Together 4 Teachers Guide
Together 4 Teachers Guide
Together 4 Teachers Guide
Unit summary Go
• Read out the task and check that students understand
Vocabulary previous centuries.
Discovery and invention: adapt, adaptation, become • Brainstorm ideas as a class and write the names of the
extinct, extinction, create, creation, cure, design, develop, inventions on the board. Encourage students to explain
development, discover, discovery, experiment, explore, what each invention is for as they mention it, e.g. the
exploration, imagine, imagination, invent, invention, test telephone, which makes it possible for us to talk to people in
Life and the universe: alien, astronaut, death, disease, different places.
Earth, gravity, humans, life, meteor, planet, space, species,
star, sun, threat, universe Exercise 1
Vocabulary PLUS: Noun suffixes • Read through the words in the box with the class and
check that students understand them.
Grammar • Students read the texts and complete them with the
Gerunds and infinitives correct words.
Conditionals, if and unless • Allow students time to compare their answers in pairs,
then check answers with the class.
Functional language • Make sure students understand all the blue words in the
texts. Model pronunciation of any words your students
Giving opinions
might find difficult, e.g. cure, creating, extinct.
21st Century Skills • Ask students which sentence in the Discovery stories they
think is false.
Students take part in activities which help them learn
strategies for thinking about an idea from different ANSWERS
points of view (see 21st Century Skills, p.xxv). 1 electricity 2 radar 3 headaches 4 microchip
5 capsule 6 life 7 drug 8 species
Key Competences This sentence is false: ‘They also found the fossil of a
1 (p.48) Through investigation of accidental inventions unicorn, which has become extinct.’ Unicorns don’t exist.
and discoveries.
See page T49 for teaching notes on Exercises 2–5.
6 (pp.48, 52) Through evaluation of the usefulness of
different discoveries and inventions, and the discussion
of the suitability of questions for a science programme.
5 (pp.51, 53, 54, 55, 57) Through exchanging views in
pairwork discussions.
2 (pp.50, 52, 54, 56) Through instruction in and
practice of learning strategies and language subskills.
7 (pp.51, 53, 55) Through making deductions about
and identifying patterns in grammatical rules.
4 (pp.50, 57) Through working collaboratively to
discuss new inventions.
Vocabulary
Aims
• Learn vocabulary related to discovery and invention.
• Learn key phrases for talking about discoveries and
inventions.
• Develop the skill of finding facts online by researching
accidental inventions and discoveries.
• Practise talking about different discoveries and inventions.
T48 Unit 5
Unit 5 T49
T50 Unit 5
Warm-up
• Ask: Can you remember how the presenter began and
ended the presentation on page 50?
• Refer students back to the text on page 50 to check. Read
out the first and last sentences of the presentation: Today,
I’d like to give a short presentation on biomimicry. Thank you
for listening.
• Ask students to identify an infinitive and a gerund in the
sentences (to give, listening).
• Explain to students that they are going to learn more
about gerunds and infinitives now.
Unit 5 T51
T52 Unit 5
Unit 5 T53
T54 Unit 5
Unit 5 T55
Aims
• Learn that problems arise in all areas of life, and problem
solving skills can be used to find solutions.
• Learn the practical steps necessary for problem solving.
• Develop the transferable skill of problem solving through
practising it with classmates in a controlled situation.
• Evaluate personal performance in terms of the
knowledge, skills and attitude used to complete the tasks
in this lesson.
• Recycle vocabulary and language learned in Unit 5.
T56 Unit 5
Unit 5 T57
Exercise 2
• Remind students of the skill they practised on the Reading
page, of guessing the meaning of new words from their
context.
• Read through the definitions with the class and make sure
students understand everything.
• Ask students to find the blue words in the text and read
them in context, then match the definitions with the blue
words.
• Check answers with the class.
ANSWERS
1 toxins 2 attenuated 3 eradicated 4 deadly
5 antibodies 6 orally
Exercise 3
• Students read the article again and answer the questions.
• Allow students time to compare their answers in pairs,
then check answers with the class.
SUGGESTED ANSWERS
1 smallpox
2 dead or weakened polio virus/pathogen
3 by injection or orally
4 white blood cells
5 bacteria toxins
6 people who live in or travel to parts of the world where
there is yellow fever
T106 CLIL
Exercise 3
• Put students into pairs and ask them to decide in their
pairs which one of the photos in Task B they will each
describe.
• Read out the tip and check that students understand
everything.
• Ask students to copy the table from exercise 2 into their
notebooks and plan their ideas for the photo they are
going to describe.
• Ask some students to share their ideas with the class.
• With weaker classes, you could copy the table onto the
board for each of the photos in Task B, then brainstorm
ideas as a class and make notes on the board.
T118 Unit 5
Exercise 2
• Read the exam task with the class and make sure students
understand that they will hear an interview with an
engineer at a space exploration agency.
• Read out the first point in the tip again, then ask students
to read the questions and multiple-choice options
carefully. Ask: Which question asks about an opinion?
(question 6).
• Read out the second point in the tip again. Read out
the first question in the listening task and the options,
and elicit the key words (first space tourists; training –
professional astronauts; leisure time – trip; work – space
station).
• Ask students to identify the key words in the remaining
questions and options, and write them in their notebooks.
They can compare their ideas in pairs.
ANSWERS
1 first tourists
A training, professional, astronauts
B plenty of leisure time
C took part, work, space station
2 price, cheapest, ticket
3 expect, will happen, cost
A future, price, similar, flying by plane
B years, before, most people, can afford
C tickets, will get, less expensive
4 alternative, experiences
A only open, people who can afford
B only available, special training
C disappointing, compared, real life
5 biggest disadvantage, space tourism
A dangerous
B bad, environment
C expensive
6 Mike
A doesn’t believe, space tourism, become reality, his
lifetime
B feels confident, future, space tourism
C impossible to say, space tourism, succeed
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