GATE 08 | April 2016 | Volume 04
TEACHERS’ FILE – ACTIVITY TIPS
This Teachers’ File contains exercises and activities that go with the articles
from the magazine and listening recordings and songs featured on the Gate CD.
teachers’
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And Then There Were None,
Episode 3, Part 1 pp. 6–7
T Grammar (Past Simple vs. Continuous) / Reading /
Writing
Read the comic and listen to the recording of the comic. Then, read
the sentences and fill in the gaps with the correct tense of the verb.
1
Mr Rogers _______________ wood for the fire when
someone killed him. (get)
2
Mary Clees _______________ while Dr Armstrong was
doing surgery. (die)
3
Young Inventors pp. 4–5
others went to the living room. (sit)
4
T Grammar (which, that) / Speaking
Ten little Indians were standing on the table when the
visitors _______________ on the island. (arrive)
Work in pairs, Student A and Student B. Student A tries to describe
an invention and Student B must guess the invention. Students
take turns. Example: It’s a thing on the ceiling which makes light.
It was invented by Edison.
Student A
Emily Brent _______________ at the table when the
5
Emily Brent _______________ about Beatrice when she
heard a noise. (think)
6
Student B
When Vera Claythorne _______________ , the men were
sitting in the living room. (scream)
iPhoneLaptop
FreezerCamera
Penicillin
And Then There Were None,
Episode 3, Part 2 Track 2
Contact Lenses
SkisInternet
T Listening Comprehension / Reading / Writing
MicroscopeToaster
Listen to the recording and correct the mistakes in the sentences.
And Then There Were None,
Episode 3, Part 1 pp. 6–7
T Warm up Activity
Ask students the following questions:
1 Who died in Episode 2?
A Emily Brent
B Dr Armstrong
C General MacArthur
D Mr Rogers
3 What do you think is
going to happen in
Episode 3?
2 Who do you think the
killer is?
A Judge Wargrave
B Dr Armstrong
C Philip Lombard
D Secret person on the
island
1
Henry Blore: I saw there were ten little Indians when
we got here.
2
Judge Wargrave: I don’t think the boat is coming.
3
Dr Armstrong: But it must be one of us. That means one
of us is angry!
4
Vera Claythorne: I don’t want to stand here anymore.
I’m going upstairs to my room.
5
Philip Lombard: Quiet! We all need to stay together now!
6
Dr Armstrong: He’s… He’s dead. Someone hit him with
a pistol.
7
Henry Blore: Now we can see who the killer is. It’s the
person who is not in their room!
8
Philip Lombard: Henry and I are going after Dr
Armstrong. He went downstairs.
9
Henry Blore: Did he take a boat and leave the house?
But there was no boat!
10 Vera Claythorne: Look at the kitchen. The figures. The
little Indians.
1
The Witches of Salem 4. Wow. That’s a lot of work!
I _______________________________ very much about him.
pp. 18–19, Track 3
5. So I recommend Macbeth. It’s a bit
scary _______________________________ !
Task 1
T Listening / Reading Comprehension
On the Run pp. 22–23
Read the comic and listen to the recording and then try to answer
these questions.
T Reading Comprehension / Writing
1
Where and when did this story happen?
2
Who started to see witches in her dreams?
3
Who were the first women taken to the jail?
Read the article about marathons and mark the sentences True (T)
or False (F). Correct the mistakes in the False sentences.
4
Were the women really witches?
1
5
What was the name of the witch who died?
The first marathon runner, Pheidippides, died one week
after he finished running.
6
Who stopped the witch hunt?
2
The marathon is about 42 kilometers because Athens is
42 km from Marathon.
3
The first Olympic marathon race was in England.
4
More people run the New York Marathon than the
Boston Marathon.
5
The Prague Marathon happens every year in April.
6
About 60 % of marathon runners today are men.
7
All of the ten best marathon runners are from Kenya.
8
Emil Zátopek practiced the marathon for many years
before he won.
Task 2
T Listening for detail
Listen and then match the sentences to the correct character. Who
said what?
1
6
2
7
3
8
4
9
5
SONGS
A
Soon everybody would know Salem because the village
had the most famous witch hunt in history.
