www.frenglish.ru Class library Name Worksheet Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Book title Date Rating Comments Name Comments Name Comments Name Comments Name Comments Name Comments Name Comments Name Comments Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Class library Teacher's Notes Activity This activity involves setting up a classroom library Preparation For this activity you will need a series of English books and / or magazines for your classroom There are different ways of obtaining this Ask the students to each buy or bring in a book / magazine in English to the class Ask the school to buy or lend you a class set of books.* Use your own books or magazines If you have your own classroom, you can leave the books on a shelf there, or put them all in a box labelled CLASS LIBRARY It’s a good idea to have the books in a place that is easy for both you and the students to access What to Lay the books from the class library out on a big table and invite the students to come up and browse through them The students should each choose a book that they are going to read Tell them to complete the Class Library Sheet (see worksheet) with the book title, their name and the date The students read their books at home When they have finished, they bring back the book They complete the sheet with a star rating for the book and a short comment The students read the ratings and comments and choose another book to read Variations If you have a large group of students and a small set of books for your library, then get students to this activity in groups, and give them a deadline to read their books (e.g one or two weeks) so that others have a chance to read them too *for a class library, we recommend you use graded readers especially for lower-level students Graded readers are specifically written for language learners and contain fewer words and easier language Macmillan has a wide range of readers for every level, which are a combination of adaptations of classics and original stories You can find out more at www.macmillanenglish.com/readers Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Course certificate ATE OBAL DI PRE-IN GL TERME Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Course certificate Teacher’s Notes Activity The students receive a certificate on completion of their course and / or of their level of their Global coursebook Preparation Make a copy of the certificate for every student in the class who passes the course Write their names on the certificates If you have a school stamp or seal, you can add that too What to Distribute the certificates at the end of the course Variation Hold a certificate award ceremony Call each student out by name and ask them to come forward to accept their certificate Variation Nominate (or ask students to nominate) a class valedictorian A valedictorian is a spokesperson for the class who gives a speech at the end of the course This usually happens during or after the presentation of certificates of study and is traditional in the United States at the end of secondary school or university The valedictorian prepares a short speech about the course, mentions things that have happened and usually thanks the teacher and school Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Course feedback sheet Worksheet Name: Write three things you have learned on the course so far Which lessons you remember most? Why you remember them? Tick (✔) the relevant box or boxes Because the lessons were funny Because the lessons were interesting Because the lessons were easy Because the lessons were difficult Because the lessons were very useful for my English Because I learned a lot Other: What has been most difficult on the course so far? What would you like to more in the course? Tick (✔) the relevant box or boxes Reading Listening Writing Speaking Grammar and vocabulary Pronunciation Homework Other What two things you like most about this course? Do you have any other comments? Extra question box Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Course feedback sheet Teacher’s Notes Activity This is an activity where students work individually They complete a feedback sheet about the course so far Preparation Make one copy of the course feedback worksheet for each student in the class What to If there is an additional question (or questions) which you would like to ask your students which is not covered on the sheet, write it the ‘extra question box’ on the top copy of the worksheets before you photocopy them for the students Give out the worksheet, one copy for each student Go through the worksheet with the students to check vocabulary and ensure they know what to Ask them to work individually and complete the feedback sheet Collect all the sheets from the students Follow-up activity Depending on your relationship with your group, you may want to lead a whole group discussion on the course content and the results on the feedback sheet immediately afterwards This is an opportunity to talk to the students about their learning and allow them to open up to you You might want to take the opportunity to offer guidance on what they could outside the classroom to improve their English This activity could also help you identify any problem areas and to address them before formal feedback at the end of the module or course Follow-up activity Give out the feedback sheets at the end of the lesson and collect them in Prepare a class discussion based on the results for the next lesson This will give you time to analyse the results thoroughly so that you can address any problem areas or difficulties that the students have mentioned Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru DIY revision quiz Worksheet Answer the questions in the revision quiz REVISON QUIZ Section 