General English Pre-Intermediate Modules 1-4 Teacher's Guide (2.1 ...

F. Establish the situation: Neil wants to go to Mae P a to visit his friend, and rings to ask how to get
there. Students read the text, and write the questions to Htoo Aung’s answers.
There are a few possible questions; here are the most likely:
Probable answers:
1. How do I get to your house
2. What’s the best way
3. How much does it cost
4. How long does it take
5. What time does it leave / What time does the first linecar leave
6. Where does the linecar stop
7. How do I get to your house from there / How do I go from there
5.5 A trip to Namhkam
A. Find out if any students have been to Namhkam. If so, ask them how they got there, and get them to
talk about their journey. Look at the map, and elicit information from the map:
- Namhkam is north of Lashio and north-east of Mandalay
- It’s in Shan State, in northern Burma
B. Students read the text, and guess the missing information.
Elicit a few guesses, and write them on the board.
C. Play audio 2.7. Students listen, and check their guesses.
Were any guesses right
Answers:
Namhkam is a nice town in the mountains 300 kilometres from Mandalay, in Burma. The
best way to get there is by bus . It takes ten hours to get there, and costs 12,000 kyat .
You can’t get there by train because there isn’t a train line . You can also go by car . That
costs about 50,000 kyat .
5.6 Adjectives to describe transport
A. Tell students to read the Adjectives section of the Language Reference.
Check understanding of the words in the speech bubbles.
Let students use dictionaries to check the meanings of the words in the box, or you can tell them.
Students read the opinions of different types of transport, and match the adjectives in the box with
the opinions. There are two adjectives for each opinion.
Answers:
1. uncomfortable, reliable 4. cheap, dangerous
2. crowded, slow 5. unreliable, unpopular
3. expensive, comfortable
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