17.5 Identifying features Presentation and practice

Work in pairs.

Student A: Your partner will choose two of the houses below. Try to guess which two he/she has chosen by asking questions like this: Has either of the houses got chimneys ? Does either of them have a flat roof?

Student В: Choose two of the houses below. Your partner will try to guess which two you have chosen. Answer his/her questions like this: Yes, one of them has got chimneys. Yes, both of them have chimneys. No, neither of them has got chimneys.

17.6 Tastes in common Free practice

You will hear two women and a man talking about their taste in places for a holiday. Listen to the tape, and answer the questions.

1. Which of the people have similar tastes in holidays ?

2. What kind of places:

   1. does the first woman dislike ? Why ?

   2. does the man like? Why ?

   3. does the second woman like ? Why ?

Work in groups. Find out:

1. what you have in common with each other

2. who you have most in common with

3. who you have least in common with

Talk about:

taste in places for a holiday taste in restaurants taste in clothes taste in men/women

17.7 Classifying Presentation and practice

Which member of this set is the odd man out ? Why ?

spider ant butterfly

Spider

Both ants and butterflies are insects, whereas spiders aren’t. Also, neither ants nor butterflies trap their food, whereas spiders do.

Ant

Neither spiders nor butterflies live in colonies, whereas ants do.

Butterfly

Both ants and spiders are carnivorous, whereas butterflies aren’t.

Look at these other sets. Say why each member can be the odd man out.

1. camera television set tape recorder

2. coal wood iron

3. Rome Amsterdam Venice

4. piano violin piano accordion

5. bicycle train ship

6. skiing chess football

7. coffee lettuce tobacco

17.8 Similar but different

Free practice

Read this passage about Scotland and Wales, and answer the questions.

Scots and the Welsh regard themselves as having a separate nationality and identity, which is certainly not ‘English’. Both countries have their own cultural traditions, and also their own language - Welsh in Wales and Gaelic in Scotland. Of the two languages, Welsh is considerably more important: it is spoken by a large number of people and taught in schools all over Wales, whereas Gaelic is spoken by far fewer people, mainly on the West Coast of Scotland.

1 In what ways are Scotland and Wales similar ?

2 In what ways are they different?

Work in groups. Choose either two areas of your own country

or your own country and a neighbouring country

In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different?

Writing

Write a paragraph summarising the similarities and differences you have talked about.