Teacher Guide
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05mins - Introduction: Where did you go for your summer holiday?
10mins - Revision: Adjective elimination. Split the class into two teams. A student from each team comes to the front of the room and is shown a picture from the teacher. The students have sixty seconds to write as many adjectives as he or she can think of. At the end of the minute, the students compare their lists. Any words on both lists are crossed out. Each student gets 1 point for any adjectives that remain.
10mins - Pre-Teach: Synonyms. Practice grouping adjectives together that have similar meanings. (large, big, fat, grand, huge, giant) (cold, frozen, chill, icy, frosty, crisp). Work to introduce new adjectives to the students that they can remember through understanding synonyms.
20mins - Worksheet: 01 adjectives - story writing
15mins - Test: 01 listening practice - part 1
05mins - Warm down: Goodbye, see you next time!
00mins - Homework: Find and define 5 adjectives you have never heard before. Write a sentence for each one.
1) Review names with students and elicit which are masculine, feminine or both.
2) Review physical descriptions (clothing, hair) and prepositions
3) Tell students there are 5 answers plus one distractor and one example.
4) Students must draw lines from name to person.
5) Tell students they will hear listening twice, first time write the answer. The second time check.
Task One: possible answers
- Some children are having a running race.
- There are cups on the left table.
- The teacher is pouring some juice.
- Ten people are not running the race.
- Five boys are running the race.
Task Two: possible answers
- The boy with dark hair who is coming second in the race.
- Michael
- Standing behind the table, next to the teacher.
- She's waiting for the skipping race, standing next to the girl with the blue towel.
- He fell in the jumping competition.