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1
If you are teaching a multilingual group in Britain, students 
can look at the website www.royalmail.com and fi nd out 
about postal charges for sending mail within Britain and 
abroad.
2
Remind students – especially students who speak 
European languages – that some English words may 
look similar to words in their own language. Tell them 
to imagine that they are French (if they aren’t), and to 
fi nd words on the Declaration Form that are exactly the 
same in French and English (
declaration, commercial, 
description, total
). Elicit or explain that the pronunciation 
may be different in the two languages – but the fact that 
the words are written the same is much more important 
when you are reading.
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Unit
3 
What’s on?
Explain to the class that we can also use 
What’s on?
as part of a 
longer question, e.g. 
What’s on TV tonight?
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• 
Ask students if there is a theatre or cinema in the town/city 
where they are studying. Ask individual students to read out 
the sentence that is true for them. Encourage other students 
who have ticked the same sentence to add 
either
at the end 
of the fi rst two sentences (
I never go to the theatre either.
) 
and 
too
at the end of the last two sentences (
I go to the 
theatre two or three times a year too.
) Explain that we use 
neither
with negative sentences (
I don’t go to the theatre 
very often either.
) and that 
never
and 
hardly ever
have 
negative meanings. 
• 
Ask students to do the same with their sentences about going 
to the cinema.
• 
You could do a class survey and fi nd out which is the most 
popular type of show. Ask students if they have seen a show 
recently and encourage them to describe it.