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

 
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Oxford Primary Skills 5 Unit 2 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
The children work individually or in pairs. Tell them to read 
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all the sentences before they do the matching.
Check the answers as a class by asking volunteers to read 
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out the pairs of sentences. Pay attention to the children’s 
pronunciation of the adjectives in green.
Key
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d
 2 
c
 3 
f
 4 
b
 5 
a
 6 
e
Writing (page 11)
Ask the children to look at the photo next to the text. Ask 
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What is her job?
Read the text while the children follow it in their books. 
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Then ask some questions to check understanding, e.g. 
Why isn’t the job boring? What does a vet need to know 
about? What must a vet’s personality be like?
Read the second paragraph again, drawing the children’s 
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attention to the phrases 
You have to…
, 
You need to…
and 
You mustn’t
. Explain that the meaning of 
need to
and 
have to
are very similar (in this situation they are 
interchangeable).
8 Match and make sentences.
Read the text in the blue box, relating each point back to 
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the model text above.
Look at Exercise 8 and read the example. Explain that the 
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sentence halves (when correctly matched) describe the 
requirements of the job of zoo keeper.
Let the children work individually, then check their 
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answers in pairs. Then check the answers as a class.
Read the beginning part of each sentence again. Point 
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out that these are useful phrases for describing the 
requirements of a job. Ask the children to help you 
to complete these sentences for a different job, e.g. a 
teacher. This will help to prepare the children for the 
writing task below.