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You could ask students if they know any other similes or 
proverbs in English.
3–4
Put students into pairs and get them to do the exercises 
together. Check the answers with the class.
5
Ask the class this question.
Class bonus
Make it clear to students that they should know the answers 
to the questions they write. They could fi nd out the answers 
themselves before including a question on their list. Students 
can also choose a topic on the website 
www.soyouthinkyouknoitall.com and take part in the quiz online.
More activities
1
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-
speaking environment, encourage students to go to the 
library and look at the range of reference books available.
2
If you have some other reference books – 
the Guinness 
Book of Records, the Book of Firsts, Philip’s World 
Factbook, the Usborne Book of Facts and Lists
, for 
example – you can set some questions for students to 
fi nd the answers to.
Real Reading 3 by Liz Driscoll
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Unit
15 
It’s on the shelf
Focus the attention of the students on the unit title and elicit/
explain what a 
shelf
is. Elicit also the plural form 
shelves
. Get 
students in pairs to brainstorm other words in English which 
have irregular plurals. Collate ideas on the board and encourage 
students to write down any new vocabulary.
Alternatively, you could dictate ten or so singular nouns which 
have irregular plurals to the class and ask them to write down 
their irregular plurals. Examples include: 
child, knife, man, tooth, 
mouse, sheep, wolf, fi sh, dice, leaf, cactus, analysis
.