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Unit
6 
Love it or loathe it!
Refer students to the unit title. Elicit that loathe is pronounced 
/ləυð/. It means ‘hate’ and is the opposite of love. This is easily 
confusable with loath (pronounced /ləυθ/) which is a formal 
word meaning ‘unwilling to do something’.
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• Get students to do the exercise. After checking the answer 
with the class, ask students what other puzzles they can fi nd 
in newspapers, e.g. crossword puzzles, word circles, etc.
• Make the point that students do not have to do the puzzle 
if they do not want to; on the other hand, with classmates 
available for help, doing a puzzle in the English lesson is a 
great place to start.
• Ask someone to read out the sentence they ticked and get 
other students who ticked the same sentence to raise their 
hand. Repeat this procedure with the other two sentences.
Elicit the meaning of the idiom I can take it or leave it (I don’t 
mind something).
A
The world beater
Elicit that you might expect an article with this heading to be 
about athletics or another kind of sport.
1–2 Get students to work through Exercises 1 and 2, and then 
get feedback.
3–4 Get students to skim to fi nd the answers to Exercise 3 and 
then discuss Exercise 4 as a class. Tell the class that another 
commonly-used rhetorical question is Why do these things 
always happen to me?
. It is making the point that things 
always go wrong for the speaker, and it does not require a 
response.
5–7 Get students to work through these exercises individually, 
checking with a partner and/or the whole class after each 
exercise. They could read the rest of the article at http://www.
timesonline.co.uk/tol//life and style/article680936.ece.