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1
Students can work in small groups and plan a short 
walking tour around the town / city where they are 
studying. They can choose three or four places to visit and 
make a poster with pictures and text.
2
Alternatively, encourage students to choose a place in the 
town / city that not many people know about. They can 
then tell the rest of the class about the place they have 
chosen.
 
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Unit
10 
I’d like to register
Note that health and illness can be a sensitive subject.
Look at the unit title with the class. Ask students to quickly look 
through the unit and work out the meaning of the title. If necessary, 
explain that 
register
means ‘to put your name on an offi cial list’.
Use this opportunity to introduce the following words: 
appointment, medical record
.
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• Ask students what illnesses the people in the picture have. 
Get students to suggest other ailments.
• Ask students to circle the words that are true for them.
• Invite individual students to make a sentence each. If they 
want to say the same thing that someone else has said, 
encourage them to use 
either
after 
never
and 
hardly ever
, 
and 
too
after 
sometimes
and 
often
. For example: 
A: 
I never have a cold
. 
B: 
I never have a cold either.
A: 
I often have a headache
. 
B: 
I often have a headache too
.