PRE-READING Page3
Do this section all by yourself and look up the dictionary all those in the green box for more example sentences. Then try to learn them by heart.
Group working
Ask the students to describe the usefulness of each item in the box and then decide on the three most useful ones. Each student gets an opportunity to speak.
Suggested structures: Page 3
I think…, because …
I could use it to …
It could be used to …
… would be more important than …, because …
Sample sentences:
1.I think a knife would be the most useful item, because I could use it to kill animals and cut the meat. It could also be used to cut wood.
2.I also think a box of matches would be useful because I could use the matches to make fire. If I had a fire, I could cook food, stay warm and keep wild animals away. More importantly, if someone saw the fire, they would come and save me.
3.I think a book would be more useful than a radio, because you don’t need batteries to read. And when I read, I would learn about life and the world and forget my loneliness.

Where did the story take place?
How many people stayed there?
How long did Chuck stay there?
What did Chuck do in order to survive?

READING
Look over the text and try to tell the main idea of it before reading it a second time.
What is the text about?
The picture shows a man who lives like a wild man, alone. He has to take care of himself. The title says that the text is about Chuck’s friend.
If I look at the picture and read the story, I may recall other stories about a man living alone on an island, e.g. Robinson Crusoe. In those stories, the man has to learn to find water and food and take care of himself.
What kind of words will be used?
The reading passage is a sort of film review, so I can guess the text will use words about stories, characters, acting and perhaps unusual things that do not exist in the real world.
Cast Away
The words are in italics, so I know that it must be the name of a film or a book. I can probably skip the word and look it up in the dictionary later. If I read the text I will learn that the film is about a man who has to live alone on an island, away from his friends, because of an accident, so I can guess that ‘Cast Away’ refers to the man in the story and his situation. The dictionary says ‘to be left alone on an island after your ship has sunk.’
Play
Tom Hanks is a famous actor. He plays a man named Chuck Noland in the film Cast Away. I can guess that plays means acts here.
survive
When airplanes crash (fall down), most people die. If, like Chuck, they don’t die, they go on living, so I cangues that to survive means to go on living.
deserted
The text tells me that Chuck lands on a deserted island. The text also tells me that there are no people on the island, so I can guess that a deserted place means a place where there are no people.
challenge
The text tells me that there are different challenges in Chuck’s life-he has to collect water, hunt for food, and learn to survive without friends. I can guess that a challenge is something difficult that you have to do.
share
I know that I like to talk to my friends when I am happy or sad. If I am sad, talking to a friend makes me feel better. I can guess that to share happiness or sorrow means something like tell others about how I feel or make others understand how I feel. The dictionary says that share means to have the same interest or feeling as someone else.
unusual
I know that usual means something that happens all the time or normal. If I know that the prefix un- means not, I can guess that unusual means not normal or strange.
such as
a lucky pen and a diary are example of favourite objects, so I can guess that such as means for example or like

POST READING
After reading the text a second time a
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