B Doctor, what’s wrong with them?
C Abigail, do you know who the witch is?
D They are Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne.
E I knew these women were witches.
F The girls are lying. They don’t see any witches.
G I saw her in a dream.
H Sarah Good, we are hanging you because you’re a witch.
I I am not a witch.
J Two hundred people in prison for being witches?
Bruno Mars Track 12
“Count on Me”
T Conditionals / Listening
First complete the gaps with the correct verb forms of the verbs in
brackets. Then listen and check if you were right.
If you ever 1 ____________ (find) yourself stuck in the
middle of the sea
I 2____________ (sail) the world to find you
If you ever 3 ____________ (find ) yourself lost in the dark
and you can’t see
I 4 ____________ (be) the light to guide you
Shakespeare Dialogue Track 10
T Listening Comprehension / Shakespeare Basics
Task 1
Listen to the dialogue between a guide and a tourist. Are the
sentences true or false? Correct the false ones.
We find out what we’re made of
When we are called to help our friends in need
1. Shakespeare wrote a lot of movies.
2. He died in 1515.
You can 5____________ (count) on me like 1, 2, 3
I’ll be there
And I know when I 6 ____________ (need) it
I can 7 ____________ (count) on you like 4, 3, 2
And you 8 ____________ (be) there
‘Cause that’s what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah
Ooooooh, oooohhh yeah, yeah
3. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.
4. Macbeth is a bit scary.
5. Macbeth is about an English soldier.
Task 2
Listen and complete the sentences with the missing words
1. Well actually, Shakespeare wrote plays. People
make _______________________________ from his
plays though.
If you’re tossin’ and you’re turnin’
And you just can’t fall asleep
I 9 ____________ (sing) a song beside you
And if you ever 10 ____________ (forget) how much you
really mean to me
Every day I 11 ___________ (remind) you
2. Er, no. I’m afraid _______________________________
400 years ago.
3. How many plays _____________________________
write?
2
OneRepublic Track 13
The crazy 3 ____________ (ithgns), 4 ____________ (elivalg)
lights
The way you’d play with me like a 5 ____________ (dulta)
“If I Lose Myself”
T Reading Comprehension / Pair Work / Listening
Comprehension
Will you still 6 ____________ (ehta) me
When I’m no longer 7 ____________ (dol) and beautiful?
Will you still 8 ____________ (ehta) me
When I’ve got 9 ____________ (gvhiyerten) but my aching
soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still 10 ____________ (ehta) me when I’m no longer
beautiful
I’ve seen the world, lit it up
As my stage now
Channeling 11 ____________ (elidsv) in a 12 ____________
(lod) age now
Read the lyrics and put the phrases where you think they should
go in the song. Then compare with a partner. Do you have the
same ideas? Finally, listen to the song and check your answers.
A) at the sun
B) by your side
C) of the people
(2×)
D) the faces (2×)
E) the light start
F) the one next
(2×)
G) what you
know
H) with the sun
I) your life out
I stared up 1 __________________ ,
Thought of all 2 __________________ , places and things I’ve
loved
I stared up just to see
With all of 3 __________________ , you were
4 __________________ to me
See Extra Activity for “If I Stay” and first conditionals.
You can feel 5 __________________ to tremble
Washing 6 __________________ out to sea
You can see 7 __________________ the window tonight
Solutions to Activity Tips
And Then There Were None
E3, Part 1: 1 was getting, 2 died, 3 was sitting, 4 arrived, 5 was thinking,
6 screamed
E3, Part 2: 1 saw know; 2 is coming will come; 3 angry crazy; 4 stand sit; 5 Quiet
Quick; 6 hit shot; 7 can we’ll; 8 downstairs outside; 9 house island; 10 kitchen table
Salem Witches, Task 1 1 In America, in the 17th century, colonial America, Salem
Massachusetts in winter 1692, 2 two girls Abigail and Betty, 3 Women who didn’t
fit Salem’s Puritan society: a slave, a homeless woman etc. 4 No, they weren’t,
5 Sarah Good, 6 Governor Phips; Task 2 1D,G, 2B, 3C, 4E, 5H, 6J, 7F, 8A, 9I
Shakespeare Dialogue, Task 1 1F – he wrote plays, people make a lot of movies
from his plays, 2 F – 1616, 3T, 4T, 5 F – a Scottish soldier; Task 2 1 a lot of movies,
2 he lived over, 3 did he actually, 4 clearly don’t know, 5 so be careful
Chorus
If I lose myself tonight
It’ll be 8 __________________
I lose myself tonight
(oh) ye-ah, ye-ah, ye-ah.
