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IN THIS ISSUE APRIL / MAY 2018 Student News
Resource Archive
• Grammar: reporting verbs; future for predictions;
future tenses; get / have something done
• Vocabulary: numbers; adjectives for taste and KEY
flavour; tourism; personal finance; football; transport;
weddings and romance; school rules What our symbols mean:
• Functions & Skills: describing flavour; talking Audio:
about personal finance; making future predictions; This article has a listening track.
expressing anger You can listen on the CD or online.
• Culture: new English words; Florida shooting; There are also audio transcripts
Manchester bombing; top tourist destinations; past and listening activities online.
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and Meghan
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Article
Language Focus /
Topic
Audio / Video / Cultural This article has an accompanying
Feature Snap it! Language Lab Studies
video on our website. There
News stories New English words;
Pages 2 & 3
from around the Numbers; adjectives ice-cream flavours; are also video activities and
#Trending & Blast Track 7
From the Past
world; historical for taste and flavour Florida shooting; transcripts online.
anniversary Manchester bombing
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Peak tourism and its Track 8 & 9
Pages 4 & 5 Tourists NOT
Reporting verbs effects on popular
CLUB News welcome!
destinations Language Lab:
Pages 6 & 7 Debt: A Ticking Talking about Young people and debt;
This article has a complete online
CLUB Report Time Bomb personal finance personal finance quiz learning unit. Assign language
Pages 8 & 9
The Most Future for High and lowlights units and check students’ results!
Memorable World predictions; from past football Track 6
SPORT
Cup Moments Snap it! football World Cups
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Cover / Flying cars take off!
Future tenses;
Pages 10 & 11 How will we travel
transport vocabulary
Future transport ideas Snap it!:
CLUB Tech in 2030?
Students can snap and store
Pages 12 & 13
Paris in the Spring
Culture; reporting Story of Paris past and these words on their phones.
Changing Cities verbs present
Vocabulary for Track 10 Cultural Studies:
Pages 14 & 15 An invite to ... the
weddings and Royal weddings
The Pulse Royal Wedding!
romance This article contains cultural and
topical information about the
Get / Have Getting your head
Page 16 English-speaking world.
Sent to isolation! something done; shaved for charity;
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expressing anger school rules
Students can send in their news to [email protected]
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Pages 2 & 3 #Trending Pages 4 & 5 CLUB News
CD2 & Online Track 7 CD2 & Online Tracks 8 & 9 Language Lab
News in Numbers: New words awards! Background information
Before students open the magazine, talk about More than 1.2 billion foreign journeys were made globally
languages as living things. Give this example: Twenty in 2016, and mass tourism continues to be a hot topic
years ago in a London café, you would say: “Can I have in 2018, with that figure set to rise to 1.8 billion in 2030.
a coffee?” Today you’d say: “Can I get a flat white?” ‘Get’ Can tourist destinations cope with this flood of holiday
instead of ‘have’ has come from the United States. And makers?
‘a cup of coffee’ has been replaced by a long menu of Lead-in
different types of coffee. Ask: How do you use language Ask students to think about holidays. Explain the
differently from your parents? Ideas: grammatical situation. You’re on holiday with your friends / family.
structures, children’s names, abbreviations and Three things go wrong. What are they? In pairs, students
acronyms, trendy words, Internet slang, word blends. come up with ideas about what can go wrong. Collect
Students read the information in the box and find words ideas on the board. Examples: You have to spend 24
with these meanings. hours at the airport waiting for your flight. You lose your
1 A person whose first language is, for example, suitcase. The weather is bad. Your phone is stolen. There
English. are cockroaches in the hotel.
2 A person who draws funny pictures for a living. Reading: Comprehension
3 An example is ‘to admire, admiring, admiration, 1 What is Alex’s first experience of Barcelona?
admired’. 2 How many people around the world work in tourism?
4 An important cultural, political or social change arising 3 Why do landlords prefer to rent to tourists rather
from the actions or influence of young people. than locals?
