English Teacher

Activity 3a Work in pairs. Read and complete. 5 min

Objective: to understand how to tell someone what is wrong with them and how they know (problem and eff ect)
STEP 1: Say: “I have a pain in my ... . I can’t hear you” (mime that you can’t hear).
STEP 2: Ask: “What’s wrong? Where’s the pain? How do you know the problem is there?”
Answer: Ear is the problem and the eff ect is that you can’t hear.
STEP 3: Say: “Work with your partner. You have 5 minutes”.
STEP 4: Elicit feedback from the whole class. Invite different pupils to identify the problem and mime it.
STEP 5: Write the answers on the board. STEP 6: Say: “Check and correct your work”. Possible answers:

1. 
   I have a pain in my ear. I can’t hear you.
   
2. 
   I have a pain in my stomach. I can’t eat anything. 3 I have a pain in my ankle. I can’t walk.
   

4. 
   I have a pain in my wrist. I can’t write.
   
5. 
   I have a pain in my back. I can’t sweep the yard. 6 I have a pain in my eye. I can’t see well.
   

Activity 3b Play “Listen and Continue”. 7 min

Objective: to understand how to tell someone that they have a pain and what the eff ect is
Ask the pupils to stand in row in pairs. Give a card to Pupil A. S/he must look
and say a sentence, e.g. I have a pain in my ear. Pupil B must continue, e.g. I can’t hear you.

4. 
   Post-activity
   

Activity 4 Work in pairs. Choose the words and write a short story. 7 min Objective: to understand that a problem has a cause, an eff ect and a solution STEP 1: Ask the pupils to work in pairs. Ask them to look at the pictures and words. STEP 2: Read out the model short story to them.
Yesterday we played snowballs all evening and it was really fun. But it was very cold and I caught a cold. Today I am not feeling well. I cannot go to school. I should stay at home and lie in bed.
STEP 3: Ask: “What’s the problem? (cannot go to school, do not feel well). What’s the cause? (they played outside in the cold for too long) What’s the eff ect? (they don’t feel well the next day, they caught a cold) What’s the solution? (put more clothes on when you play outside, come inside when you feel cold)” Problem = cannot go to school Cause = played outside in the cold
Effect = not feeling well Solution = put more clothes on when you play outside

5. 
   Homework 5 min