A Where were you yesterday, Karen?
read a booknewspaper never
Angela read the newspaper
once a week listen to music
sometimes play the piano
often go to the cinema
usually once a week
Rick read comics
always go to party
twice a month play an instrument
never play football
once a week
Heather listen to music
always go out for a walk
often do keep-fit exercises
three times a week go to the cinema
once a month
Activity 4 p.W232 Key:
1. A Where were you yesterday, Karen?
B I was at the sports centre. B 2. A What do you usually do on Saturday? C
B I usually go to the cinema. 3. A Where’s Mrs Greenfield?
B She may be at the supermarket. A 4. A How often do you use the computer? A
B About three times a week. 5. A What’s that over there? C
B It may be a map. 6. A When’s your birthday?
B It’s in August. C 7. A Which season is January in?
B It s in winter A 8. A What was the date yesterday? B
B It was April the sixth. Activity 5 p.W232
Key: 1. F
9. N 2. K
10. D 3. L
11. E 4. H
12. B 5. M
13. A 6. G
14. I 7. P
15. C 8. O
16. J
Activity 6 p.W234 Key:
1. C
2. C 3. A
4. B 5. B
6. C 7. C
8. B Activity 7 p.W235
Key: 1. keyboard
2. monitor 3. speakers
4. central processing unit CPU 5. mouse
Activity 9 p.W236 Key:
Saturday Mr Miller
may training
wasn’t isn’t
London desk
never
Activity 10 p.W236 Tape-script and key:
Number 1 What do you do in your spare time, David?
Number 2 I usually play the piano.
Number 3 Does Karen ever read detective stories?
Number 4 Karen always reads detective stories in her spare time.
Number 5 Where’s Nigel?
Number 6 Nigel may be in the gym.
Number 7 Where was Karen yesterday morning?
Number 8 Yesterday was the thirty-first of October or It was October the thirty-first yesterday.
UNIT 16 WHAT HAPPENED IN MR MILLER’S HOUSE?
LESSON PLANS SKILLS
Listening comprehension Understanding a dialogue
Listening and matching sentences with pictures Finding out the ending of a story
Reading comprehension Intensive reading of a dialogue
Matching questions with answers Numbering pictures in the correct order
Deciding if statements about a reading passage are true or false Matching words from the reading passage with pictures
Oral production Dramatizing the dialogue
PairGroup work: Asking and talking about past actions
Were Mr and Mrs Greenfield at home yesterday?
No, they weren’t. Where were they? What time did you get up yesterday?
I got up at seven o’clock. How did you go to school?
I went to school by bus. When did school start?
It started at 8.30. What did you do in the afternoon?
Did Mrs Miller do yesterday what she does every morning?
No, she didn’t get up at half past seven
Record your voice: Say what a person did yesterday
Say what you did yesterday Tell how the story of Mr Miller’s kidnapping ended
Written production Reordering sentences in a paragraph
Writing paragraphs to complete an e-mail message
LANGUAGE BREAKDOWN Structures
Past simple affirmative, interrogative negative forms of regular and irregular verbs Short answers in the past simple
Past simple of the verb have Saxon genitive: omission of nouns
Active vocabulary nouns
car dad
danger e-mail box
face granny
hacker housework
kidnapper
look news
police police station
ransom soap opera
time waste
weekend
verbs get
get into go back
go in go jogging
grab happen
let in
switch on
pronouns nothing
adverbs only
Dialogue p.268 1. Review was and were. Ask different students questions like Where are you now? When were
you yesterday? Where was Mario yesterday? 2. Tell students to cover the text and discuss the picture with the students: Who are these people?
What are they doing? Where are they? Why are they there? 3. Have the students predict the content of the dialogue. Tell them you are going to ask them the
same questions the policeman and the policewoman would ask Nigel and Karen. Try to elicit from the students the story of what happened in Mrs Miller’s house.
Who was in Mrs Millers house? Did she let the children in?
What did they find in the living room? What did they see on the computer screen?
Did they have time to read the message? Where did Nigel and Karen go then?
Did Nigel get into Mrs Miller’s e-mail box? How much money did the kidnappers want for Mr Miller’s ransom?
4. Write questions and answers on the board. Expand the students’ answers so
that they contain a number of verbs in the past simple. For example, if the answer to the question Who was in Mrs Miller’s house? was only Mrs Miller, expand the answer like this:
Mrs Miller and she had a strange look on her face. Ask a volunteer to underline the past tense forms of the verbs.
5. Play the tape for the dialogue, books closed. Delete the questions and answers
on the board and ask some of the questions again. 6.
Ask the class to predict the lines of the dialogue. Play the tape for each utterance after the hypotheses made by the students. For details, refer to the introduction to this
Guide page 9. 7.
Play the tape for the dialogue again and ask students to repeat. 8.
