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Class bonus
Invite students to say a sentence each to the class. 
More activities
1
Students can prepare a short presentation to give to the 
class about a famous person who lived and worked in 
their town/city (or one nearby). Students can do this in 
small groups – you will need to make sure that each 
group chooses a different town/city.
2
Students can research the life and work of a famous 
person from the town/city where they are studying. They 
can then write some questions (three per student, say) 
about the person they have studied. In a future lesson, 
you can set up a general knowledge quiz in which 
students ask their questions. The winner is the student 
with the greatest number of correct answers.
Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
6 
Love it or loathe it!
Refer students to the unit title. Elicit that 
loathe
is pronounced 
/
ləυð
/. It means ‘hate’ and is the opposite of 
love
. This is easily 
confusable with 
loath
(pronounced /
ləυθ
/) which is a formal 
word meaning ‘unwilling to do something’.
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•
Get students to do the exercise. After checking the answer 
with the class, ask students what other puzzles they can fi nd 
in newspapers, e.g. crossword puzzles, word circles, etc.
•
Make the point that students do not have to do the puzzle 
if they do not want to; on the other hand, with classmates 
available for help, doing a puzzle in the English lesson is a 
great place to start.
•
Ask someone to read out the sentence they ticked and get 
other students who ticked the same sentence to raise their 
hand. Repeat this procedure with the other two sentences.
Elicit the meaning of the idiom 
I can take it or leave it
(I don’t 
mind something).