Contents 1- THE ARTICLE AND THE NOUN 2- THE NOUN: GENDER AND NUMBER 3- CAPITAL LETTERS 4- THE LEXICAL FAMILY
Language functions - INTRODUCING OUR FAMILY MEMBERS PERSONAL DATA AND PROFESSIONS - GETTING TO KNOW THE THINGS AROUND THEM AND THEIR USES
Objectives - TO READ, LISTEN AND DISTINGUISH PERSONAL INFORMATION - TO GIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION - TO USE CORRECTLY THE ARTICLE, THE GENDER AND NUMBER OF NOUNS, AND CAPITAL LETTERS - TO RECOGNIZE HOW WORDS ARE FORMED - TO ENHANCE THEIR VOCABULARY ABOUT FAMILY, PROFESSIONS, TIME EXPRESSIONS, AND NUMBERS
Grammar and Vocabulary Appendix -
USE OF THE ARTICLE. THE NOUN: GENDER AND NUMBER. USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS COUNTRY, NATIONALITY, LANGUAGE, FAMILY, PLACE, THING, JOB, LIKES AND DISLIKES. TIME EXPRESSIONS AND NUMBERS
FINAL TASK FINAL TASK – ROLE PLAY – GOING ABROAD. FAMILY ACCOMODATION
Things you need for this lesson … AUDIOVISUAL MEANS, COLOURS, CRAYONS AND SCISSORS
WORKSHEET 1 – Nick’s family We are Sidney and Rita. We have got 1 _______ girl, Pamela and 1 ______ boy, Barry and they have got children too. Pamela has got a boy -Nick- and a girl -Mindy- and her husband is John. Barry has got 2 _______ girls -Lyn and Cathy- and a boy -James- and his wife is Lorna. Here is the dialogue between Sidney and his grandson Nick: SIDNEY: “Good morning, Nick!” NICK: “Hi, granddad!” SIDNEY: “How are you today?” NICK: “I’m a bit tired because I’ve got an exam tomorrow, and I’m studying a lot.” SIDNEY: “That’s a student’s job”. NICK: “What is your job?” SIDNEY: “Now I’m retired but when I was younger, I was a gardener and it was very hard but I liked it a lot.” NICK: “I want to be a teacher because I like teaching people useful things.” SIDNEY: “Fantastic, but now your aunt and uncle are coming for dinner with your 3 _______ cousins. Let’s get ready! You have to go to bed early. You go to school tomorrow morning. Don’t forget about your exam.” A) Answer the following questions: How do you write the numbers? What date is it tomorrow? B) Complete the family tree below with all the NAMES that appear in the dialogue. GRANDPARENTS
SON - WIFE
DAUGHTER - HUSBAND
CHILDREN:
CHILDREN:
C) Complete the information from the dialogue: 1.- Sidney is Lorna’s father-in-law. 2.- The name of Pamela’s mother is ________. 3.- Pamela has got a __________ and a __________ . 4.- James is Lorna’s _____. 5.- Mindy is Nick’s __________. D) Write in two columns all the vocabulary you know related to the FAMILY in three columns: MASCULINE / FEMININE / BOTH.
WORD BANK 4 – FAMILY WORDS
COMPLETE HARRY’S FAMILY TREE WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS: WIFE – SON – DAUGHTER-IN-LAW – MOTHER – FATHER – GRANDFATHER – GRANDMOTHER – MOTHER-IN-LAW – FATHER-IN-LAW – BROTHER-IN-LAW – SISTER – NIECE – GRANDSON – NEPHEW
QUICK THINKER QUIZ – ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ASAP AND YOU WILL BE THE WINNER… WHO IS your mother’s mother? WHO IS your father’s brother? WHO IS your aunt’s father? WHO IS your mother’s mother’s mother? WHO IS your father’s brother’s son? WHO IS your daughter’s father? WHO IS your mother’s husband? WHO IS your brother’s daughter?
WORKSHEET 2 – a song for Nick! Nick is in bed. His granddad, Sidney, is next to him. He feels curious about … NICK: SIDNEY:
NICK:
SIDNEY:
Granddad, what did you want to become when you were younger? Uh, I wanted to be a doctor, because I liked looking after people’s health, but I changed my mind, and I decided to take care of plants and flowers. Let me tell you about my dreams … As I told you before, I want to be a teacher, live in a big city, have a nice pet, a dog or a cat, and not to eat carrots, broccoli or spinach. Oh, I see. I remember a song about all these persons, places and things…
A) LET’S LISTEN TO IT!
