrases that you think of. Example: people enjoying themselves in this web servie

2 Unit 1: Free time 2 Complete the table with things that you enjoy and don t enjoy doing. Use the pitures above and your ideas from the Wath, listen and talk ativity. There are two examples. Compare your list with your partner s. Are they the same or different? wathing films on TV Enjoy tidying my room Don t enjoy LANGUAGE TIP Remember that the verbs enjoy and dislike are both followed by -ing NOT to Example: I enjoy wathing movies on TV, but I dislike tidying my room. NOT I enjoy to wathing movies on TV, but I dislike to tidying my room. NOT I enjoy to wath movies on TV, but I dislike to tidy my room. Complete the exerises in your Workbook. 5 C TOP TIP Skimming and sanning are two very different strategies for speed reading. They eah have a different purpose, and they are not meant to be used all of the time. Skimming is used to quikly identify the main ideas of a text and is done at a speed three to four times faster than normal reading. Sanning is a tehnique you often use when searhing for key words or ideas. In most ases, you know what you re looking for, so you onentrate on finding a partiular answer. Sanning involves moving your eyes quikly down the page looking for speifi words and phrases. Remember that it is usually not neessary to read and understand every word in a text to find the answers to questions. Reading 1 Disuss these questions with a partner. a When you want to find something quikly in a text, how do you read it? Whih reading skills do you use? b When you read something for pleasure, suh as a book or a magazine, do you read it in the same way as you read a shool Chemistry textbook? What other ways are there to read a text? 2 Look at the advertisement for Datasoure produts. Answer these two questions. You have ten seonds! a How many different produts are advertised? b Whih produt is the most expensive? 3 Whih reading skill or skills did you use to answer Ativity C2? Did you read every word in the text? Did you read quikly or slowly? in this web servie

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4 Unit 1: Free time 4 Answer the following question. Do not write anything yet. Whih produt has the biggest perentage redution? 5 Whih of the following is the best answer to the question in Ativity C4? Is more than one answer possible? If so, why? a Datasoure Trainer has the biggest perentage redution. b The produt with the biggest perentage redution is Datasoure Trainer. It s Datasoure Trainer. d Datasoure Trainer. e Trainer. 6 With your partner, ask and answer the following questions. Do not write anything yet. a How many produts have a normal download prie of less than $5? b How an you save an additional $5? Whih produt offers the smallest ash saving? d How many Datasoure Puzzle Finder apps were sold in a month in the USA? e f Give three advantages of joining the Datasoure loyalty sheme. Whih produt offers you 60 minutes free of harge? g Whih produt is available in different languages? 7 Write the answers to the questions in Ativity C6. Exhange your answers with a different pair and hek them. Use the Top Tip to help you. 8 Have a quik look at the seond text, You Write! Where might you find a text like this? Why? Choose one or more from the list. a ditionary an a newspaper a omi a TV magazine a hildren s magazine a blog a shop window a leaflet an enylopaedia a website 9 What is the best strategy for addressing short-answer questions? Put the following points into a logial order. Be prepared to explain your order. a Searh likely setions of the text. b Read the question. Underline the key word/s. d Ask yourself what information the question is asking for. 10 Look at these questions based on the You Write! webzine. Do not write anything yet. Find and note down the key word/s in eah question. a Who is You Write! for? b When an you read the next publiation? How many setions are there in the webzine? d What is the maximum number of words for a reative story? e f If something has made you angry, for whih setion should you write? Whih setion does not tell you how many words to write? g After you have finished your writing, what do you have to do? h How long an the title for your writing be? i If you selet the final box, what will you not reeive? 11 Now write the answers to the questions in Ativity C10. Keep your answers short, but remember to inlude all the information that the questions ask for. Exhange your answers with a partner and hek them. TOP TIP Often, you do not need to write full sentenes for your answers. Sometimes a single word, a few words, or even a number, will be enough. However, you must show that you have understood the question and you must provide all of the information required. If you are writing numbers, be areful to spell them orretly. Also, if the answer is a quantity, make sure you inlude a symbol or a unit of measurement for example $35, 10 kilometres, 2 hours. TOP TIP Noties, leaflets, signs, advertisements and timetables an ontain a lot of information in various formats. The best strategy for answering questions on soures like these is to deide whih word or words in the question will lead you to the plae in the text that ontains the answer. These words are alled key words. 7 in this web servie

