Get ready to read

5
You could do a class survey to fi nd out the fi ve most popular 
shops and services. 
More activities
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-
speaking environment, ask students to look at notices in shop 
windows. Encourage them to note down – or photograph 
– anything that is unclear so that they can ask you during 
the next lesson. If you are teaching a monolingual group, ask 
students to look out for any notices in their town/city which 
are written in English.
Unit
1 
Is there a bank?
Real Reading 2 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

---

Unit
2 
Airmail, please!
Write the unit title on the board and ask students to predict what 
the unit is about (sending mail abroad).
Get ready to read
Look at the example with the class. Students then match the 
other items with the words. 
Ask students which of these things they send. Then ask which 
they receive.
A
Can I have a sticker?
Make sure that students understand the meaning of 
sticker
. 
Learning tip
Emphasize the point that we often skim a text the fi rst time we 
look at it. We then read again parts of it which are important to 
us. Remind students not to read each text in this unit from the 
fi rst word to the last.
1
Students skim the text and decide what it is about. Check 
answers with the class. Ask students to say why the other two 
answers are not correct.
2
Go through the instructions with the class. Make sure that 
students understand that 
surface mail
is sent by land rather 
than by plane.
Students can predict which of the three options is true. They 
then read the text to check their predictions.
3
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-speaking 
environment, ask students if they use airmail or surface mail 
to send mail home.