Teacher’s Notes January / February 2016 ISSN 0045–9127 www.maryglasgowplus.com Editor’s Letter CROWN ONLINE Hello and welcome to CROWN! To access our great extra online content, you need these codes: In this issue, we meet Brooklyn Beckham and find out about his family life. We hear what Teachers’ code: fdjpu9 teens really think of Valentine’s Day, we visit Sydney in Australia and we find out how skinny jeans can be bad for your health! Students’ code: prince2 www.mg-plus.net There’s lots more in the magazine and online. Don’t forget our Language Lab, our new online learning unit. We hope you and your students enjoy this issue of CROWN! Key The CROWN team What our symbols mean: [email protected] NEW Language Lab: This article has a complete online learning unit. Assign language units LANGUAGE FOCUS Grammar: past simple irregular, past simple v past continuous, looks / looks like and check your students’ results! IN THIS ISSUE Vocabulary: animals in danger, clothes, relationships and family, appearance, www.mg-plus.net/languagelab January / February 2016 Valentine’s Day, Pancake Day Functions: inviting (Why don’t we? How about…? Would you like?), making apologies and excuses Audio: This article has a listening track. You can listen on the CD or online. There Page no. & Regular Article Language Focus Audio Video Language Cultural are printable listening activities online. Feature Lab Studies Cover, www.mg-plus.net/audio Brooklyn Beckham: My family Relationships, past Pages 6 & 7 come first! simple irregular Stars Video: Pages 2 & 3 Track News stories Past simple irregular This article has an accompanying CROWN news 9 video on our website. Clothes, looks and www.mg-plus.net/videos Pages 4 & 5 Are YOUR skinny jeans bad looks like, past The CROWN for you? continuous, past Story simple irregular Cultural Studies: This article contains cultural and Pages 8 & 9 Past simple irregular, Track Famous footballers – as kids! topical information about the English- Sport looks and looks like 10 speaking world. Invitations and Pages 10 & 11 What do teens really think of Track apologies, past simple Culture Chat Valentine’s Day? 11 irregular For fantastic ideas on how to use Pages 12 & 13 Track CROWN magazine, the CROWN audio I Sydney Culture Scrapbook City 12 and our website, turn over! Page 14 Can you survive Pancake Culture, cooking, Survive Britain Day? Pancake Day Page 15 I changed my school start Past simple irregular, True Story time! excuses Page 16 Food vocabulary, #3 A box of Chocolates Wrapped! Valentine’s Day maryglasgowmags maryglasgowmags @maryglasgow maryglasgowplus.com Pages 2 & 3 CROWN News 5 She fell over. 6 She spent a few hours packing things into boxes. CD1 & Online Track 9 7 She was in hospital for four days. Culture Chart: New Year’s Resolutions Every year, lots of 8 She went for a walk in the park. people in Britain make New Year’s resolutions. Ask: Do you 9 The doctors cut off her jeans. usually make New Year’s resolutions? Why / Why not? Ask [Answers: The correct order is: 2., 6., 3., 8., 5., 1., 9., 7., 4.] the students to suggest New Year’s resolutions for the class. Examples: We are going to be on time every day. We are Writing and grammar Students imagine they went to their going to learn a new English word every day. best friend’s birthday party last weekend. They describe the event, what people were wearing and one funny thing In danger! The only rhino in the world! that happened. They include: the past continuous, irregular Write these verbs on the board: want, smell, lived, watch, past simple forms and looked / looked like. Example: I went came. Students use them to complete these sentences. to my best friend’s birthday party last weekend. He looked 1 I ..... in a zoo in the Czech Republic for many years. really cool. He was wearing new skinny jeans. It was raining 2 Then I ..... to Africa. when we got there, but then the sun came out. 3 People ..... my horn so they can sell it. Pages 6 & 7 Stars 4 Guards ..... me all day and night. 