Module 2 Garden City and its neighbours

e.g. i’ve studied at this school for nearly six years.asking ‘how’ questions to find out the length of a period of timee.g. how long have you lived in garden city?using connectives to indicate a period of timee.g. i’ve lived here since i was born.asking ‘wh-’ questions to find out various kinds of specific information about a person.e.g. what do people usually do at frequencye.g. they usually eat ____ and _____ at christmas.language skills:listening listen for specific informationspeaking open an interaction by greeting someone in an appropriate mannermaintain an interaction by replying and asking questionsreadingre-read to establish and confirm meaningmaterials:student’s book 7b page 40workbook 7b page 22pre-task preparationlanguage learning activity(this section aims at providing students with opportunities to practise the language/vocabulary needed or become familiar with the background for the task that follows.1. divide students into pairs. tell them to read the dialogue between mr. li and kitty in read and say. give the pairs some time to prepare the role-play. walk around, offering help and guidance to the less able students.2. set the scene as a small office. invite a few pairs to come out and perform the role-play in front of the class. tell the rest of the class to listen carefully to see if they consolidationgrammar practice book 7b page 31workbook page 224language focus:using relative clauses to describe objects e.g. turkey is a popular dish which people usually eat at christmas.using nouns/noun phrases to refer to one object/more than one object/uncountable objectse.g. a goose, decorations, ice, mince pieslanguage skills:listening recognize the stress in wordsuse visual clues, context and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of an unknown word and a complete expressionspeaking open an interaction by eliciting a responsemaintain an interaction by replyingreadinguse knowledge of what words and letters looks or sound like to work out the meaning of unknown words. use visual clues, context and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of an unknown word and a complete expression materials:student’s book 7b page 41 and 42cassette 7b and a cassette playerpreparation:cue the cassette. pre-task preparationlanguage learning activity1. play the recording: read and match. students listen and follow in their books.2. play the recording again. students listen and repeat.