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Vocabulary
Grammar
Means of transport:
boat, bus, car, motorbike, plane, taxi, train, lorry
Places:
bank, city, chemist, hospital, house, cinema, museum, park,
restaurant, shoe shop, supermarket, toy shop
Other words:
hamburger, people, shoe, sleep, taxi, wake up; colours
Demonstratives (this/that/these/those):
This taxi is yellow. This is a taxi.
That taxi is green. That is a taxi.
These planes are blue. These are planes.
Those planes are red. Those are planes.
Prepositions (next to/between):
The blue car is next to the yellow car.
The green car is between the red car and the blue car.
Verb to be:
Its blue and yellow.
What is it? Its a plane.
Present simple:
I get on the bus.
Teaching tip
Games (Part 1)
Action games
Playing is a childs natural way of learning. A game with
all its rules and interactions is a mini social world
in which children prepare themselves to enter society.
Through games and play, children learn to accept rules,
how to work with others and how to behaveall in
an enjoyable atmosphere. Games also develop a childs
use of a foreign language, coordination, cognitive
thinking, etc.
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Chameleons live
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Chemist
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Cinema
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Warm-up
Vocabulary presentation
Poster 3
Attach the Place poster cutouts to Poster 3 in any order.
Display Poster 3. Select one of the Poster labels (see
Preparation) and read it out loud: Park.
Students read the word.
Attach the label under the corresponding picture on
the poster.
Continue in the same manner with the rest of the
labels and pictures.
Vocabulary practice
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Optional activity
Where can you find/buy?
Divide the class into eight groups.
Distribute a piece of paper and some old
magazines to each group.
Write the following on each piece of paper:
In a _____________, you can find/buy
Assign a place to each group: chemist, hospital,
bank, museum, toy shop, supermarket, cinema,
restaurant.
Students complete the sentence and draw or cut
out pictures of items they can find in each place.
Display the students work around the classroom.
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Dictation
Dictate the following words to students: chemist,
hospital, bank, museum, toy shop, supermarket,
cinema, restaurant.
Students write the words in their notebooks.
Activity Book
Page 28, activities 1 and 2.
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Key
1
From left to right, top to bottom: restaurant, supermarket,
hospital, toy shop
2 1. museum; 2. bank; 3. park; 4. chemist; 5. cinema
From left to right, top to bottom: 4, 1, 2, 3, 5
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Warm-up
Vocabulary presentation
Draw a car on the board, line by line. After each line
ask What is it? Encourage students to guess what you
are drawing: Is it a (book)?
Continue until someone guesses correctly.
Once someone has guessed the item, say Its a car.
Students repeat after you. Write the word on the board.
Repeat with the following means of transport: plane,
boat, train, bus, lorry, taxi, motorbike.
Grammar presentation
Poster 3
Attach the Lorry and Car poster cutouts on one side of
the board. Attach the Train and Bus poster cutouts to
the other side of the board, as far as possible from the
lorry and the car.
Stand next to the Lorry and Car poster cutouts.
Point to the lorry and say This is a lorry.
Now, point to the train and say That is a train.
Invite various students to come up and to stand next to
you. Students repeat the sentences.
Continue in the same manner with car and bus.
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That is a plane.
That is a boat.
That is a train.
That is a bus.
That is a lorry.
This is a taxi.
This is a motorbike.
This is a car.
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Optional activity
Throw the ball and say
Each student draws a means of transport on a
piece of paper and folds up his/her paper.
Collect students folded drawings and put them
inside a plastic bag.
Take a drawing from the bag and make a sentence
with it: This is a (plane). Now close the bag with
an elastic band and throw the bag to a student.
He/she takes out another drawing and makes two
sentences (one about the drawing you are holding
and one about the drawing he/she takes from the
bag): That is a (plane). This is a (lorry).
Encourage students to point to the corresponding
drawing when they use That.
Continue until all students have participated.
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This or That?
Attach the Lorry, Car, Train and Bus poster cutouts to
the board. On four separate pieces of paper, each
student draws a lorry, a car, a train and a bus.
Make a sentence using This or That. If you say This is a
car, students hold up the corresponding drawing. If you
say That is a car, students point to the Car poster cutout
on the board.
Repeat with the rest of the means of transport.
Activity Book
Page 29, activities 1 and 2.
Key
1
1. This is a train. 2. That is a plane. 3. This is a lorry.
4. That is a car.
2 1. a plane; 2. a bus; 3. This is a motorbike. 4. That is a boat.
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taxi
motorbike
This is a car.
car
That is a plane.
1.
This
is a motorbike.
2.
That
is a train.
3.
That
is a lorry.
4.
This
is a taxi.
Look at
grammar!
This is a car.
That is a plane.
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Toy shop
In the city
Mum and Tommy are in the city.
Going to the city is fun!
Look at all those cars!
Look at all those people!
