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Timing

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Unit 1 Where we live

Inquiry question:

Why do people live in cities or villages?

Inquiry theme:

To understand why a city or town developed in that place

In this unit pupils will ...

read short texts, fact files, e-mails and poems

listen to dialogues and interviews

ask for and give personal information

learn about the importance of water in our life

learn about life in big cities and different villages

learn how to use maps

Lesson 1 Summer holidays are fun.

Aims	Learning outcomes	Vocabulary and structure	Required equipment
Educational: to learn new words related to the topic Developing: to enable pupils to talk about summer holidays; to work with different text types: poems and emails Socio-cultural: to raise awareness of talking about summer holidays	By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to talk about summer holidays.	Familiar words: summer holidays, activities related to spending summer holidays	Textbook; the DVD of the book

Activity 1 Listen and repeat. 8 min

Objectives: to introduce the topic; to create a friendly atmosphere

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to listen to a poem ‘Summer’ By Nicolette Lennert STEP 2: Ask the pupils the following questions:

What’s this poem about? What’s the weather like? What can you do?

STEP 3: Ask the pupils to listen and repeat.

STEP 4: Ask the pupils to notice which words rhyme, e.g. fun/sun, pool/cool.

STEP 5: Ask the pupils in pairs to write another verse.

Line 1: Summer, summer

Line 2:

Line 3:

Line 4: [last word has to rhyme with last word in line 2]