4 ACTIVATE Follow the steps in the writing
guide.
O WRITING GUIDE
A
TASK
A friend from Britain is coming to stay with you
for a weekend. Write an email about your plans
for the visit.
B THINK AND PLAN
1 What are you doing on Saturday morning?
2 Do your parents want to do something with
your friend? What?
3 What are the possibilities for Saturday
afternoon?
4 Where can you go on Sunday? How can you
get there?
5 What are the places like and what can you do
there?
6 Where are you going to meet your friend?
C WRITE
Paragraph 1: Introduction
I'm just writing to ...
Paragraph 2: Plans for Saturday
I think you'll like ...
Paragraph 3: Ideas for Sunday
On Sunday, maybe we could ...
Paragraph 4: Reminder
We're going to ...
D CHECK
• starting and finishing your email
• linkers
• future forms
We swim in summer.
He doesn’t get up early every day.
Do they watch TV every evening?
Present Continuous
I am cooking breakfast at the moment.
He isn’t riding his bike now.
Are they going to the cinema tonight?
Present Perfect
I have just done my homework.
She hasn’t done the washing up yet.
Have you ever met any celebrity?
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been learning English for five years.
She hasn’t been writing her essay since this morning.
Have they been surfing the Internet for two hours?
Is Andrew Lloyd Webber one of the world’s famous modem composers?
Is he the creator of many musicals?
Where was he born?
When was he born?
Is he British?
Even at a young age, he loved to make his own music, didn’t he?
Webber also had a great interest in inspecting ancient monuments around England, didn’t he?
Did his Aunt or his mother introduce him to the theatre?
Did he go to Westminster in 1956 or in 1965?
What did he do there?
When did he win a Challenge Scholarship?
When did he transfer to Oxford?
Who met in 1965?
The first musical, The Likes of Us, was a failure, wasn’t it?
Where was the first showing?
Was it in 1968 or in 1999?
It enjoyed great success, didn’t it?
What did he write together with Tim Rice?
What was an incredible hit?
Cats made Andrew Lloyd Webber rich and famous and ready to start a musical about trains, didn’t it?
What Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famous works do you know?
In 1997, Andrew was knighted, wasn’t he? Did he become Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Has He won many awards?