If I lose myself tonight
It’ll be you and I
Lose myself tonight
On the Run: 1 F – immediately, 2 F – Windsor Castle from the Olympic stadium,
3 F – Greece, 4 T, 5 F – May, 6 T, 7 F – most (8/10), 8 F – it was his first marathon
Bruno Mars: 1 find, 2 will sail/‘ll sail, 3 find, 4 I will be/I’ll be, 5 count, 6 need,
7 count, 8 I’ll be, 9 I will sing/I’ll sing, 10 forget, 11 I will remind/I’ll remind
OneRepublic: 1 A; 2 C; 3 D; 4 F; 5 E; 6 G; 7 I; 8 B; 9 H; 10 C; 11 D; 12 F
Lana Del Rey: 1 cold – hot, 2 days – nights, 3 nights – days, 4 village – city,
5 adult – child, 6 hate – love, 7 old – young, 8 hate – love, 9 everything – nothing,
10 hate – love, 11 devils – angels, 12 old – new
[Instrumental break]
I woke up 9 __________________
Thought of all 10 __________________ , places and things
I’ve loved.
I woke up just to see
With all of 11 __________________ , you were
12 __________________ to me.
SOLUTIONS FROM THE MAGAZINE
I Have an Idea! p. 11
Task 1 1C, 2D, 3A, 4E, 5B,
Task 2 Inventors: battery – Alessandro
Volta, car – many inventors, Karl
Benz, lightbulb – Thomas Alva Edison,
telephone – Alexander Bell, computer –
not easy to answer; Charles Babbage,
Alan Turing, Steve Jobs, penicillin –
Alexander Fleming
Glossary
to stare – to look at one thing for a long time
to tremble – to shake from being afraid
If I lose myself – If I die
South Africa p. 9
Task 1 1 on the coast, 2 Table, 3 Sea
Point, 4 Cape Agulhas, 5 Dutch,
6 townships; Task 2 1 rainbow,
2 eleven, 3 Portugal, 4 Storms, 5 Dutch,
6 Europe, 7 the East (Asia), 8 Indian,
9 Atlantic, 10 Cape Agulhas
Lana Del Rey Track 14
“Young and Beautiful”
T vocabulary / listening
Mia Wasikowska p. 11
Sample Answers: Jesse Eisenberg –
Mia’s boyfriend, crocodile – Mia played
in a horror film about a giant crocodile,
paparazzi – Mia is not interesting
for paparazzi, too shy, Tim Burton –
director of the first film about Alice in
Wonderland, ballerina – Mia wanted to
be a ballerina, later stopped because
of an injury, Poland – Mia’s mother
is Polish, Alice through the Looking
Glass – the name of the new Alice film
Look at the lyrics. Some words are missing. The opposite of
the missing word is given for you but the letters are scrambled.
Unscramble the letters and write the opposite of the word. Then
listen to the song and check your answers.
