LASER B1 for Teacher

1405076852.txt.qxd 21-12-07 06:04 ™ÂÏ›‰·10 Unit Welcome Back! Target Language Grammar: present simple and present Reading Listening Speaking Writing Pronunciation Lexis: skills: skills: skills: skills: skills: r continuous / stative verbs patterns / education vocabulary scanning for specific information listening for specific information giving personal information paragraphing / informal letter /I/ and /i…/ recognition maths English PE history geography science • Ask Whose favourite subject is (eg) maths? • Count the number of students who raise their hands and • Ask students what the unit title is • Elicit the meaning of welcome and ask them what back refers to back, give back) Elicit suggestions as to what the unit is about (school and education) • Get warmed up! Aim: to introduce the topic of the unit through personal responses Background Information • • Ask students to write down all the subjects they at school • • • • • write this number next to maths in the table on the board, in the column with the smiley face Do the same for the other subjects Now go through the subjects in the same way, this time asking Whose least favourite subject is (eg) maths? and write the scores under the non-smiley face in the table Elicit an interpretation of the results from students, asking Which is the class’s favourite subject? and Which is the class’s least favourite subject? • • • Elicit any other expressions they know with back (eg come • You may wish to set a time limit of one or two minutes for this Ask them to number them in the order in which they enjoy them most (‘1’ for their favourite, ‘2’ for their next favourite, etc) Give students a short time to discuss the questions in pairs or in small groups Ask two or three students to tell you their three favourite subjects Elicit from them why they like one or two of these subjects Write some of their answers on the board PE is the abbreviation used to refer to physical education lessons in British schools Reading Aim: to give practice in scanning a text for specific information • Briefly revise countries and nationalities by asking students where they are from and what nationality they are On the Board (countries and nationalities of students in class) eg France – French Greece – Greek Sweden – Swedish On the Board Students’ answers, eg Science is fun., History is interesting • Ask students to look at the photos of the four children they • Ask two or three students to tell you their least favourite • • subjects Elicit from them why they don’t like them Write some of their answers on the board • On the Board • Students’ answers, eg English is difficult., Maths is boring Additional Task • Tell the class you are going to a survey to see which • t • subjects are the most and least popular Write a vertical list of about six subjects that have been mentioned by students on the board, then two more columns, one with a smiley face at the top, another with a non-smiley face at the top On the Board (subjects should be ones that have come up in the lesson – see example table) 10 are going to read about and guess where they might be from Go through the table with students and explain that the missing information is to be found in the text they are going to read Give students about two or three minutes to scan the text for the information they need to complete the table.Tell them not to read everything in detail, but just to focus on the specific information they need Elicit answers orally and write them on the board if you wish Name Age Nationality Does he/she enjoy learning English? Katerina Pedro Dana Oko 13 14 12 15 Greek Spanish Polish Ghanaian yes no yes yes