Unit 1 All about me

Activity 3a Read, listen and repeat.
Objectives: to consolidate the new vocabulary; to prepare for the next activity.
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to read the dialogue silently. Check if they have understood it by asking some pupils the meaning in their mother tongue.
STEP 2: Then draw the pupils’ attention to the preposition ‘in’ before the months in the dialogue. Explain that to say something happens in a particular month of the year we use the preposition of time ‘in’ with months. Say what “in January”, “in March”, etc. mean in the mother tongue.
STEP 3: Play the DVD. Explain that now the pupils will listen to the same dialogue and repeat it after the DVD.
DVD: Two pupils are talking. The text is the same as in the Classbook.
Activity 3b Read and complete.
Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary
Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks. Explain that they should choose holidays from the jumbled list in the box and write them appropriately to complete the dialogue. Allocate 5 minutes. If they cannot cope with writing within the allocated time, they can finish the activity at home.
Activity 4 Play “Months and holidays”.
Objective: to consolidate months and the new vocabulary
You can organise this activity in rows to do it faster. The procedure is as in a usual Chain Drill activity.
Activity 5a Play “What’s your favourite month?”
Objectives: to energise the pupils; to have fun.
This game is like the Chain Drill activity. If you think it is necessary, before you begin, you need to practise the question “What’s your favourite month?” and the answer “My favourite month is ...” with a pupil and then with the whole class.
STEP 1: Then tell the pupils to imagine a line in the classroom. Point to the place where the line begins and say “This is January”. Then point to a place far from January and say “This is December”.
STEP 2: Explain that the pupils should stand along the line in order of the months. They will need to ask each other the question “What’s your favourite month?” to find out exactly where they should stand. The pupils should find out who is before and after them. When they find their place in the line, they should stay there until everyone has finished.
STEP 3: When the line is ready, the first pupil in the line must say: “My favourite month is ...” and add one more sentence to give a reason for his/her choice, for example, “I have winter holidays” if his/her favourite month is January. Then s/he must turn and ask the question “What’s your favourite month?” from the pupil next to him/her. S/he says his/her favourite month, adds one more sentence to give a reason and asks the question from the pupil next to him/her. etc. as shown in the example below: