Get ready to read

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1 Ask students to read the text again and to identify 
nouns which are made up from a verb + suffi x, e.g. 
management 
, information , attendance , adjustment(s) , 
clearance
. Ask them which other suffi xes are typical of 
nouns, e.g. feeling , journalism , weakness , productivity , 
childhood 
, membership. Point out that suffi xes can be 
added to verbs, nouns and adjectives. Other noun endings 
are connection , absence , tenancy , leniency. 
2 Ask students to fi nd out about other working 
arrangements, e.g. job sharing, working from home. Could 
they do their current job (if they have one) in these ways?
Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
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Unit
11 
I’ve read the minutes
Ask students if they ever go to meetings. What meetings do they 
go to? How often?
Students consider the meaning of minutes in 
Get ready to 
read – so do not discuss it before they work on the exercises.
Get ready to read
• Get students to match the words to the defi nitions. Elicit 
or explain that minutes is always used in the plural form in 
business correspondence.
• Ask students who read business correspondence to tell the 
class which of the things they read, when and why.
• After students have ticked the sentences, read out each 
sentence in turn. Get students who have ticked that sentence 
to raise their hand.
• Ask students if they have meetings with other people – some 
of them might meet with members of the public, for example.
A
Colleague Council Meeting
1 Use the instructions in Exercise 1 to explain the meaning 
of Colleague Council (Meeting). A lot of companies have a 
similar set-up, which may well be known by a different name, 
e.g. Staff Council, Staff Forum, Staff Liaison Committee. Get 
students to tick the correct sentence. 
2 Get students to scan the text to fi nd the answer. After 
checking the answer, elicit that attendees are people who 
attend the meeting and apologies are sent by people who 
cannot attend.
3–4 Get students to read the minutes in more detail to answer 
these questions. Ask students who work if they can get grants 
from their organization to do courses.