Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

Key
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d
9 Write about the job you would like to have. 
Why would you like this job? Use these words and 
phrases.
Ask individual children 
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What job would you like to have?
The children answer 
I would like to be a…
When you think the children are ready, ask them to write 
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a short paragraph about their ideal job. Encourage them 
to use the text at the top of the page as a model. The blue 
box and their answers to Exercise 8 may also be useful.
Writing (optional extension activity)
Ask the children to think of a job that they think they 
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would enjoy doing, and to imagine the things they would 
have to do in a typical day. Ask them to write about their 
day, using the present simple.

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Oxford Primary Skills 5 Unit 3 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
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Extreme weather
Lesson objectives
To understand texts about places with extreme weather 
conditions
To recognize and use comparative and superlative 
adjectives
To order adjectives correctly
To write a description of a place
Language
This is the hottest temperature ever recorded. 
You can walk in the lovely, green forests.
Key vocabulary: 
recorded, couple, hardly, border, 
temperature, thermometer, degrees, Celsius, zero, sunburn 
More words: 
avalanche, cliff, glacier, peak, pothole, waterfall
Reading (page 12)
Before reading
1 Look at the photos. Discuss these questions.
With books closed, ask 
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What is the hottest/coldest place 
on Earth?
Let the children tell you what they know, or let 
them guess the answers.
Ask the children to open their books at pages 12 and 
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13. Draw their attention to the unit title and explain the 
meaning of 
extreme
if necessary. Read and discuss the 
questions with the class. Encourage them to use as much 
English as possible, but let them use L1 where necessary.
Ask the children to look at the reading text, and read the 
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titles of the three sections. Ask the children to identify the 
two superlative adjectives (
hottest
and 
coldest
).