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g journey on a horse or bicycle, or in a car, bus, etc. (ride) 
h short journey that a group makes for pleasure (excursion)
Ask students which of these trips they have made. Encourage 
students to tell the class about their experiences.
More activities
1 Ask students to circle all the past participles in the Travel 
Delay and Abandonment section of the text. They then 
decide if each participle is being used as a passive verb 
(are delayed, was taken out, would be affected) or an 
adjective (insured person, intended departure time, written 
confi rmation
). The word is is missing before specifi ed; and 
involved
is a participle clause which has been used instead 
of the relative clause who was involved.
2 Ask students to imagine that they are either Pierre or 
Sophie and to write the postcard they sent to friends in 
London the day they arrived in Cape Town. 
Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
4 
I’ve been burgled
Refer students to the unit title. Elicit that this unit is about having 
something stolen from your home. 
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Get students to do the exercises and while they are completing 
them, copy the chart onto the board. Record the answers in 
the chart. Check the answers with the class. Elicit other crimes, 
criminals and related verbs, and add them to the chart on the 
board.
Did you know…?
You could look at this section before starting the exercises. 
A
Victims of crime
Elicit that a victim of crime is the person who suffers from the 
crime.
1–2 When checking the answers, elicit from students that they 
scanned the text in Exercise 1 and skimmed it in Exercise 2.
3 Get students to match the punctuation marks to their uses. 
Remind students that writers are responsible for deciding 
how to punctuate their writing. Colons and semi-colons are 
fairly uncommon – and often only found in formal writing; 
some writers would simply use a full stop instead. Point out 
that double quotation marks (“…”) can also be used, but are 
more common in US English than UK English. (This point is 
also made in Unit 14 Section B