Unit 9 Extra Worksheet Notes

Interchange Intro Teachers Resource Worksheets Cambridge University Press 2013 Photocopiable
JIGSAW READING

Aim: Give Ss practice reading a text collaboratively.
Preparation: Make one copy of the worksheet for every two Ss.
Cut the copies in half.
Comment: Use with part A of the Reading on page 63.





Students Books open. Ss work in six groups. Ask
each group to read a different paragraph.
Encourage Ss to help each other with vocabulary.
Option: Ss work in three groups and each group
reads two paragraphs.
Students Books closed. Ss work in new groups.
Each group has one S from each original group.
Give each S a copy of the card with questions. Ss
share information to answer the questions.
Books open. Ss read the article to check their
answers. Then go over the answers with the class.
Acknowledgment: Original idea from Alex
Martinez, Cambridge University Press.

Answers
1. southern states of the U.S.
2. Greece and some other Mediterranean countries
3. soup with rice cakes
4. tangerines and oranges
5. strength and health
6. coins
7. luck in the new year
8. Spain and some Latin American countries
9. wealth
10. because tangerine sounds like luck in the
Mandarin language

























Unit 9 Extra Worksheet
Interchange Intro Teachers Resource Worksheets Cambridge University Press 2013 Photocopiable
JIGSAW READING

Eating for Good Luck
1. Where do people eat black-eyed peas and rice?
2. Where do people eat pomegranates?
3. What is dduk guk?
4. What do some Chinese people eat on New Years Day?
5. What does soup with rice cakes bring you?
6. What are black-eyed peas like?
7. What does it mean when you find an almond in your rice pudding?
8. Where do people eat grapes at midnight?
9. What do pomegranates bring?
10. Why do some people eat tangerines in the new year?
Eating for Good Luck
1. Where do people eat black-eyed peas and rice?
2. Where do people eat pomegranates?
3. What is dduk guk?
4. What do some Chinese people eat on New Years Day?
5. What does soup with rice cakes bring you?
6. What are black-eyed peas like?
7. What does it mean when you find an almond in your rice pudding?
8. Where do people eat grapes at midnight?
9. What do pomegranates bring?
10. Why do some people eat tangerines in the new year?