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Real Reading 3 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
2 
We’ve hired a car
Write the unit title on the board. Elicit/Explain the meaning and 
why someone might hire a car (to travel around when they are 
on holiday). Elicit other ways of travelling while on holiday.
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• Ask students to discuss with a partner what the advantages 
and disadvantages of each form of travel are.
• Encourage students to read out their sentences and then to 
talk about their holiday experiences. Remind them to use the 
past simple for specifi c events, for example: I’ve been abroad 
on holiday. I went to the USA in 2007.
• Before doing the exercise, write South Africa on the board. 
Ask students in pairs to brainstorm everything they know 
about South Africa. Collate ideas on the board in the form 
of a mind map and, if they have not already been offered 
to you, elicit names of cities, famous sights, languages and 
currency. (N.B. There are 11 offi cial languages in South Africa, 
English and Afrikaans being the most widely-known, but 
there are many other unoffi cial languages; the currency is the 
Rand
.)
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Terms and conditions
1 Make sure that students read the Learning tip before they do 
this exercise. Elicit or tell the class that the photo shows the road 
which goes to Cape Point. Ask students if they have been there. 
While checking the answers, elicit/explain that CPT stands for 
Cape Town and JHB stands for Johannesburg, and tell students 
that these are abbreviations (a key word in this unit).
Afterwards, check that students understand the meaning of 
downtown
. 
2 Before doing the exercise, explain that ZA stands for Zuid-
Afrika
(Dutch). Elicit/Explain that the abbreviation ZAR stands 
for South African Rand.