Nouns, nouns, looking all around A noun is a person, place, or thing.
Boy, girl, mom, dad, Doctor, teacher, or my grandma. If a person’s there, I declare, “You have found a noun!” Nouns, nouns, looking all around A noun is a person, place, or thing. Space, store, city, town, Forest, yard, or in the country. If a place is there, I declare, “You have found a noun!” Nouns, nouns, looking all around A noun is a person, place, or thing. Dog, cat, boat, car, Carrots, broccoli, and spinach. If a thing is there, I declare, “You have found a noun!” B) WORKING ON IRREGULAR PLURALS – Choose the correct word: 1. Mr García is a man/men 2. I’m afraid of mouse/mice. 3. I’ve got two child/children.
4. A person/people came to see you. 5. Two ox/oxen carry La Virgen Bella. 6. Mr Omar has got 30 wive/wifes.
WORKSHEET 3 – Nick is at school SIDNEY:Good morning, grand-son! NICK: SIDNEY: NICK: SIDNEY:
Good morning, granddad! Did you sleep well? No, I had a nightmare about doctors, teachers, forests, yards, carrots… Hold on! Always imagining stories. Now it’s time to school. You can take a rest after it. All right? NICK: Ok. See you later. Nick gets to school. He sits down and looks around … he can see his SSMECALATS, the ESKDS, the OOKSB, the NEPLICS,… but he is so absolutely tired that he falls asleep. A) Unscramble the bungled-up words in the text to find out what Nick can see in his class. B) Write as many THINGS/OBJECTS as you can that you find in the classroom. Now, can you find some of those objects in the chart below? And others?
THINGS
C) People and places in the school. PEOPLE
PLACES
D) Write the plural of all the nouns above in the three columns.
WORKSHEET 4 – Nick falls asleep
ROW 4
ROW 3
ROW 2
ROW 1
DESK 1
DESK 2
DESK 3
DESK 4
DESK 5
DESK 6
This is Nick’s class. Follow the instructions below and draw each row descriptions: ROW 1- There is an apple on the second desk. There is a pencil on the third desk. There are some books on the fifth desk. Next to the sixth desk, there is a schoolbag. ROW 2- There are some pens on the first desk. There is some paper on the fourth desk. ROW 3- There is a pencil-case on the fourth desk. There is an eraser on the sixth desk. ROW 4- There are some crayons on the first desk. There is a ruler on the third desk .There is an exercise-sheet on the fifth desk. There is a student on the sixth chair. There is a universe map on the wall behind the students. Beside it, there is an hourlytimetable. Now, add up some other things you can find in the classroom and classify them into SINGULAR / PLURAL / COUNTABLE (C) / UNCOUNTABLE (U). SINGULAR PLURAL -
WORD BANK 5 - NUMBERS
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW BY WRITING NUMBERS AS IN THE EXAMPLE. How old is your English teacher?
THIRTY
How many people are there in your hometown? How old are you? What is your lucky number? How old is your father? When was the Spanish Civil War? How old is the Solar System? How many people speak Spanish in the world? How many students are there in your class? How old is your grandmother?
NOW, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS BY ADDING THE TWO MISSING LETTERS EACH. ___ N ___
HUND ___ ___D
MI ___ ___ION
EI ___ ___TH
FIR ___ ___
FOUR ___ ___
THOUS ___ ___D
TWE ___ ___TH
NINE ___ ___
THI ___ ___
SEVE ___ ___H
EL ___ ___EN
F ___ ___TH
___E ___
TWENT ___ ___H
F ___ ___TY
SECO ___ ___
S ___ ___
THR ___ ___
SIX ___ ___
FINISH THE NUMBER SERIES BELOW: TWO – FOUR – EIGHT – SIXTEEN – …
FIRST – THIRD – …
FIRST – SECOND – …
ONE HUNDRED – TWO HUNDRED – …
TEN – TWENTY – THIRTY – FORTY – …
ONE – FIRST – TWO – …
FIVE – TEN – …
THREE – SIX – NINE – …
TENTH – TWENTIETH – THIRTIETH – …
ONE – ELEVEN – TWENTY-ONE – …
WORKSHEET 5 – Nick’s first dream! A) READ and answer the following question: What does Nick want to become? Nick is asleep. He starts dreaming …. He works with kids. He works in a school. He is in front of the students. He writes some numbers with a chalk on the board. He speaks about sums, divisions,... He wants to become a ____________________. B) THE JOBS MY FAMILY DO: “My father is an electrician, my mother is a teacher, my grandfather was a farmer,...” C) WHERE DO YOUR FAMILY WORK? “My father works in an office, or my cousin works with people in a hospital. Try to guess your partner’s family jobs.”
