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4–5  Students can work in pairs to complete these exercises.
6  Ask students which package they would prefer, and why.
Class bonus
Tell students to choose one of the packages and to read this 
description again carefully. Go around the class and make sure 
that more than one person has chosen each package.
Students can work with several different partners. Tell them to 
describe the same package each time.
More activities
1 Students read the descriptions of the packages again and 
note down any useful expressions about their own mobile 
phone. They then work in pairs and tell their partner about 
their phone.
2 Students write a description of their ideal mobile phone. 
They could do this in small groups.
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How much will it cost?
1 Begin by asking students if they ever make calls from public 
phone boxes. 
Students should try and answer the questions about their 
home country. If you are teaching a monolingual group in 
their own country, you can discuss the answers and make 
sure that everyone agrees with them.
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-speaking 
environment, you could tell students to imagine that you are 
visiting their country. Students could change US in questions 
b and c to another country if necessary. 
2 Encourage students to skim the text. In order to encourage 
this, set a time limit, e.g. 20 seconds, for the exercise.
If some students say that section 5 is also about paying for 
calls, explain that these payments are payments for using 
Directory Enquiries and not for actual phone calls.
Focus on … nouns and verbs
Remind students that the context usually makes clear whether a 
word is a noun or a verb.
When students have done the exercises, ask them if they can 
think of any other words which are both nouns and verbs. You 
can point to your hand, head and watch – these three words are 
all verbs as well as nouns. Ask students to look through the unit 
for other examples: buy, pay, change, text, talk and cross are in 
Section A; ring is the verb in the unit title.
3 After students have completed the chart and checked their 
answers, ask them to fi nd out how much the phone call 
would cost if they spoke for 30 minutes and if they paid with 
coins (50p – 40p for the fi rst 20 minutes + 10p for each 
subsequent 10 minutes) and by credit card (£7.00 – £1.20 
for the fi rst minute, 20p x 29 minutes = £5.80).