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CURRENT TN4 MAR-APR 10 FINAL 21/1/10 10:45 Page 1 Teacher’s Notes www.maryglasgowmagazines.com MARCH / APRIL 2010 ISSN ISSN 0142-1050 !! WW EE Online activities at TEACHER’S NOTES ISSUE 4 MARCH / APRIL 2010 NN maryglasgowmagazines.com/activities Welcome to issue 4 of CURRENT March/April 2010. These teacher’s notes will provide you with teaching tips, grammar, vocabulary and extension activities to help you get the maximum from your magazine. www There are also audio and online activities linked to the articles, as indicated below. Dear CURRENT teacher, Page Article Online CD activities Welcome to Issue 4 of CURRENT. In this issue we investigate how elections affect us, ask what makes a ‘real 2 - 5 NEWS 24/7 CD2 T4 man’ and look back at the ground-breaking TV programme, 6 - 8 REALITY CHECK Big Brother. CD2 T2 GBL killed my sister For this year we’ve added lots of great new features to our award- 9 60 SECONDS WITH ... winning website (www.maryglasgowmagazines.com). As well as CD2 T5 Cheryl Cole thousands of resources for teachers and the latest news and Chatter 10 - 13 for students, we’ve added video and online activities! To see short, THE REPORT authentic films of native speakers talking about topical issues visit Elections – how they shake up the CD2 T3 www.maryglasgowmagazines.com/video. Get your students to world practise their English with a range of online activities linked to the 14 - 17 THE BUZZ CD2 T4 magazine at: www.maryglasgowmagazines.com/activities. The life and death of Big Brother 18 - 19 To see what else is online and find out how to register, look in the READ OF THE MONTH How To guide or visit www.maryglasgowmagazines.com/help. Meet the Internet’s teen ‘foodie king’! 20 - 21 TRUE TUBE If you have any comments on CURRENT, please do e-mail me. I’m What makes a ‘real man’? always interested to hear your feedback. 22 - 23 LANGUAGE CHECKPOINT All the best, 24 THE SCANDAL Sarah [email protected] Did illegal waste make a country ill? KEY Magazines Plus! Reading Writing Speaking Listening TO Web www In print, in class and online! ICONS G Grammar V Vocab i Info work www.maryglasgowmagazines.com How do teachers register? 1 Enter your teacher code. This will be sent to you on a Pages 2–5 NEWS 24/7 V card if you have more than 10 subscriptions. 2 Choose a secret password. Here are some activities to use with these pages: 3 Enter your e-mail address. Compare and contrast: Using the photos from Kenya and the Philippines, students should discuss the similarities How do students register? and differences using structures such as comparatives, 1 Enter the CURRENT students’ code: orangehat. conjunctions (e.g. whereas, however, etc.) and modal verbs 2 Enter a user name (this doesn’t have to be their real name). of deduction (might be/might have been, etc.). 3 Choose a secret password. What’s going on? Elicit some ideas from the students 4 Enter their e-mail address. about what is happening in the picture. Check the answer If you or your students registered last year, just add the and then ask students to think of ways in which they new code to the old account. would make a point about climate change. Striking Gold: Write the following list of expressions on For help, e-mail: [email protected] the board: A - gold digger, like gold dust, golden goal, golden CURRENT TN4 MAR-APR 10 FINAL 21/1/10 10:45 Page 2 handshake B - golden oldie, golden rule, golden opportunity, Lead-in golden wedding. Students work in pairs. Each pair has either the A expressions or the B expressions to explain. Students look at the photos of Cheryl Cole and say how They can use dictionaries. When they have established the she has changed and suggest why. meanings, A and B pairs work together to explain their Grammar expressions to each other. The Speech: Ask: What makes a good politician? Elicit a list Write these verbs on the board: want, start, decide, keep, of up to ten adjectives from the students and write them struggle. Students find them in the article. Ask: Are they on the board, e.g. intelligent, honest, good communicator, followed by a gerund or an infinitive? Can any of them be good looking, friendly. Students work in pairs to put them followed by both and is there a difference in meaning? (want, in order, 1 being the most important, 10 being the least decide, struggle + infinitive; start, keep + gerund; start can important. Compare the lists as a class, asking students to be used with both with no difference in meaning). Make explain