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6 Unit 1: Free time D Language fous: adjetive + noun 1 Notie the use of adjetives in the two texts you have read in this unit: amazing app up-to-date app amazing online webzine reative stories a Copy and omplete this sentene. Adjetives are used to provide about. In English, adjetives usually ome the noun. b What happens in your language? What is the usual order for adjetives and nouns? 2 Quikly read through the two texts in Setion C again. Find at least three more examples of adjetive + noun ombinations in eah text. Compare your examples with a partner s. 3 Adjetives an often be formed from other parts of speeh. Copy and omplete the table with the orret words. You may not be able to fill in all the gaps. Adjetive Noun Adverb Verb amazing amazement amazingly amaze speial inredible delightful funny serious original reative 4 Look bak at the two texts in this unit and find at least five more adjetives. Add them to your table and then omplete the other parts of speeh (noun, adverb and verb) where possible. 5 Notie that there are different possible endings for adjetives in English. Using the words from Ativities D3 and D4, list some of these possible endings. Then think of three more examples for eah ending. Example: -ing: interesting, amazing, tiring, fasinating, boring 6 Choose eight adjetives from Ativity D5, then ombine them with nouns and use them in sentenes of your own. Example: That webzine was full of interesting stories and ideas. Complete the exerises in your Workbook. WORD TIP original = 1 INTERESTING: not the same as others; 2 FIRST: the earliest form of something unique = 1 NOT THE SAME: different from everyone and everything; 2 SPECIAL: unusual and speial; 3 BE UNIQUE TO: to exist in only one plae, or onneted to only one person or thing Use either original or unique to omplete the sentenes in your Workbook. Adapted from Cambridge Shool Ditionary in this web servie

7 Cambridge IGCSE English as a Seond Language E Speaking: Showing preferenes and making suggestions 1 CD1, Trak 2 Listen to Maria and Christos talking. How many different ways do they use to show a preferene or to make a suggestion? 2 Look at the audiosript in Appendix 3 and hek the meaning of the phrases that are underlined. 3 Think of more ways to show a preferene and to make a suggestion. Copy the table below and add more phrases. Compare your answers with your partner s. Showing a preferene Making a suggestion I d rather go Why don t we go? Let s go 4 Usually when we show a preferene for something or make a suggestion, we also give a reason. What reason does Maria give for wanting to go to the shopping entre later? What reason does Christos give for wanting to go to the shopping entre at the weekend? LANGUAGE TIP Look at how preferene and suggestion phrases are followed by infinitive, to infinitive or -ing forms of the verb infinitive + to infinitive + -ing Why don t we + do? Would you like + to do? What/How about + doing? Let s + do I d like + to do What do you think about + doing? I suggest we + do I( d) prefer + to do I suggest + doing Can t we + do? I think we should + do I d rather + do Complete the exerises in your Workbook. 5 Work with your partner. For eah of the following examples, one of you makes a suggestion and the other gives a preferene. Use a variety of phrases from the Language Tip, and support your suggestions and preferenes with reasons. Example: Buying new trainers or a birthday present for someone. Maria: Why don t you buy those new trainers we saw in town? Christos: No, I don t think so, Maria. It s my mum s birthday next month and I d prefer to save my money for her present. a Going shopping or staying home to study. b Eating Italian or Japanese food in a restaurant. Wathing a film at the inema or on TV. d Playing basketball or going swimming. 6 A ompetition has just been announed. An area of land near your shool is going to be developed. For the ompetition, you need to make a short speeh to your shool friends, in this web servie

