Get ready to read

2 Ask one or two students to read out their completed 
sentences. Ask other students if their sentences are the same.
3–4 Students can do these exercises in pairs. They can either 
work together to fi nd the most important points, or they can 
work on their own and then compare the information they 
have underlined.
5 Look at the example with the class. Ask students to fi nd the 
information in the text which gives the answer. Ask students 
to read on and to fi nd something else that may happen to 
someone with a minor injury. Students complete the rest of 
the chart. They can do this exercise in pairs.
6  Elicit the word ambulance. Ask students how you travel to 
and from hospital in their countries.
Class bonus
Students can act out the conversation more than once with a 
different partner each time.
Extra practice
Alternatively, students can choose any other type of medical 
problem and fi nd out what advice the NHS website gives.
More activities
1 If anyone in your class is a nurse or a doctor, ask them 
about their work.
2 Discuss hospitals and doctors in the area with the class. 
Does each hospital have an A&E department?
Real Reading 2 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
10 
What’s in the news?
Ask students if they prefer to watch the news on TV or to read it 
in a newspaper. 
Get ready to read
• Read the headline to the class or write it on the board. Ask 
students what they think the article may be about. Do they 
think this is a serious or a funny story?
• Give students time to read the beginnings of the sentences 
and to think about how they may end. Then ask two or three 
students for their suggested ending for each sentence.
• Ask students to tell the class about any unusual stories they 
have read in the newspaper.