1: Complete the word Fill the gap with the rest of the word You usually put books on a s An Section 2: is something comfortable you sit on. / points Cloze exercise Fill the gap with a suitable word speak English? Yes, I A little My birthday is Section 3: Error correction Correct the mistake in each sentence You drink too many coffee What’s the wrong? You look ill. Section 4: I hate exams They make me anxious / relaxed / sleepy I would like to learn / learning another language. / points Multiple choice Choose the correct option Section 5: / points November 12th. / points Matching Match the word on the left with the word on the right to make phrases cook a walk television go for exercise watch a meal / points Total / 10 points Work in pairs Make a similar quiz with ten questions Use different question types and revise grammar and vocabulary from your coursebook Exchange your revision quiz with another pair of students Do the quiz Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru DIY revision quiz Teacher's Notes Activity This activity involves students creating their own grammar and vocabulary revision activities, using typical exam-type questions It can be done individually or in pairs Preparation Make copies of the worksheet, one for each student What to Tell the students they are going to a revision quiz Distribute the worksheet Explain that each of the sections has a typical examtype question Go over each of the sections and make sure the students know what to Point out that many of the questions have been selected from the Global review pages The students then answer the questions Check back answers with the whole class Put the students into pairs Tell them they are going to make a mini quiz They should make ten items, selecting from the question types in the quiz they have just done All their questions should come from material in Global Pre-intermediate Circulate and monitor Make sure the students have a note of the correct answers to their questions Students now exchange their quizzes with another pair and them Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Getting to know Global Worksheet How many units are there in Global Pre-intermediate? Here are the first parts of the unit titles For each title: a finish the phrase b find what unit it is from Title Eating and Art and Science and New and Unit Look on page (contents highlights page) and find the names of three famous English books from which you can read extracts of texts On page 46 there is a text about famous dystopias in literature What is a dystopia? What are the examples? What is the vocabulary focus on page 70? Which unit has stories about Olympic athletes? Every unit has a writing lesson What is the writing lesson for Unit 8? Look at the Function globally lessons on page (the full contents map) Which lessons can help you: a make offers and decisions? b go shopping in a market? c eat out in a restaurant? d take turns in conversation? Every unit has a section called Study skills What is the study skill in Unit 7? 10 Global has a section of grammar practice at the end of the book (pages 132-51) Look at this and find: a an area of English grammar you know already. b an area of English grammar you don’t know yet. Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Getting to know Global Teacher’s Notes Activity This is a quiz to introduce students to the coursebook which can be done individually or in pairs Preparation Print and make copies of the quiz, one for every pair of students Students will also need a copy of Global Pre-intermediate Student’s Book What to Put the students in pairs and distribute the quiz, one for each pair Explain that this quiz is for students to get to know the coursebook you are going to be working with Go over the questions quickly, making sure that students understand all the vocabulary in them Distribute the Student’s Books (or ask students to take them out of their bags if they already have them) Students the quiz in pairs Allow plenty of time – at least ten minutes – for them to discuss their answers Circulate and monitor progress, offering help where necessary Go back over the answers as a whole group Answers Ten 2 Eating and Drinking Unit 2; Art and Music Unit 3; Science and Technology Unit 6; New and Old Unit 10 3 Answers will vary, but may include Frankenstein, Portrait of Dorian Grey, Dracula, High Fidelity, The Beach, etc 4 A dystopia is an imaginary place where everything is bad Examples include 1984, A Handmaid’s Tale and Brave New World Compound nouns connected to computers Unit A description of a town 8 Unit can help you make offers and decisions Unit can help you go shopping in a market Unit can help you eat out in a restaurant Unit can help you take turns in conversation Planning your study time 10 Individual answers will vary Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Going global – web-search tips Teacher’s Notes Activity This is an activity where students work individually They learn and practise tips for using search engines in English Preparation Make one copy of the Going Global worksheet for every student in the class What to Write search engine on the board and ask students to suggest different search engines they know (for example, Google) Distribute the worksheets Ensure that the students are familiar with the following terms: search, entry, include, exclude, key word, lower case and upper case Ask the students to Exercise and write any other common search engines that the students suggest on the board Ask students to read the tips for web searches Circulate and help with any other unknown words The students should now Exercise If you have access to a computer room, students can this exercise together there Otherwise, ask them to it for homework Tell them to make a note