1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about shopping carts and bacteria. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. SHOPPING CARTS: Make a poster about shopping carts. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?

4. ILL: Write a magazine article about someone who got ill after using a shopping cart. Include imaginary interviews with that person and the store manager.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). Use the following structure of an article (Figure 7).

5. LETTER: Write a letter to a microbiologist. Ask him/her three questions about bacteria. Give him/her three ideas on how to keep us safe from harmful germs. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your class. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.