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Date: 30/11/2010 Time: 8:00 – 8:45 Students: 24 Level: Pre-Intermediate

Coursebook & Workbook: Cutting Edge, Pearson Longman 2005
Lesson Aims:
– to practice speaking, reading and listening skills;
– to introduce new vocabulary through the text and the speaking task, which will hopefully make
the new words stick, and through given synonyms (p. 81, exercise 5);
– to express students’ ideas – new grammar, namely introduction of – may, might, will,
definitely.
1. Check homework – test from last time. Revise some of the basic rules for using articles.
! Make students explain their choice. If necessary, let another student try to correct the wrong
answer.
about 4-5 min
2. Proceed with where we stopped last time - p. 80.
Discussion with the class about the objects given in ex. 1.
OK, so now, Ivan, tell me How important is the Internet for you? From 1 to 5. 1 means
very important and 5 not important.
about 3-5 min
3.1 OK. Do you know what a reality show is? Toma, read the task. Now tell me what do you
think were the differences?... Good.
3.2 Now let’s read the text. (students take turns and read)
3.3 So how many differences did you hear from the text?
about 10-12 min
4. (ex. 4) Students answer the questions and explain their answers.
! Intentionally the unknown words are not given earlier than ex. 5. Try to make them guess the
meaning out of the context. Then write the English words and transcription of the unfamiliar
vocabulary on the board all the while getting students involved by asking them about synonyms
or providing synonyms (already familiar) and asking them about their meaning.
about 6-8 min
5. (ex. 6) So which would you miss most, George?
about 1 min
6. (p. 82, ex. 2) Listen carefully and complete the gaps. Six students read the sentences to check
if they got them right.
about 3 min
7. Ask students to take a look at the grammar box. Ask Maria to read the sentences. Ask her
which is the second most probable sentence, etc. After we explain why, I go on to point out the
difference between the positive and the negative forms.
about 5 min
8. After we know this I want you to complete the sentences about yourself - ex. 2 a. (Let’s do it
together and shortly explain why.)
Good.
Homework.
Do ex. 1 on the same page and ex. 1, 2, 3, 4 in your workbook (Module 9, p. 54).
about 5-6 min