Get ready to read

More activities
1
Ask students to read the text again and to identify 
nouns which are made up from a verb + suffi x, e.g. 
management 
, 
information 
, 
attendance 
, 
adjustment(s) 
, 
clearance
. Ask them which other suffi xes are typical of 
nouns, e.g. 
feeling 
, 
journalism 
, 
weakness 
, 
productivity 
, 
childhood 
, 
membership
. Point out that suffi xes can be 
added to verbs, nouns and adjectives. Other noun endings 
are 
connection 
, 
absence 
, 
tenancy 
, 
leniency
. 
2
Ask students to fi nd out about other working 
arrangements, e.g. job sharing, working from home. Could 
they do their current job (if they have one) in these ways?
Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
11 
I’ve read the minutes
Ask students if they ever go to meetings. What meetings do they 
go to? How often?
Students consider the meaning of 
minutes
in 
Get ready to 
read
– so do not discuss it before they work on the exercises.
Get ready to read
•
Get students to match the words to the defi nitions. Elicit 
or explain that 
minutes
is always used in the plural form in 
business correspondence.
•
Ask students who read business correspondence to tell the 
class which of the things they read, when and why.
•
After students have ticked the sentences, read out each 
sentence in turn. Get students who have ticked that sentence 
to raise their hand.