Unit 1 City and village

Homework

Ex: 5

Date:

Teacher:

Form: VII

Subject: English

Theme: Holiday in Plymouth

Aim:

• to introduce some cultural information about England

• to practise listening and talking about a place of interest in Plymouth

• to listen for specific and detailed information

• to present vocabulary for punctuation marks

Equipment: picture, dictionary

T h e p r o c e d u r e o f t h e l e s s o n

1. The beginning of the lesson

2.Checking up the homework

T h e m a i n p a r t o f t h e l e s s o n

Activity 1

Objective: to introduce the topic

Give PP some time to think over their answers. Help them if they are not sure about how to answer the second question. A possible answer is: "To the seaside in the south of the country".

Activity 2

Objectives: to introduce cultural information; to practise talking and listening; to revise questions

This is a normal information gap activity. PP work in pairs. First they should read the information on their pages, then write questions in their Ex.Bks, ask each other and write answers.

Activity 3a

Objective: to prepare for the next activity

PP find the words in the Wordlist and write them and their meaning in their Ex.Bks.

Activity 3b

Objective: to teach PP to say the new words correctly

Say the words or play the tape and ask PP to repeat after you or the tape all together, in rows and/or individually.

Activity 4a

Objective: to listen for specific information

Before you play the tape, draw PP attention to the two questions and to the phrase in the Remember box. Explain that people can say it when they haven't seen each other for a very long time. People can also use the following phrase in letters: "Haven't heard from you for ages!" Play the tape once and ask your PP, possibly the best ones, to answer the questions.

Key:

1 She played basketball (with her grandfather), went to the beach (with her grandmother) and to the National Marine Aquarium.

2 She saw sharks, seahorses and divers.

Tapescript

Ws.

James: Hello, Anne. Haven't seen you for ages! Where have you been?

Anne: Hello, James. I was away in Plymouth.

James: Why did you go there?

Anne: For my holidays. I stayed with my grandparents.

James: Uh, with.your grandparents... must be boring.

Anne: Oh, no. My grandparents are wonderful! My grandad even played basketball with me, and my granny and I went to the beach when the weather was good. And one day they took me to the National Marine Aquarium.

James: The National Marine what?

Anne: The National Marine Aquarium. There are hundreds of fish there, and there are skilled divers, and they feed the fish by hand.

James: Wow! That's fantastic! What did you like most of all?

Anne: Baby seahorses and sharks!

James: Sharks?! How exciting! Please tell me all about them. How big were they? Do they eat people?

Anne: Some do. I'll tell you more about them and show you some pictures of the Shark Theatre. And where did you go on holiday?

James: To North Cornwall... (The voice fades away)

Activity 4b

Objective: to listen for detail

Play the tape again. Pause to let PP write answers in their Ex.Bks.