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8 I’d rather them gave their profits to charity. 25 You need to give me the money. you
get it is up to you.
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D Complete the sentences.
0 What he says is that he saw the man enter
the building.
21 you decide to travel there is up to you.
22 your parents are has a big effect on
your life.
23 they chose to live was in an extremely
busy city.
24 important is that everyone is
better now.
25 You need to give me the money.
you get it is up to you.
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UNIT 8: Skills test Level 1
Listening Reading
Listen to Ian and Penny discussing Read this article about microcredit. Are the
unemployment benefits. Choose the best sentences below true, false, or is there not
answer for each question. enough information to be sure? Choose A, B,
or C.
0 Why is Ian angry about benefits?
A He thinks too many people claim them. Joanna Kerr was aware of injustice in the world from
B He thinks they stop people from looking very early on. At an age when other children wanted
for work. to learn about dinosaurs or Egyptian mummies,
C He thinks other people are benefiting unfairly Joanna remembers constantly pressing her parents
from his effort. to explain why there were images of such poverty in
the news, when the people around her were living
1 What happened when Penny applied for jobs? comfortable lives.
A She got several interviews.
“I think I put them in a difficult position,” she laughs.
B She didn’t get many answers. “They didn’t want to upset me, but short of hiding the
C She didn’t have enough time for all newspapers or banning me from watching TV, there
the applications. wasn’t really anything they could do to protect me.”
2 Why wasn’t she able to enjoy having some While many of us end up suffering from what has been
free time? called “compassion fatigue”—when we are exposed to
the unpleasant realities of drought, famine, war, etc. so
A Because she didn’t feel happy about her
much that we lose the ability to care—Joanna had the
financial situation.
opposite experience.
B Because she was too busy applying for jobs.
C Because she lost her self-confidence. The older she got, the more determined she was to do
something to help. Not that she likes the word “help”—
3 Why did Penny have to use some of her savings? she prefers to describe her work as “empowering”
A Because the benefits she received people—in other words, giving them power by providing
weren’t sufficient. the things they need to help themselves. And in her
B Because she hadn’t paid enough tax to
case, the thing she offers is microcredit.
get benefits. The idea behind microcredit is that people receive tiny
C Because she didn’t claim benefits. loans, smaller than anything that banks would bother
with. These loans are used to buy something—for
4 Why does Ian think that some young people example a goat or a sewing machine—that is then used
are unemployed? to make a profit, so that after the loan is paid back,
A Because their benefits are too high. a little money remains.
B Because they’re not prepared to take difficult or
Joanna spends a lot of time traveling to extremely
low-paid jobs. remote villages, which often aren’t reached by the
C Because they won’t earn enough if they do get larger humanitarian organizations. She prefers to lend
a job. to women because she says they are more likely to
spend the profits on their families.
5 Why does Penny say that people with jobs often
receive benefits? “I absolutely love what I do,” she says. “The women
A Because they continue to receive benefits from I work with are amazing. They’re so eager to grab
when they were unemployed. the opportunity I’m offering them. Seeing their lives
transformed by these small amounts of money is
B Because they can’t live on their salary.
absolutely thrilling.”
C Because of government rules.
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Writing
What do you think is the most serious social
injustice in your country? Why?
Write at least 100 words.
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ADDITIONAL LIFESKILLS LESSON LEVEL 1
A
Unit 8 Work & Career: understanding rights and • Put the students in small groups and ask them to
responsibilities recall some examples of specific kinds of rights
and responsibilities that they saw in the Student’s
Objective: to provide further practice of understanding Book. If necessary, elicit one or two as an example.
rights and responsibilities, this time within the area of When the students finish, elicit ideas and write them
Work & Career. on the board. Accept any other answers that are not
The three-step strategy for developing this soft skill is: included in the Student’s Book.
Step 1: Understand what rights and responsibilities
are. (Lead-in, Ex. A, Ex. B) Answers (from the Student’s Book)
rights: human rights, workers’ rights, women’s
Step 2: Decide what rights and responsibilities are
rights, equal rights, children’s rights
valid in a given environment or situation.
responsibilities: individual responsibility, social
(Ex. C)
responsibility, collective responsibility
Step 3: Be aware of rights and responsibilities in
different contexts. (Ex. D, Homework) • Elicit some specific examples of each right and
You may decide to highlight this strategy at the beginning responsibility, e.g., human rights: the right to have
of the lesson, and to conduct a short discussion to check access to clean water; individual responsibility:
that the students understand the skill and why it is useful. responsibility to follow the law, etc.
However, if you prefer to teach this lesson without
discussing the underlying soft skill, this is also possible.
The lesson is designed to be engaging and successful
ALTERNATIVE
either way. Put the students in small groups and assign each
group a kind of right, e.g., human rights. Have the
For more information about teaching life skills and ideas
students brainstorm a number of specific rights
for highlighting the soft skill, please refer to p. xii and
relating to that category. Have the groups take turns
pp. T100–T101 of the Teacher’s Book.
standing up and reading their rights aloud. The rest
of the class should try to guess which kind of right
MATERIALS: they relate to.
