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Unit 8
How Smart Are You?

Quiz
a. Do you remember the quiz program from the computer lesson. Answer the following
questions about the program.

1. How does the titIe of the quiz program refIect the kinds of questions asked?
Reflect that the question refers to the past, present and future

2. How does the quizmaster ask the questions? Write the question words.
What kind…? Which…? What…? Name… In what way…?

3. Which questions did you know the answers to?

Which country in the world has the largest population?

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b. After the program, Rachel and Jason talked about their experience. Complete the
conversation with appropriate words and phrases below.

technology • energy • popuIation • recycIing • ruIes • space • turn • winner

Rachel: So, teII me, Jason, how do you feeI about the program?
Jason: WeII, when PauIa assumed that we both knew the (1) rules at
the beginning of the program, she wasn’t entireIy correct.
Rachel: What do you mean? You played correctly. In fact, your onIy mistake was when
you didn’t know the (2) technology question.
Jason: That was the problem. I knew the technology question. I just didn’t know there
was a time limit. I was about to say the answer, but i lost my (3) turn .
Rachel: But you still did really well on the program. You answered the soIar
(4) energy and garbage (5) recycling
questions correctIy.
Jason: And l knew your questions about outer (6) space and the country with the
Iargest (7) population too.
Rachel: So what are you compIaining about?
Jason: Isn’t it obvious? I wanted to be the (8) winner !

c. Write five questions that could be used in the next broadcast of “Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow”. Have your classmates try to answer them.

Starting Young
a. What can we assume about Marina, Mrs. Smythe, her parents, and her classmates?
Complete the table by choosing the appropriate person/people for each assumption.

Assumption Person/People
Marina’s classmates
1. They are very gratefuI for her heIp in the cIassroom.
Marina and her parents
2. They Ieft Russia Iess than two years ago.
Marina
3. She Iikes to heIp peopIe.
Mrs. Smythe
4. She beIieves the new immigrant students wiII Iearn EngIish quickIy.
Marina’s parents
5. They don’t know EngIish as weII as their daughter does.

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b. How do the teacher and the language specialist express their thoughts? Write the
appropriate expressions and sentences.

1. How does Mrs. Smythe know which Ianguage is Marina’s mother tongue?
When she speaks her native language knows that is Russian

2. How does she compIiment Marina’s EngIish? She expresses fluently only in two years in US

3. How does she make a prediction? In few moths all Russian classmates will speak English fluently

4. How does Dr. Davis describe young chiIdren’s Ianguage abiIities?

The younger child has the ability to pronounce other words correctly

5. How does she generaIize the point?

That there is a pattern in all the children.

c. Circle the word that does not collocate with the verbs in bold.

1. join a cIass a group a decision a company

2. translate a teIephone schooIwork a document a Ianguage
3. pronounce a sentence words a fact a name
4. sign up customers kids contestants papers
5. practice speaking EngIish speciaIist writing

d. Write the copy for an ad for The Higgins Language Institute from the computer lesson.

The Higgins Language Institute

There are currently seven Higgins Language Schools (1) . throughout the country
and by this time next year there will be (2) fourteen .
We aim at teaching (3) . pre-school foreign languages.
We can teach them from a choice of languages, including
(4) Spanish and French .
Now’s your chance to take advantage of your child’s abilities to pronounce
(5) foreign words correctly and to (6) memorize new words.
Sign your child up now!
E-mail us at Higginslanguageinstitute@vector1.com

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Dance Posters
a. Do you remember the dialogue in the computer lesson. Mark who did what.

The Manager The Employee

1. makes a suggestion

2. agrees to the suggestion

3. gives an order

4. makes an excuse

5. makes an aIternative suggestion

6. compIiments

b. How do the speakers in the computer lesson express themselves?

1. How does the manager recommend a course of action?

I think we should start making the signs for tonight’s dance.

2. How does the empIoyee give Iess than fuII support?

Yes. I guess we should.

3. How does the manager aIIocate duties?

OK. You make the signs and I’ll take care of the passengers.

4. How does the empIoyee indicate her rejection of the duty?

But I hate making signs.

5. How does the manager sympathize?

So do I.

6. How does the manager describe an aIternative?

I have an idea. Let’s see if we have any left over from the last cruise.

7. How does the empIoyee compIiment the manager?

That’s a good idea. I hadn’t thought of that.

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