HISTORICAL OWERVIEW EMERGENCY PROTECTION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Theme: Historical overview emergency protection and future perspectives

GRAMMAR

Can/ can`t practicing can/can`t to talk about ability

Past- was/were, could practicing was/were to talk about the past

VOCABULARY

Words that go together Understanding and practicing collocations: noun+noun, prepositions

Adjectives Understanding adjectives in context.

EVERYDAY ENGLISH

Polite requests Understanding and practicing can/could to make polite requests

READING

A talented family A jigsaw reading about the life and success of two members of the same family

LISTENING

Child prodigies Listening for key words in a short monologue

Pablo Picasso Listening for key words in a short conversation

Three conversations Listening for noun+noun combinations in short three conversations

SPEAKING

Talking about you Talking about past and things you could do in the past

What do you think? Talking about relationships

WRITING

A formal email Applying for a job Understanding key content points and more formal style,

then writing an email to apply a job.

Skills and ability are the themes of this lesson. These are particulary suitable topics to introduce and practice can/can’t. However, the lesson has two main aims in that we also introduce some past tenses for the first time: the past of can- could, and the Past simple of the verb to be-was, were. The skills work includes a listening about thr artist Picasso and a jigsaw reading about two talanted members of the same family. These provide contexts for and practice of the grammar.

Procedure of the lesson

Organization moment

Checking up the homework

Presentation of new material:

Reading and listening

Ex 1 p38 Alfie and his cousin Ivy talking about Superman. Complete what Alphie says using can and the verbs in the box.

Ex 1 p40 Read and listen the questions about the present and the past. Complete the answers.

Ex 5 p41 Read and complete the conversation about Pablo Picasso

Ex 3 p44 Listen to three conversations. Write all the noun+noun combinations you hear.Ex 9 p44 Complete the sentences with a preposition from the box.

Grammar

Pair work:

Ex 4 p40 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions about you.

Reading and Speaking

ex 2 p38 Listen to the rest of conversation and answer the questions

ex 1 p41 Look at the photos. Who are the children? What can they do? Why are they “child prodigies”

ex 2 p42 Look at pictures of Nicola Benedetti and her father, Gio. Answer the questions.

Vocabulary work

Consolidation of new material

Grammar ex3 p38 Complete the lines from the conversation with can or can`t + verb.

Ex 3 p40 Complete the sentences with the past of the verb to be and can

Speaking ex 5 p39 Tell the class about you and your friend

Spelling ex 3 p39 Complete the sentences about Ivy with adverbs from the box.

Pronunciation ex 6 p39 Listen and underline what you hear.

Writing ex 4 p44 With a partner, write a short conversation. Include some noun+noun combinations. Act your conversation to the class.

Everyday English conversation.

Polite requests
ex 1 p45 Listen and complete the conversation. Where are the people?

Ex 3 p45 Listen and repeat the requests. Notice how the intonation falls and rises.

Ex 4 p45 Complete the request with can/could I..? or can/could you…?

English for the IT

Ex1p12 Work in small groups. Make a list of all the computer hardware you use in your

work or study.

Ex2 p12 Label the diagram w i t h the correct items 1-11.

Ex3 p12 Listen t o two colleagues and complete this dialogue.

Ex4 p13 Make the comparative form of these adjectives.

Ex 5 p13 Listen and check your answers.

Ex6 p13 Read these product descriptions and make sentences using comparatives.

Ex1 p14 Work in small groups. Make a list of all t h e computer software you use in your

work or study.

Ex2 p14 Make a list of the computer software your non-IT colleagues use.

Ex3 p14 Work in small groups. Talk about the software you and your non-IT colleagues

use. Answer these questions.

Ex4 p15 Listen to two colleagues discussing software and complete

Ex5 5 p15 Listen and repeat these sentences.

Emergency protection systems:

End of the lesson

Reflection, evaluation

Home work