• board and markers
• Remind the students that in the Student’s Book
lesson, they looked at rights and responsibilities
Lead-in in different contexts. Elicit what these were
Write the words right and responsibility on the board. (as parents, as children, and as citizens of their
Underneath, write the scrambled definition of each one country). Elicit some other areas of their life in which
(not in this order): they have rights and responsibilities, e.g., in the
a moral / or / legal / duty / to behave / in / a / workplace, at home, as members of different groups
particular / way such as in a sports team, etc. Tell the students that
something / that / you / are / morally / or legally / in this lesson they are going to look at rights and
allowed / to do / or have responsibilities in the workplace.
Put the students in pairs and ask them to reorder the
words to make the two definitions and then match them
with the correct term. Invite two students to the board
to write the answers.
Answers
right: something that you are morally or legally
allowed to do or have
responsibility: a moral or legal duty to behave in
a particular way
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Additional LifeSkills Lesson LEVEL 1
Unit 8 Study & Learning: understanding rights Remind the students that in the Student’s Book
they looked at a number of different rights and
and responsibilities responsibilities that parents and children have.
Divide the class into two teams, A and B. (It’s easiest
Objective: to provide further practice of understanding
if you divide the class down the center so one team is
rights and responsibilities, this time within the area of
everyone sitting on the left-hand side of the class, and
Study & Learning.
the other team is everyone sitting on the right-hand side
The three-step strategy for developing this soft skill is: of the class.) Invite a volunteer from each team to come
Step 1: Understand what rights and responsibilities to the board. The students in Team A have to brainstorm
are. (Lead-in, Ex. A) as many different parent and children rights as they can
Step 2: Decide what rights and responsibilities are remember, and call them out to the person at the board,
valid in a given environment or situation. who writes them under the heading Rights. Team B does
(Ex. B) the same but for Responsibilities.
Step 3: Be aware of rights and responsibilities in Stop the activity when it’s clear that students are
different contexts. (Ex. C, Homework) struggling to remember any more rights and
responsibilities. The winner is the team that recalled
You may decide to highlight this strategy at the
the most.
beginning of the lesson, and to conduct a short
discussion to check that the students understand the A
skill and why it is useful. However, if you prefer to • Explain to the students that in this lesson they are
teach this lesson without discussing the underlying soft going to look at rights and responsibilities in the
skill, this is also possible. The lesson is designed to be context of being a student. Write the following rights
engaging and successful either way. and responsibilities on the board:
Students at this institution have a right/
For more information about teaching life skills and ideas
responsibility to …
for highlighting the soft skill, please refer to p. xii and
1 turn up to class on time.
pp. T100–T101 of the Teacher’s Book.
2 do homework that is assigned to them.
3 receive appropriate teaching in their subject.
MATERIALS: 4 be treated fairly and with respect by teachers.
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B
• Ask the students to stay in their groups of four.
Reflect
Have them add two more rights and two more • Write the following questions on the board:
responsibilities to the list. Why is it important to know our rights and
• Ask them to discuss whether there are any rights responsibilities within the class? What happens when
and responsibilities on the list that they disagree we don’t take our responsibilities seriously?
with and, if so, to say why. Ask them to then discuss • Give the students time to read the questions and
which ones they consider to be most important, reflect on them individually. Elicit some ideas as a
and again, say why. class and discuss them. Focus the students on the
• Discuss students’ opinions in open class, fact that if they don’t take their responsibilities as
encouraging them to give reasons for their answers. members of the class seriously, this can affect the
C progress and dynamic of the class as a whole.
• Explain to the students that they have been looking
at rights and responsibilities within the context of the EXTRA: HOMEWORK
institution. Point out that there are other study and Ask the students to consider a third context: as
learning contexts in which they may have slightly members of a small study group. Ask them to make
different rights and responsibilities. Write on the a list of the rights and responsibilities they have
board: Rights and responsibilities as members of within that group. Have them compare their lists at
this class. the next class.
• Ask the students to stay in their groups of four and
to brainstorm their rights and responsibilities as
members of the class. Point out that some rights and
responsibilities may be the same, but that there will
also be different ones, too.
• When students finish, elicit ideas as a class and build
up a list on the board.
Possible answers
Rights: to receive appropriate teaching, to receive
feedback on progress, to have homework marked
by the teacher, to be treated with respect by the
teacher and other students
Responsibilities: to turn up to class on time, to
participate, to do homework, to be considerate
towards other classmates, not to talk in class
ALTERNATIVE
Do Ex. C as a pyramid discussion. Have students
work individually to note down their own ideas first;
then put them in pairs to discuss their ideas and
agree on a list. Finally, put them in groups of four
to compare their ideas and agree on a list of four
rights and four responsibilities. Have a volunteer
from each group present their list to the rest of the
class. As a class, agree on a final list of four rights
and four responsibilities. You could ask students to
make a poster illustrating these to display on the
classroom wall.
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