Body Overview

The topic of this unit is the body and Section Aims What the students are doing
health. The grammar focus is on
Conversation skills: Matching conversations with ailments.
phrasal verbs. The function of giving g expressing
and receiving advice is also focused (lose up sympathy and Completing conversations by giving suitable advice.
on. page 34-35 giving advice Practising sounding sympathetic.
Students start by reading Listening skills: Listening to find if the advice given is similar to
conversations and identifying what is listening for detail yours.
wrong with one of the speakers. They
Conversation skills:
complete the conversations with g fluency work
Discussing healthy lifestyles.
suitable advice and practise using You're the Answering a quiz.
intonation to sound sympathetic. expert
Listening skills: Listening to an expert on health and nutrition.
page 35
A quiz introduces the topic of healthy listening for detail

lifestyles and this is followed by Functions:

(lose up Giving and evaluating advice.
practice in giving and evaluating page 36 recommendations
advice on taking care of your health.
Writing skills: letter Writing a reply to a letter soliciting advice.
Students learn several idioms using writing
parts of the body and practise using
Listening skills:
them in conversations. g listening for detail
Listening to a conversation and underlining what is
different on the tapescript.
Bodylanguage
They then read about various diets Lexis: body idioms
page 37 Matching body idioms to their meanings.
and listen to two people talking about
the diets they followed in order to lose Finding more expressions using parts of the body.
weight for a special occasion. Conversation skills: Describing people using body idioms.
fluency work
ln the next section, students do Writing conversations using body idioms.
comprehension work on a fairly
Reading skills: Reading about various diets.
serious text on the difficulties of g reading for detail
giving up smoking. Shape your
body! Listening skills: Listening to two people talking about diets.
Finally, students examine in detail the page 38 listening for
Taking notes on what the speakers say.
use of phrasal verbs from the reading specific
text and read some jokes whose information;
humour depends on misinterpretation note-taking
of the meaning of phrasal verbs. I will quit. Soon Reading skills: Scanning an article about giving up smoking for
page 39-40 scanning specific information.

(lose up Grammar: phrasal Finding phrasal verbs in a text and using them to
pages 40-41 verbs complete sentences.

Matching phrasal verbs with their meanings.

Reading some jokes whose humour depends on

phrasal verbs.

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