BACKGROUND NOTĘ
A blog a blog (weblog) is a website where a person or people keep an ongoing ciiary for others to read. It can include photos and is often used as a way ot keeping in touch by people who are travelling.
We’ve got on well sińce we met.
Grammar Present perfect simple wi?h for and sińce
Vocabulary Collocations with make and do
Myblog
Ask Ss if they use the Internet and what they use it for. Explain blog and ask thern if they have read or can name any blogs.
1 1.53 Point to the photo and
ask Ss who we can see and where (London). Remind Ss that Mia is away from home (the USA) and explain that this Picture is part ot her blog. Ask Ss to read the text quickly and find out what Mia misses about the USA.
2 Ss can underline the phrases in the text as they read it again to choose the correct option. Ss read through the statements and circle the correct answer.
1 a) USA 2 b) When she arrived in London.
3 b) shopping 4 b) never 5 b) hasn’t
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Sunday Ist September 8 p.m. (UK lir
Read
1 53 Read Mia’s blog. What does she miss about the USA?
Comprehension
2 Choose the correct options.
1 Mia is writing to friends in a) the USA. b) the UK.
2 She met Polly a) before she left the USA. b) when she arrived in London.
3 Mia and her friends went
a) sightseeing. b) shopping.
4 She a) sometimes b) never watches baseball in London.
5 She a) has b) hasn't done any Science revision this weekend.
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lucky - l've madę friends with a girl at school called Polly We do a lot of the same subjecls and we : nn really well c we met. It feels as if I her
years! She s mtroduced me to other people. too. and that makes a big difference
Last week a bunch of us decided to go to the West End - that s where all the really big London shops are. We didn't buy anything. but we did some wmdow shopping Then we got on a tourist bus. Here s a photo to give you an idea.
It's great here. but there s one thing I really miss. I
any baseball news a long time. Can you do me a favour and tell me the scores?
OK, I have to stop and do my Science homework. My books h.«vr :j^' n in my bag s* -.et Friday and l’ve done nothing for my test tomorrow. U
Collocations with make or do
4 1.54 Remind Ss of
collocations seen previously such as make your bed. Ss can work in pairs to complete the phrases in their books or draw two columns in their notebooks. As they listen and check, pause the recording and use it for chorał re p?ł*! clari (hor exe'
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5 Ask Ss to draw two columns in their notebooks and head them for and sińce.
Ss can work in pairs to write the words and phrases in the correct column.
Allow time for Ss to read through the sentences and say them quietly to themselves. Ask Ss to underline the words that come atter for and sińce and then use these examples to complete the rules.
For: three years, a long time, a month, five minutes, a day, ages
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