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Get ready to readReal Reading TNotesPHOTOCOPIABLE
© Cambridge University Press 2008
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Should I wear a helmet?
1
After doing the exercise, highlight the fact that
helmet
appears
in the section heading too.
2
Ask students who cycle which of the things they do and do
not do.
3
If the headline does surprise students, ask them why. Write the
fi rst three words of the headline (
Cyclists with helmets
…) on
the board and ask students to suggest other ways in which the
headline could have ended.
5
Before doing the exercise, tell the class that
Dr
can be both a
medical and an academic title. Many university lecturers have
the title
Dr
.
6
Read the instructions to the class and get students to do the
exercise in pairs. Check the answers with the class.
7
Students can discuss the question in pairs. They can then
compare their ideas in a whole-class discussion.
Focus on … synonyms
Before doing the exercise, ask students to name other pairs of
synonyms. (Examples include:
little/small, client/customer, rich/
wealthy
.)
After doing the exercise, you could also introduce the word
antonym
(words with the opposite meaning).
More activities
1
Cut out several different articles – at least one article for
each student – from one newspaper. Write a number
(1–20, etc.) on each article. Students skim the articles and
make a list (1–20, etc.) of the sections of the newspaper
that the articles have come from. Students can then
choose one article each to read more carefully.
2
Ask students to name other parts of the bike or items
connected with cycling. (You could encourage students
to fi nd words in a dictionary before the next lesson.)
Examples include:
bell, brake, chain, frame, gears,
handlebars, mudguard, pedal, seat/saddle, spoke, valve,
wheel
.
3
Encourage students to fi nd another newspaper article
or item from the Internet whose headline surprises or
amuses them. In a later lesson, students can tell the class
why the headline surprised or amused them.
4
Encourage students to start making a list of synonyms. For
example, they could reread some of the texts in this book
and fi nd pairs of synonyms. They can then use their lists
to test each other. For example, they choose 12 pairs of
synonyms and write them in jumbled order in 2 lists for
their partner to match.
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