REVISION UNIT: PEOPLE and LOVE Lesson 1
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REVISION UNIT: Lesson 1 PEOPLE AND LOVE UNIT one Lesson Objectives • to develop intensive and extensive reading skills • to develop speaking skills Task 1 Expressing opinions (5 minutes) 8 true 9 true 1 Focus student’s attention on the question and 10 false read the instruction. 2 Check understanding. Give an example. 3 Allow students three minutes to do the task. 4 Ask students to compare their answers in pairs. 5 Conduct a general feedback session choosing some students at random to share their ideas. A possible production model Accept students’ responses. Task 2 Reading for general idea (5 minutes) 1 Ask students to read the task instructions silently. Check understanding. 2 Allow a few minutes for the students to read. 3 Conduct a general feedback session. Key romance Task 3 Reading for specific information (15 minutes) 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding and focus the students’ attention on the example. 2 Tell students to work individually. 3 Check the task orally and write the answers on the board. Key 1 true 2 false 3 false 4 true 5 false 6 true 7 true 6 UNIT one Love and Romance Lesson 1 Task 4 Vocabulary development (5 minutes) 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding. 2 Match number 1 to letter d as an example. 3 Tell students to work individually. 4 Check the answers on the board. Key 1 d 2 c 3 b 4 a Task 5 Speaking (10 minutes) 1 Tell students to read the task instructions. Check understanding. 2 Organize students in pairs to do the task. 3 Ask the first question to a student as an example. 4 Monitor and help students if necessary. Listen to them, but do not interrupt to correct. If you hear a lot of mistakes, correct them with the whole group afterwards. A possible production model Accept the students’ response. Score Key Assign one point to each of the following answers: 1 yes 2 eat at home 3 a bunch of flowers 4 the boy 5 yes 6 moonlight 7 romance 5 - 7 points You are a very romantic person. 3 - 4 You are more realistic than romantic. 0 - 2 points You are not romantic at all. You are very practical. 7 Laughter Lesson 2 UNIT one Lesson Objectives • to develop the ability to tell jokes in English • to develop intensive and extensive listening skills • to develop speaking skills Task 1 Vocabulary development (5 minutes) pituitary gland lowers the production of stress hormones. The heart increases its beat, supplying 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding body cells with more oxygen and nutrient-rich blood. and focus the students’ attention on the example. The adrenal glands increase the production of antibodies and natural killer cells that help fight 2 Tell students to do the task individually. cancer. 3 Ask students to compare their answers in pairs. Key muscles / lungs / brain / pituitary gland / heart / 4 Check the task orally and write the answers on the adrenal glands board. Task 3 Listening for specific information Key (10 minutes) 1 brain 2 pituitary gland 1 Read the instructions for the task. Check 3 lungs understanding. 4 heart 5 muscles 2 Focus students’ attention on the example 6 blood vessels provided to demonstrate the task. 7 adrenal glands 3 Play or read Audio Script 1 once or twice (or until Task 2 Listening for general information most of the students have completed the task). (10 minutes) 4 Ask students to compare their answers in pairs. N.B. Please check your pronunciation, stress and intonation with the CD before teaching. 5 Check the task and write the answers on the board. 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding. Key 2 Play or read Audio Script 1 once. the muscles release tension in the shoulders, neck and back 3 Check the task orally and write the answers on the the lungs increase respiration board. the brain shows chemical balance Audio Script 1 Laughter change and causes a feeling of Listen to a doctor talking about laughter. peace the pituitary gland lowers the production of stress hormones Dr Lee Berk, a scientist at Loma Linda University the heart increases its beat and supplies in California, has revealed the health benefits of body cells with more oxygen laughing, which may include fighting cancer and heart and nutrient-rich blood disease. Some parts of the body that react during the adrenal glands increase the production of laughter are, for example, the muscles, the lungs, antibodies and natural killer the blood vessels, the brain, the pituitary gland, the cells heart and the adrenal glands. While laughing, the muscles release tension in the shoulders, neck and back. The lungs increase respiration. The brain shows chemical balance changes causing a feeling of peace of mind. The 8 Lesson 2 UNIT one Task 4 Reading and choosing information (10 minutes) 1 Read the task instructions and check understanding. 