Students open their books and read over the dialogue. Ask several volunteers to read the dialogue.
9. Ask volunteers to role play the dialogue.
Communication Practice p.269 Preview. Ask a volunteer to open hisher book. As the student is doing so, ask What’s heshe doing?
Students answer Heshe is opening hisher book. Now, with the action finished, ask What did heshe do? Help students respond Heshe opened hisher book. Write opened on the board and ask students
to repeat the sentence after you. In the same way, ask volunteers to do the following actions: watch TV draw a TV on the board first; play tennis; play football; close your book. Help students
contrast the pronunciation of played, opened, closed with a d sound and watched, with a t sound. Now, introduce get up and go to the board in the same way.
Readingspeaking p.269 1a. Give students a couple of minutes to read the dialogue again, then ask them to match the
questions in A with the answers in B. Be sure that students understand the meanings.
Key: 1. d
2. h 3. l
4. b 5. j
6. e 7. k
8. c 9. a
10. g 11. i
12. f
1b. Pair work. Students check their matching asking and answering questions. Move around the classroom and help them.
Writingspeaking pp.269-270 2a. Before doing the activity, make sure students can pronounce the ending of the past simple
correctly. Have students repeat the phrases after you. Then, let the students choose phrases, put them in a logical order and expand them into sentences.
2b. Students work in pairs. They ask and answer the questions in turns. Listening pp.270-71
3a. Students listen to the recording and choose the sentences which go with the pictures.
Tape-script Mrs Miller usually gets up at 7.30, but yesterday she didn’t sleep well so she got up at 6 o’clock in
the morning. She is usually hungry in the morning, so she has breakfast with coffee, cornflakes, toast and
marmalade, but yesterday she only had a cup of coffee. After breakfast she usually goes jogging in the park, but yesterday morning she went to a police
station nearby. But then she thought of the kidnappers’ e-mail and she didn’t go in. After jogging, she usually watches a soap opera on TV, but yesterday she watched the news. She
wanted to know if the news of the kidnapping had leaked out. She usually does the housework in the morning, but yesterday she did nothing, she sat on the sofa
and thought.
Key: Yesterday
1. She got up at 6 o’clock. 2. She only had a cup of coffee.
3. She went to the police station but she didn’t go in. 4. She watched the news.
5. She sat on the sofa and thought.
Speaking p.271 3b. Students work in pairs asking and answering according to the model dialogue. At the end of the
activity, ask individual students to repeat what Mrs Miller usually does every day and what she did yesterday.
Grammar Practice p.272 Exercise 1 p. B73
Key: Regular verbs
Irregular verbs happen - happened
do - did try - tried
have - had
want - wanted let - let
surf - surfed leave - left
walk - walked come - came
dress - dressed get up - got up
offer - offered sit - sat
refer - referred think - thought
kidnap - kidnapped take - took
close - closed drive - drove
switch on - switched on Exercise 2 p.273
Key: 1. My brother and I surfed the Internet for two hours last night.
2. Karen came home from school early yesterday because she didn’t feel well. 3. Miss Jones offered a piece of pizza to her friend.
4. We drove to Rome for the weekend. 5. Mrs Miller let Nigel and Karen in when they knocked on her door.
6. I thought your idea was very good. 7. My partner came to my house yesterday afternoon and we did our homework together.
8. Heather left her house at eight o’clock to go to school. 9. After breakfast, I dressed and went to school.
10. Sharon usually walks to school, but this morning she took the bus.
Exercise 3 p.274 Key:
1. A What did Nigel and Simon do on Sunday afternoon?
B They watched a football match at the stadium. 2. A What did Mr Greenfield do on Friday evening after dinner?
B He had a pint with his friends in a pub. 3. A What did Julia do on Wednesday afternoon after school?
B She did keep-fit exercises at the gym. 4. A What did Jeremy do on Sunday morning?
B He played with Nigel in the park. 5. A What did Karen and Simon do every day last July?
B They went swimming in the swimming pool.
Exercise 4 p.275 Key:
1. Who did John meet at the tube station yesterday afternoon? 2. When did you leave for your holidays last summer?
3. What happened at Finchley Sports Centre on Saturday evening? 4. Did Mr and Mrs Greenfield talk to Karen’s teachers at school last week?
5. Who saw the accident yesterday morning? 6. Why did Karen and her friend get up early on Sunday?
7. Where did the kidnappers take Mr Miller? 8. When did your mother have breakfast this morning?
9. Who surfed the Internet last night? 10. Did David go out with Nigel and Simon on Saturday evening?
Exercise 5 p.275 Key:
1. No, Nigel and Simon didn’t go to Mr Millers house. Nigel and Karen went there. 2. No, Mr Miller didn’t let them in the house. Mrs Miller did.