why they have decided on that order. sure students have lists of verb + infinitive and verb + gerund in their notebooks. They should continue to add to Pages 6, 7 & 8 REALITY CHECK V the lists. Lead-in Writing and web work Ask: Are any drugs that you know of which are legal in our Students listen to some excerpts of Cheryl’s music on country? Do you think that any drugs should be legal? www.cherylcole.com and write a review of it. Reading comprehension Pages 10–13 THE REPORT G Write the following sentences on the board or read them Lead-in to the class. Students match them with sentences in the article. Ask: When you can vote, will you? Do you think it should be 1. Hester was well-liked. compulsory to vote? Why/Why not? What is your opinion of 2. Hester was clever. politicians? Would you like to be a politician? Why/Why not? 3. Hester loved sport. Reading comprehension 4. Phoebe was shocked when she heard the news about her sister. Divide the class into seven groups. Ask each group to read 5. It’s hard to know that you’re taking GBL. one of the sections. They write two comprehension 6. Google took all the adverts for GBL off its website. questions about their section and pass their questions 7. Some websites overcome the law and continue to trade in onto the next group who writes the answers. They then drugs. return their answers to be checked. Pupils read the 8. The government’s classification ignores what happens questions and answers aloud to the class. when GBL is taken with alcohol. Grammar [Answers: 1. She used to light up the room whenever she walked into it. I’ve never known anyone to have so many friends.; 2. Hester was really smart.; 3. She was into sport.; 4. I couldn’t stop shaking.; 5. It can easily be added to drinks without the drinker ever Write the following phrases on the board: make a knowing.; 6. The company pulled GBL adverts from its websites.; 7. Other Internet sites difference, make something better, make news. Remind find ways to outsmart the lawmakers and still sell drugs.; 8. It doesn’t take into account what happens when GBL is mixed with alcohol.] students that some phrases are with make, others with do. Give them the following list and ask them to say if they Vocabulary collocate with do or make: homework, a favour, an Write the following adjectives from the article on the arrangement, a decision, business, a mistake, a noise, good, board: loving, deadly, vivacious, notorious, exclusive, warm, one’s best, money. Add others you wish to practise to the tragic, smart. Students say if they are positive (loving, list. Make it into a competition between two teams. Again vivacious, exclusive, warm, smart) or negative (deadly, make sure students have a list in their notebooks for make notorious, tragic). Divide the class into eight groups. Write and do. [Answers: do homework, a favour, business, good, one’s best; make an arrangement, a the words on pieces of paper. Give one piece of paper to decision, a mistake, a noise, money] each group. Ask them to explain their word. They read their sentences to the rest of the class who guess the word, Speaking e.g. My uncle seems to know everything. You can ask him all Once the students have read the article, ask students for kinds of questions and he always knows the answer. = smart. their opinion on elections: Do elections matter? www Page 9 60 SECONDS WITH ... G Pages 14–17 THE BUZZ V Background information Lead-in The term ‘wag’ was widely used by the British tabloid press Ask: Have you ever seen ‘Big Brother’? What did you think during the 2006 World Cup to describe the wives and of it? What do you think of reality TV? Are there any reality girlfriends of the England football players. They included TV programmes that you like? Why? Victoria Beckham, Coleen McLoughlin (Wayne Rooney’s wife), Carly Zucker (Joe Cole’s wife) and Cheryl Cole. Reading comprehension They were often seen socialising and shopping! Ask students the following questions: 2 CURRENT TN4 MAR-APR 10 FINAL 21/1/10 10:45 Page 3 1. When was the last programme in the first Big Brother 3. Men have to ... series? 4. Men need to be ... 2. What kind of people watched Big Brother? Then ask them to complete the same sentences about 3. What was the most important element in making Big women. Students compare their sentences in pairs or small Brother a success? groups. They can change their sentences after discussion if 4. What did Nick Bateman do? they wish. Elicit sentences from the different groups. 5. Why did David Wilson leave the show? 6.