3 fourth English File edition Upper-intermediate Teacher’s Guide WITH TEACHER’S RESOURCE CENTRE Christina Latham-Koenig Clive Oxenden Kate Chomacki with Anna Lowy Krysia Mabbott 2020 | PDF | 230 Pages buihuuhanh@gmail.com 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.indd 1 05/11/2019 10:33 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2020 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published in 2020 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization.
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The authors would also like to thank: all those at Oxford University Press (both in Oxford and around the world) and the design team who have contributed their skills and ideas to producing this course. Finally very special thanks from Clive to Maria Angeles, Lucia, and Eric, and from Christina to Cristina, for all their support and encouragement. Christina would also like to thank her children Joaquin, Marco, and Krysia for their constant inspiration. We would also like to thank the following for permission to reproduce the following photographs: Alamy pp.207 (man driving car/ Minerva Studio, Swedish town), 218 (blood pressure monitor/romiri, pills/ Mega Pixel, plaster/Copter Pixel), 222 (tropical storm/Marc Serota); Oxford University Press pp.
Illustrations by: Meiklejohn/Gavin Reece p.179; Roger Penwill pp.162, 166–168, 182, 196–198; John Haslam pp. © Copyright Oxford University Press 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.8 Course overview ● Introduction ● What do Upper-intermediate students need? ● For students Student’s Book Online Practice Workbook ● For teachers Teacher’s Guide Teacher’s Resource Centre Classroom Presentation Tool Class audio Video p.12 File 1 A–B Colloquial English Episode 1 p.28 File 2 A–B 1&2 Revise and Check p.43 File 3 A–B Colloquial English Episode 2 p.60 File 4 A–B 3&4 Revise and Check p.72 File 5 A–B Colloquial English Episode 3 p.88 File 6 A–B 5&6 Revise and Check p.101 File 7 A–B Colloquial English Episode 4 p.117 File 8 A–B 7&8 Revise and Check p.129 File 9 A–B Colloquial English Episode 5 p.145 File 10 A–B 9&10 Revise and Check p.159 Grammar activity answers p.161 Grammar activity masters p.183 Communicative activity instructions p.190 Communicative activity masters p.214 Vocabulary activity instructions p.218 Vocabulary activity masters 3 © Copyright Oxford University Press 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.indd 3 05/11/2019 10:33 Syllabus checklist GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION 1 6 A Questions and answers question formation working out meaning intonation: showing from context interest 10 B It’s a mystery auxiliary verbs, the…, the… compound adjectives, intonation and sentence + comparatives modifiers rhythm 14 Colloquial English Episode 1 talking about…getting a job 2 16 A Doctor, doctor! present perfect simple illnesses and injuries /ʃ/, /dʒ/, /tʃ/, and /k/ and continuous 20 B Act your age using adjectives as nouns, clothes and fashion vowel sounds adjective order 24 Revise and Check 1&2 3 26 A Fasten your seat belts narrative tenses, past air travel irregular past forms, perfect continuous, sentence rhythm so / such…that 30 B A really good ending? the position of adverbs adverbs and word stress and and adverbial phrases adverbial phrases intonation 34 Colloquial English Episode 2 talking about…books 4 36 A Stormy weather future perfect and future the environment, weather vowel sounds continuous 40 B A risky business zero and first conditionals, expressions with take linked phrases future time clauses 44 Revise and Check 3&4 5 46 A I’m a survivor unreal conditionals feelings word stress in three- or four-syllable adjectives 50 B Wish you were here wish for present / future, expressing feelings with sentence rhythm wish for past regrets verbs or -ed / -ing adjectives and intonation 54 Colloquial English Episode 3 talking about…waste 4 © Copyright Oxford University Press 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.indd 4 05/11/2019 10:33 SPEAKING LISTENING READING politely refusing to answer a understanding the stages of understanding questions, working question, reacting to what a short interview out meaning from context someone says, tough questions reacting to a story about something following instructions understanding facts vs theories strange, You’re psychic, aren’t you? Doctor, doctor, health understanding an anecdote reading and summarizing The joy of the age-gap friendship, understanding a discussion – opinions, scanning several texts managing discussions, politely explanations, examples disagreeing Flight stories, telling an anecdote understanding formal language using a diagram to understand a text in announcements reading habits reading for pleasure the environment, understanding examples scanning for examples climate change risk-taking focusing on the main points summarizing an argument emergency situations understanding mood and feelings recognizing positive and negative experiences ways of talking about understanding a poem checking hypotheses how we feel, wishes 5 © Copyright Oxford University Press 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.indd 5 05/11/2019 10:33 GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION 6 56 A Night night used to, be used to, sleep /s/ and /z/ get used to 60 B Music to my ears gerunds and infinitives music words from other languages 64 Revise and Check 5&6 7 66 A Let’s not argue past modals: must have, verbs often confused weak form of have etc., would rather 70 B It’s all an act verbs of the senses the body silent consonants 74 Colloquial English Episode 6&7 