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2 Unit TEACHING TIP What are they like? When talking about animals hair the most 2 common term to use is ‘fur’. Animals usually have fur in all their body, not only in their head as Lesson 1 we do. Invite students to point to the animals on page 16 and say what their fur/hair is like. Aims To learn parts of the body to describe animals. To read about weird animals. 3 1.17 Play the track and ask the class to listen and jot down the words they understand. Check To learn and use synonyms. and play the track a second time for students to identify the animal Ben and Emily describe. Initial phase Audioscript/Answer Write ‘stamp’ and ‘brother’ on the board. Give the Ben It’s orange and black and it’s got a long neck. Emily Is it a giraffe? class two minutes to work in pairs and write one word Ben Yes, it is. beginning with each letter, eg s: ‘six’, ‘sad’, ‘surname’, ‘Superman’; t: ‘the’, ‘toy’, ‘time’, ‘ten’; a: ‘an’, ‘ambulance’, ‘art’, ‘actor’; m: ‘mum’, ‘mother’, ‘Meg’, PHASES EXTRA ‘manga’; p: ‘purple’, ‘Peter’, ‘places’, ‘peaches’. Elicit a few examples, monitor their work and check orally. • To help students become more fluent and If you wish to make thisMacmillan activity more productive, remember the new vocabulary, choose an you may ask one student to say the wordSample that animal and a body part, invite a student to corresponds to a certain letter for a second student the board and whisper into his or her ear, ‘a to make a sentence with it, eg Student A: ‘six’. monkey’s ear’ or any other animal + part of Student B: ‘I’m not six.’ the body combination. This student will make the corresponding drawing for his or her classmates to guess. Core • For more production, a second student may Vocabulary 1 Publishersmaterialbe invited to describe a monkey’s ear using colours and simple adjectives: ‘big’, ‘small’, Parts of the body ‘hairy’, etc. 1 1.16 Go through the pictures on page 16 and elicit/teach the name of the animals. Then play the track for students to listen, repeat and match MIXED ABILITIES some of the words in green with the parts of the Activities including drawing help visual learners body in 1–9 in the pictures. Tell students there remember. More able students may be asked to are some extra words that are not numbered that describe the differences between animals. they will use in exercise 2. Check orally. Make S.A. ‘Yes/No’ questions to check the rest of the words, eg ‘Is this the monkey’s foot?’ 4 Students work in pairs and describe an animal for their partner to guess. Invite two Answers 1 ear; 2 tooth; 3 mouth; 4 neck; 5 leg; 6 tail; 7 eye; 8 nose; students to read the example aloud and monitor 9 finger their work. Not numbered: arm, face, foot, hair, hand, thumb, toe Workbook page 15 2 Students complete the table with the words in exercise 1. Check on the board. Ask: ’Which word Reading 1 can go in the two columns?’ (hair) Really unusual animals Answers 5 Write the three animal names on the board – head: eye, face, hair, mouth, nose, tooth ’chameleon’, ’tarsier’, ’peacock spider’ – and ask body: arm, finger, foot, hand, leg, neck, tail, thumb, toe, hair the class if they know what they are like. Accept L1 if necessary. Then explain they will read about these three animals and learn characteristics of them, eg if they are big or small, where they are from, what colour they are, etc. 21 M17 394 Phases1TB1 013 032 U01 02 R1.indd 21 12/04/18 09:25 Read the title and elicit the meaning of ‘unusual’ (strange and uncommon). UPGRADE Invite three students to read one box each for the A Students correct the wrong information. class to read, listen and match the descriptions Check their work orally eliciting all the with the pictures. Use the pictures to explain sentence, not just the wrong word and its unknown words except ‘have got’ and ‘has got’, substitute. Also, suggest they shouldn’t just which will be presented in the next lesson. turn the given sentence into the negative. Answers Answers A 4; B 2; C 3 1 The chameleon is an African reptile. 2 The tarsier’s eyes are huge. 3 The male peacock spider is colourful. 1.18 6 Play the track for students to read again, B Students choose one of the animals on listen to the text and answer the questions. page 16 and work in pairs to write a short Check their work orally. description. Answers 1 It’s from Africa. 