Get ready to read

a
has had a fl at tyre
b
can’t drive
c
has broken down on a motorway
d
has hit an animal
e
has been stopped by the police
f
has run out of petrol
Real Reading 3 by Liz Driscoll
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Unit
3 
Somewhere to live
Put students into pairs and ask them to brainstorm different 
buildings etc. where people can live (e.g. 
a bungalow
) and how 
people can fi nd new places to live (e.g. 
in a newspaper
). Collate 
answers on the board, encouraging students to write down any 
new vocabulary.
Get ready to read
•
If you are teaching in an English-speaking environment, tell 
students to circle words so that the sentences are true about 
their home in their own country.
Ask someone to read out the fi rst sentence so that it is 
true for them and get other students who circled the same 
word(s) to raise their hands. Repeat this procedure for the 
fi rst sentence and then with the other three sentences. 
Alternatively, you could encourage other students who have 
circled the same words to agree by saying 
So do I
.
•
If you are teaching in an English-speaking environment, you 
could ask students how they found the accommodation where 
they are currently living. 
A
Looking for a room
1
Read the instructions to the class and get answers to the 
questions. Then, get students to do the exercise. While 
students are working, draw a table on the board, fi ve columns 
by fi ve rows; along the top row, write the following: 
Question, 
a, b, c, d
.
When students have fi nished, get students at random to read 
out a question each. Write the fi rst four good/correct ones in 
the fi rst column of your table (under 
Question
). 
2
Before doing the exercise, get students to copy the table 
onto paper. This will help them record their answers more 
easily. After students have looked for the answers to the 
questions on the board in the advertisements and you have 
checked their answers with them, ask them for the answers 
to the two example questions in Exercise 1. Ask the fi rst 
question, and get four students to answer – one for each 
advertisement. (
When is it available? – Room a is available 
from the beginning of February, There is no information for 
Room b, Room c is available from the 8th of January, Room 
d is available now.) 
Repeat this procedure with the second 
question
. (Is it near the city centre? – Room b is ten minutes 
on foot from the city centre. The other advertisements do not 
say – so they are probably not near the city centre
.
)
Put students into pairs. Students take turns to read out other 
questions they wrote in Exercise 1 for their partner to answer.