D) MAKING A PROFESSIONAL POSTER: Colour the photocopies of the professions and hang them on the wall of the classroom, writing the names of the jobs below the pictures. NOW TIME FOR FUN: Help you partner to find out his/her profession. E) WHO’S FASTER? Can you find the jobs? Here are the names: secretary, optician, judge, priest, politician, soldier, waitress, scientist.
S E C R E T A R S
M O P T I C I A N C
A L T E M P L R O I
S U A R O R O T C E
P O L I T I C I A N
E C L S R E E A M T
A R O D I S S W N I
R O D E I T Y O T S
O J U D G E O C I T
R E W A I T R E S S
WORD BANK 6 – Peter’s school! A) Read Peter's letter about his school. Underline the words related to school.
My name's Peter and I go to a Secondary School in Hastings. My school isn't very big. The main building has got two floors. Classrooms are on the ground. They are nice because they have got computers for students. We have got toilets for boys and girls. We have also got a science lab for Chemistry lessons, but we haven’t got any language lab. On the first floor, teachers have got some rooms: They are very big and well decorated: the Director's office, the Teacher's room, the different Departments and a computer room where they can work, because they haven’t got computers. They have got toilets, too. Outside the main building, the school has got a small cafeteria where I have lunch every day, a library with lots of books inside, a music room and a gym for P.E. Lessons. I enjoy my school very much! Do you like yours? Pete
B) Say if the following sentences are true or false. Correct the false ones.
1. Peter's school is a Primary school in London.
…
2. All teachers have got computers.
…
3. All the classrooms have got computers for students.
…
4. The school hasn´t got any language lab.
…
5. Toilets are only for girls.
…
6. Peter has lunch at school every day.
…
7. Teacher's rooms are small but well decorated.
…
C) Now, move around your school and take notes about the different places you can find in it, as follows: We have got a gym.
WORD BANK 7 – JOBS
Quick thinker quiz Follow the definitions below and answer the next question as in the example.
What does he/she do?
1- He makes movies.
He is a film-maker.
2- She works with ill people.
She is a …
3- He makes bread. 4- She puts criminals in jail. 5- She operates people. 6- He mends pipes and taps. 7- She teaches English to children. 8- He looks after ill animals. 9- She grows plants and flowers. 10- He plays the trumpet.
Quick acting out Look at the list below, choose any of the provided jobs and act it out. Your teacher must guess what you do.
painter journalist civil-servant flight-attendant
hairdresser
sailor model fisherman dentist doctor
politician taxi-driver cook farmer postman
dancer secretary surgeon engineer tailor
Quick matching pairs According to their genres, find the corresponding pairs and match them.
actor policeman princess nun waiter waitress priest policewoman actress prince
Quick word bank You have got 5 minutes to think of other professions and write them down in alphabetical order. Don’t repeat letters!
WORKSHEET 6 – a teacher works from Monday to Friday Nick is back home. He wants to rest for a while. He goes to his bedroom. His granddad is with him. NICK: Granddad, do you know if a teacher works hard? SIDNEY: Dear grandson, everybody has to work hard EVERY WEEK OF EVERY MONTH OF A YEAR. NICK: But if I were a pirate on a desert island… SIDNEY:No, no, no. Come on, just try to rest. Have a nice siesta. A) Listen to The Cure’s “Friday I’m in love” and then make a list with all the days of the week!
B) THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR. Listen to the song “I just called to say I love you”, by Steve Wonder. Find all the months of the year and facts about them. MONTHS
FACTS
C) WORKING ON TIME: Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions. 123456-
It rains a lot __________ autumn. I don’t go to school __________ Sundays. We get a lot of presents __________ Christmas. Peter gets up __________ 7:30 every morning. When is your birthday? It’s __________ October, 6th. We have a holiday __________ Easter.
D) In groups, make a calendar for the class with the main festivities. You can use the web page: www.ego4u.es, calendar.