of the following for each search: a the key words they used b the address for first site they found Answer key a a page of quotations about the English language: quotations +English language OR quotations +about +English b a page about fruit and vegetables: fruit +vegetables c a page about fruit but not vegetables: fruit –vegetables d a song that includes the words and now the time has come: song +’and now the time has come’ e a page about the meaning of colours (UK spelling) or colors (US spelling) meaning + col*rs NB In every unit of Global there are Go Global internet tasks These are in the teacher’s book at the beginning of each unit and can be assigned as extra follow-up reading or serve as the basis for project work during the course Many of these tasks involve using a search engine to find information This task is useful preparation for these tasks Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Improving your English Worksheet Look at the following activities for improving your English Which ones are activities inside the classroom and which are activities outside the classroom? Mark them I for inside and O for outside the classroom Inside / Outside Activity Asking questions when I don’t understand Speaking English with other people in class Reading an English book Reading English websites Listening to the radio in English Watching films in English Making a note of words and phrases I learn in class Reviewing the pages we studied in class Speaking English to the teacher when I arrive in class Using an English dictionary Recopying my notes from class in a neat form Asking the teacher for suggestions on improving my English Sharing ideas with other students on improving my English Finding a penpal (or keypal)* to write to in English Asking the teacher to repeat activities that I find useful I will this Now look back at the list Which activities would you like to to improve your English? Choose at least three activities Can you think of any others? Complete the form below During this course I am going to try the following activities to improve my English inside and outside the classroom: Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Improving your English Teacher’s Notes Activity This is an activity in which students think about ways in which they can improve their English not only inside but also outside the classroom during the up-coming course and make some resolutions about what actions they are going to take It is an activity to be completed individually, but you should encourage the students to discuss their ideas and decisions in pairs Preparation Make a copy of the worksheet for every student in the class What to Distribute the worksheets and tell students to look at the list of different things they could to improve their English Ask them to read through the list carefully and decide whether these are activities they could in or outside the classroom Go over the answers as a class and answer any vocabulary questions the students might have Check that they have understood the term ‘keypal’ – ‘key’ replaces ‘pen’ since most students will use a keyboard to write with rather than a pen Ask the students to choose three to five of the activities and put an X next to the ones they would like to during the school year in the ‘I will this’ column At least one of these activities must be something they will outside the classroom Tell them to take their time and think seriously about what they can realistically achieve and that you will expect them to make an effort to stick to their resolutions Now ask the students to complete the statement box at the bottom of the worksheet Tell them to write down which activities they have selected, say why they have chosen them and include some information about where and when they are going to the activities that they have selected for outside the classroom Ask them to file the worksheet carefully and keep it with their class notes After a few weeks, ask students to take out the worksheet again and evaluate whether they are doing the activities they set themselves Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Letter to a student in the next class Worksheet You are going to write a letter to a student who is taking this course next year Choose five of the sentences below and complete them with your own ideas Dear Welcome to this English course Our names are and We were students in this course last (term, year) This is a course If you want to well on this course, you should Some parts of the course were very difficult / easy, for example Be careful of Ask the teacher to tell you about / show you And play you the song / movie We really liked You will learn in the course and One more thing, Anyway, we hope you enjoy the course Good luck! Signed Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Letter to a student in the next class Teacher’s Notes Activity This is a pairwork activity in which the students compose a letter to a potential future student of the course Preparation Make one copy of the worksheet for every two students in the class What to In pairs, students discuss the following questions: What did you enjoy most on this course? What was the most difficult thing? Give out the worksheet to each pair of students Ask the students to write a short letter in pairs to a future student using the worksheet as a guide The students exchange letters with another pair to compare the others’ ideas about the course with their own The students give their letters to the teacher Follow-up activity After they have completed the worksheet, get the students to discuss and compare their ideas about the course as a whole group To round off, get the group to vote for the most enjoyable part of the course and the most difficult Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru