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COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES
LESSON 8.3
EXERCISE 8A (P.81)
STUDENT A
International Space Station
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artificial satellite in space – travels around the Earth
15.7 times per day
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ninth inhabited space station
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largest artificial body in space
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can be seen from Earth
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first launched 1998
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crew conduct experiments in Biology, Physics,
Astronomy and Meteorology
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multinational programme – joint programme between
five space agencies (Japanese, Russian, Canadian,
European and American)
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one of most significant examples of international
cooperation in modern history
LESSON 8.4
EXERCISE 5A (P.83)
STUDENT A
Chairperson
You will chair the debate about supermarket growth.
You need to make sure everyone speaks and to stop
people dominating the discussion. You may need to
clarify points.
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Begin by welcoming the audience at home to the
programme.
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Introduce each of the participants, and who they
represent.
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Introduce the topic, which tonight is ‘Supermarket
superpower? The continued growth of a supermarket
giant’.
Ask the panel the following general questions to start
the debate.
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Should Smithsons come to Bahrain?
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What effect will its arrival have on the economy? /
employment? / other retailers? / shopping habits?
Bring the debate to an end and thank the guests and
the audience at home for watching.
LESSON 11.3
EXERCISE 7A (P.110)
STUDENT A
Make sentences from these prompts.
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Offer to take notes and photocopy them.
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Warn your partners not to be late for the cinema this
evening.
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Insist on buying your partners a coffee.
LESSON 11.5
EXERCISE 7A (P.114)
STUDENT A
LESSON 12.4
EXERCISE 7A (P.123)
UNION REPRESENTATIVE A (SEWING MACHINES
DEPARTMENT)
Listen to the presentation of the CEO. Then, present
the concerns of the workers in your department.
They are worried that:
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the new machines will result in huge job losses. This
will have a bad effect on staff morale.
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younger workers will be brought in to work on the
new machines.
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they will lose money while they are being trained
to operate the new machines.
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they won’t be able to operate the new machines
efficiently.
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the machines will not be as efficient as the
supplier claims.
Add any other concerns you think they may have.
What is a subculture?
A subculture is a group of people with a particular set of
beliefs, ideas or behaviour that makes them stand out
from the larger culture.
Subcultures can be split into two main types. Traditional
youth cultures are often defined by their opposition to
the values of the larger culture to which they belong,
and so can be described as a ‘counterculture’. Members
show their membership through a distinctive and
symbolic use of style and dress. However, opposition to
other subcultures is often more important for adherents
than opposition to society in general, for example Mods
and Rockers who fought each other in the 1960’s.
The second type of subculture involves obsessive
fandom or obsessive behaviour. Examples of this type
of subculture include fans of Japanese Manga comics
and players of computer games. Clothing and other
outward signs of belonging are less important for these
types of subculture, although, ironically, this lack of
interest in fashion often means that members are easily
identifiable without consciously trying to look the same.
The style of subcultures has often been adopted by
mass culture for commercial purposes, as business
is always looking for opportunities to make money.
For countercultural subcultures, such as the punk
movement in the United Kingdom, this helps the
evolution and development of the subculture, as its
original members adopt new styles in order to retain
their individuality.
However, with the rise of the Internet, traditional
youth cultures are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
New trends can emerge on social media incredibly
swiftly. They are copied by teenagers all over the world
and, just as quickly, they are replaced by something
else. It has made the world of subcultures much more
dynamic but it is a nightmare for mass-market fashion
companies who cannot hope to keep up with such
temporary crazes.
