lOMoARcPSD|18279418 PROFICIENCY C2 Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley Downloaded by Linh Nguyen (nglinh.com) lOMoARcPSD|18279418 Downloaded by Linh Nguyen (nglinh.com) lOMoARcPSD|18279418 Published by Express Publishing Liberty House, Greenham Business Park, Newbury, Berkshire RG19 6HW Tel.: (0044) 1635 817 363 Fax: (0044) 1635 817 463 e-mail: inquiries@expresspublishing.uk http: //www.uk © Virginia Evans – Jenny Dooley 2002 Design and Illustration © Express Publishing, 2002 First published 2002 Third impression 2011 Made in EU 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, electronic, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. This book is not meant to be changed in any way. ISBN 978-1-84325-535-2 Downloaded by Linh Nguyen (nglinh.com) lOMoARcPSD|18279418 Contents UNIT 1 Getting the Message Across.
5 UNIT 2 The Happiest Days of your Life?. 20 Self-Assessment Module 1. 32 UNIT 3 Extra! Extra!. 33 UNIT 4 Planes, Trains and Automobiles!.
44 Self-Assessment Module 2. 57 UNIT 5 The Science of Life. 58 UNIT 6 The Art of Entertainment. 68 Self-Assessment Module 3.
80 UNIT 7 Born to Win!. 91 Self-Assessment Module 4. 103 UNIT 9 Another Day, Another Dollar. 105 UNIT 10 Our Planet, Our Home.
117 Self-Assessment Module 5. 137 Peer Assessment Checklist. 184 3 Downloaded by Linh Nguyen (nglinh.com) lOMoARcPSD|18279418 Downloaded by Linh Nguyen (nglinh.com) lOMoARcPSD|18279418 Unit 1 3 Check that Ss understand prompts. Allow two or three Unit 1 – Getting the Message Across minutes for Ss to match the sentences to the photographs and complete sentences.
Suggested Answer Key Objectives 1 E (see example) 2 A I think writing letters is the most personal form of Vocabulary: means of communication; facial expressions; communication because you can take as much time as ways of speaking; the Internet you need to express yourself. Reading: multiple choice; gapped text 3 A I believe letters can be very slow and they can take weeks Listening: listening for opinion, gist, detail, inference; to reach their destination. multiple matching; sentence completion; multiple choice 4 E I believe that mobile phones are a very efficient way of questions communicating because you can be reached wherever Speaking: telephone conversation; asking for and promising you are. discretion; introducing news; expressing surprise; speculating; 5 C I think e-mail can be the most versatile because you can evaluating; suggesting alternatives send sound or pictures.
Grammar: modal verbs 6 B I think that faxes can be impersonal and you cannot Phrasal verbs: act; break always communicate meaningfully. Writing: expressing opinions in essays, letters and articles 7 A I believe writing letters can be artistic because you can use customised paper and handwriting makes the message more personal. 1 Direct Ss to the title of the unit. Discuss what the title 8 E I think mobile phones can be limited because you can means – to get a message across means to make someone only send brief messages.
understand what you want to say. Elicit other phrases with a similar meaning e. get the gist of something/make yourself 4 a. Make sure Ss understand the meaning of charity and understood /let someone know / spell something out / convey a stranded.
Allow them to work in pairs for three or four meaning. minutes to discuss the content of the reports. Monitor to check understanding of vocabulary and encourage Write the word communicating on the board. Briefly elicit speculation.
Elicit speculations from Ss and write them from Ss what they consider makes someone a good on the board. Accept all suggestions at this stage, it communicator. Allow Ss two or three minutes to rank does not matter if the Ss’ answers are not correct, the elements of communication, then ask one or more pairs to purpose is to encourage speculation and build up present their ideas. Encourage general discussion if Ss are confidence in spoken expression.
interested in the topic. Suggested Answer Key Suggested Answer Key 1 I suppose it’s about using the Internet to raise money for I think developing an interesting exchange of ideas is the best people whose houses were destroyed in an earthquake. example of good communication because that’s when you really 2 It must be something to do with people using the Internet get to know someone. You’ve got to be able to get your message to get into other people’s bank accounts.
across, of course, and it helps if you can do it quickly and efficiently; 3 It must be about something really old-fashioned that was that’s where using language correctly is important. If you can’t do useful to fishermen in a particular situation, such as their that, people won’t understand you, and you won’t be able to boat’s engine breaking down. express what you think and feel about something. I don’t think it’s 4 It’s probably about the results of a survey on whether so important to have time to think before you speak.
It depends on people prefer to communicate over the phone or by e-mail. the situation and on the person – some people think more slowly than others. Explain that the news programmes cover the same stories as the headlines. Play the cassette and stop after 2 Ask Ss to identify means of communication shown in the each item.
Ss check to see if their predictions were pictures at the top of the page. Write them on the board. Play cassette for a second time for Ss to fill in Elicit the advantages and disadvantages of using these. gaps in sentences.