My English at the end of the course Worksheet Here are some of the key areas of the Global Pre-intermediate syllabus For each area, write a number from to = I don’t understand this / don’t know this / can’t this very well = I can understand this / know this / can this = I can understand this / know this / can this very well FUNCTION GLOBALLY GRAMMAR Eating out Forming questions Agreeing and disagreeing Present tenses Making offers and decisions Past tenses Taking turns in a conversation Future forms Finding things in common Modal verbs Shopping in a market to and –ing verbs Speaking on the telephone Passive voice Describing illness Ending a conversation VOCABULARY Home and food WRITING Work and leisure activities A descriptive composition (personal, food and drink, a town) Describing people A review Health and sport Phrasal verbs An informal email A CV An advantages and disadvantages composition An opinion essay An online post A report Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru My English at the end of the course Teacher’s Notes Activity In this activity, the students talk about the objectives of the course and evaluate their progress It can be done individually or in groups Preparation Make one copy of the worksheet for each student in the class What to Distribute the worksheets Ask students to read through the key points of the course and think about the areas of language they have been studying and what they have learned Students decide on the extent to which they believe they have achieved each of the course objectives and tick the appropriate boxes Allow plenty of time for this Circulate and monitor, helping students as needed to remember key parts of the syllabus Ask students to complete the two boxes at the bottom of the page Students now work in small groups Tell them to share the information that they wrote at the bottom of their worksheet They should, if possible, this in English Get feedback from the different groups Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Reading habits survey Worksheet Which of the following you read in your own language? Tick (✔) the relevant box or boxes Novels Magazines Newspapers Internet websites Documents / books for work or school How often you read for pleasure? Tick (✔) the relevant box or boxes Every day At weekends On holiday Not very often Never Where you read? Tick (✔) the relevant box or boxes On the bus / the train In bed At home on the sofa None of the above Do you read anything in English? What? If you read in English and you don’t understand a word, what you do? Tick (✔) the relevant box or boxes Continue reading? Look up the word in the dictionary? Stop reading? Guess the meaning of the word? Underline or mark the word to check later? Write three things that you could read in English in the next two weeks Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Reading habits survey Teacher’s Notes Activity This is a pairwork activity in which students discuss reading habits Preparation Copy and distribute the reading questionnaire, one copy for each student What to Go through the worksheet with the students to make sure they understand all the vocabulary Ask the students to work in pairs The students take it in turns to ask and answer the questions on the worksheet in pairs Each student should complete a worksheet with their partner’s answers Get feedback from the group by asking students what they found out about their partner’s reading habits Elicit examples of the kinds of texts – e.g specific magazines, newspapers, websites, blogs – the students could read in English over the next two weeks Put these on the board, and encourage students to choose two or more and make a personal goal of reading them Follow-up activity You might like to go straight on to the Class library activity Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Specific needs Worksheet Business needs analysis Name: Level: Job: What you need English for? Tick (✔) the relevant items Writing emails, letters or faxes Talking on the telephone Meeting clients Working in an English-speaking environment Reading emails, letters or faxes Translating or interpreting for other people at work International meetings Social situations International travel Other (please specify) Which of the following skills you need to practise most? Speaking Writing Listening Reading How important is the following in your work? Rate them from 1(not important) to (very important) Speaking fluently Good pronunciation Correct writing Making small talk Understanding documents Understanding native speakers of English Understanding non-native speakers of English Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Specific needs Teacher’s Notes Business needs analysis Activity This is an activity for individuals Students identify what kind of English they need for work Preparation Make copies of the worksheet, one for each student What to Distribute the worksheets to the students Go over any words or phrases you think the students might not understand Students complete the worksheet Collect the worksheets and read them Draw out and make a note of any common points that emerge (e.g that the majority of students need English to write emails) In the next class, tell the class the results of the needs analysis and what areas (if any) the majority of students have in common During the course, draw the students’ attention to sections in the book or extra activities that help meet the needs they have specified in the needs analysis Note Many students study a general English course even if they operate in a business environment In this activity the teacher can identify the parts of the syllabus that are most useful / needed by such students and which will help them become more operationally