Twenty-second Class: Modern Times (June 14)

Twenty-first Class: Directions (June 9)

Objectives

• To know and use vocabulary related to directions, streets, and places.
• To listen for gist, details, and sequence.

Activities

• To complete some questions and answers about life in the neighborhood.
• To watch some flashcards on vocabulary related to directions in the neighborhood.
• To develop a listening workshop about directions in the neighborhood.

Let's work!

As already mentioned, first, you need to complete some questions and answers about life in the neighborhood.

Activity A

Write questions about your city using how much and how many: libraries, noise, parks, pollution, good schools, traffic, parking.

     Example: (crime) How much crime is there?

                       (good restaurants) How many good restaurants are there?

Activity B

Answer the questions with a lot, a little, not much, a few, not any or none. Then compare with a partner.

     Example: There's a little.

                      There are a few.

Activity C

Think of a famous street in your city. Your partner asks yes/no questions and guesses the street.

Now, let's watch some flashcards on vocabulary related to asking for and giving directions.

• Directions Flashcards

Now you are ready to develop a listening workshop about directions in the city.

Audio:

2. Let's listen

3. Let's listen - Task 1

3. Let's listen - Task 2

4. Let's listen - Task 1

4. Let's listen - Task 2

Finally, some recommendations for the final presentation. Please, start preparing a video in which you show up giving a sample of your biggest talent or ability. In the video, you also need to show a famous person who has the same talent or ability.

We are reaching the end of the course. So, let's keep on going.

Twentieth Class: Nice neighborhood (June 8)

Objectives

• Describe neighborhoods using "there is...", "there are...", quantifiers, and vocabulary related to places in neighborhood.

Activities

• Review the worksheet "My perfect city".
• Watch a video and complete the workshop called "Nice neighborhood".

Let's work!

First, share with the class the description of your perfect city.

After that, complete the workshop called "Nice neighborhood" based on the corresponding video.

Nineteenth Class: Preparing a Talent Show (June 7)

Objectives:

• To know and implement vocabulary and expressions related to talents and abilities.
• To understand how to write and talk about talents and abilities.

Activities:

• Develop an activity called Employment Agency.
• Watch some videos where people are showing their talents and abilities. 
• Ask and answer questions about talents and abilities.
• Talk about personal and other people's talents and abilities.

Let's work!

Let's begin by playing a role game called Employment Agency.

Now, let's watch some videos where people are showing their talents and abilities.

• Talent show ideas for kids

What about learning some words and expressions to talk about talents and abilities?

Now, what about your talents ands abilities? 

• What is your biggest talent?
• Why do you like it?
• How long have you practiced or had this talent?
• How often do you practice it?
• What people you admire or know have this talent?

Homework:

Record a video using mailVU where you speak about your talent, and share the video link through the comments below.

Eighteenth Class: Finishing Writing Task

Objectives:

• To be able to create a graph after a survey.
• To present conclusions after a survey and a graph.

Activities:

• Complete the surveys required.
• Register the data on tables.
• Create graphs based on the data.
• Present some conclusions based on the graphs.

Homework:

• Use any online app to create an infography where you present all the information collected during the development of the writing task: questions, answers, surveyed people, data tables, graphs, and conclusions.
• Share a link to your infography through the comments below.

Seventeenth Class: Writing Task (June 1)

Objectives:

• To review some of the topics studied in class so far.
• To complete writing task.

Activities:

• To check the solution to the midterm exam together.
• To develop a survey about free time activities and hobbies using questions with 'how' (how long, how well, how good, how often).

After checking together the solution to the midterm exam, you need to work on the final version of the writing task. These are the steps to follow:

• Review questions with 'how': how often, how long, how well, how good. (Seventh Class)
• Create five questions about free time activities and hobbies using questions with 'how'.
• Let your teacher check them so all of them are correct.
• Ask these questions to 10 of your classmates, and take notes with their answers.
• Create a draft graph with the results of each question. (5 graphs)
• Draw 3 conclusions from each graph.

Fifteenth Class: The Perfect City (May 26)

Objectives:

• To speak  and write about features of a city by using vocabulary related to places and attractions, and quantifiers.

Activities:

• To watch a video about places in town, and then extract and elicit related vocabulary.
• To listen to people talking about places in town and using "there is" and "there are."
• To watch an animated video about urbanization and the evolution of cities.
• To write a short paragraph to describe the perfect city.

Let's work!

So, the first thing today is to watch a handcraft video about places in town, and extract some voabulary from it. However, before that, please think about what vocabulary related to places in town you already know.

Now, you can watch the video. Please, make a list on your notebook with the places the speaker mentions during the video.

Create a mind map with the words on the list. Then watch the video again and complete the mind map with words you hear that are related to each word in the list.

Listen to a girl talking about places in town, specifically in her neighborhood. What places do you get?

Now, let's watch an animated video about about urbanization and the evolution of cities. But, before that, let's get an idea of what the video is about:

"About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialization and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations."

What's your opinion? What would be some advantages and disadvantages of future cities?

Finally, let's write about your perfect city.

Ask a classmate questions with Is/Are there ...? to find out about their perfect city. Complete the second column with the answers.

Homework: