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Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
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Unit
10 
I’ve got Thursday off
Elicit that 
off
means ‘off work’. Elicit different reasons why people 
might be off work. 
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Get students to do the exercises. Discuss the answers with the 
class after each exercise. 
A
I’d like to work fl exitime
Do not focus on the meaning of 
fl exitime
as students have to 
write a defi nition of 
fl exitime
in Exercise 2.
1
Get students to do this exercise individually. Discuss the 
answers as a whole class. If you have already done Unit 
9: What’s your new job like? with the class, you can draw 
attention to the hyphen in 
rush-hour traffi c
. There would be 
no hyphen if the phrase were 
because of the traffi c during 
the rush hour
.
2–7
Get students to work through these exercises and check as 
a whole class.
8–9
Give students time to think about the answers and then 
discuss as a class. Some students may already work fl exitime, 
in which case, ask them their views. If students all agree 
that they would like to work fl exitime, you could ask them to 
suggest the arrangements that would suit them. You could 
also discuss how they would feel about working a four-day 
week, working in the evenings / during the night, etc.
Focus on … phrasal verbs
Before students do the matching activity, elicit or explain that a 
phrasal verb is a phrase which consists of a verb in combination 
with a preposition or adverb or both, the meaning of which is 
sometimes different from the meaning of its separate parts. Get 
students to work through the exercises and check at the end.