• Ex 1 Ask students to open their books at page 63. • Ask students to look at the photo and answer the questions. • Do not confirm or reject students’ ideas at this point. Students will check their answers in Exercise 2. • Ex 2 Ask students to read the text to check their answers to Exercise 1. • Ex 3 Give students time to read through the text again. • Students then work alone to answer the questions. Encourage stronger students to offer as much detail as they can in response to the questions. • Ask students to compare their answers in pairs before you check answers with the whole class. • Read out the information about tigers in the FACT! box. Tell students that when there are so few animals left in a particular species that species is said to be endangered /ɪnˈdeɪndʒəd/, which means that could it could become extinct /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/, i.e. disappear altogether. • Ex4 Tell students that a compound noun is formed from two words, which can either be separated (e.g. charity workers) or joined (e.g. wildlife). • Ask students to look at the compound nouns in the article, which are picked out in bold. • Ask students to use the context to work out the meaning of each of the compound nouns. • Ask students to share their definitions of the compound nouns with the class. Do not confirm or reject students’ ideas at this point. Students will read definitions of the compound nouns in Exercise 5. • Ex5 Read out the words in the box. • Ask students to work in pairs to match the words with the definitions. • Check answers. • To extend the work on the vocabulary, you could ask students to turn to the Vocabulary Bank on page 126 and do the exercises for Explore compound nouns. • Ex6 Read out the questions. • Ask students to work alone to answer the questions. | Answers Ex2 1 In forests. 2 Bangladesh 3 Because they can kill people. Ex3 1 They fish, hunt and look for honey and firewood. 2 Because the forests are home to lots of wild animals. 3 They killed about 50 people. 4 It’s teaching them how to live and work close to tigers. 5 You should look at it and make lots of noise. 6 The people sing songs about tigers and tell stories about tiger gods. Optional activity • Ask students to read the tiger facts on the following website: http://www.ngkids.co.uk/did-you-know/10-tiger-facts • Discuss the facts with the class. Find out which facts surprised the students and which ones they were most interested in. Ex5 1 firewood 2 fishing boat 3 charity worker 4 forest floor 5 wildlife Optional activity Ask students to work in small groups. • Students should think of three ways that the tigers of the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh can be protected. • Ask one member of each group to share their group’s ideas with the class. |