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Get ready to read
For this exercise, refer students to the
Learning tipReal Reading TNotes2
For this exercise, refer students to the
Learning tip
. Get
students to match the beginnings and endings.
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You might like to explain that for the assessment of income
tax, the fi nancial year in Britain ends on April 5th. Ask students
if the fi nancial year in their country is the same as the
calendar year – or does it start on a different date?
Did you know …?
Ask students when the last bank/public holiday was and when
the next one will be. Ask students if they know how many public
holidays there are in the United States. They could research the
answer before the next lesson.
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Get students to rephrase the text to answer the questions.
After you have checked the answers, you could ask students
to scan the text for more examples of formal words.
More activities
1
Ask students if they know any compound nouns which
end with the word
pay
. (Examples include:
equal pay, full
pay, half pay, high pay, holiday pay, gross pay, low pay,
maternity pay, monthly pay, overtime pay, redundancy
pay, sick pay, take-home pay, weekly pay
.)
2
Ask any students who have jobs if their terms and
conditions are written in a similar formal manner.
Brainstorm other offi cial documents that are written in a
formal manner (tenancy agreements, rental contracts, etc.)
3
Discuss the different types of leave that people take:
annual leave, compassionate leave, sick leave, etc.
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Changes to pay cycle
Students discuss the section heading in Exercise 1, so do not
discuss it before they work on the exercises.
1
Get students to read through the dictionary defi nitions.
Discuss as a class the meaning of
Changes to pay cycle
.
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