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Unit 3  Live well, play well Class

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Start thinking
1 Answer the questions.
1 Which schools are famous in your country?

2 Why are they famous?

3 Would you like to go to one of these schools? Why / why not?

Comprehension check
2 Watch the video. Choose the correct answers.
1 Millfield School is in …
a England. b France. c the USA.
2 Tim McClarty usually does sport …
a in the morning. b in the afternoon. c after school.
3 Tennis players burn around … calories when they play for two hours.
a 500 b 1,000 c 7,000

3 Watch the video again. Complete the sentences about Tim McClarty.
1 Tim’s nationality is  .
2 He is the of the tennis team.
3 He wants to study at university in the future.
4 He’s been at Millfield School since he was years old.
5 He started playing tennis at the age of  .
6 Before the interview today, Tim had a class.
7 He plays tennis for at least hours every day.
8 Next year, he’s going to study in  .

4 Complete the summary. Write a word or a number in each gap.

Millfield School is an independent 1 school. The school has a very good 2 reputation,
but students can also play sports. At Millfield, students can divide their time between the 3 and the
sports field. They have a strict 4  , but students only have lessons in the morning. At lunchtime, they all
have a 5 lunch, because the school takes the students’ 6 very seriously. Millfield has a lot
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of sports  , including tennis 8 and a large swimming pool. It’s a great place for students
who want to study and play sports.

5 Work in pairs. Answer the questions.

1 The video says that Tim was over the moon when he received his scholarship. How do you think he felt?
2 What sort of food should sportsmen and women eat? Why?
3 Why do you think that Tim wants to go abroad to continue his education?

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 Vocabulary
6 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
1 His in yesterday’s match wasn’t as good as usual. (perform)
2 Paula wants to become a swimmer when she’s older. (profession)
3 You need to be good at speaking in public if you want to be a  . (politics)
4 She’s an excellent cook, but her is chocolate brownies. (special)
5 John got the best marks in the school, so he won a to go to university. (scholar)
6 Students who don’t do any work get a reputation for  . (lazy)
7 Some experts say that children shouldn’t play sports in school. (compete)
8 If his doesn’t improve, he won’t be able to play in the tournament. (fit)

7 Join the verbs in A to the words in B. Then complete the sentences.

A apply beat burn continue keep take train win

B calories my brother fit hard it seriously a scholarship the tradition to university

1 Both my grandfather and my father were lawyers, so my parents are expecting me to  .
2 I want to be a doctor, so I’m going to to study medicine.
3 People who don’t have to pay so much money for their university course.
4 The quickest way to is by doing lots of exercise.
5 To do well at university you have to and study hard.
6 The team will have to if they want to get fitter.
7 I’ll never forget the first time I at chess. He was furious!
8 I try and by going jogging every morning.

Extension
Work in groups. You are going to discuss this statement: ‘Is boarding school good for children?’
One group will be against the statement and the other group will be in favour of the statement.
1 Choose one person in your group to write. In your group, think of as many arguments (for or against) as
possible and write them down.
2 Now choose the five best arguments. Prepare a short speech presenting your arguments. Give examples
where possible. Use the expressions in the box to help you.
3 Your teacher or chairperson will start the debate. One person in your group will give a short speech,
presenting the group’s arguments. He / she should talk for about three minutes.
4 When both groups have finished their speeches, you can respond to each other’s arguments.
5 At the end of the debate, the teacher or chairperson will hold a vote. Decide if you are against or in favour of
the statement, based on the arguments of each group. You don’t have to agree with the opinion of the group
that you were in.

Useful expressions: Speculating

We think that children at boarding schools must feel …
They might be …
Their parents may not realize …
In some cases, they probably can’t have …
Perhaps / maybe, they …
They are probably …

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 Unit 3  DVD teacher’s notes

Video summary
The video is about Millfield School which is a famous boarding school in the UK. It talks about the school and
about one of its students, Tim McClarty. This video links to page 36 of the Student’s Book.

Background culture notes

Millfield School is an independent boarding school in Somerset, in the south-west of England. It was founded
in 1935 by R. J. O. Meyer, who was an educator and a talented cricketer. Millfield is a mixed school for students
aged 13 to 18. There are currently 1,200 students at the school, of which 935 are boarders and stay at the school.
Millfield offers a number of academic and sports scholarships, so that students from all kinds of backgrounds
can attend. The school has excellent sports facilities, including sports fields, tennis courts and a 50-metre
swimming pool, and the school employs 130 sports coaches to train the students in various sports. The main
sports are: athletics, basketball, cricket, golf, hockey, fencing, orienteering, pentathlon, rugby, squash, tennis and
triathlon. All of the students at Millfield achieve outstanding exam results and many of them go on to become
professionals in their chosen sport.

Start thinking
1 Read the questions with the class and elicit answers from individual students. Encourage students to give a
personal response and use their suggestions to start a class discussion.
Answer key
Students’ own answers.

