New Words

LEXICAL EXERCISES

Lesson 5

SPEAKING PRACTICE

Listening comprehension

Didn’t like maths or science Enjoyed outdoor activities Had to make friends at secondary school Has a twin brother Liked English, geography and history Played tricks on people	+
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Leo Jones, Making Progress, Cambridge.

The students in pairs are asked to make a questionnaire about the university and students’ activity (in the Present Simple Tense), using all the information, discussed before.

After that they should make up dialogues on the theme. We advise to remind them to use active vocabulary and useful phrases in their dialogues and to give another group of useful expressions:

Asking and answering questions:

Could you repeat, please...	That’s a good question!
As far as I know/understand...	Well, let me think...
Will you tell me, please...	Let me see...
If I’m not mistaken...	I need to think about it for a moment.
May I ask one more question?	Well, I’m glad you asked me that.

Some students like to ask provocative questions, aware that the groupmates don’t know the exact answer. Explain to them that unpredictable situations happen very often in real life and advise them to store other useful phrases, just in case:

Well, that’s hard to say right now, but next time I’ll try to answer!

I’m not perfectly ready to answer this question, but next time I’ll try to answer!

What a difficult question!

All this routine work has to be done as a preliminary preparation to the presentation.

The lesson plan

1. Lexical exercises (15 min)
2. Reading (10 min)
3. Speaking practice (35 min)
4. Writing (20 min)
5. Homework

Ask students to match the words and their definitions:

magnet – a thing that attracts (literally, a piece of metal that attracts or repels iron).

overseas – coming from abroad, foreign.

guaranteed – promised and assured.

assessed – evaluated, ranked.

recognition – accepting that something (e.g. a course) is of high quality.

cost-effective – here, provides good education for not too much money.

degree – here, providing further education.

scholarships – payments from a sponsor's funds to maintain a good student in full-time education.

IELTS – short for International English Language Testing System. It measures ability to communicate in English across all four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.

foundation – here, basic, preparatory.

personalized – focused on individual students.

emphasis – special importance.

global job market – jobs that are open to people all over the world.

guidance – help and direction.

drop out – when you have to stop your university studies before you have completed your course.

pass rate – marks that you need to get in order to begin/continue to study at a university.

impartial – fair, unbiased.

dynamic – where a lot happens and changes happen quite often.

cosmopolitan – including people of many different backgrounds.

fascinating – very interesting, irresistibly attractive.

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