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

2 Read and listen. 
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First read the highlighted (white or red) words in the text 
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and explain their meanings where necessary (or you could 
give the children a few minutes to look up the words in 
dictionaries). Model and drill pronunciation. Explain that 
hardly
is often used with 
ever
(
hardly ever = almost never
).
Write some temperatures on the board (e.g. 10°C, -25°C, 
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etc) and practise reading them correctly (i.e. 
ten degrees 
Celsius, minus twenty-five degrees Celsius,
etc).
Play the recording while the children follow the text 
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in their books. Then ask some questions to check 
understanding, e.g. 
What is the hottest temperature ever 
recorded? Do scientists think El Azizia is the hottest place in 
the world? (No, they think the Sahara desert is the hottest 
place.) Does it often rain in Libya? What do we use to measure 
temperature? What is the coldest temperature ever recorded? 
Why is the Antarctic colder than the Arctic?
(See if the 
children can find three reasons.)
Vocabulary (page 13)
3 Use the words from the text to complete the 
sentences.
Look at the example together. Then tell the children to 
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write one of the highlighted words in each gap, to make 
the sentences true.
Check the answers as a class.
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Key
1 
border
 2 
hardly
 3 
zero
 4 
Celsius
 5 
temperature
 
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degrees
 7 
recorded
 8 
couple
 9 
thermometer
 
10 
sunburn