Get ready to read

Unit
1 
I’ll take it!
Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
2 
Take care of yourself
Look at the unit title with the class. Elicit or explain that this is 
something you might say to someone who is going on a trip. 
Elicit other occasions when someone might say this.
Get ready to read
Get students to answer the fi rst two sets of questions 
individually. Get feedback on the fi rst set of questions by asking 
students to talk about specifi c holidays they have been on. What 
did they read before they went away? 
Get feedback on the second set of questions by asking 
students who have ticked any of the boxes to tell the class what 
happened to them. Remind them to use the past simple tense 
when they talk about a specifi c incident.
Elicit or tell the class that the photo shows the Abel Tasman 
National Park in South Island, New Zealand. Ask students to 
suggest which of the health problems people might have there.
Did you know …?
Students could read this at the beginning or the end of this 
section. Ask students about the national symbol of their country. 
If you are teaching in an English-speaking country, you can ask 
students if they know the national symbol of the country in 
which they are studying.
A
What are the health issues?
1
Set a time limit for students to do this task – for example, one 
minute. After checking the answer with the class, ask students 
which two words in the introduction have a similar meaning 
to 
problems
(
hazards
, 
pitfalls
).
2
Remind students that it is not necessary to read every word 
in order to do this task. (Refer students to the 
Learning tip
.) 
You could encourage them to read the fi rst sentence of each 
paragraph – and if this sentence suggests that they might 
want to change their answer to the question in Exercise 1, 
they could then read the rest of the paragraph. 
3–5
Get students to work through these exercises, checking as 
a whole class after each one. Try to discourage students from 
checking the meaning of words that are not relevant to the 
task. When students have fi nished working on the text (and 
have completed