Unit 13: How to Give People Advice

http://www.wikihow.com/Give-People-Advice

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

Unit 6: India: Marginalized Children Denied Education (Human rights)

Questions:

1.   What does the official report say about education in India?

2. What were the aims of the ambitious law? For what ages?

3. How many are likely to abandon school?

4. What does the teacher say to the boy? Why?

5. What are their reasons to discriminate children?

6. Who are the most discriminated?

7. What does the government fail to do?

Identify in the text words that mean:

a) Official document

b) Continually

c) Included

d) Probably

e) Stop going

f) In the end

g) Go

h) Control

Post-reading: 

1. Watch video related to the text:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/22/india-marginalized-children-denied-education

2. Comment on content among all class.