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Get ready to readReal Reading TNotesPHOTOCOPIABLE
© Cambridge University Press 2008
More activities
1
Ask students to choose an electrical item that they might
like to buy. Students then research the cost and guarantee
conditions for the sale on various websites, and decide
which is the best deal.
2
Ask students if they ever take out extended guarantees on
anything they buy. They can research extended guarantees
on the Internet. Ask them to fi nd out costs and what
protection each extended guarantee gives.
B
It’s a great movie!
Elicit or explain that
movie
and
movie theater
are the US
equivalents of
fi lm
and
cinema
. The word
movie
is becoming
much more common in British English, however.
1
Read the rubric to the class. Give students some time to read
the texts. Put students into pairs and get them to discuss their
answers to the questions. Get feedback from the class.
2
Get students to do the exercise. Ask students if they have
seen
The Shawshank Redemption
. Did they enjoy it?
Did you know …?
Ask students to name other fi lms and/or actors that have won
Oscars. Have any fi lms from their country won the best foreign-
language fi lm?
3–4
Students can do these exercises in pairs.
5–7
You could lead a class discussion around these questions.
Extra practice
Students could also look for reviews of
The Green Mile
and/or
watch it in class.
More activities
1
If you are teaching in an English-speaking environment,
you could plan a trip to the cinema together. Before the
trip, students could read about the fi lm on the Internet or
you could do some work on a text in class.
2
Ask students to fi nd out about either Tim Robbins or
Morgan Freeman. They could write fi ve true or false
statements about one of them and then read them out to
the class during the next lesson; the other students have
to decide if the sentences are true or false.
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