Look at all those shops!
Tommy sees the toy shop. Can I
get a toy? asks Tommy.
First, lets go to the bank, says
Mum.
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In the bank there are lots of people. Look at all these people, says Mum.
Can we go to the toy shop now? asks Tommy.
First, lets go to the shoe shop, says Mum.
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Look at
grammar!
This These
That Those
Warm-up
Mind map
Make a circle in the middle of the board and write the
word City in it.
Ask students to name all the things that they think of
when they hear the word city.
Write their ideas on the board around the circle.
Developing reading
Optional activity
Read and draw.
On the board, write the following:
This is a city. In this city, there are four shops.
There is a chemist. There is a toy shop. In the toy
shop, there are dolls, cars, tops and teddy bears.
There is a supermarket. In the supermarket, there
are apples. There is a restaurant. In the restaurant,
there are hamburgers and hot dogs.
Students copy the text and make a drawing of the
city on a piece of paper.
Controlled practice
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Optional activity
Make a story map.
Copy the following story map onto the board:
Who?
Where?
Warm-up
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Warm-up
Poster 3
Attach the following Transport poster cutouts to the
board: lorry, bus, taxis, planes.
Distribute the other poster cutouts to students: train,
car, boats, motorbikes.
Start with the singular poster cutouts: lorry, car, train
and bus. Point to the Bus poster cutout on the board
and say This bus is yellow. Ask a student to hold up the
Train poster cutout for everyone to see. Now, point to
the student holding up the cutout and make a sentence
about it: That train is grey.
Now, encourage the student holding the Train poster
cutout to make two sentencesone about his/her
cutout and another about the poster cutout on the
board: This train is grey. That bus is yellow.
Invite a volunteer to the board, he/she points to
the Bus and Train poster cutouts and makes the
corresponding sentences.
After several rounds of practice with singular poster
cutouts, give an example using the plural poster
cutouts: These taxis are yellow. Those boats are red.
Continue in the same manner until most students have
participated.
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Optional activity
Spin the bottle
Students take out their drawings from the Warmup activity and sit in a circle. Put the bottle in the
middle.
Spin the bottle twice. The two students the bottle
points to make two sentences about each others
pictures:
S1: These cars are pink. That lorry is orange.
S2: This lorry is orange. Those cars are pink.
If both students say the sentences correctly, they
each get to spin the bottle once. If only one
of them says the sentences correctly, then that
student spins once and you spin once. If both
students say the sentences incorrectly, then you
spin the bottle twice. Continue in the same
manner until most students have participated.
Wrap-up
Charades
Ask a volunteer to come to the front. Whisper a means
of transport in his/her ear. The student mimes while
the class tries to guess the means of transport.
When students guess correctly, call another volunteer to
the front. Repeat the procedure several times.
Note: For the next class, tell students to bring in
a drawing or magazine cutout for each of the following
means of transport: car, boat, taxi, lorry, motorbike,
bus, train, plane.
Activity Book
Page 32, activities 1 and 2.
Key
2 1. These; 2. Those; 3. Those; 4. These
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Warm-up
Make groups.
Say Show me a taxi.
Students hold up their taxi drawings or magazine
cutouts. Continue with the rest of the means
of transport.
Tell students to choose one drawing or magazine cutout
and to put the rest away. Explain that you are going to
count to three and students have to stand up, look for
others who have the same means of transport and form
a group.
Count to three. Students do the activity.
Once groups have formed, ask questions about their
pictures:
T: What are these?
Ss: These are trains.
T: How many trains are there in this group?
Ss: There are four trains.
Continue in the same manner with the rest of the groups.
Grammar practice
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Explain that the boy is talking about some toys that are
near him and others that are far away from him.
Students say which toys are near him and which are far
away from him.
Students choose different colours and complete the
sentences in their books.
Then they read the sentences again and colour the toys
in the picture accordingly.
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Optional activity
Class collages
Students take out the drawings or magazine
cutouts of different means of transport that they
brought to class.
Attach Collage category headings (see Preparation)
to the board or classroom walls.
Students stand up and take their picture cutouts or
drawings and tape them under the corresponding
headings.
While students are doing the activity, ask them
questions about their pictures: Whats this? Whats
that? What are these? What are those?
When students have completed the activity, walk
around pointing to each of the collages and ask
questions: Are these (planes)? How many (planes)
are there? How many (blue) planes are there?
Wrap-up
Write sentences.
Students number each of the squares on the Noughts
and Crosses grid in Students Book, activity 2.
In their notebooks, students write sentences about each
of the drawings in the squares: 1. That is a plane. Its
yellow and green.
Activity Book
Page 33, activity 1.
Key
1
1. This; 2. Those; 3. That; 4. That; 5. These; 6. Those
1. This car is
2. That boat is
3. These lorries are
4. Those planes are
.
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Warm-up
Poster 3
Display Poster 3.
