We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education towards endorsement of this title. CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY ENGLISH 2 TEACHER'S RESOURCE
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This Teacher’s Resource contains both general guidance and teaching notes that help you to deliver the content in our Cambridge Primary English resources. Some of the material is provided as downloadable files, available on Cambridge GO. (For more information about how to access and use your digital resource, please see inside front cover.) See the Contents page for details of all the material available to you, both in this book and through Cambridge GO. CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY ENGLISH 2 TEACHER’S RESOURCE
1 Friends and families
This book provides teaching notes for each unit of the Learner’s Book and Workbook. Each set of teaching notes contains the following features to help you deliver the unit.
The Unit plan summarises the topics covered in the unit, including the number of learning hours recommended for the topic, an outline of the learning content and the Cambridge resources that can be used to deliver the topic.
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Unit plan Topic
Approximate number of learning hours
1.1 Friends at school
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Outline of learning content
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Learners read a poem about what humans are made of. They listen to a story about a ‘Show and Tell’ day and answer questions about it. Finally, they plan their own ‘Show and Tell’ presentation. The Background knowledge feature explains prior
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Learner’s Book Session 1.1 Workbook Session 1.1 Differentiation worksheets 1A–C Audio track 01
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
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knowledge required to1.5 access the unit and gives read part 1 of a story about 1.2 A family Learners Learner’s Book Session 1.2 suggestions for addressing any gaps in your learners’ adventure a family adventure. They It is answer helpful to be familiar with Session the following Workbook 1.2 subject prior knowledge. comprehension questions, and for this unit: knowledge explore words and phrases – including Language worksheet 1.1 Learners’ prior knowledge can be informally • ways to present personal information, talk those assessed through the Getting started feature in with the prefixes and suffixes. about feelings, understand humour, talk about Learner’s Book. friend and family relationships, and describe Learner’s Book Session 1.3 1.3 Retelling 2+ Learners recall part 1 of the story what characters say and do and acting and tell part 2 using a sequence of Workbook Session 1.3 pictures. They sequence the whole story and act it in groups. Worksheets 1.2 and 1.3 The Teaching skills focus feature covers a teaching skill TEACHING SKILLS FOCUS and how to implement it in the unit. 1.4suggests Describing 2.5 Learners listen to a list poem and Learner’s Book Session 1.4 what characters answer questions about it. They Metacognition describes the processes involved when Workbook Session 1.4 do explore vocabulary, spelling and the learners plan, monitor, evaluate and make changes use of the comma into a their list. They write Worksheet own learning behaviours 1.4 and become selftheir own lists. regulating learners. To use this, you could:
1.5 Challenges and excuses
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Learners talk about challenges before Learner’s Book Session 1.5 listening to and then silently reading Workbook Session 1.5 this first story about brothers. They answer questions, explore word and Worksheet 1.5 phrase meanings and identify verb 8 Original material © Cambridge University Press endings 2020. This is not final and is subject to further changes prior to publication. –edmaterial and –ing.
