Life & Living Before you start … Work through the questions with the class, asking follow up questions to encourage Ss to expand on their answers as much as possible. (e.g. Do you believe in good/bad luck? Why (not)? What superstitions do you have in your country? What special occasions do you like to celebrate? Why? Have you ever been to a carnival? What did you do at it? What did you like about it?)
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Pic 3 (p.33) What is this a picture of? What is the unit about? Where do you think this neighbourhood is? What is your neighbourhood like? Pic 4 (p. 38) Do you know the animal in the picture? What do you think you will learn in the unit? Do you think it is important to protect animals and their homes? What can we do to help?
Look at Module 2 ñ Refer Ss to the title of the module, Life & Living, and invite them to suggest what they think it means and what they expect to learn from the module. Suggested Answer Key I think the title means how we live our lives and where we live. We will probably learn about life in different homes, neighbourhoods and families.
ñ Ask Ss to look through the module and find the page numbers for each of the pictures. Ask questions to stimulate a discussion about them. Suggested Answer Key Focus Ss’ attention on pic 1 (p. 25). T: S1: T: S2: T: S3: T: S4:
What page is the picture on? It’s on page 26. What does it show? It’s a picture of a space station. What do you think the unit is about? How astronauts live in space. What do you think life in space is like? It must be very strange living in a space station with no gravity. T: Would you like to be an astronaut and live in space? S5: I’d like to visit space but I don’t think I’d like to live there. Pic 2 (p.28) What does the picture show? How many members are in your family? What things do you do all together?
Find the page number(s) for Allow Ss time to browse through the module and find the items. Ask them to explain what each item is and elicit simple information about each of them. Suggested Answer Key a word map (p. 26) What is a word map? (a map that organises words into groups to help build vocabulary) What words are in this map? Do you think the map helps you to understand and remember the words? a joke (p. 35) What is the joke about? What else is in the unit? Why do you think the unit will be helpful? newspaper headlines (p. 38) What else can you see on pp. 38-39? How do the headlines relate to the pictures?
Explain that the module has: ― a Culture Corner ― a Going Green section Ask Ss to look at the relevant pages and elicit what each section is about (10 Downing street, Animal habitats in danger).
Listen, read and talk about …/Learn how to …/ Practise …/Write/Make … Select Ss to read through the list of items that will be covered in the module. If necessary, explain any new vocabulary. Ask Ss to go through the list and tick any items they think they know or can do, put a cross next to the ones they do not know and a star next to the ones they think will be the most useful. Select Ss to report on which items they have ticked or put a star next to.
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