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Real Reading 2 by Liz Driscoll
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Unit
7 
On top of Table Mountain
Ask students if they know where Table Mountain is and if they 
can name any other famous sites or attractions in South Africa.
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• 
Read the fi rst sentence with the class. Ask students to point to 
the cable car in the photo before doing the fi rst exercise.
Ask individual students to read out a sentence which is true 
so that all four statements are read out. Then ask four more 
students who crossed the sentences to make them true for 
them, e.g. 
I haven’t been in a cable car, I’m afraid of heights
. 
Encourage students to say something about their experiences.
• 
Explain the meaning of 
cableway
. Tell the class that a train 
runs on a 
railway
and a cable car runs on a 
cableway
. The 
cableway is the wire that supports the cable car.
A
Table Mountain Cableway
1
Read through question a with the class. Let students look very 
briefl y at the front of the leafl et and then ask for the answer. 
2
Look at the example with the class. Ask students to read out 
the information on the front of the leafl et which gives them 
this answer (
Shop at the top
). Repeat this procedure for the 
other ticked items.
3
Ask students to scan the inside of the leafl et again and fi nd 
any other abbreviations. Elicit the meaning of the following 
abbreviations: 
SA
(South African), 
ID
(identity [card]), 
h
(hour).