Identifying communicative aims

Optional activity

In pairs/groups, students write five comprehension 

questions. They exchange their questions with another 

group and try to answer from memory.

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  Integrated Skills

 

Describing personal experiences

CHALLENGES

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UNIT

UNIT

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•  The aim is to encourage students to deduce meaning 

from context. 

Students look at the highlighted words in the text and 

match them to the correct meaning. 

Answers

1 hostel  2 altitude  3 wandering  4 trail  5 steep 

6 exhausting  7 valuable  8 invisible

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•  Students find and note examples of sentences in the text 

with 

so and because. They use the examples to complete 

the rules. Check answers. 

•  Use the examples to further check comprehension: Ask 

which part of the sentence happened first, e.g. 

It wasn’t 

valuable (1), so it didn’t really matter (2). The city was 

invisible (2) because it was covered in cloud (1).

Answers

Examples in text: It wasn’t valuable, so it didn’t really 

matter. The trail is often very steep, so lots of people suffer 

from altitude sickness. I’ve been lucky because I haven’t felt 

ill. The city was invisible because it was covered in cloud. 

We use because to talk about reason or cause.

We use so to talk about consequence or result.

•  Students complete the sentences with so or because.

Answers

1 because  2 so  3 because  4 because  5 so