Dino's Day in London

EASYSTARTS Teacher’s notes Teacher Support Programme Dino’s Day in London Stephen Rabley Discussion activities EASYSTARTS Pages 1–7 Before reading 1 Predict: Ask students to look at the cover and the LEVEL 2 title. What can you see? Is it a big place or a small place? Which country is it? What’s the name of the place? Who’s in the taxi? Where are they going? Is this a happy story? Have students take down notes of their predictions LEVEL 3 so that they can go back to them once they finish reading. While reading LEVEL 4 2 Read carefully: Students record information about Tommy Grant. Use this web diagram. As they go on reading, they add more words and phrases to the Summary web. LEVEL 5 Dino’s Day in London is a story about a taxi driver called Tommy. He gets a phone call from his boss Sam, who asks him to pick up Dino, a famous film star’s son and take him LEVEL 6 around London. He gets a letter from Dino’s mother with instructions to take Dino to Buckingham Palace, Harrods 3 Discuss: Tell students they have £50 (explain the and the British Museum. She also leaves him £50 for equivalence in local currency). Ask them to discuss Dino’s expenses, which is a lot of money for Tommy. But how they would spend it in one day where they live. Dino doesn’t want to visit Buckingham Palace. He wants After reading to go to the Video Palace instead. He makes Tommy 4 Research and discuss: Ask the students to find wait for three hours and spends £20. Dino is hungry, out from the Internet or books about typical tourist but he doesn’t want to eat at Harrods. He spends £20 attractions in London. In class, students compare the at a burger restaurant. Tommy takes him to the British information they have found in small groups. Tell Museum but Dino goes to the cinema across the road them to discuss which places they would like to visit. from the museum. When Tommy takes him back to Pages 8–15 the hotel, the star is angry because her son has been While reading (At the end of page 13) waiting all day at the hotel. She wants her money back. 5 Predict: Ask students to predict in pairs who the boy Tommy looks outside but the boy he thought was Dino in the taxi is. has gone. It was really Billy, Sam’s son, who had heard the After reading conversation in the morning. 6 Discuss: Ask the students to discuss what Background and themes punishment Billy deserves. You can give students ideas, e.g. He can’t watch TV. Honesty: Billy doesn’t behave honestly and this causes 7 Check: Ask students to go back to the predictions a lot of trouble. Tommy probably has to pay £50 to the they made before reading the book. Were they right? film star and he may even lose his job. Dino has also had a If they were wrong, ask them to make corrections. 8 Write and guess: Write ‘Tommy is at the Ritz fifteen very bad day and his mother won’t trust the taxi company minutes late.’ on the board. Elicit from the students any more. what is wrong with this sentence (early not late). Money: Young people may spend money carelessly as Now ask students, in pairs, to choose one sentence Billy does. They don’t know how much effort their from the whole book and write it again, changing one of the words. Students then mingle, reading out their parents may have to make to earn money. Tommy sentences to other students who must listen and spot recognises the value of money as he has to work for it. the mistake. London: Many people visit this city to see the sights mentioned in the story and others such as Tower Bridge, The Houses of Parliament, The River Thames and St Paul’s Cathedral. pearsonenglishreaders.com © Pearson Education Limited 2016 Dino’s Day in London - Teacher’s notes 1 of 1.

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