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© Cambridge University Press 2008
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1 Ask students to choose an electrical item that they might 
like to buy. Students then research the cost and guarantee 
conditions for the sale on various websites, and decide 
which is the best deal.
2 Ask students if they ever take out extended guarantees on 
anything they buy. They can research extended guarantees 
on the Internet. Ask them to fi nd out costs and what 
protection each extended guarantee gives.
B
It’s a great movie!
Elicit or explain that movie and movie theater are the US 
equivalents of fi lm and cinema. The word movie is becoming 
much more common in British English, however.
1 Read the rubric to the class. Give students some time to read 
the texts. Put students into pairs and get them to discuss their 
answers to the questions. Get feedback from the class.
2 Get students to do the exercise. Ask students if they have 
seen The Shawshank Redemption. Did they enjoy it? 
Did you know …?
Ask students to name other fi lms and/or actors that have won 
Oscars. Have any fi lms from their country won the best foreign-
language fi lm?
3–4 Students can do these exercises in pairs. 
5–7 You could lead a class discussion around these questions.
Extra practice
Students could also look for reviews of The Green Mile and/or 
watch it in class.
More activities
1 If you are teaching in an English-speaking environment, 
you could plan a trip to the cinema together. Before the 
trip, students could read about the fi lm on the Internet or 
you could do some work on a text in class.
2 Ask students to fi nd out about either Tim Robbins or 
Morgan Freeman. They could write fi ve true or false 
statements about one of them and then read them out to 
the class during the next lesson; the other students have 
to decide if the sentences are true or false.