[Answers: 1. native speaker 2. cartoonist 3. word family 4. youthquake] 4 Why can’t locals get to work on time on the island of
Ice-cream craziness! Skye?
Ice-cream was invented in China 2,200 years ago, and 5 What damage do some tourists do to the Great Wall
today the world’s favourite ice-cream flavour is the most of China?
traditional flavour – vanilla! In small groups, students 6 How is Dubrovnik planning to deal with overcrowding
think of two crazy ice-cream flavours. Collect everyone’s in its Old Town?
ideas on the board. The class votes on the best / worst. [Possible answers: 1. Angry graffiti. 2. One in 10 / 10%. 3. Because
Students look at the ice-cream menu on page 2. Ask: they can earn five times as much income. 4. Because the roads are
choked with cars. 5. They hammer nails into the wall, leave rubbish
Are any of the ice-cream flavours in the list on the board
and scratch their names on the stones. 6. By introducing a visitor
included in the menu? quota of 4,000 a day.]
Never Again Speaking: Situation test
On the 14th of February this year, 17 students and staff Students discuss these situations in pairs before sharing
died in the 18th school shooting of 2018 in the United their ideas with the class.
States. Young Americans decided they had had enough.
1 You own a rental flat in your city, which is a tourist
They want to be able to go to school without fearing for
their lives, noting that school shootings don’t happen magnet. You can let the flat to a local resident for
in other countries. Students discuss these questions in €100 a week. You can let it to tourists for €500 a week.
small groups, before sharing ideas across the class: What will you do?
2 You are planning a gap year holiday. You want to visit
1 Why do you think there are more mass shootings
by lone shooters in the United States than in other Amsterdam, Barcelona and Venice but you have just
countries? read this article. What will you do?
3 You are in Barcelona with your mates after your
2 Why is a shooting in a school particularly shocking?
exams. They are behaving badly - drinking and being
3 Americans against gun control are in favour of giving
rowdy*. What you say?
guns to teachers. Would that be a good solution?
*rowdy (adj): noisy and disrespectful to people around them
4 Many young people want gun laws tightened so that
young people can’t get guns, and background checks
to be much tougher before a person can buy a gun.
Do you agree with them?
Pages 6 & 7 CLUB Report
Blast from the past! Bomb explodes at pop concert
Students look at the photo. Ask: Do you remember what Background information
happened in Manchester a year ago? Students find Although debt is part of life for most people, and
these pieces of information: personal finance is part of the UK secondary school
1 What date is the first anniversary of this event? curriculum, the subject is often overlooked in UK
schools. Neither Claudia nor Charles on pages 8 & 9 has
2 What happened to the bomber?
ever had a personal finance lesson.
3 Who did Ariana Grande visit in hospital?
Lead-in
4 How do some of the fans feel one year on? Say: You unexpectedly win £100/€113. You have nothing
[Answers: 1. 22nd May 2018 2. The bomber was killed by the bomb. in the bank and you owe £40/€45 to your parents. Give
3. People who were hurt in the bombing. 4. They still feel nervous.] students these three options. They vote for the one they
would probably follow.
2
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A You rush out and spend it. Headline: HAND OF GOD
B You pay back your parents and spend the rest. Match: Argentina vs England, 1986
C You pay back your parents and put the rest in the
1 The wind was so strong during this game that it blew
bank. the ball into the England net.
Ask: Are you a spender or a saver? 2 Football legend Maradona scored a goal with his
hand, and the goal was allowed.
Reading: Comprehension
[Answer: 2]
Are these statements true or false?
1 Debt is money you have borrowed and you haven’t Grammar: Making future predictions
yet paid back. Students use these phrases to predict these events at
2 Two-thirds of Brits aged 16-24 have debts.
the 2018 football World Cup.
3 The teens on the TV show My SuperSweet 16 believe
I think / I‘m sure / I believe / I expect ... will + infinitive
without to
that “Money doesn’t buy you happiness”.
1 best player
4 Personal finance has been a compulsory school
2 giant killing (where a low-ranked team beats a top
subject since 2014.