5 I can ..... things far away. Language Lab [Answers: 1. lived; 2. came; 3. want; 4. watch; 5. smell] Background information Most people have heard Walking emojis! Write these sentences on the board: of David and Victoria Beckham. David played football I’m scared of spiders. I love chocolate. I’m excited about for Manchester United and Real Madrid. Victoria was a Valentine’s Day. With the class, translate the sentences into pop star and is now a fashion designer. But what about emojis. Students work in pairs and devise their own emoji their children? The Beckhams have three sons and one sentences. Invite each pair to draw their emoji sentences on daughter; Brooklyn (16), Romeo (13), Cruz (10) and Harper the board. The rest of the class translates them into English. (4). Brooklyn is becoming famous like his parents, but he always puts his family first. News Quiz Students look at pages 2 and 3. How quickly can they find the answers to these questions? Lead-in Ask: Look at the cover of the magazine. Who is this? (Brooklyn Beckham). Who are his parents? (David and 1 What do 77% of British people do in January? Victoria) Do you follow Brooklyn on Twitter or Instagram? 2 How old is Sudan the rhino? Reading comprehension Students find the answers to 3 How many giant pandas are there in the world? these questions as quickly as possible. 4 Where are the people with emoji heads coming out of? 1 How many people follow Brooklyn on Instagram? 5 Which country uses the most emojis? 2 What did Brooklyn and David wear on their fishing trip? [Answers: 1. Break their New Year’s resolutions; 2. 43; 3. 1,000; 4. A 3 London Underground station; 5. Finland] Which football club did Brooklyn play for? 4 What is Brooklyn’s nickname? Speaking and vocabulary Do a class survey. Ask: Which 5 are the best emojis? List and draw the top five on the board Has he got any tattoos? with adjectives / nouns to match. 6 Where does he take Harper on a Saturday? 7 Who do we think is his girlfriend? Pages 4 & 5 The CROWN Story [Answers: 1. 3.7 million; 2. the same hats; 3. Arsenal; 4. Buster; 5. No; 6. the toy shop; 7. Chloe Moretz] Background information This article is about items of Writing, speaking and grammar Write these words on clothing that can cause health problems. They can cause the board: People: mum, dad, sister, brother, cousin, best accidents too. In one year in the UK, trousers caused more friend; Adjectives: cool, kind, funny, special, best, busy; than 6,000 accidents in the home! Locations: shopping centre, cinema, park; Verbs: go, spend, visit, come, try. Students write Tweets about a day Lead-in Ask: Who has skinny jeans? Are they out with friends and family, using some of the words on the uncomfortable? board and the past simple form of the verbs. Each Tweet is Reading comprehension Put these sentences in the a maximum of 140 characters. correct order. Creative writing and speaking In pairs, students think 1 A taxi took her to hospital. of a famous person / star, keeping the name of the person 2 A woman was helping her friend to move house. secret. They write Tweets from their star, giving clues to 3 Her legs became swollen. the person but not making it too obvious. They read out their Tweets, and the class guesses who the star is. Which 4 Now she’s fine. pair can read the most Tweets before somebody guesses 2 correctly. Example: Tweet 1: I sang in front of 100,000 3 Who doesn’t think we need a special day to show love? people today - wow! Tweet 2: I love Christmas! I grew up 4 Who loves the Beatles? on a Christmas tree farm. Tweet 3: Back in Nashville today! 5 Who never found out who sent them a Valentine? I moved here when I was 14 and it’s still my favourite town. Tweet 4: The 1989 World Tour is over. It was an awesome 6 Who cooked a special meal on Valentine’s Day? tour! (Answer: Taylor Swift) [Answers: 1. Laura 2. Sarah 3. Sam 4. Sam 5. Laura 6. Sarah] Vocabulary Students look at the Beckham family tree and Vocabulary and speaking Start this whole class activity by then draw their own, including grandparents, aunts, uncles writing these phrases for inviting on the board: Would you and cousins. They write the relationship of each person to like + verb ...? / How about + gerund ...? / We could ... Write themselves under the names. these phrases for making an excuse: Sorry, but ... I’d love to but ... No, thanks ... I can’t because ... + present continuous Pages 8 & 9 Sport future use. Invite a student to do something, for example: Would you like to tidy the classroom in the lunch break? The student CD1 & Online Track 10 then invents an excuse to refuse, for example: I’d love to but I’m eating my lunch. That student then invites another Background information The footballers featured here student to do something: How about going to the cinema are some of the highest paid people in the world, but most on Friday? The next student could answer: Sorry, but I’m of them came from poor backgrounds. washing my hair on Friday. Lead-in Ask: What did you look like when you were 5? Do you look different now? Pages 12 & 13 Scrapbook City Reading comprehension Students use the information in the article to correct these sentences.