English is fun!: February 2015

Saturday 28 February 2015

Unit 8: Hand out travel brochure

All session

Hand out travel brochure:

Travel brochure Australia

Students work in pairs, ask them to read information about tips to write a travel brochure from wikihow.com

You can see it using i-nigma

From a map they randomly pick a place, look for information in Internet and write a travel brochure.

Present it to rest of class.

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Unit 8: Jo’s travel diary (Reading)

Year 4 text: Jo’s travel diary

Do you like this picture?

Would you buy it? For how much?

Who do you think has painted it?

Can someone describe it: which colours does it have? What is in the painting

Does it represent anything?

What name would you give this painting?

If I tell you that it costs 429$, would you believe it?

It I tell you that it was done by an animal, which one do you think?

Read the title “Most expensive painting by elephants”

Discuss:

Do you know what a travel diary is?

Have you ever had one?

Discuss

Individual reading

Check answers with a partner and whole class correction

In pairs, writing a travel diary. Hand in at end of class for teacher correction.

Teacher explains the format and steps they have to follow:

All class give ideas: where, what to do, vocabulary related to trips

In partners: plan what it is going to be about

Write it

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Unit 8. "We're The World (USA For Africa)"

"We're The World (USA For Africa)"

There comes a time when we heed a certain _____
When the ______ must come together as one
There are _____ dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of _____

We can't go on pretending day by ______

That someone, _________ will soon make a change
We all are a part of God's great big _______

And the truth, you know,
______ is all we need

[Chorus:]
We are the ______, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own _______
It's true we'll make a ________ day
Just you and _______

Send them your _________ so they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be _________ and free
As ________ has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]

When you're down and out, there seems no ______ at all
But if you just __________ there's no way we can fall
Well...well...well
Let's realize that a change can only come
When we stand __________ as one

[Chorus]

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Unit 8: What Is Beauty?

Pre-listening

Discuss in groups of 3:

What is beauty for you?
Do you think beauty is the same in all cultures?
Do you think it is important in our society?
Do you think beauty is also in the inside of people?

Whole-class discussion.

Some names that will come up in the video: (and show their pronunciation)

- Papua New Guinea

- Hui bachelor cult

- The mud men

- Ethiopia

- Distorted

- Wig

- Bound

Video about beauty in different cultures:

Monday 16 February 2015

Unit 8: Describing places adjectives

Continue 1 minute talk with different students.

Describing places (cut adjectives out and in groups of 5 turn one and decide where it goes)

Check all together: one student from each group writes them on board, if correct, they receive a point. Group with most points win.

Sunday 15 February 2015

Unit 8: Present perfect interrogative

A few students speaking for 1 minute about a random topic picked from cards.

Elicit from students rules and use of present perfect affirmative and negative and make them deduce the order for interrogative sentences.

Use students as models with sentences to practice word order.

Sentence:

She has seen the new science fiction film.

Chose the correct form:

1) I have eaten a delicious cake. __________________

Have I eat a delicious cake?

Have eaten I a delicious cake?

Have I eaten a delicious cake?

2) You have bought some milk. __________________

Have you bought some milk?

Have bought you some milk?

Have you buy some milk?

3) He has travelled a lot. __________________

Has he travelled a lot?

Did has he travelled a lot?

Has he travel a lot?

4) We have been to New Zeland. __________________

Have we be to New Zeland?

Have we been to New Zeland?

Have been we to New Zeland?

5) They have lost their dog. __________________

Has they lost their dog?

Have they lost their dog?

Have they lose their dog?

6) She has visited Big Ben. __________________

Has she visited Big Ben?

Have she visited Big Ben?

Have visited she Big Ben?

7) It has been a lovely day. __________________

Have it been a lovely day?

Has it be a lovely day?

Has it been a lovely day?

8) We have taken your umbrella. __________________

Have we took your umbrella?

Have we taken your umbrella?

Have taken we your umbrella?

9) I have sent a letter to my friend Tom. __________________

Have I sent a letter to my friend Tom?

Have sent I a letter to my friend Tom?

Has I sent a letter to my friend Tom?

10) The exam has been really easy! __________________

Has the exam been really easy?

Have the exam been really easy?

Have the exam be really easy?

Intermediate grammar games (Jill Hadfield: pg. 12 + 55, 56)

I. Make present perfect 'yes / no' or 'wh' questions

(They / go / to the USA)?
(You / read / the Harry Potter books)?
(She / be / late for school)?
(He / meet / your brother yet)?
(They / live / here as long as we have)?
(You / go / to Canada)?
(She / miss / the train)?
(I / meet / you before)?
(They / take / the exam)?
(She / work / in this company for ten years)?
(How long / she / live in Melbourne)?

II. Create 10 interrogative questions of your own that you would ask to a foreigner

Unit 8: Travelling (vocabulary exercises)

In pairs make questions to your partner practising the previous vocabulary items and take notes about your partner:

Do you like travelling abroad? ______________________________
How do you travel? ______________________________
What countries have you travelled? ______________________________
Who did you go with? __________________________________
When was the last time you travelled somewhere?_______________________
What is your favourite destination? ______________________________
What do you usually put in your luggage? ______________________________
Where would you like to go? Why? __________________________________

With the answers of the other, they have to speak about all the questions in front of everyone as if it were them.

Time to think it before going out.

Groups of 4/5
Teacher hands out pieces of paper with a word related to trips and the words that are forbidden.
Students have to speak for the others to guess

Once they have finished, each think of another word and give 3 forbidden words. Continue playing.

Saturday 7 February 2015

Unit 7: Game to be a journalist

http://pbskids.org/newsflashfive/scoop/index.html

http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames/newspaper.html

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Unit 7: Present perfect vs. past simple exercises

Source: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs5.htm

Source: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs6.htm