2 No, they aren’t. 3 It’s 45 million years old. 4 It’s from Australia. PHASES CULTURE 7 Students match the adjectives 1–3 with their synonyms. Check orally. • The animal in picture 1 is a tar fennec fox. Fennec foxes are from North Africa and they Answers are the smallest fox species. They have got 1 b; 2 c; 3 a Macmillan huge ears. They are half the size of their bodies! Their ears have two purposes: they TEACHING TIP Sample help them hear any prey living underground When we talk about synonyms, we very often and they help hem release heat and cool off mean words with similar meanings but not under the hot sun. 100% equal, especially because different words • Reptiles are cold-blooded vertebrate animals often have different collocations and these affect with scales, shields or plates covering synonymy as well. Invite students to read the text their bodies. They include snakes, lizards, one more time and replace the words ’unusual’,Publishers materialalligators, crocodiles and turtles. ’huge’ and ’tiny’ with synonyms. PHASES EXTRA Divide the class into two groups. Invite students PHASES EXTRA from each group to take turns to describe an Play a memory game. Give the class two minutes animal for the members of the other group to to memorize the order of the pictures in exercise 1. guess, eg Student A: ‘It’s got small ears and a Divide the class into two groups and invite them to very long neck.S.A. It’s yellow and brown. It’s from take turns to say a number and a part of the body Africa.’ Student B: ‘The giraffe.’ for their opponents to make a sentence about the animal in question. Students should try to use the synonyms they have learnt whenever possible, eg Closing phase Student from group A: ’7 eye’. Student from group Read these sentences for students to add the B: ’Tarsiers’ eyes are huge.’ missing word. 1 The chameleon a reptile. MIXED ABILITIES 2 The chameleon’s feet strange. Memory games of this type help visual learners and 3 The fennec fox’s ears not tiny. if this is conducted as a competition, it becomes 4 The fennec fox’s tail long. interesting to kinaesthetic learners as well. 5 The tarsier’s fingers not short. 6 The tarsier family 45 million years old. 7 The male peacock spider colourful. 8 The peacock spider not huge. Answers 1 is; 2 are; 3 are; 4 is; 5 are; 6 is; 7 is; 8 is 22 M17 394 Phases1TB1 013 032 U01 02 R1.indd 22 12/04/18 09:25 2 3 Students look at the sentences in the second Lesson 2 table and notice how we form the negative form. Aims Then they read the fact file and correct the To use ’have got/has got’ to talk about possession. sentences using the numbers in brackets. Invite a student to read the example and give the class To describe animals using ‘have got/has got’ in the three minutes to do the rest. Check orally. affirmative and negative forms. Answers To focus on and practise the /h/ sound. 1 An insect hasn’t got two legs. It’s got six legs. 2 A dolphin To listen to a radio programme about Manx cats hasn’t got 32 teeth. It’s got 200 teeth. 3 Normal cats haven’t and Dalmatian dogs. got 20 toes. They’ve got 18 toes. 4 Most spiders haven’t got two eyes. They’ve got eight eyes. Initial phase Revise parts of the body. Explain that you will spell PHASES EXTRA out a word for the class to guess the part of the body and then you’ll mention two animals. Students will Make cards for these words: ‘cats’, ‘dolphins’, use the word you have spelled out to describe the ‘camel’, ‘sharks’, ‘hamster’, ‘iguana’, ‘reptiles’, difference/s between the two, eg T: ‘l-e-g-s’ Student ‘chihuahuas’, ‘birds’, ‘spider’, ‘tigers’ and ‘lion’. A: ‘legs’ T: ‘giraffe – elephant’ Student B: ‘A giraffe’s Write these parts of the body on the board: legs are long and an elephant’s legs are short.’ ‘legs’, ‘hair’, ‘face’, ‘nose’, ‘hands’, ‘feet’, Proceed in the same way using these words: ’ears: ‘head’, ‘eyes’, ‘mouth’, ‘arms’, ‘tail’ and ‘neck’. chameleon – fennec fox’;Macmillan ‘eyes: tarsier – monkey’; Invite students to come out to the front, pick a ‘neck: giraffe – tiger’; ‘face: cat – iguana’; ‘mouth: card, choose a word from the list on the board lion – cat’; ’legs: spider – chameleon’. Sample and make a false statement for a classmate to correct. Elicit the use of adjectives too, eg Student A: iguana – legs: ‘An iguana has got Core three legs.’ Student B: ‘An iguana hasn’t got Grammar 1 three legs. It’s got four short legs.’ Remember have got – affirmative and negative to elicit one as an example.