Students identify all of the places in the poster.
Hold up the Toy shop poster cutout and ask What is it?
Students respond Its a toy shop.
Then attach the Toy shop poster cutout next to the
cinema and say The toy shop is next to the cinema.
Students repeat.
Continue placing the poster cutouts and making
sentences using the preposition next to. Students repeat.
Now, say The toy shop is between the cinema and the
museum as you point to the corresponding places in
the poster. Students repeat.
Continue making sentences about the different places
on the poster using the preposition between. Students
repeat.
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Optional activity
Wheres the?
Assign a place to each student: house, chemist,
hospital, cinema, museum, park, bank, toy shop,
supermarket, restaurant.
Distribute strips of card.
Students write the assigned place on the strip and
make a small drawing to represent it.
Call five students to the front and get them
to form a line facing the class. Tell students to
imagine that they are buildings on a street.
Students hold up their strips so the class can see
which building each student represents.
Ask the class questions about the locations of the
places.
T: Wheres the (cinema)?
Ss: Its next to the (bank).
Continue the activity until all students have
participated.
Wrap-up
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Optional activity
Take a guess.
Poster 3
Display Poster 3. Attach the Place poster cutouts to
the poster.
Divide the class into two groups.
Explain the game. Tell students that you are going
to select a place but you are not going to tell
anyone. Each team takes turns asking questions to
guess the place you chose.
Team A: Is it next to the (supermarket)?
T: No, it isnt.
Team B: Is it between the (school) and the
(chemist)?
T: Yes, it is.
Team A: Is it the (restaurant)?
T: Yes, it is.
Award each team a point each time they correctly
identify the place.
The team with the most points at the end of the
game wins.
Wrap-up
next to
between
The cinema is
the chemist.
the supermarket.
the park and the toy shop.
next to
The hospital is
next to
between
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Make a map.
You need Cutout 3.
Draw
a map.
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/th/ thumb
/th/ three
/sh/ shell
/ch/ chocolate
/ch/ cheese
/sh/ shorts
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Optional activity
Whats the beginning sound?
Distribute the index cards. Students write the
following on each index card: th, sh, ch.
Divide the class into group of ten.
Say a word to a group. This group holds up the
index card that corresponds to the beginning
sound. Any student who raises the incorrect index
card is eliminated from the game.
Continue in the same manner with the other
teams and other words. The team with the most
number of students left playing at the end of the
game wins.
Wrap-up
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Optional activity
Play Concentration!
Students remove the string from their transport
labels.
Divide the class into pairs.
Each pair shuffles its transport labels together and
puts them face down in two rows on the desk.
Students take turns turning over two cards and
naming the vehicles: This is a car. This is a boat.
When a student finds two matching vehicles,
he/she keeps the cards.
The student with the most matching pairs of
vehicles at the end of the game wins.
Make riddles.
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2 Make riddles.
Its between the
bus and the taxi.
Its blue and
yellow.
What is it?
Its a plane!
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Looking out of the wind
Looking out of the window,
What do you see?
I see a red car following me.
What do you see?
I see a red car following me.
Listen and chant.
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Warm-up
Optional activity
Play True and false chairs.
Poster 3
Attach the Transport poster cutouts to the board.
Make sure to place them in a row.
Place two chairs next to each other in front of the
board. One is the True chair and the other is the
False chair.
Tell students to stand in two lines facing the board,
with the front of each line about 1 or 2m away
from it.
Make a true/false statement about the positions of
the Transport poster cutouts: The (train) is between
the (car) and the (bus).
The first student in each line runs and tries to sit
on the True chair if the sentence is true or on the
False chair if the sentence is false. The first student
who sits on the right chair wins a point for his/her
team.
The team with the most points at the end of the
game wins.
Wrap-up
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Warm-up
Play Bingo!
Elicit vocabulary from the unit and write the words on
the board: chemist, hospital, bank, museum, toy shop,
supermarket, cinema, restaurant, park, bus, plane, boat,
train, bus, lorry, taxi, motorbike, car.
Students draw a 3 x 2 grid in their notebooks. They
choose six words and write one word in each square.
Call out the words at random. Students cross out the
words they hear that appear on their grid. The student
who crosses out all of his/her words first shouts Bingo!
and wins the game.
Play the game several times.
Review
Activity Book
Page 39, activities 1 and 2.
Key
1
bank, cinema, park, restaurant, hospital, toy shop,
supermarket
Grammar module: Demonstratives
Optional activity
Multiple intelligence: Kinesthetic intelligence
Play Freeze!
Explain that you are going to call out a means of
transport: plane, boat, train, bus, lorry, taxi,
motorbike, car.
Students mime and make the sound of the
corresponding vehicle.
When you shout Freeze! students stop moving and
making noise. If a student moves or makes a
sound, he/she must sit down.
Continue the game until only a few students
remain standing.
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