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Contents Teaching notes 1 My family 2 My town 3 My home 4 In the house 5 In the street 6 In the country 7 At the seaside 8 Shopping 9 Sports 10 Hobbies 11 Weather 12 Clothes 13 Food 14 People 15 Animals 16 Holidays 17 Describing things 18 Jobs 19 Keeping in touch 20 Health Answers Copyright © Brain Friendly Publications Unit c/o Hythe Printers, Pennypot Industrial Estate, Hythe, Kent, England CT21 6PE Telephone/Fax: +44 (0)1303 238880 Email:
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Introducing the topic (All) Use photographs/magazine pictures or other realia to stimulate interest and curiosity. Tell a little story/anecdote which 'drops m ' some new vocabulary the student will meet in the unit.
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Matching - words to pictures (All) Encourage students to write on the worksheet. Play Question and Answer games 'Can you tell me number seven please?' in pairs and/or around the class.
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Category pictures (5B, 6B, 7B, 8C, 13E, 20C) Encourage students to use coloured felt tips to underline words which 'go together' and write them m t ie ^ P i c t u r e categories. In teams, brainstorm new words for each category.
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Mind Maps (ID, 2D, 3D, 6E 10D, 15E) Students jot down key words on the Mind Map given with each unit. They use the Mind Map as the basis f ° r a s n o r t t a ^ t o a neighbour. Ask individuals to give a short talk to the whole class.
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Mixed definitions (6C, 17C) These are good for expanding vocabulary. Encourage small groups to brainstorm new examples to test their colleagues.
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Story telling (All) Having done the 'matching' activities, each student chooses any 3 words (new or interesting ones) and writes a very simple story/paragraph which incorporates them.
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Careful listening (All) Following on from Storytelling, one student reads the paragraph to a partner. The partner pai must identify the three 'special words' incorporated in the story.
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Interviews/ role plays can be generated by most units, (especially ID, 2D, 3D, 6E, 10D, HE, 12C, 13F, 15E, 16D). Read through the functional language and set up a simple shopping / holiday / visit to the Doctor situation. Music (All) Near the end of the lesson, put on some relaxing music.The students settle quietly, while the teacher reads through the target words anc * P n r a s e s a g a m _ slowly enough to allow them to echo in the memory.
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Writing (All - especially 17F, IOC, 14C, 16A, 19B+C) Some units contain specific writing activities and they all lend themselves to a 'write a P o s t c a r d about...' exercise.
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cold snow and ice frost
fine bright and sunny warm
stormy thunder and lightning wind and rain
humid hot and wet (sticky)
Which is the hottest/coldest country? What time of year do you think it is? WEATHER CHART °C Algeria s 21 Amsterdam c 0 Athens c 10 2 -5 Belgrade Buenos Aires s 25 1 Brussels c Cologne f 0 Copenhagen 2 f Edinburgh c 0 Geneva c 3 Helsinki 2 -6 Innsbruck 2 f Las Pal mas s 20 London 3 s Madrid f 14 Malaga s 19
ODD ONE OUT Malta Montreal Moscow Munich New York Nice Oslo Paris Reykjavik Rome Rome Stockholm Tel Aviv Toronto Vienna Zurich
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Key: c = cloudy f = fair r = rain s = sunny sn == snow fg = fog
The weather is an important subject in England Nice/lovely day Warm/hot today isn't it? Chilly/horrible day
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