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How much luggage have you got?
Learning tip
Make sure that students read this before doing Exercise 1. After 
students have read it, ask them if this is how they read in their 
mother tongue. 
1
Before doing the exercise, read the fi rst sentence of the 
instructions to the class. Ask students if they have ever been 
to Paris or Toronto and how they got there. 
2
Before doing the exercise, elicit/explain that the abbreviation 
lb
is short for 
pound(s) 
and that the abbreviation 
in
is short 
for 
inch(es)
. Get students to do the exercise and then check 
their answers.
3
Before doing the exercise, elicit/explain meanings of 
Economy
, 
Business
, 
First Class
, etc. and explain that different airlines have 
different kinds of names for services. After students have done 
the exercise, ask them if the baggage restrictions are similar to 
those of airlines they have fl own with.
4-6
Read the instructions and the questions, give students some 
time to read the webpage and do the exercises, and then 
check their answers.
7
Ask the class these two questions.
Focus on … the prefi x over
Ask students to fi nd two words in the Excess Baggage Fees 
webpage which begin with the prefi x 
over
(
overweight
, 
oversized
). Elicit that the prefi x 
over
means ‘too much’ in these 
cases. After students have completed the sentences, put them 
in pairs and get them to write down other words with the prefi x 
over
. The fi rst pair who write down ten should shout 
Stop!
Write the winners’ answers on the board and one word from 
each other pair, encouraging students to write down any new 
vocabulary.