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6 Students can discuss the question in pairs and then they can 
compare their answers in a whole-class discussion.
Did you know … ?
Ask students if you can fi nd accommodation in the same ways in 
their country.
Class bonus
You could collect students’ advertisements and then photocopy 
them onto one piece of paper for the class. Afterwards, get 
feedback.
More activities
You could make and photocopy a page of advertisements, 
and students could do Exercise 6 again, replacing Cambridge 
with the town/city where they are studying.
B
Signing a contract
Did you know … ?
Elicit/Explain the words tenant, tenancy, landlord, landlady and 
witness.
If you are teaching in an English-speaking environment, 
ask students if they have signed a tenancy agreement.
1 Before doing the exercise, remind students that to scan the 
text for the information needed, it is not necessary for them 
to read each word in the text. In order to encourage students 
to read quickly, set a time limit (say, one minute) or you 
could ask them to raise their hands when they have found 
the answers.
2 Check answers before doing Exercise 3.
3 Before doing the exercise, elicit/explain wireless.
4 After doing the exercise, students could role play a tenant/
landlord discussion, using these questions and others.
Focus on … formal language
Read the instructions to the class and then get students to fi nd 
and underline terminate and becomes due in Agreement A.
More activities
1 Ask students to read the contract again and underline any 
unknown language. Students can then work in pairs to 
help each other. If necessary, you can clarify anything they 
are still not sure of.
2 Ask students if they would like to live in a rented fl at with a 
tenancy agreement like this one? Which conditions in the 
agreement do they think are reasonable/unreasonable?