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UNIT 8
Getting around


In which part of the world do you think the people in photograph A live? What can you say about photograph B?
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Choose a caption to match the newspaper photograph A and give the reasons for your choice.

Can we give you a lift?

Room for one more...

Standing room only!
Grammar:
Question tags
isn't it / is he/ she? don't you? does
he? doesn't he?
Revision of Relative pronouns: who,
which, whose, where, when

Functions:
Narrating an event from the past

Vocabulary:
Transportation and ways of travelling worldwide 		Learning strategies:
When I read a text I…
• try to imagine I am talking to the
writer
• imagine that I ask the writer
questions
• read the text carefully to check for
answers to the questions
• try to summarize what I read by
thinking of headings for each
paragraph.

Lesson 1

AIMS
• To read and identify topic vocabulary
• To read for detailed understanding and main ideas
• To raise awareness of idiomatic expressions about
‘travel'
Lead-in

Imagine you are preparing a speech about people's use of different means of transport in your area.
Make a list of four ways people get around in your town or city and write down the main reason why they use this form of transportation.
Transportation Reason
1.  
2.  
3.  
4.  

Task 1
Look at the situations 1-6 below and decide what the best means of transport for each person would be. Match the sketches to the descriptions below.
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a) a young girl who lives in the centre of a big city
b) a father of three children who lives in a village in Macedonia
c) a young working mother who lives in a place where there are no buses
d) a young man who doesn't know when he will get a car
e) a 13 year old boy whose school is in a village which is 2 kilometres away..
f) a man whose job takes him into the mountains a lot

Task 2

A. Look at the photographs A-F below and decide what they have in common.

Complete the table on the right with examples of means of transport for each category.
most
exciting		 most
unusual		 most
useful
   
   
   
   

Would you like to try any of these means of transport? Why? Why not?
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B. Look at the word ‘transport'. In pairs, decide what the two parts of the word are. In pairs, make a list of other words with ‘port' in them and then compare your list with the class. What do you think ‘passport' first meant?
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Task 3

In which countries do people use the means A-F in Task 2 to travel? Tell the class why these means of transport are best suited for each of the countries. Can you find these countries on the map in Appendix V on p. 177?

Example: The camel is best suited for the desert because it can travel long distances without water.
Task 4 - The ‘principle’

A. In pairs, read the following statement and decide what the ‘principle' is.

Nearly every machine built in the last 250 years involves a single, basic principle.

B. Which picture from A-F in Task 2 uses this principle?
Task 5 - Mini-project

Make your own poster: Changes in means of transport through time

In pairs, make a list of other means of transport that you can think of. Find photos about different means of transport and make a poster to use to talk about transportation.
Task 6 - Idioms

1) Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
2) Hold your horses!
3) Don't put the cart before the horse.
a) Don't rush.
b) Do things in the right sequence.
c) Don't waste an opportunity.
 Look at the sketches 1-3 and match each one to an idiom about horses. Then match them to the explanation a-c.
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Task 7

Write a sentence to use each of the idioms and compare your answer with your class.
Example: The team management put the cart before the horse when they let Ronaldo go before finding a replacement first.


Pre-reading: Getting around
1. Complete the chart with three things that you think have been the most important mechanical inventions in the history of mankind (e.g. the wheel). Compare your answers with the rest of the class and find out which your class thinks is the most important. Discuss your answers as a class.
FIRST  
SECOND  
THIRD  

2. Answer the following questions:
a) What simple object exists in almost all mechanical devices?
b) How would our lives be different without the invention of the wheel?
c) In pairs, make a statement about the importance of the wheel to our lives.
Lesson 1

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3.
a) Look at the pictures 1-5. Put the wheels into a time
sequence. Compare your answers with your partner.
b) Choose a title for the group of pictures:
 i) The World Around us.
ii) The History of Man.
iii) The History of the Wheel.
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c) One of the bicycles is called a Penny-farthing in the UK. Which one
and why? Check your answers on the web at: www.britannica.com.

d) In pairs, complete the time chart using the areas in the box on the
right. 		England
USA
Germany
Mesopotamia
Rome

Mesopotamia
invention of the wheel		        

3,500 BC 290 BC 1818 1885 1975

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Task 1
Look at pictures a-c. What does each vehicle have in common? Would you like to try any of these means of transportation? Why? Why not?

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How is the bike in picture c different from an ordinary bike? In pairs, write down the differences and then read text A below quickly to check your answers.

A The Sideways Bike

An inventor has made a bike that travels sideways. It might drive some people crazy when they try to ride it, but they soon get used to it. The cyclist sits sideways and operates a wheel with each hand, and pedalling makes the whole bike travel sideways. But, hold your horses! It's very like snowboarding or sailing, isn't it? “Yes”, says the inventor, Michael Killian who is an engineer from Dublin. “And it's not a normal bike, is it?” “No”, he replies. Is this the end of the road for the ordinary bike? Perhaps not! It's just that this way of travelling by bike is much more fun. So, don't miss the boat, go and get one now!

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Task 2

Read two more articles about transport and find out which of the three
sounds the most exciting. Why?

Innovative means of transport


B Skateboarding

The good weather's here and you just want to get the skateboard out and hit the road, don't you? Well, go on! With your skateboard you're free to go wherever you want. You don't have any backseat driver telling you where to go. Another advantage is that you don't need to use public transport and it's good fun and keeps you fit, too. But you don't want to get hurt when you do those flips, do you? So, be careful and not take any risks doing complicated flips and turns at top speeds.

Task 3 - Comprehension

Circle the answer for each statement. Right (A), Wrong (B), or Doesn't say (C).

1) The sideways bike is not a normal bike.
                  A             B             C
2) Riding a sideways bike is like riding a horse.
                  A             B             C
3) With the skateboard you go uphill easily.
                  A             B             C
4) You can take your skateboard on the bus.
                  A             B             C
 5) A skateboarder uses the laws of physics to jump.
                  A             B             C
6) With the water bike, an ordinary bike sits
on top of a sailing kit.
                  A             B             C

Compare your answers with your partner.

Task 4
Read texts A, B and C again and complete the table on the right with the advantages and disadvantages of these innovative means of transport.
  Advantages Disadvantages
A    
B    
C