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Discuss this as a whole class. 
Focus on … related words
Get students to work through these exercises at the end of this 
section.
More activities
1
Ask students how to say the opposite of 
verbal
(
non-
verbal
). Get them to suggest other pairs of words, one 
of which also begins with 
non-
. You could encourage 
them to look for examples in their dictionary before the 
next lesson. (Examples include: 
non-alcoholic (drink), 
non-event, non-existent, non-fat (milk), non-fi ction, non-
resident, non-returnable (bottle), non-stick (pan), non-
stop (fl ight)
.)
2
Ask students if they have ever interviewed anyone for a 
job. Do they agree with the advice given in the texts?
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Tell me about yourself
1
Before students tick the boxes, elicit that 
to date
means ‘up to 
the present time’. After completing the exercise, ask students 
to suggest any other questions that people might be asked at 
a job interview. Examples include: 
What kinds of people do 
you like working with? Do you prefer working on your own 
or in a group? Where would you like to be in fi ve years? How 
would your colleagues describe you? What do you do in your 
spare time?
2–5
Students work through the exercises.
6–7
Students compare their ideas in pairs and then with the 
whole class.
Did you know …?
After reading the text, you could ask students to fi nd other 
examples of each part of speech in the texts.
You might like to explain that there is another category of words 
called 
determiners
. These are words which are used before 
nouns to show which person or thing is being referred to. There 
are several determiners of quantity – 
all, every, each, both, 
much, many, most, enough, a few, few, several, a little, little, no, 
neither, some, more, most
.
Give students two or three more words, e.g. 
agree
, 
colour
, 
hard
, and ask them to name other words in the same family. 
Encourage them to look up the words in their dictionary.
After one student has said a word, another student could 
name the part of speech, e.g. 
agree – verb, disagree – verb, 
agreement – noun, disagreement – noun, agreeable – 
adjective, agreeably – adverb
. 
Make the point that knowledge of word families and the 
meaning of prefi xes and suffi xes are both extremely useful tools 
when reading.