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Happy days
Text types
narrative texts: magazine articles, riddles and raps
exchanges: conversations
information texts: tables
Reading
a magazine article
Vocabulary
hobbies
Post-reading activity
knowledge: write photo captions, classify different activities
Grammar
adverbs of frequency: always, often, sometimes and never
using -ing nouns and noun phrases to talk about activities:
playing basketball, watching films
Main task
write a report on childrens weekend activities
Phonics
-ng
42
There are lots of things we can do in our free time!
43
Reading
Harry and his classmates are reading a magazine. Look at the page
with them.
Watching films is a fun indoor activity. You can watch films on your
own or with your friends. Some people like
watching films at the cinemas. Some people like
watching films at home.
44
Post-reading task
There are some photos of children in the magazine. Harry and his
friends are trying to work out which activities these children like.
Can you help?
1 2
3 4
____________________________ ____________________________
Harry and his friends want to make a diagram of indoor and outdoor
activities. Can you help them write the activities in the correct places?
swimming
45
Vocabulary practice
Harry and his classmates wrote some riddles. Read the riddles.
Can you guess the activities?
Ann
Joe
Tim
Emma
Now do your own class survey on reading. In groups, ask and answer.
47
Grammar in context
Read this rap together. Do you and your classmates have the same hobbies?
Hobby rap
I like reading comic books.
I always read a lot.
Ask your friends about their favourite hobbies and tell the class.
: I like ______________.
You are doing a project on childrens weekend activities. Joe, Tim and
Ann are talking about what they did last weekend. Listen to what they
say. Tick the correct pictures.
1 Tim 2 Joe
3 Ann
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Text type Phonics
A riddle
We can use riddles to play guessing games. In a riddle, we give the
listeners clues and ask them to guess what we are talking about.
Points to note:
Start with general
clues, then give more
specific clues.
Keep people guessing
until the end!
Look at pages 44 to 49 again. Can you find words with the ng sound?
Write them down and read them aloud.
50
Your turn Grammar focus
2 We can use -ing nouns and noun phrases to talk about activities:
I playing basketball
You like playing the piano
We
surfing the Internet .
They
hiking
He likes swimming
She
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