WORD BANK 8 – TIME
TCRERNYU
A) TIMELINE – UNSCRAMBLE THE LETTERS TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME.
AREY
B) TELLING THE TIME – DRAW THE TIME ON THE CLOCKS BELOW.
TONHM
KEEW
YDA
It’s three o´clock.
It’s a quarter past eight.
It’s half past six.
It’s twenty to four.
It’s ten to nine.
It’s twenty-five past eleven.
ROUH
TEMIUN
CONDES
C) PREPOSITIONS OF TIME – ARRANGE THE TIME EXPRESSIONS IN THE BOX INTO THE THREE COLUMNS ACCORDING TO THE PREPOSITONS.
six o´clock – (the) spring – lunchtime – the afternoon – January – Christmas – the 80s – the weekend – night – 1970 – Tuesday – Easter – April – the morning – (the) summer – the evening – Friday – midnight – (the) autumn – midday – (the) winter – September
On
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WORKSHEET 7 – Nick’s second dream! It is next day at school. The students are writing a story called On an Island. Nick has got his notebook, his pencil and his rubber on his desk. All the students are writing the story, but Nick is looking out of the window and dreaming again. “It is a hot day and Nick is sailing on a boat to an island. He has got a bottle of water and a bag of food. He has also got a pen and a notebook to write about the island. He sails for a long time. Suddenly, he sees a hole in his boat. The water is coming in. He quickly sails to the island and gets out of the boat. “I can write a message and put it in the bottle”, he thinks. He writes the message and puts the bottle into the water. A man finds the bottle and reads the message. He sails to the island and finds Nick.” “Nick, Nick. You’re dreaming. Please write your story.” “Oh, that’s easy,” says Nick to his teacher. “I have got a great story!”
READ THE STORY AND … A) Choose the correct answer. 1- The students are _____. a. sailing to an island.
b. writing a story.
c. sleeping.
2- Nick has got a bottle of _____ with him. a. juice b. milk
c. water
3- Nick has also got a pen and a _____. a. Book b. Notebook
c. pencil
4- A man ______ the bottle and reads the message. a. finds b. starts
c. eats
5- Nick is dreaming _____. a. on the island
c. at school
b. in her bed
B) Underline all the nouns in the text and write their plural forms.
Do you like reading? I love reading books . . . and magazines . . . and newspapers . . . and stories on the Internet. Actually, I like reading everything I can … and YOU? Let’s see what you know about universal literature:
A) A QUEST IN LITERATURE. CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION A, B OR C. QUESTIONS / ANSWERS 1. WHO IS DON QUIXOTE? 2. WHO WROTE ROMEO AND JULIET? 3. WHAT TYPE OF BOOK IS FRANKENSTEIN? 4. WHO IS CHARLES DICKENS? 5. WHAT IS THE WIZARD OF OZ? 6. WHO IS HARRY POTTER? 7. WHO WROTE TOM SAWYER? 8. WHAT COLOUR IS MOBYDICK? 9. WHO IS SHERLOCK HOLMES? 10. WHAT IS THE MISSING ADJECTIVE IN MANOLITO
A
B
C
A KNIGHT
A CRAZY MAN
A BUTCHER
SHAKESPEARE
CERVANTES
OSCAR WILDE
ADVENTURE
HORROR
CRIME
A COMEDIAN
A WRITER
A CELEBRITY
A TALE
A NOVEL
A PLAY
A WITCH
A WIZARD
A STUDENT
MARK TWAIN
CELA
LEWIS CARROL
BLACK
GREY
WHITE
A DETECTIVE
A BAKER
A TEACHER
MANOTAS
GAFOTAS
PELOTA
B) FOCUS ON READING 3: OUR BOOKS LINE FROM THE MOST INTERESTING BOOK YOU HAVE READ TO THE MOST BORING ONE … NOW WE ARE ARRANGING THEM… MUCH THE SAME AS A CLOTHES LINE, WE ARE CREATING OUR BOOKS LINE WITH OUR FAVOURITE BOOKS IN CLASS.
ENJOY READING 1 - GUESS WHICH BOOK IT IS!
Key Facts
FULL TITLE · ……………….… or The Whale
author · Herman Melville / type of work · Novel / genre · Epic, adventure story, quest tale, allegory, tragedy / language · English / time and place written · Between 1850 and 1851, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and New York City / tense · Past / setting (time) · 1830s or 1840s / setting (place) · Aboard the whaling ship the Pequod, in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.