5 All UK schools teach personal finance.
team)
3 top scorer
6 Money expert Martin Lewis believes that ‘credit cards’
4 teams in the final
should be renamed ‘debt cards’.
[Answers: 1. True. 2. False. The figure is closer to one-third. 3. False. 5 success of the event
They want “the absolute best”, and they don’t worry about the cost. [Example answers: 1. I think Griezmann will be the best player.
4. True. 5. False. So far it’s only 40% of schools. 6. True.] 2. I expect Iceland will be the giant killers again! 3. I’m sure Ronaldo
will be the top scorer. 4. Teams in the final? I expect it will be
Role-play: Talking money Germany vs Brazil. 5. Will the event be a success? Yes, I believe it will!]
Students work in groups of three and role-play these
conversations.
1 Three friends are in a café. Two of the friends have
new ... (the group chooses the item). The third friend Cover / Pages 10 & 11 CLUB Tech
desperately wants to buy a new ..., but only has half the
cash. The friends discuss ways of raising the money, or Background information
just not buying the item. In February this year, billionaire Elon Musk launched his
2 Two teens are in their favourite shop. The store Tesla car into space with a dummy called Starman sitting
assistant is trying to persuade them to take out store at the wheel. It was a gimmick to highlight his plans to
cards. The benefits are 15% off their first purchase, treats make space travel affordable. Until that happens, this
and invites to special events, being the first to hear article features more realistic types of future travel.
about new products in store, only 20% APR if you pay Lead-in
back the suggested amount each month, and a cool Students look at the cover. In pairs, they answer the
card to snap on Insta). One teen is keen to take one out, cover question. Here are some suggestions to throw in:
the other is very reluctant. electric unicycles, flying bikes, cars with square wheels.
Reading: Scanning
Deliver these quick-fire questions. Students find the
relevant mode of transport as quickly as they can.
Pages 8 & 9 Sport
Which type of transport ...
CD & Online: Track 6 Football 1 ... can turn in a circle without moving forwards or
Background information backwards?
The 21st FIFA World Cup is taking place in Russia, with 2 ... is 92 metres long?
the opening match on the 14th June and the final on the 3 ... will take many passengers?
15th July. Russia has never hosted a football World Cup 4 ... has four powerful engines?
before.
5 ... takes four passengers plus a robot?
Lead-in 6 ... isn’t really designed for passengers?
Ask: Which of these big summer events would you like a
ticket to? 7 ... looks futuristic and old-fashioned at the same time?
A the World Cup final in Moscow, Russia (football) 8 ... expects to start operating in 2021?
B Comic Con in San Diego, USA (superheroes and comics) [Answers: 1. The Snap. 2. The Airlander 10. 3. The Hyperloop.
4. The Hover Coupe. 5. The Snap. 6. The Airlander 10. 7. The Hover
C Roskilde Festival, Denmark (music) Coupe (The Airlander 10 just looks old-fashioned.) 8. The Hyperloop.]
Reading and writing Vocabulary: Transport
Copy the text on pages 8 and 9 and cut into six sections. Make your own Snap it! Students match these transport
Students keep their magazines closed, and work in pairs words and definitions, writing them out neatly in
or threes. Hand out one section to each pair / three. matching columns and then snap the results on their
They read their paragraph and try to summarise it in one phones to learn later.
sentence. They then invent a second completely different
story to go with the same headline. Their invented story
should be reasonably likely. Pairs / Threes read their two
sentences to the class. The class has to decide which is
the actual story, and which is the invented story. Example:
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1 traffic jam A w
hen a plane doesn’t need a 3 Students read out their sentences. The rest of the
runway to get into the air class says when and where the character is speaking.
2 engine B to stay in the same place in 4 Collect in all the sentences. For homework, students
the air convert each sentence into reported speech using the
3 vertical take-off C long lines of metal that trains reporting verb given. Examples: Laure admitted that
move on she could spend / could have spent all day sitting there
4 to hover D the amount of chemicals
and drinking coffee. Marcel inquired how Emile’s novel
was going. Philippe warned the police officer to take his
pumped out by a vehicle
hands off him.