8 Unit 1: Free time F giving your preferenes and reasons for the development of the land. Plan your speeh. It might be helpful to write down some ideas, like this: ar park Reading shopping entre LAND restaurant library ould inlude omputers 1 You are going to read a newsletter about a sports entre. There are six setions: Welome! Opening hours Membership Failities Fous on gyms Personal fitness In whih setions do you think you will read the following information (a f)? Why? a Adults b and make you feel at home! Olympi and hildren s starter pools d inrease your strength e reah your potential f Monday Saturday 2 Write a list of other information you would expet to find in eah of the six setions. Write two things for eah setion. Give reasons for your hoies. 3 Quikly read the Ahileas Sports Centre newsletter and hek your answers to Ativities F1 and F2. 4 Read the newsletter in more detail and write answers for questions a j. a How often is the newsletter published? b What time does the sports entre lose on publi holidays? What is the ost for a family for a six-month membership? d How many swimming pools are there? e f What non-sport failities does the omplex offer? Give two examples. How many different fitness goals are mentioned? g What do you need to do before the staff an design your personal-fitness programme? h How is your progress assessed? i j What is the main goal of the sports entre? What two things do all the fous gyms offer? 5 Follow these instrutions and design your own information leaflet. a Choose somewhere for your leaflet. It ould be another sports entre, a shopping mall, an entertainment omplex, or somewhere else of your hoie. b Inlude four different setions of information, whih ould be similar to the ones you have seen here, or different ones. Write about 50 words for eah setion. d Write two questions per setion (total eight questions) for your partner to answer. TOP TIP Making suggestions and expressing preferenes about a partiular topi are important aspets of speaking effetively. Although it is important to speak aurately (and using set phrases like the ones in this unit will be very helpful) in order to ensure that no misunderstandings take plae, the most important thing is to talk onfidently. Also, try to avoid using slang expressions (say yes not yeah) and voabulary, and single-word answers to questions. 11 in this web servie

9 Cambridge IGCSE English as a Seond Language 12 Welome! Welome to the new Ahileas Sports Centre and Swimming Pool Complex monthly newsletter! We offer a wide variety of ativities for you and all your family and friends. Whether your interest is fitness, football, tennis, basketball or swimming, we an offer you an exellent range of ativities to suit all your needs, and make you feel at home! We hope you will enjoy your visit to the new Ahileas Complex and take advantage of the many failities available. Opening hours Swimming Pool Monday Friday Saturday Sunday & publi holidays Sports Centre Monday Friday Saturday Sunday & publi holidays Ahileas Restaurant Monday Saturday & Sunday & publi holidays only Membership Children Adults Couples Family (6 17) (18+) (2 adults) (2 adults + 2 hildren) Annual $250 $400 $350 eah $1,000 6-monthly $130 $210 $180 eah $600 3-monthly $70 $110 $100 eah $330 Monthly $25 $45 $40 eah $120 Weekly $20 $40 $35 eah $105 Daily $10 $20 $15 eah $45 Failities Five fitness and speial-fous gyms, one hildren s gym, Olympi pool and hildren s starter pool, four squash ourts, four badminton ourts, two basketball ourts, eight outdoor tennis ourts, two all-weather football pithes, Ahileas Sports Shop, Ahileas Restaurant. Fous on gyms Whatever your fitness level, whatever your age and whatever your fitness goals, we have something to offer you in one of our speial-fous gyms! If you would like to lose weight, tone up, inrease your strength or improve your health, we have highly qualified staff on hand to motivate you. All of this takes plae in one of our five fous gyms: ardiovasular, resistane training, free weights, general and sports injury. All our fous gyms offer state-of-the-art mahines and exellent user-friendly equipment, atering for all your health and fitness needs. Personal fitness Whether you wish to work out one a week or every day, for ten minutes or an hour, after an initial onsultation, our staff will design your own personal-fitness programme, tailored to suit your individual needs. You will also benefit from regular reviews, where your progress will be monitored and your programme updated or adjusted aordingly. Our primary aim is to motivate you to reah your potential. in this web servie

10 Unit 1: Free time REFLECTION How well do you think you an do eah of these things now? Give yourself a sore from 1: Still need a lot of pratie to 5: Feeling very onfident about this In this unit you: wathed a video of students talking about their free time, and disussed what they said read an advertisement about apps and answered questions on it thought about the best strategies for providing short answers to questions read an online advertisement for a webzine for teenagers and answered questions on it pratised speaking about your preferenes and making suggestions. Now set yourself a personal goal based on your sores for Unit 1. Exam fous Reading, Exerise 1, skimming and sanning 1 Read the following visitor information leaflet about markets in Cambridge, and then answer the exerises. 13 Cambridge offers you more than you would expet in this web servie