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Unit1 - Level 1 Unit1 PDF
Unit1 - Level 1 Unit1 PDF
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Teaching Notes
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Introductory comic
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Teaching Notes
Optional activity
TIP
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Unit 1 p1
Lesson 1
Learning strategy
Make pupils aware of these peculiarities of the
language as the stress and rhythm systems are very
different from those in their L1. Show them that by
paying attention just to the stressed words they will
understand the message because these are the words
that carry meaning. Let them find out for themselves
how it works, whenever there is a listening activity.
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`` Ask pupils to tell you what the kids are doing. Have
them read the speech bubbles. Now call their attention
to the rubric. Read it aloud and while you read make
the corresponding gesture for match (put a hand up
and move the other towards it until two fingers touch)
and say (index finger moving in circles away from your
mouth and moving your lips as if talking).
`` Once you make sure they know what to do, give them
2 minutes to match. After that they can say it.
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Answers: 1 b; 2 a
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`` Invite pupils to read the rubric and tell you what they
have to do while you do the gesture: Match! (pupils saw
the word in the previous activity).
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do not know the language. Encourage them to use cues
at every level of analysis; visual or sound cues that help
create the situation, words that are morphologically or
phonologically similar to Spanish. Ask pupils what the
important words are in My namess Beakie. (If they have
been able to spot that name is repeated they will realize
what it means.) They will say that name and Beakie are the
important ones. Have them clap their hands at the words
that sound stronger. Then ask them to underline those
words in the book when they hear them.
Optional activity
Teaching Notes
Unit 1 p2
Lesson 2
TIP
Teaching Notes
TIP
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TIP
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Lesson 3
Optional activities
TIP
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`` Make pupils look at Cathys face and have them
compare it with the face of the other children. Ask, Is
she fine? Is she OK? Allow different answers. They may
not interpret the facial expression. When someone says
triste in L1, repeat it after them in English. Make sure
you produce the smiling \\ clearly and elicit it from the
class.
Teaching Notes
TIP
Group the words into smaller groups and have pupils work
with only those. Happy and sad will be internalized fast.
For bored, make them go back to page 4 and look at Cathy
before creating Trip. For tired, you can pant and drag your
feet. These two will take more time. Work on those later.
Angry will be easily internalized.
`` Have pupils look at the pictures and tell you what the
teacher is doing. Narrow the scope by asking if she is
saying Hello. Call their attention to the fact that you
also ask something to them after you say Hello (if you
have been doing it). Focus on the children in the picture
now and make them notice that their answers are all
similar. Tell them there is a word they might know (OK)
and another word they do not know that is repeated all
along (fine).
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Lesson 4
TIP
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`` Go about the routine of miming what pupils have to do
and then ask them what they have to do. Make sure they
know they have to circle the words and not the drawings.
Give them a few minutes to complete the task. Then
check.
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Optional activities
1. Game: Say the words but in a different order.
Pupils only point to the objects mentioned.
`` Elicit that the children are playing and what the game
consists in. Invite pairs to play. Walk around and check.
`` After that, play the I hide, you guess game first as a
class, then in groups. Put an object behind your back
for them not to see it. Or show a tip of the object, or the
object wrapped up, or in such a way that it is not clear
what it is. Finally, they practise in pairs.
Teaching Notes
a 4; b 6; c 2; d 1; e 5; f 3
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Lesson 5
a. Talk about how pupils are feeling this day. Make it real,
look at them, detect special faces.
b. One pupil calls out a school object and the rest picks it
up and show it. A variation is to write the name of the
object on the board.
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Answers: 1 3; 2 9; 3 5; 4 8
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`` Team work: Pupils can do this game as shown in the
book or two pupils show the fingers, a third says, eg:
four and six, and a fourth says the result, ten.
Optional activity
Teaching Notes
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Optional activity
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Lesson 6
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`` See if any volunteer can mimic the rubric. This shows
that he/she has understood and the others show
understanding by saying what they have to do in L1
or in English.
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`` Play the track again. This time pupils say how many of
each they counted.
Learning strategy
It is not advisable to give pupils a listening activity
without telling them anything about what they are
going to listen to. Either tell them what it is going to be
about or give them definite information to listen for.
It is ideal to anticipate the options that seem possible,
review the vocabulary involved, think of the particular
difficulties that may arise.
Optional activities
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Teaching Notes
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Lesson 7
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`` Sing along, chorally, in teams and/or individually.
For group singing, pupils can take turns one group
sings the first three lines and the other sings the
number lines. For pair work, one pupil sings and the
other acts out the song picking up what the song says.
`` Pair work: One pupil gives the order and the other does
as told. He/She may make a mistake as regards the
number or the object. Walk around to check they are
working and the kind of mistake they may make.
Teaching Notes
TIP
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Lesson 8
`` Have pupils take turns to say both the number and the
colour.
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Learning strategy
Colours are difficult for pupils to say and to remember.
Black, for instance, because of its proximity with the
Spanish word blanco, may be easily confused; so at the
beginning do not use it near white to avoid confusion.
As regards pronunciation, it can help to have a word
you can fall back on when a new word appears, for
example you can use fine or nine to show them the
combination i + consonant + e in white. Next time this
combination appears, just remind them of fine. This
way they begin paying attention to grapho-phonic
regularities.
Teaching Notes
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Lesson 9
Be friendly.
Optional lesson starters
My Project
`` Say, Read the numbers. Now read the colours. And now the
objects. Give them ten minutes to finish. They can write the
phrases for homework in their notebooks/folders.
`` Ask them to read aloud the resulting phrases. Then make
them read again and then repeat them without looking.
Answers: four green pens; five red pencils; one pink backpack;
two yellow pencils; three blue erasers
Optional activities
1. Have pupils write four more phrases in their
notebooks/folders. Invite them to take the
information from Activity 1. Tell them not
repeat the phrases and draw the objects.
Teaching Notes
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