Comprehension check
2 Answer key
1  a  2 b  3 b

3 Answer key
1 British  2 captain  3 economics  4 fourteen  5 six  6 physics 7 two  8  the USA / America

4 Answer key
1 boarding  2 academic  3 classroom  4 timetable  5 healthy  6 diet 7 facilities  8 courts

5 Students’ own answers.

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 Vocabulary
6 Answer key
1 performance  2 professional  3 politician  4 speciality  5 scholarship  6 laziness 
7 competitive  8 fitness

7 Answer key
1 continue the tradition  2  apply to university  3  win a scholarship  4  burn calories  5  take it seriously
6 train hard  7  beat my brother  8  keep fit

Extension
Stage 1: Preparation before the class
• Write on the board: Is boarding school good for children?
• Tell students they are going to have a debate to discuss the statement. Explain that half of them will be in favour
of the statement and half of them will be against it.
Stage 2: Procedure in the class
• Divide students into groups of about eight. Ask them to move their desks together, if possible.
• Divide each group into Group A and Group B. Tell students that Group A will be in favour of the statement and
Group B will be against it.
• Ask students in their A or B groups to brainstorm arguments to support their opinion. Name one person in each
group as the secretary to make a note of their ideas.
• Ask students to choose their five best arguments. Explain that they need to expand their arguments by thinking
of examples to illustrate the points.
• They should then write their speech. Tell them to use the useful expressions in the box to help them.
• Tell each group to choose one person to speak for their group. Then tell each Group A to join each Group B.
• Choose one student to act as the chairperson in each AB group. Explain that the chairperson should start the
debate by introducing the statement and then ask the speaker from Group A to speak first.
• After three minutes, the chairperson should thank the first speaker and ask the speaker from Group B to give
their speech.
• After three minutes, the chairperson should thank the second speaker and ask the students in Group B to ask
Group A some questions about their speech.
• After three minutes, the chairperson should invite the students in Group A to ask Group B some questions about
their speech.
• After three minutes, the chairperson should hold a vote. Ask the students to hold up their hands if they are in
favour of the statement and count the number. Then ask the students to hold up their hands if they are against
the statement and count the number.
• Ask the chairperson of each group for the result of the vote in their group.
Extra ideas
You could ask students to research boarding schools in their country. This may give them some useful ideas to use
in the debate.

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 Unit 3 DVD scripts  Live well, play well
Millfield School is an independent boarding school in Somerset, south-west England. The school has always had
a good academic reputation, but it’s also famous for its performance in sports and the arts. It has produced lots of
famous professional sports stars, as well as well-known actors, writers and politicians. Today, the school continues this
tradition by helping to create the stars of the future.
“Hi I’m Tim McClarty and I’m … I was born in France, I am a British citizen, I come from Oxford. I’m currently in my last year at
Millfield School where I am the captain of tennis. And I look to apply to an American university to study economics as a major.”
Tim is a typical Millfield student. His speciality is tennis, so his days are divided between the classroom and the tennis
court. He has studied at Millfield since he was fourteen, when he won a special tennis scholarship to the school. Tim
was over the moon when he received the scholarship, but it wasn’t a surprise. He’s always been excellent at tennis.
“I’ve been playing tennis for ten years. I started playing tennis when I was six years old. I realized I was good at tennis when I
beat my father when I was eight years old.”
Tim’s days are extremely busy, and laziness is never an option! He has a strict timetable, and when he’s not in class or
studying, he’s on the tennis court. But has he found it difficult to combine his school work with his tennis?
“I find it easy to mix school and tennis because I do my school work in the morning and then my tennis in the afternoon.”
Today is a typical school day for Tim. He has already had a double physics class and has done some study for his exams.
He’s just had lunch, too.
“I had some lamb curry and a bit of salad. A bit of chocolate pudding as well. And yeah, that was it. It was good.”
Diet is very important for Tim, because playing tennis burns a lot of fat and uses a lot of energy. The American Dietetic
Association estimates that competitive tennis players burn between 768 and 1,728 calories per two-hour singles session.
This means that it’s important for tennis players like Tim to eat a lot of carbohydrates, protein and, of course, plenty of
fruit and vegetables. A lot of students at Millfield play sports, so the school takes diet very seriously and always serves
healthy food like rice, pasta and salad.
Tim also needs to make sure he gets enough exercise. At the moment Tim is training with the school tennis team. He
practises for at least two hours every afternoon. He hasn’t had a match for a few weeks, so it’s very important that he
trains regularly in order to keep fit. Luckily Millfield is incredibly well-equipped. Along with its three indoor courts, three
grass courts and seven all-weather courts, the school also has a fifty-metre swimming pool, a large fitness suite and
facilities for all kinds of other sports. It’s a great place to keep active.
For two years Tim has trained hard and worked hard, and now he is at the end of his time at Millfield School. Next year
he hopes to continue both his education and his playing career in the United States and from there, well, anything is
possible!

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