Spotlight 8 Mod 7 Ts
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Before you start … ñ 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. What types of activities do you like to do on holidays? What monuments have you visited? Why? Would you like to be an exchange student? Why or why not? ñ Make sure Ss understand this section and use the prompts to recycle vocabulary seen in Module 6.
Look at Module 7 Refer Ss to the title of module, Education, and invite them to suggest what they think it means and what they expect to learn from the module. Suggested Answer Key The title refers to learning and going to school. I think we will learn about different schools, subjects and ways of learning.
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 to pic.1 (p.108). T: What page is the picture on? S1: It’s on page 108. It’s a boy looking in a microscope. T: Have you ever used a microscope? S2: Yes, in science class. T: What is your favourite subject? Why? S3: History. I like to learn about the past and important people. pic.2 (p.116) What is this a picture of? What do think the girls are doing? How do you help your friends when they have problems? What kinds of problems do we experience at school? pic.3 (p.107) What is the boy doing in the picture? What other ways do we communicate with others? Do you use computers and mobiles to communicate with your friends?
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Education pic.4 (p.110) What are the people in this picture doing? What is a special school? Do you know of any special schools? What would you like to study if you went to a special school?
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 graph (p. 107) What information does the graph contain? Why do we use graphs? What do you learn from this graph? a diagram (p. 119) What does the diagram show? Why do we use diagrams? How does this diagram help us understand the information in the text? a sketch showing how something is made (p. 113) What does the sketch show? Does it help us understand? Where do we sometimes see sketches? dictionary entries (p. 108) What information do these entries give us about the word? Do you use a dictionary to help with the pronunciation of a word? When do we use dictionaries? What subjects require the use of a dictionary? Go through the rest of the sections with your Ss and point out that by the end of the module that they will know how to perform the tasks listed. Explain that the module has: ― a Literature and Speaking section ― a Culture Corner ― a Going Green section ― an English in Use section Ask Ss to look at the relevant pages and elicit what each section is about.
Listen, read and talk about …/Learn how to …/ Practise …/Write/Make … As described in the relevant section in Module 1.