2 Demonstrate the task. Ask one or two students: "Do you laugh when you get embarrassed?" Encourage more than one student to answer. 3 Tell students to do the task individually and silent- ly. Allow the students enough time to do the task. 4 Monitor and help if necessary. 5 Ask students to get into pairs to compare their answers. 6 Ask some students at random for the situations they chose. Task 5 Writing (10 minutes) 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding. 2 Demonstrate the task by reading the examples provided. 3 Get students into groups to discuss the jokes and write them down. Ensure that all students write down their jokes. 4 Monitor and help if necessary. N.B. Do not check the task. Task 6 Exchanging information (10 minutes) 1 In each group, nominate each student with letters A, B, C, D, E. Then, group students A, students B, students C, students D and students E. 2 Copy the key on the board to explain its meaning. Use the jokes in Task 5 to demonstrate the task. 3 Ask students in each group to tell their jokes and qualify each others jokes according to the key. 4 Monitor and help if necessary. 9 Lesson 3 True Stories UNIT one Lesson Objectives • to raise awareness in teenagers of the need to • to develop extensive and intensive listening skills practise responsible parenthood • to develop speaking skills Task 1 Listening for general idea (5 minutes) 2 Play or read Audio Script 2 once or twice. 3 Check the task orally and write the answers on the N.B. Please check your pronunciation, stress and board. intonation with the CD before teaching. Key 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding. 2 Play or read Audio Script 2 once, for the students to get Carla the general idea. conceiving age: 15 3 Check the task orally. Write the answers on the board. reason why she got pregnant: was raped what she did after the baby was born: gave the baby up for Audio Script 2 True Stories adoption her present situation: dreams about the baby Listen to Dr. Ana Salas and her experiences as a social Adriana worker in one of the secondary schools of our city. conceiving age: 18 reason why she got pregnant: her uncle used a drug to “Today I want to tell you four true stories that I have rape her registered in my files. Of course, to maintain privacy I what she did after the baby was born: the baby was not have changed the names of the people. Even though they born, she had an abortion are different, all the young people involved paid a high her present situation: remembers the terrible experience emotional price for getting pregnant.” Diana conceiving age: 16 1 Carla was only 15 when she conceived. She claimed reason why she got pregnant: once or twice they didn’t use she was raped by an acquaintance. The baby’s father was protection arrested and tried for rape, but he was not put into jail. what she did after the baby was born: kept the baby When the baby was 6 months old she decided to let a her present situation: no money, no going out, no studying childless couple adopt him and then lost track of him. “I Janet still dream about him and when that happens I feel as if a conceiving age: 17 dagger were plunging into my heart.” reason why she got pregnant: did not take precautions what she did after the baby was born: kept the baby 2 Adriana was 18 when she found out she was pregnant. her present situation: single mother, left school She didn’t have sex with her boyfriend Brian but she said that something happened one day with her uncle. She Teaching Tip doesn’t remember it very well. It seems he used a drug to Remember that the third conditional is formed like this: rape her. Later she went to her gyneacologist and had an Modal verb + have + past participle abortion. Adriana is 20 and unfortunately she has already Eg. should have / could have been broken up with Brian. She said, “Even though my priority never was and still is not having a baby, I remember the Task 3 Speaking (15 minutes) experience as something I wouldn’t wish to happen to anyone else in the world.” 1 Read the task instructions. Check understanding. 2 Organize students into pairs. 3 Billy and Diana had been dating for 18 months. Diana 3 Focus students’ attention on the illustration in Task was 16 and they planned to get married. When they 3. Say: "Look what the boy says.