I’ve seen the world
Done it all
Had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant
In Bel Air now
1 ____________ (odlc) summer 2 ____________ (syda) , mid –
July
When you and I were forever wild
Back to the Wild p. 13
1 pack of wolves / Kokořínsko protected
area, 2 bear / the biggest carnivore,
3 deer / weigh 30 kg, 4 ponies / not
carnivores but herbivores (eat grass),
3
5 hundreds / cow
April Fool’s Day p. 14
1 smiled, 2 laughed, 3 fun, 4 funny, laugh
Brain Training p. 16
Tree Speed: spruce – 0.3 m/yr; oak –
0.4 m/yr; birch – 0.5 m/yr; cypress –
0.6 m/yr; sequoia – 1.5 m/yr; empress –
3 m/yr
Shakespeare p. 21
1 Italy, 2 Greece, 3 Denmark, 4 England,
5 Scotland, 6 Cyprus
KET solutions
Reading and Writing: Part 1 1D, 2G,
3C, 4H, 5B; Part 2 6A, 7B, 8C, 9A, 10C;
Part 3 11C, 12A, 13C, 14B, 15A, 16G,
17E, 18B, 19C, 20H; Part 4 21B, 22C,
23A, 24B, 25C, 26B, 27A; Part 5 28B,
29C, 30B, 31A, 32C, 33A, 34C, 35B; Part
6 36 beginner, 37 uniform, 38 library,
39 university, 40 homework; Part
7 41 years, 42 in, 43 to, 44 be / become,
45 about, 46 with, 47 the, 48 and,
49 much, 50 Do; Part 8 51 (this)
Saturday, 52 9:30/half past nine, 53 trip
from, 54 car, 55 2829354833
Listening: Part 1 1B, 2A, 3C, 4A, 5A;
Part 2 6E, 7F, 8C, 9H, 10G; Part 3 11C,
12B, 13B, 14C, 15A; Part 4 16 nine/9,
17 Monday, 18 200, 19 555 6345,
20 twenty-one/21; Part 5 21
(every) Tuesday, 22 twelve/12, 23 4,
24 questions, 25 website
CLIL Lesson Plan
45 min | Level A2–B1 | Biology, Environment
Back to the Wild
Grammar Focus: Introducing the structure “used to“ to talk about things
which are no longer true+basic vocabulary to talk about animals
Topic Focus: Basic information about animal species which are coming
back into their natural habitat
This lesson plan is based on the article “Back to the Wild” on pp. 12–13.
GATE
April 2016
Grammar
Photo © Peter Krejzl
Lead-In
10 min
1) Write FOREST ANIMALS on the board and have students
come to the board and write names of animals that live in
the forest. Help them with the translation of the words they
don’t know. Try to elicit the names of animals mentioned in
the article.
2) Ask your students if they have seen these animals in the
wild, on their trips/walks through the forest.
3) Open the magazine to pages 12 and 13 and let them read
the introductory paragraph. Students then report back what
is happening.
Reading / Speaking
Grammar Revision
There used to be many bears,
Aurochs used to live all across Europe,
Milovice used to be a military zone,
but now it is a special wilderness area.
but now there are only 8000 in Western Europe.
but now only a few live in special areas.
15 min
In Class
Read the article in pairs. Each student in the pair reads
about two animals. Student A reads about wolves and
bears, Student B about lynxes and ponies. Give them a time
limit of 5 minutes. Then they ask each other questions
about their respective animals.
Writing
What’s the Czech name
for lynx?
1
Why did people use to
kill wolves?
2
Where can you find
lynxes in the Czech
Republic?
2
Where do wolves live
now?
3
3
What do lynxes eat?
What do you call
a group of wolves?
4
How is the comeback
of ponies different
from other animals?
4
How many bears are
there in Europe now?
5
5
What used to be where
the ponies now live?
Do bears live
permanently in the
Czech Republic?
5 min
How was Europe different 150 years ago? What about
America and the rest of the world? Make 5 sentences with
used to / didn’t use to. Write them on paper. See who can
come up with the most interesting sentences.
Remember! used to + infinitive
Example: Wolves used to live all across Europe. People didn’t
use to have computers.
Student B Questions for A
1
5 min
Try to put the sentences together
Back to the Wild
Student A Questions for B
10 min
Write the following sentence on the board “People used to
kill wolves. Now it’s illegal.”
What does used to talk about?
A Future
B Past
C Present
Make sure students understand that the structure is about
the past which is no longer true.
Explain the structure: Used to+ infinitive. In stronger classes
you can also explain negative and question formation.
Write the following sentence on the board and elicit
answers.
People _________ to _________ afraid of wolves and bears.
Ages ago people _________ to _________ long hair.
Did you _________ to _________ a favourite toy when you
were younger?
Go through the answers at the end of the activity.
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