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• Before doing the exercise, check that students understand 
over
(sentence 3) as an alternative to more than.
After doing the exercise, ask someone to read out the fi rst 
sentence so that it is true for them and get other students 
who circled the same word to raise their hand. Repeat this 
procedure once more for the fi rst sentence. Ask individual 
students to give reasons for their answer. Repeat this 
procedure with the other four sentences. Ask individual 
students to give reasons or explanations for their answer, and 
to give examples.
• Put students into pairs and get them to do the exercise 
together. Get feedback from the class.
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I copied you in
1 Make sure students read the Learning tip before doing 
Exercise 1. After checking the answers, ask students who has 
been copied in on one of the emails (Ben Parker, email b). 
Ask students who they think this person might be (he could 
be the person from Marketing who asked for help).
2–4 Read the instructions to the class, put students into pairs 
and get them to do the exercises together. Check the answers 
with the class.
5 Read the instructions to the class. Give students time to do 
the exercise. Check the answers by writing them on the board 
so that students can check their spellings.
Focus on … collocations
After checking the answers, elicit/explain that you can also 
arrange a meeting
. Ask students to suggest other collocations 
with a meeting, e.g. address.
6–7 Ask the class these questions.
More activities
1 Students could exchange email addresses so that 
everyone has each other’s contact details. You could also 
give the class your email address so that students can 
contact you if they are going to miss a lesson, cannot 
remember the homework, etc.