3. No, Julia didn’t get a nice prize at the prize-giving ceremony after the 800-metre race. Nigel got
it. 4. No, Karen and Nigel didn’t see a map on the table at Mr Millers house. They saw it in the
computer. 5. No, Karen didn’t get into Mrs Miller’s e-mail box. Nigel got into it.
6. No, Mrs Miller didn’t tell the police about the kidnapping. Karen and Nigel told it. 7. No, the kidnappers didn’t take Mrs Miller. They took Mr Miller.
8. No. Mrs Miller didn’t have a big breakfast yesterday morning. She only had a cup of coffee.
Exercise 6 p.276 Key: Open answers.
Exercise 7 p.276 Key:
1. Julia didn’t have a toy train when she was a little girl. 2. Julia and Simon didn’t have a computer when they were little.
3. Simon had a cat when he was a little boy. 4. Julia had a pair of skates when she was a little girl.
5. Simon didn’t have a teddy bear when he was a little boy. 6. Simon and Julia didn’t have a guitar when they were little boys.
7. Julia didn’t have a bicycle when she was a little girl. 8. Julia didn’t have a cat but she had two goldfish when she was a little girl.
9. Julia had a kite when she was a little girl. 10. Simon had a toy telephone when he was a little boy.
Exercise 8 p.277 Key:
1. Did Julia have a teddy bear when she was a little girl? 2. What did Simon have when he was a little boy?
3. Who had a kite? 4. What did Julia have when she was a little girl?
5. Did Simon have a computer when he was a little boy? 6. Who had a toy train?
Exercise 9 p.277 Key:
1. We were at the doctor’s yesterday afternoon. 2. I went to the greengrocer’s to buy some vegetables.
3. Mary’s books are in her room on her desk. 4. We had a meeting at Mr Brown’s last Monday.
5. Julia had lunch at her friend’s on Thursday. 6. Jason’s friends came to his birthday party on Saturday.
7. St. Mary’s has two religious services on Sunday. 8. We had a very good dinner at “Giorgio’s” last night.
Reading pp.278-279 1a. Students listen to and read the passage on their own. While reading, they number the pictures in
their books in the correct order according to the story.
Key: lb. Students decide if statements are right or wrong or if they do not refer to information contained
in the reading passage.
Key: 1. Right;
2. Doesn’t say; 3. Wrong;
4. Wrong; 5. Wrong;
6. Right; 7. Right;
8. Doesn’t say; 9. Wrong;
10. Wrong.
Listening p.279 2. Students listen to the recording and choose one of the endings of Mr Miller’s kidnapping story.
Tape-script 1
st
man Keep calm, Miller. It’ll all be over soon.
Driver What about the money?
2
nd
man I think we got all we wanted. Look ahead and drive fast
Driver What’s that at the end of the road?
1
st
man Damn It’s a police roadblock.
2
nd
man Quick, turn right into that street
Driver Another roadblock
1st man Damn them Go into reverse
Driver We’re trapped. The police have blocked the street.
Voice on a megaphone You are surrounded. Get out of the car with your hands up.
Inspector Are you OK, Mr Miller?
Mr Miller Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
Inspector You don’t have to thank us. You have to thank two kids from the sports centre, Nigel
and his sister Karen. Mr Miller
Really? Inspector
Yes. They reported the kidnapping to the police and we decided...
Key: B Writing p.280
3. Students have to complete an e-mail message Karen sent to a friend of hers telling the story of Mr Miller’s kidnapping. Suggestions on what to write in each of the paragraphs of the message are
given in the book.
PRONUNCIATION p.280 1. Key:
watched [t]; ended [id];
arrived [d]; loved [d];
started [id]; worked [t];
played [d]; listened [d].
VOCABULARY WORK p.280 Key:
Culture File p.282 Ask students to read Madame Tussaud’s Wax Figures Museum on their own and take the notes
required.
Key: the death masks of the French King Louis the Sixteenth and Queen Marie Antoinette
the guillotine blade used to execute Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette Henry the Eighth and his six wives
the battle of Trafalgar exhibit the Chamber of Horrors
Then, students give written answers to the questions in Activity b.
Key: Possible answers:
1. She lived in Paris in the eighteenth century. 2. Doctor Philippe Curtius, a famous wax modeller.
3. She helped Dr Curtius make death masks of many victims of the revolution. Marie Tussaud made
the death masks of the French King Louis the Sixteenth and Queen Marie Antoinette. 4. Yes, they are.
Build up your Portfolio p.283 1. How to prepare the activity
Students read the passage At Madame Tussaud’s. Then, they work in pairs or in small groups and to work out the ending of the story and write it down. In one of the next lessons, dedicate the whole
time to checking what students have written. Make your own comments and listen to the comments of the class. Each student will make a note of the suggestions and correct their work accordingly.
Finally, students can decide whether to put their work in their Portfolios.
2. Skills on which the activity is based This activity is based mainly on reading comprehension, verbal interaction, and writing.