Elicit Ss’ opinions of the usefulness of Allow Ss four or five minutes to make sentences about the different technologies in these situations. these ways of communicating. Ask individual Ss to read out their ideas. Answer Key Suggested Answer Key 1 public spirit 3 distress call 2 conducted online 4 personal element ñ I would use a fax if I needed to send some documents to someone or if I just needed to get a message to someone 5 Point out to Ss that both quotations use comparisons.
Ask quickly and cheaply. the Ss what is compared to what, and what comparative ñ I would use e-mail if I wanted to order a product through the structure is used in each case. first quotation: means Internet. of communication compared to communicating the more.
ñ I would choose to speak to someone face-to-face if I wanted to the less discuss something personal. second quotation: good communication compared to ñ I would use a mobile phone if I wanted to help in an black coffee as. as emergency, or to send messages to my friends. It is quick and Elicit ideas for paraphrase of first quotation from Ss and easy, but too expensive to use for long chats.
build up paraphrase on the board. Allow Ss three to five minutes to write a paraphrase of the second one in pairs, monitor and correct, then ask two or three Ss to read out their paraphrases. 5 Downloaded by Linh Nguyen (nglinh.com) lOMoARcPSD|18279418 Unit 1 ñ Suggested paraphrases Allow five minutes for Ss to read the text and find the topics – Our highly developed methods of communication, rather of each paragraph. Monitor and help where necessary, but than helping to increase communication, actually make it again encourage Ss to read for gist only.
Ask individual more limited and less expressive. students for topics and put them on the board. Ss discuss – Having an interesting conversation gives you so many whether they are appropriate or not, giving reasons for things to think about that your brain is too busy to let you their answers. rest, even after the conversation has finished.
(Samuel Morse was born in 1791 and until the 1830’s was a successful portrait painter. He became interested in electricity and Elicit agreement and disagreement from Ss. Encourage Ss to the possibility of using it to send signals in 1832. The first justify their feelings.
Try to feed in vocabulary to help them demonstration of Morse telegraphy took place in 1837. The express themselves. Write words on the board as original Morse telegraph was an electric circuit consisting of a appropriate. spoken/ written communication; transmit; battery, a key and an electromagnet connected by a wire.
When make contact with; participate in; interact with; socialise; the key was depressed, the electrical circuit was completed and carry on a conversation/discussion; articulate; verbalise; put electricity travelled along the wire. A pencil was attached to the sth into words; express/air your views/opinions; voice an electromagnet and it made a mark on a paper tape whenever an opinion; exchange views; make sth known; break news. electric current passed through it. The marks were either long or As an extension Ss could make up their own short ‘quotes’ short, according to how long the key was held down for, which is on Communication using comparative structures.
why Morse created the code of dots and dashes corresponding to letters of the alphabet, which we know as Morse code.) Suggested Answer Key Optional extra activity: Ss research another invention from Personally, I agree with both quotations. I think everyone would the last century which is either no longer used very much agree with the second one, we all know how much fun it can be to now, or is not used at all, and present it to the class in the be with friends and talk about something interesting. We’ve all got next lesson. different ideas and opinions, and someone else’s view on something can stimulate you, and start you thinking in a different Answer Key – paragraph topics: direction.
I think the writer of the first quotation is making a good Paragraph 1: Modern technology backed up by older point, too. We have very advanced technology which allows us to technology. communicate easily with anyone we want to, but it also means Paragraph 2: What Morse code is. that we communicate in a very brief fashion.
Most mobile phones Paragraph 3: Times when Morse can be essential. are used for sending short text messages to friends and e-mails are Paragraph 4: The use of Morse code at sea. often only a few lines and use an abbreviated form of language. Paragraph 5: Morse and the railways.
We are not able to express our deeper attitudes and feelings in this Paragraph 6: Why the military services use Morse code. Paragraph 7: Amateur users. Paragraph 8: How unlikely it is that Morse will disappear. Write ‘Morse telegraphy’ on the board.
Remind Ss of the news report they heard on the cassette. Ask Ss how 8 Direct Ss to strategy box. Go through it with them. Follow much they know about Morse and how it works.
Then the procedure for question 1 with the Ss. Ss find elicit how the words and phrases given could be used in relevant section of text: line 6 ‘The world could .’ connection with Morse. Ss paraphrase to make sure meaning is clear to them, then Suggested Answer Key select correct answer. Go through the next two or three questions in this way.
Ss complete remaining questions back-up plan – Morse code can be a back-up plan for alone. Give feedback to the whole class. Ss should be communicating in emergencies if modern technology fails. encouraged to justify their answers from the text.
It is short and long tones – Morse code is made up of short and important, too, to discuss incorrect answers, making sure Ss long tones which represent letters. understand why they are wrong. tedious procedure – Sending Morse is probably a tedious procedure, because it might take a long time. Answer Key dying art – Using Morse is probably considered a dying art 1 A (lines 7-9) 5 C (lines 59-60) nowadays because it is hardly ever used now.