GUESS WHO?

Learning another language is learning another culture.It is going to be very helpful if the learners can recognize different speeches used in distinctive places.

Let's see some examples:
e.g: Could you bring us the bill, please?

question: Where would you listen it?

answer: In a restaurant.

Prepare a variety of situations with just one sentence:

e.g:
keep the change!
say "cheese!"
flight 4335 is now boarding through gate 4
next, please!
a pack of paracetamol, please!

Possible answers:

customer to the waiter,
taking photos,
airport,
in a queue in the bank, supermarket, post office, etc
chemist, drugstore.

Try to emphasize the sentences in a context. Play roles building up a situation in each of the places above.

e.g:
waiter: Would you like some coffee, Sir?
customer: No thank you. Could I have the bill, please?
waiter: Certainly!
The waiter brings the bill.
customer: (pays) keep the change!
waiter: Thank you, Sir! Good night!

Option: Guess Who?
Answer: Waiter, photographer, cashier, customer


Time: 20 min.
Objective: building up vocabulary and interaction

Enjoy...

REVIEW PREVIEWS UNIT

It is very important to review old sessions, and this is a good example of a new lesson.

Warm up: The participants were asked to review the words "on holiday" topic.

e.g: cruise holiday, safari, hiking, hotel, beach, seaside, camping, caravan, etc...

Link the activity to a board game, which we are going to call CATEGORIES. It means that you can take the idea and work around the topic you have for the session.

A board card is prepared with the categories to be created:

e.g: holiday, furniture, job, fruit, colours, classroom objects, etc;

Option 1: The participants can fill the CATEGORIES, card A, with their own ideas and knowledge;

Option 2: The tutor prepares another card, B, with all the words related to the categories required in card A, listed but mixed. The participants are supposed to pick the right choice to a selected category.

e.g: Card A
Category - Holiday

Card B
Safari, cruise, beach, hotel, seaside, caravan, camping, etc...

Suggestion: When the card A is filled up, the tutor can ask the participants to add one more word for each category.

e.g: excursion

Time: about 20-25 min.
Level: Beginners
Objective: vocabulary acquisition
Skills: speaking, writing, reading, and listening

HOLIDAY

1- Warm up:

Discuss with the group:-

Where was your last vacation?

2-Vocabulary:

Mix and match pictures with some types of holiday. E.g: Cruise holiday, Safari holiday, Camping holiday, Hiking holiday, Beach holiday, Hotel holiday, etc...

3-Discussion: Talk about the types of holiday above.
What kind of holiday have you had?
When was it?
Did you enjoy?
Why?

4- Link the verbs with the words:
go try buy take

---------------local food
---------------souveniers
---------------pictures
---------------shopping

5- Act out a dialogue about your last holiday:

Enjoy the lesson....

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Academic Task: Write a story based on pictures.

Social Task: Include every one's idea to write sentences.

Group Formation: The participants will get a card with the country of origin in one side and the flag on the other side

Team Building: The participants should sit in the alphabetical order of the countries and number each other according to the system already used.

Material: Set of pictures, graffiti board, colour pencil and crayon, markers, final sheet.

Task Direction:

*Each member gets a set of cards;
*Draw a cloud shape in the centre of the graffiti page for the title of the story;
*Each member has to write their best sentence using their set of cards;
*The set of cards move clockwise round the table until everyone has had each set;
*The members move clock wise one place;
*Choose the best sentence of each member;
*Write the final story.

Think about WHO, WHAT, WHERE and HOW to write the story.

All the stories can be hung on the wall where everybody will read them easily. It is amazing how creative a person can be when is stimulated by the other participants.

ANIMAL MATERIALS

Bits of animal bodies have been used for hundreds years.

Find out more about it:

Activity 1

Select some animals on picture cards;

e.g; elephant, bear, turtle, butterfly, snake, dear, tiger, crocodile, etc...

Select some picture cards with:

e.g; horn, fur, feather, antlers, different types of skin such as snake, crocodile, etc...

Play mix and match

Activity 2

Research in the Internet what kind of work art can be made with them. It is very interesting and motivating while pupils learn.

Enjoy!!!!

COUNTABLE OR UNCOUNTABLE

Activity 1

Warm up:

Select some objects and put them in a box.
Ask to the participants:
What is there in the box?
Write on the board all their names.
e.g: bowl, plate, fork, spoon, knife, sugar, coffee, milk, tea, mug, water, salt, etc...

Activity 2

Write down the names in the right column:

COUNTABLE UNCOUNTABLE
bowl sugar
plate coffee
fork milk
spoon tea
mug water
knife salt

Activity 3

Based on a picture, answer the questions:

1- Are there biscuits on the table?
2- How many mugs can you see?
3- Is there any fruit in the basket?
4- How much milk would you like?
5- What is there in the bowl?
6- Are there any grapes on the plate?

Activity 4

Complete the sentences with A, AN, SOME, ANY:

1- There is _____apple.
2- There are _______mugs.
3- Is there ________tea?
4- Is there _______plate on the cupboard?
5- There is _______milk in the mug.
6- There isn't _______fruit in the basket.

Activity 5

Listening exercise:

Prepare the lyrics of a song to fill in the gaps with the words missed such as: a, an, some, any and there be (is, are).
Play it three times if necessary and correct it.
Vocabulary checking and have fun.
Sing it.

I hope you enjoy it.

DO YOU LIKE FRUIT?

To practice food vocabulary:

*You can use restaurant's menu;
*Pictures;
*Cards with the names:
e.g. - chips, baked potato, sandwich, hamburgers, coffee, tea, cake, biscuits, cookies,
breakfast, drink, coke, juice, milk, pizza, pasta, etc...
*Teach the questions and answers:

Do you like...........? Yes, I do.
Yes, I like it.
No, I don't.
No, I don't like it.


Would you like some ........? Yes, please.
No, thank you.

In pairs the participants can match the names and pictures and also act out the questions above.

The teacher can check the comprehension and the pronunciation asking to each of them one question.

Don't forget to praise them: fantastic, very good, well done, yes and a big smile.