5 hybrid E when a line of vehicles is
unable to move forward
6 emissions F when a train or bus is late
7 delayed G the part of the vehicle that Pages 14 & 15 The Pulse
produces power
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8 rails H a mix of two types of
transport or fuel Background information
Harry and Meghan’s wedding will be conducted by the
[Answers: 1E 2G 3A 4B 5H 6D 7F 8C]
Archbishop of Canterbury, with a carriage procession
around the centre of Windsor.
Lead-in
Pages 12 & 13 Changing Cities Ask: Have you or your family ever received an invitation?
What was it for?
Background information Reading: Comprehension
This May, Paris is remembering the Student Riots of fifty
Students find these facts.
years ago, when young people and police clashed on
1 What TV show did Meghan star in ?
the streets. The riots were followed by a general strike
involving nine million workers across France. 2 What other event is taking place on the same day?
Lead-in 3 Who is buried at St George’s Chapel?
Build up a word spider on the board with Paris at the 4 What cost £56,000?
centre, eliciting words and ideas that students associate 5 How long was it between Harry and Meghan’s first
with the city. date and their engagement?
Reading: Comprehension [Answers: 1. Suits. 2. The FA Cup Final. 3. King Henry VIII.
Students answer these questions. 4. Meghan’s engagement dress 5. Fifteen months.]
1 Which event started the French Revolution?
2 Why did Napoleon III rebuild Paris?
3 Find two reasons why the Eiffel Tower might not exist Page 16 CLUB Image
today.
4 What is Paris remembering in May 2018? Background information
The girl in this story donated her hair to the Little
5 What pushed Paris’s rats out of the sewers in 2018?
Princess Trust, a charity that makes wigs for children with
[Answers: 1. The Storming of the Bastille on the 14th of July cancer. Other high-profile donors include Harry Styles
1789. 2. Because the narrow, crooked medieval streets were too
easy to barricade. 3. First, they planned to take it down after the and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge.
celebrations. Second, Hitler ordered the destruction of Paris in Note: Niamh’s name is pronounced ‘Neev’.
1944, but General Von Choltitz disobeyed his orders. 4. The student
riots of May ’68. 5. The flooding of the River Seine.] Reading: Vocabulary
Students find words in the article to fill these gaps.
Writing: Reporting verbs
1 My dad ..... off his beard for charity.
1 Brainstorm reporting verbs and collect on the board:
2 My grandmother was ..... when my mum got her first
admit, point out, explain, say, tell, complain, warn, deny,
remember, suggest, ask, pretend, add, acknowledge. tattoo (she didn’t like it!).
3 My brother ..... all his Star Wars toys to a charity auction.
2 Students work in pairs. They choose one of the
photos, events or places in the story of Paris, and 4 My aunt caught bird flu and the hospital put her in ..... .
imagine a character in that situation. They think of They use their own ideas to complete this sentence.
something the character would say, and use a reporting 5 I had my pocket money stopped when I ...
verb to say it. Examples:
[Answers: 1. shaved 2. unimpressed 3. donated 4. isolation]
“I could spend all day sitting here and drinking coffee,”
admitted Laure. (Answer: Today. Laure is sitting in the Role-play: The meeting
Champ de Mars cafe right now.) Students work in groups of four. They take these
roles: Niamh, Niamh’s mum, the head teacher and a
“How is your novel coming on, Emile?,” inquired Marcel. spokesperson for the Little Princess Trust. Give them a
(Answer: 1900. Emile Zola and Marcel Proust are at the few minutes to prepare their arguments. They meet and
Moulin Rouge.) discuss Niamh’s case, with Niamh and her mum trying to
“Take your hands off me!” warned Philippe. “I know my persuade the head teacher to lift Niamh’s punishment.
rights!” (Answer: May 1968. Student Philippe to a police
officer who is trying to arrest him.)
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