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1 Match the words to the pictur cartoon magazi newspaper notice (©2.22 Listen and check. Then repeat. 2 Discuss the questions in groups. HARRIS SCHOOL NEWS No football practice tonight Mv Smith is ill Do you have a school magazine or newspaper? What's it called? What's in your school magazine or newspaper? Ifyou don't have a school magazine or newspaper, what would you like to include in one? We've! LISTENING 3 ©2443 Listen to Jack, Molly and Ravi. They're making plans for their school magazine. What's Jack going to do after the meeting? 4 © 243 Listen again. Tick (V) the things the friends want to include in their magazine. advertisements book reviews cartoons film reviews: information about the school music reviews photos play reviews: stories website addresses oo oo0000000) Hoes ‘unit 18 SGRAMMAR Making suggestions A suggestion is a plan or idea that you want someone to think about. Look at the examples from the recording, ‘The words in red are different ways of making suggestions, ‘+ Why donit we write down some ideas now? + Let’s have some stories too. + Shall we include advertisements? + Why not ask your dad about it? > Grammar reference page 160 5 Put the words in the right order to make suggestions. Add a full stop or a question mark and start the sentence with a capital letter. 1 we/ donit/ go/to// cinema / why / the 2 the / new / see / let's / cartoon / Japanese 3 ask/ come / Mina / why /to / not 4 meet/ we / there / at /shall / eight ©2.44 Listen and check. Then repeat. 6 Complete the conversation. Use each phrase from the Grammar box once. There is often more than one right answer. Ravi: _| think we need some more help with the magazine, Molly: You're right. (1) ask our teacher to help? Is that a good idea? No, I don't think so. She's very busy. | can write a note and give it to all the teachers, Molly: No, that's not a good idea. We want students to see it, too. ) put a notice on the school website. Ravi: Excellent idea. Molly: (3). rite it now? Ravi: OK. Magazine helpers wanted! Molly: Great! (4) write our names at the bottom? Ravi: Good idea. OK, let's write it on the computer now! (O.corpus challenge PRONUNCIATION | Intonation 7 ©2445 Listen and repeat these phrases from the conversations about the magazii No, that’s not @ good idea. Cool No, I don't think so. ‘Sounds good! Great! Good one! 0K. You're right! Excellent idea. 8 Practise the conversation in Exercise 6 with a partner. SPEAKING 2 parry 9 Work in groups of four. Plan a class magazine. Use your ideas from Exe to help you. 11 Make suggestions to the group. Listen to suggestions and say what you think, Agree a list of two ideas. 2 Tell your ideas to another group. Listen to their ideas. Agree a list of four ideas. 3 Tell your ideas to the class. Listen to other groups’ ideas. Agree a list of six ideas. Papers and magazines, 5 1 Look at pictures. One is a film poster, the other is a book cover. Do you know these stories? What do you What do you Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about? 2 Read these reviews and check your ideas. School epRogk School of Rock is about a guitar player called Dewey Finn. He leaves his band because the band members don't want him to play with them any more. But then he doesn’t have any money so he looks for a job. When he gets a job as a teacher in a school, the students really like him. They think he’s funny and a little bit mad! Dewey decides to start a rock band as there are lots of good musicians in his class. He enters a competition called ‘Battle of the Bands’ with his new schoo) band and - do they win? Why don't you see the film and find out! It’s quite an old film but | saw it on DVD last week. really loved it. Jack Black plays Dewey Finn and he's great and really funny. Make sure you see it one day! 3 Read the reviews again and answer the questions. 1. Why does Dewey Finn leave the band? 2 Where does he get a job? 3 What do the students think of him? 4 What's ‘Battle of the Bands’? 5 Did the writer like the film? 6 Where does Charlie get the money for the chocolate bar? 7 Who is Willy Wonka? 8 Who goes with Charlie to the factory? 9 How many golden tickets are there? 10 Who wins the prize at the end? 11 What is the prize? 12 Did the writer like the book? CChartie Bucket lives in a small house with his parents and grandparents. They're very poor. ‘One day Charlie finds some money on the street and he decides to buy a Wonka chocolate bar with it. When he opens the chocolate bar, Charlie finds aa golden ticket inside. It’s his lucky day! It’. ticket to visit Willy Wonka’s famous Chocolate Factory. Charlie is very excited. Grandpa Jos is excited too, because he goes on the visit with Charlie. As there are five golden tickets, four other children visit the factory as well. First they all meet Willy Wonka, who's a bit mad. Then they go around the factory. Lots of strange things happen! Only Charlie is left at the end, so he's the winner! What's the prize? Why not road the book and find out? This book is very funny and the story is exciting. Ifyou like Johnny Depp, watch the film too. He's Willy Wonka! 