effective in English in a business context Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Who sits where? Worksheet Class floor plan Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Who sits where? Teacher’s Notes Activity This is an activity where students make a floor plan of the class and learn each other’s names It can be done individually or in pairs Preparation Make a copy of the worksheet for every student in the class What to Distribute the worksheet to the students Ask them to draw a floor plan of the class, making little squares or boxes for each desk or chair The boxes should be big enough to write names in Ask the students to call out their names one by one As this is happening, the whole group should be writing the names in their floor plans If a student has a difficult or unusual name, ask them to spell it (in English) for the class It is a good idea to revise the vocabulary for this – and other helpful expressions such as asking someone to repeat or speak more slowly – at the beginning of the activity Ask the students to spend two to three minutes studying their floor plans They should try and memorise the names of the other students in the class Do the same yourself! Put the students into pairs One student puts away their floor plan The other student tests them, pointing to others in the class and asking What’s his name? What’s her name? The first student answers Students swap roles and repeat A week or two into the course, repeat the exercise again Encourage the students to use each other’s names during activities Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Your Personal Study Plan (PSP) Part Personal details Name: Worksheet Part Study partner Name: Level: Contact details (phone or email): Number of hours of English class / week: Activities you can with a partner: Part Study habits What time of day you study best? (e.g morning, afternoon, night?) Where you study? (e.g.at home, in the kitchen, on the bus?) Part Study activities Tick (✔)the activities you would like to outside of class 10 11 12 13 14 15 Review my English lesson from class Do grammar and vocabulary worksheets Do interactive language exercises (on a computer) Test myself on the language we studied Improve my writing skills Listen to texts in English Listen to conversations in English Listen and repeat useful words and phrases Watch video clips of useful language Watch news and documentary-style video clips Look up new words in the dictionary Visit English language websites Speak English with another person Exchange emails or texts with another person in English Listen to English songs and try to understand the words Your own ideas: Part Study goals For this course, I plan to study English outside of class for hours, every Signed: Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Your Personal Study Plan (PSP) Teacher’s Notes Activity Note This is an activity to be done individually Students make a personal study plan to practise English outside class A month or so into your course, ask students to take out their PSP and look at it again Are they keeping up with their stated goals? Should they re-evaluate how they are spending their study time? Preparation Copy and distribute the worksheets, one per student What to These sheets could also be used as a starting point for individual student-teacher meetings / tutorials, if you have those at your school Write the letters PSP up on the board Ask students what they think it means (some people might say PlayStation Portable, a game console, others may say Paint Shop Pro, a computer programme, there may be other possibilities) Accept any suggestions the students make, and then tell them that in this class PSP will mean Personal Study Plan Each student will make their own Distribute the worksheets and ask the students to complete the Part Before they start the Part 2, explain how you would answer this question Give a personal example of a time when you were studying something Elicit a few similar answers from other students in the class, then instruct them to complete Part for themselves Now, ask students to look through the activities in Part and tick the ones that interest them They can add extra study ideas if they like at the end When the students have finished this section, now is a good time to show them the Global e-workbook in detail Explain that of the 15 activities listed in Part 3, the first 11 can all be done with the e-workbook If you have a computer and projector in class, show the students the different sections; alternatively, simply ask them to look through the booklet In Part students decide on a study goal – how much time they are going to devote to learning English outside of class Encourage them to push themselves a little bit, but also to ensure that they set themselves a realistic goal The last part is optional If you and your students want to, you can set up a study partner system Study partners can work together out of class, and can inform each other of anything one or the other misses if he / she is absent If students wish, they decide on a study partner and complete the information in Part Ask students to sign the page and file it away Global Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable ... www.macmillanenglish.com/readers Global Pre- intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Course certificate ATE OBAL DI PRE- IN GL TERME Global Pre- intermediate. .. Global Pre- intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Getting to know Global Worksheet How many units are there in Global Pre- intermediate? ... business context Global Pre- intermediate Teacher’s Resource CD © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 Photocopiable www.frenglish.ru Who sits where? Worksheet Class floor plan Global Pre- intermediate