Module 2 Garden City and its neighbours

e.g. people have eaten turkey at christmas since 1650.using prepositional phrases to indicate a period of timee.g. people have sent christmas cards to each other for about 150 years.using prepositions to indicate time.e.g. at christmas, on christmas dayusing proper nouns to refer to eventse.g. christmas eve, christmas day, boxing day.using adverbs to express freguencye.g. people usually spend this day with their family and friendslanguage skills:listening identify the main ideas of a new topicuse visual clues, context and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of an unknown word and a complete expressionspeaking maintain an interaction by replyingreadingread written language in meaningful chunksuse visual clues, context and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of an unknown work and a complete expressionrecognize the presentation of ideas through headings, paragraphing, spacing, italics, bold print and punctuationwriting develop written texts by expressing ideas and feelingsdevelop written texts by using appropriate format.conventions and language features when writing non-narrative texts.  materials:student’s book 7b page 39cassette 7b and a cassette playerphotocopiable page 33paper cardpreparation:cue the cassette. make a copy of photocopiable page 33 for each student.pre-task preparation1. review the present perfect tense with the students. say: i started teaching in this school in 19xx. i have been in this school since 19xx. i have taught here for (a number) years. make sure students are clear about the different usage of the two preposition are clear about the different usage of the two prepositions: since and for.2.introduce: christmas cards, christmas carols, christmas pudding and turkey. you may introduce these new vocabulary items by using real objects, cassettes or pictures.3. play the recording: look and read. students listen and follow in their books.4. play the recording. students listen and repeat.5. ask a few students: what do you usually do on christmas eve/christmas day/boxing day? to elicit: i usually … you may share with them your own experience first as some hints to them. post-task activitymake a christmas carddistribute a large piece of paper card to each student. have students make a christmas card for their best friend. tell them t keep the card safe and send it to their best friend when christmas comes.3language focus:using the present perfect tense to relate past events to the present.