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4–6
Students can do these exercises in pairs.
7
Ask students to write the statements so that they are true. 
Focus on … words in context
You can encourage students to try and work out the meaning of 
the words in italics before looking at the words in the box.
More activities
1
Encourage students to look for study-skills books and to 
read their chapters on Reading. The book 
Study Skills 
for Speakers of English as a Second Language
(which 
featured in Unit 12) has a section about reading.
2
Remind students that simplifi ed readers are available at 
a variety of levels and these are intended to be read for 
pleasure. Encourage students to tell the class about any 
books they are reading and can recommend.
Real Reading 4 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
14 
I’ve chosen this topic
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You could write the four types of book on the board and do the 
fi rst exercise before students open their books. There may be some 
confusion between a 
handbook
and a 
manual
. In general terms, 
a manual is very practical and tells you how to do something, e.g. 
a DIY manual
; a handbook gives the most important and useful 
advice about a subject, e.g. 
a student handbook
.
A
Look it up in the Index
1–3
Students can do these exercises in pairs, and then discuss 
the answers as a class. For Exercise 1, you can ask students to 
read out the question that they have written. 
4–6
Students work through the exercises before getting whole-
class feedback.
7
Encourage students to choose one or two entries only. Make 
the point that although the other entries include the word 
work
, they are not necessarily relevant. For example: 
ethic
means ‘a system of accepted beliefs which control behaviour, 
especially such a system based on morals’, so 
work ethic
means ‘a belief in hard work’; 
workforce
means ‘the group of 
people who work in a company, industry, country, etc.’ Neither 
or these entries will be relevant to the topic of how many 
hours Americans work.
8
The fi rst page reference for 
working hours
in the Index should 
confi rm students’ answer to Exercise 6. Make the point that if 
we are looking for a particular subject in a book, we can look 
at either the Contents or the Index – or both.