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TEACHER’S NOTES3 Useful expressions (15 min.)A.• Elicit the meaning of each expression or thesituation in which it is used.• 13 Play the audio, pausing for studentsto repeat. Encourage students to mimic theintonation.B.• Read the directions aloud and elicit the answersfor the first two blanks. Then have students workindividually or in pairs to complete the dialogue.• Check by calling on two students to read thedialogue aloud.Answer keyA: Look who’s here! Hi, [Joey].B: Hi, [Brian]. Are you busy? Is this a bad timeto come?A: No, no. It’s OK. It’s good to see you.B: Nice to see you, too. Are you going out?A: Yeah, to the mall. Would you like to come?B: All right.A: Come on. Hurry up.C.• PAIRS. Pair students. Have them practicethe conversation in Exercise B several times,substituting their own names for Joey and Brian.Tell them to switch roles after the first round.• To extend the activity, have pairs practice lookingup and making eye contact while speaking, thenpractice again with books closed.4 Vocabulary (15 min.)A.• On the board, draw the face of a clock with theminute hand pointing at twelve and the hour handpointing at three. Write the word o’clock on theboard. Ask What time is it? (three o’clock) Redrawthe hour hand to several different hours and elicitthe time.• Draw the hour hand to point at two and theminute hand to point at the ten-minute mark. Tellstudents that this can be read as ten after two. Writethis on the board. Then redraw the minute handso that it points at the fifteen-minute mark. Tellstudents that this can be read as a quarter after two;write this on the board.• 14 Tell students to look at the clock illustration.Play the audio as students read along and repeat.B.• PAIRS. Read the instructions aloud, then callon a pair to model the first two items. Tell themto tell the time as they did in Exercise A, with toand after.• Assign pairs and have students begin. Walkaround to monitor and help as students practice.• Elicit the answers orally from individualstudents. Write them on the board, if helpful. Thenerase them and elicit the answers again from thewhole class.Answer key1. a quarter after eleven2. twenty to ten3. ten to eight4. a quarter to nine5. five-thirty / half past five6. seven o’clock7. twenty-five after five8. five after one9. twenty-five to four10. ten after threeHave students complete Workbook Exercises 1–2.T7Postcards_splitB_TE1_U01.indd T72/27/07 10:23:39 AM