4 Which parts of the reviews tell the story of the film or book and which parts are the writers’ opinions? VOCABULARY as, because, so, when 5 Look at the reviews again. We use the words in blue to connect ideas in sentences. Match the sentence halves. 1 Dewey Finn left his band a so he was the winner. 2 Dewey decided to start a rock band b as there were lots of good musicians in his class. 3 When he opened the chocolate bar, ¢ because the other musicians didn't want to play with him any more. 4 Charlie was left at the end d Charlie found a golden ticket inside. 6 Complete the review of the play with the word: Eemce and g ulict by Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet isa really sad story about two young ‘people, Their families don’t want them to marry @ the families hate each other. However, ‘Romeo and Juliet are in love and they get married, They ‘know their families will be very angry, ‘they don’t tell them! Juliet’s family don’t know she’s married and they find a husband for her. But she can’t marry this man. blue from Exercise 5. ® sveeSho's already married to Romeo. Juliet is very unhappy. She drinks something, and goes to sleep. @. ...... Romeo finds Juliet, he thinks she is dead. He kills himself, But Juliet isn’t dead! She wakes up, sees Romeo is deac and kills herself. And that's the end! saw the play at the City Theatre. The actors were all great and Lcried at the end. I loved it. Go and see LISTENING WRITING 7 © 2.47 Molly, Jack and Ravi are trying to choose one of the three reviews for the GET READY You're going to write a review. Read magazine, Which one does each of them like? | the three reviews in Exercises 2 and 6 again and look at your notes from Exercise 9. 8 ©2.47 Listen again. Write the reasons for their choices. PLAN Plan your review. WRITE Write a review of a film, a play or a book in about 50 words. Try to use as, because, so, when. 9 Think about a film, play or book that you like. Make notes. Tell your partner the story and give your opinion. IMPROVE Read your review and your partner's. Check for mistakes. Give your partner three ideas to make their review better. Rewrite your review and give it to your teacher for the class magazine. is called ‘Harry Potter and the ‘Goblet of Fire’ It's about @ boy .. ‘It's a very good book. | loved it. You should Papers and magazines, 2 Quickly read some fun facts about the island on the opposite page. Match six of the facts 1-8 to the six pictures a-t. 3 Read the fun facts again. Are the sentences right (¥) or wrong (x)? 1 Bananas are part of the national dish. 2 The film Coo! Runnings is about Usain Bolt, 3 The giant swallowtail is a butterfly. 4 People on the island say ‘Out of many, one people! 5 Bob Marley is an athlete. f 6 The country sends a team to the Winter Olympics. Aniisland in, the sun SR PN a ae See 1 Look at the pictures of this ‘island in the sun’ What's the country called? What do you know about it? 4 ©2448 Listen to four pieces of music. Which one is reggae? 5 Discuss the questions. { 1. What music is typical of your country? | 2 What are the names of some musicians from your country? 3 What are the names of some sports people from your country? 4 What is your country famous for? 5 What do farmers grow in your country? 6 What wild animals are there? 7 What is your national dish? @ Usain Bolt, the fastest man on earth, comes from this island. ‘@ This istand was the first producer of bananas in the western © You can find the largest butterfly in the western hemisphere on this istand. It is called the giant swallowtall. Ithas a bobsled team and it was the first tropical country to enter the |OC Winter Olympics. There is even a film called Coo! Runnings about the bobsled team. It is a multiracial country and so its national saying, or motto, is ut of many, ‘one people. @ The eautiu doctor bra is the national symbol ofthe country. You can only find It on this Island. Bob Marley, the famous reggae singer, was born here. Its national dish Is ackee and salttish. Ackee is yellow fruit with big black seeds. stun tacts4presentation| Work in groups of four. Write a list of six countries you know where people speak English. ‘Share your ideas with the class. Find out about one of the English-speaking countries, * Write ten fun facts about that country. * Find or draw some pictures for some of the facts, * Put your ten fun facts on a poster with the pictures. Don't write the name of the country on ‘your poster. Give a presentation to the rest of the class, Can the class guess the name of the country?

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