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• 
Ask students if they use these shops and services in their 
everyday lives. Encourage them to make sentences with 
I 
never/sometimes/often go to a …
.
• 
Discuss students’ suggestions and write a class list of other 
places on the board.
• 
When students have fi nished the exercise, ask one person 
to say a shop or service which is not very important, another 
to say a shop or service which is important and a third to say 
one which is very important. Ask the other students in the 
class if they agree.
A
Welcome to Summertown
Explain that you can often read or hear 
Welcome to …
when 
you arrive in a place.
1
Go through the instructions and the options with the class. 
Then get students to skim (look quickly at) the leafl et and 
decide what it is about.
After you have checked the answer, ask students 
Where is 
Summertown?
Explain that Summertown is a suburb of Oxford.
Learning tip
Give some examples of types of text we scan, e.g. dictionary, 
telephone directory.
2
Students can do this exercise in pairs. They can either work 
together to fi nd the answers, or they can work on their own 
and then compare answers.
3
Look at an example with the class before students do the 
exercise. Elicit that the bike rental store is in Banbury Road.
4
Ask students to write the list in pairs. This could be made into 
a team game with the longest list written in a short time limit, 
e.g. three minutes, winning.
5
Look at the example with the class. Ask students to say why 
sentence a is true.
Check answers with the class. Ask one student to say whether 
the sentence is true or false and another student to read out 
the information from the text which gives the answer.
Class bonus
Divide the class into two large groups. Students in one group 
write questions like those in Exercise 2 and students in the 
other group write true/false statements like those in Exercise 
5. Students can work in pairs or on their own to do this. Each 
student then exchanges their questions/statements with 
someone from the other group. Students who wrote questions 
decide if statements are true or false, and students who wrote 
true/false statements answer questions.