talking about…performances 8 76 A Cutting crime the passive (all forms); crime and punishment the letter u have something done; it is said that…, he is thought to…, etc. 80 B Fake news reporting verbs the media word stress 84 Revise and Check 7&8 9 86 A Good business? clauses of contrast advertising, business changing stress on and purpose nouns and verbs 90 B Super cities uncountable and word building: prefixes word stress with prefixes plural nouns and suffixes and suffixes 94 Colloquial English Episode 8&9 talking about…advertising 10 96 A Science fact, quantifiers: all, every, science stress in word families science-fiction both, etc. 100 B Free speech articles collocation: word pairs pausing and sentence stress 104 Revise and Check 9&10 106 Communication 115 Writing 122 Listening 132 Grammar Bank 6 © Copyright Oxford University Press 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.indd 6 05/11/2019 10:33 SPEAKING LISTENING READING sleep understanding reasons using contextual clues music understanding a talk scanning across several texts role-playing an argument understanding advice identifying solutions to problems Guess what it is, describing photos understanding instructions understanding the principle of an experiment Beat the burglar, crime using your knowledge of the understanding truth and lies world to help you understand formal advice Strange but true, the media identifying the main using heading to understand events in news stories the main point of a paragraph Misleading ads, advertising, business understanding explanations dealing with an authentic text cities understanding place names identifying advantages and disadvantages science, talking about understanding specific explanations understanding the language future possibilities of speculation public speaking identifying dos and don’ts understanding context 152 Vocabulary Bank 164 Appendix 165 Irregular verbs 166 Sound Bank 7 © Copyright Oxford University Press 00_EF4e_UPPINT_TB_Prelims.indd 7 05/11/2019 10:33 Course overview Introduction Vocabulary Our aim with English File fourth edition has been to make • Systematic expansion of topic-based lexical areas every lesson better and to make the package more student- • Increase the range and variety of their vocabulary and teacher-friendly.
As well as the main A and B Student’s • Opportunities to put new vocabulary into practice Book lessons, there is a range of material that you can At this level, expanding students’ vocabulary is the most use according to your students’ needs, and the time and visible and motivating measure of their progress. Many resources you have available. Don’t forget: lessons are linked to the Vocabulary Banks which help • videos that can be used in class in every File: Colloquial present and practise the vocabulary in class, give an audio English, Video Listening, and Can you understand model of each word, and provide a clear reference so these people? students can revise and test themselves in their own time. • Quick Tests and File tests for every File, as well as Progress Students can review the meaning and the pronunciation of Tests, an End-of-course Test, and an Entry Test, which you new vocabulary on Online Practice, and find further practice can use at the beginning of the course in the Workbook.
• photocopiable Grammar and Communicative activities for every A and B lesson, and a Vocabulary activity for every Pronunciation Vocabulary Bank • ‘Fine-tuning’ of pronunciation of difficult sounds Online Practice and the Workbook provide review, • Continue to develop their instinct for rules and patterns support, and practice for students outside the class. • The ability to use appropriate rhythm and intonation The Teacher’s Guide suggests different ways of exploiting Clear, intelligible pronunciation (not perfection) should be the the Student’s Book depending on the level of your class. We goal of students at this level. There is a pronunciation focus very much hope you enjoy using English File fourth edition.
in every lesson, which integrates clear pronunciation into grammar and vocabulary practice. There is an emphasis on What do Upper-intermediate the sounds most useful for communication, on word stress, and on sentence rhythm. Online Practice contains the students need? Sound Bank videos which show students the mouth positions Upper-intermediate students rightly feel that they are now to make English vowels and consonants. They can also review quite high-level learners of English, and are ready to ‘push the pronunciation from the lesson at their own speed.
There on’ to become very proficient users of the language. To is more practice of pronunciation in the Workbook, with achieve this they need motivating materials and challenging audio, which can be found on Online Practice. They need clear objectives to focus on taking their skills to a higher level, as well as dealing with more complex Speaking language input. Finally, they need classes to be as fun and • Up-to-date, stimulating topics to get them talking and dynamic as they were at lower levels: there is no reason why exchanging opinions higher-level lessons should become dry and over-serious.
• The key words and phrases necessary to discuss a topic Students still want to enjoy their English classes – role-plays, language games, challenges, and quizzes are still as valuable • Practice in more extended speaking pedagogically as ever, and can often be exploited more • Improvement in accuracy as well as further development effectively at this level. of their fluency We believe that a good topic or text is very important in Grammar motivating students to speak in class.
