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Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Book
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Contents
Reading
Uummannaq
1 Look at the map. What do you think life in Greenland is like?
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a what they eat c the roads and houses e how Greenlanders socialise
b what the people d what it’s like how they see foreigners
their pronunciation
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are like in winter who live there
worksheets 2 a Before you read, check these words/phrases with your teacher or in a dictionary.
and help them to spontaneous a community smell run out of store food a freezer a social gathering punctual
in the back of b Read the interview. Put things a–f in 1 in the order you read about them.
communicate more
this Teacher’s A FOREIGNER IN AAQ
effectively. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live above the Arctic Circle? Chris Paton, a 35-year-old English and
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Geography teacher, has lived in Uummannaq, on an island in northwest Greenland, for four years.
What are the people in Greenland like? What is life in Uummannaq like? What is the Greenlandic lifestyle like?
One of the best things agout Greenlanders It is a very hard life here. It’s often An important Greenlandic tradition is
is that they are very spontaneous and impossible to visit the doctor or other the ‘kaffemik’ – a social gathering which
for short periods of time. For example, made of rocks. And many of the houses each other, sharing news and making
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doctors and nurses usually stay for between don’t have running water. Food is also small talk. So you shouldn’t drink your
two weeks and six months. So the first a problem. People here eat a lot of fish, coffee too quickly!
question Greenlanders ask foreigners is, of course – in fact, the first thing people
‘How long are you staying for?’ But my notice when they arrive here is the very Is there anything else that you can tell us
about life in Greenland?
practice in
students understand that I’m interested in strong smell of fish. But every year, we run
their life and want to stay here – for a while out of food (especially cheese, yoghurt, You can’t expect people to be punctual
anyway. fruit and vegetables) in April. The last because of the weather, so they visit you
ship that supplies us leaves in November, when they can. Everybody has problems
class or for
so we need to store a lot of food over the because of the weather. For Greenlanders,
winter. That explains why everybody has the weather and the environment are
at least two freezers, really important: they
which sounds crazy when are close to it, they
you live in the Arctic. The eat it, and they
4 Imagine you live in Uummannaq. What would you like about it? What would you miss from your life now?
of the weather.
6 Because they need to store a lot of food over the winter. 7 A social gathering which takes place around a cup of coffee. 8 Because
3 Between two weeks and six months. 4 Because of the weather and there are only a few roads. 5 The very strong smell of fish.
2 b 1a 2f 3d 4b 5c 6e 3 1 For four years. 2 Because Greenlanders expect to see people come and go after a short time.
222 face2face Second edition Pre-intermediate Photocopiable © Cambridge University Press 2012 Instructions p212
Help with Grammar sections encourage Get ready ... Get it right! sections are structured
students to work out the rules of communicative speaking tasks that focus on both
form and use for themselves before accuracy and fluency. The Get ready ... stage provides the
checking their answers in the interactive opportunity for students to plan the language and content
Language Summary for the unit. of what they are going to say before Getting it right! when
they do the communicative stage of the activity.
Help with Vocabulary sections The Pair and Group Work Students are often asked to refer
encourage students to work out the section at the back of the to the Audio and Video Scripts in
rules of form and use of new vocabulary Student’s Book provides the back of the Student’s Book to
themselves, before checking in the numerous communicative help develop their ability in both
interactive Language Summary for the speaking practice activities. listening and pronunciation.
unit.
Add variety to your The continue2learn There is a full-page Extra Practice section in The Self-study
lessons by presenting sections show the back of the Student’s Book, which provides DVD-ROM provides
Real World language students where revision of key language from the unit. Students further practice
visually using the they can continue can also monitor their progress by completing activities, Review
new video clips practising and the Progress Portfolio, which is based on Video, drills, My Test,
on the face2face extending their the requirements of the Common European My Progress and
Second edition knowledge of the Framework of Reference for Languages. e-Portfolio sections.
Pre-intermediate language taught in
Teacher’s DVD. the unit.
The Teacher’s DVD contains the Real World video presentation material as well as printable
PDFs of all the Teaching Notes and photocopiable materials from this Teacher’s Book.
● To play the Real World video presentation material you can use the DVD in a DVD player
or in a computer. Insert the DVD and follow the instructions on the main menu.
● To access the PDFs on a Windows operating system, double-click My Computer.
Right click on the CD/DVD drive and choose Explore. Open the “Teaching Notes and
Photocopiable Materials” folder and double click on the PDFs you want to view or print.
● To access the PDFs on a computer with a Mac operating system, double-click on the
DVD icon on the desktop. Open the “Teaching Notes and Photocopiable Materials”
folder and double-click on the PDFs you want to view or print.
Choose a
video.
Choose to have
the subtitles on
or off.
Choose a PDF to
open and view or
On your computer, locate the contents of the
to print.
DVD to access the PDFs of the Teaching Notes
and photocopiable materials.
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