Get ready to read

Unit
13 
I’ve chosen this one!
If your school has copies of the four readers mentioned in this 
unit (
A Picture to Remember, Hotel Casanova, Inspector Logan, 
Superbird
), bring them to the lesson.
Get ready to read
• Tell students to name a book in their own language.
• If you are teaching a monolingual group in their own country, 
ask students to suggest book titles for each category. Encourage 
everyone to try and think of the title in English. Take a class vote 
to see which type of book is the most popular. 
• Ask individual students about their experiences of reading a 
book in English.
A
Choosing a reader
Point out to students that they can get a good idea of what a 
book is about by looking at its front and back covers.
1–3
Students can do these exercises in pairs. Do not check 
answers to these exercises. Students will check their answers 
in Exercise 4.
4
Ask students to check their answers to Exercises 1, 2 and 3. 
5
Ask students which book they would most like to read. Take a 
class vote.
Class bonus
Do an example with the class before students work in pairs. 
Choose a word and encourage students to ask you questions.
More activities
1
Play a memory game with the words in Exercise 2. Give 
students one minute to study the words, then tell them to 
close their books and write the words.
2
If your school has a library with readers, encourage 
students to read or borrow them. Students can also lend 
each other any readers which they already have.
B
A Picture to Remember
1
Encourage individual students to say one thing each about 
what they remember about the story.
2
Ask students to read the fi rst part of the story.