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

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or in pairs to match the sentence halves.
Check the answers as a class by asking volunteers to 
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read out the complete sentences. Pay attention to the 
children’s pronunciation of the target vocabulary.
Key
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e
 2 
a
 3 
d
 4 
g
 5 
b
 6 
f
 7 
c
Writing (page 51)
Ask the children to look at the text and read the title. Ask 
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them if they have ever heard of Helen Keller and if so, 
what they know about her.
Read the text while the children follow it in their books. 
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Then ask some questions to check understanding, e.g. 
When was Helen Keller born? How did she talk to her family 
when she was little? How did Anne Sullivan teach Helen the 
word for ‘water’?
8 Read and circle the best time linkers.
Read the text in the blue box, and ask the children to find 
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examples of ‘time linkers’ in the model text above. Explain 
if necessary that 
by the time
is always followed by subject 
+ verb (e.g. 
By the time she was seven…; By the time he 
started school…
) and that it is used to refer to things that 
happened before the event in question.
Look at Exercise 8. Ask the children to choose and circle 
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the most appropriate option each time.
Check the answers as a class by asking individual children 
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to read out sentences.
Key
1 
When
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By the time
 3 
Soon
 4 
Finally
9 Write the life story of Florence Nightingale. Use 
these notes. Remember to use time linkers.
Ask the children if they have ever heard of Florence