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

Reading (page 40)
Before reading
1 Discuss these questions.
Ask the children to open their books at pages 40 and 41. 
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Read the unit title, and explain that you are going to read 
a story.
Read and discuss the questions with the class. Encourage 
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them to use as much English as possible, but let them use 
L1 where necessary.
Ask the children to look at the pictures and ask them to 
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tell you (in L1) what they think might happen in the story.
2 Read and listen. 
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First read the green words in the text and explain their 
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meanings where necessary (or you could give the children 
a few minutes to look up the words in dictionaries). Model 
and drill pronunciation.
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. 
Why did Kallu sell Zahra’s necklace? 
What did he buy? What happened when a coin fell into the 
pot? What happened when Zahra and Kallu fell into the pot? 
What did they decide to do? Where did they put the pot?
Vocabulary (page 41)
3 Match the words from the text to the definitions.
Look at the example together. Then tell the children to 
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match the rest of the green words to their definitions, 
reading each definition carefully and looking up words in 
dictionaries if necessary. Encourage them to use the labels 
adjective
, 
noun
and 
verb
to help them. You might like to let 
them do this activity in pairs.
Key
1 
greedy
 2 
spade
 3 
bury
 4 
pot
 5 
pile
 6 
greet