Prime Time 7, Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks

b) Ask and answer reporters’ questions using these question words: Who? What? How? When? Where? Why? c) Prepare a statement about the incident in the nail salon for a video for your school’s YouTube channel. Include the following aspects: customer service equality prejudice Reading–speaking: If you are overweight, pedicures will be $45 (B2) Prepare a statement on the difficulties people with health issues or special needs face in everyday life: describe one or two examples for everyday challenges analyse what prejudices there are about people with health issues or special needs suggest strategies to raise awareness and improve the situation Self-assessment Tick the appropriate boxes. Listening Can understand most radio documentaries and most other recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect and can identify the speaker’s mood, tone etc. I could understand everything. Sometimes I had to guess the meaning. I could only understand parts. I could hardly understand anything. Writing Can summarise, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his field with some confidence. I could write the text without help. I reused phrases from the text. I had to look up words/phrases. I could not express my ideas as wanted. Reading Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular stances or viewpoints. I understood the text without help. I had to guess the meaning. I had to use a dictionary. I did not understand the text. Speaking Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic within his/her field which is clear enough to be followed without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. I could express my opinion without help. I was sometimes lost for words. I had to make notes before I started. I could not express my ideas clearly. Find suggestions to help you on the CD-ROM in this book. 3  40 45 Although Nguyen vigorously denied ever having the sign up, he said he had had customers get upset with him for his policies. Nevertheless, Nguyen said he had had his business for nine years and tried to please his customers. Nguyen showed his current prices and said the only extra pedicure charge is $5 for men, because they do not come to the salon as often. “They took the sign down and denied ever having it up … pictures are worth a thousand words,” Deshania Ferguson, the woman from Memphis, who was the original online poster, wrote on Facebook on Friday. 153 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv