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Thetopic of this unit is money. The grammarfocus is on metaphor, articles,unreal conditionals and linkingwords. Studentsread about the gold rush in Californiain 1849 and the story of SamBrannan, who made a fortune sellingequipment to hopeful gold miners.

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Overvi Aims

Section

g Introductiol1 page 24-25

Readingskills: scanning for specific information

Scanning a text about the California gold rush to find the links between groups of items.

Lexis: collocations

Using collocations from the text to write sentences about yourself.

Listening skills:

Listening to a story, discussing the significance of pictures and matching beginnings and ends of sentences.

listening

Metaphors,expressions and sayings connectedwith money are studied and discussed. Studentsuse unreal conditionals to saywhat they would do if they governedtheir country Studentslisten to four people talking abouttheir most treasured possessions.They then talk about this subjectin pairs. Finally,students complete a text about an imaginary day in the life of a very wea1thyperson using linking words and further details which they make up themselves. They then write an accountof what a perfect day for them wouldbe like.

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Grammar: metaphor

Grammar: articles; schwa

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g Maney talks pages 29-30

Listening to the text and putting a summary in the correct order.

Studying metaphors from the previous reading text. Practising using money and food metaphors.

Tíme Is money page 26

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What the students are doing

Completing a text with articles and matching examples with rules. Practising the pronunciation of schwa /;;'/ in unstressed syllables.

Lexis: financial expressions Listening

& speaking

skills: listening for detail; predicting; discussion

Looking at expressions to do with money and talking to a partner about finance. Listening to an interview and matching questions and answers. Predicting how people will answer questions about money. Discussing questions about money.

(lose up pages 30-31

Grammar: unreal

Matching clauses to make unreal conditionals.

conditionals

Studying the structure of real and unreal conditionals. Discussing unreal situations.

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A day in my very wealthy lífe page 33

Listening

skills:

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Conversation skills: fluency

work

Listening to people talking about their possessions and matching them with notes. Reconstructing stories in pairs. Anecdote: talking about treasured possessions.

Grammar: linking words

Using linking words to complete a text.

Speaking skills:

Adding details to a story to make it more interesting.

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Writing skills:

Writing

the completed

story.

narrative

Money

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