Family and Friends Special Edition Grade 4 – Extensive reading 1 Family

Family: Families around the world

Objectives
 To read a factual text
 To read independently and work out meaning through context
Language
 Recycled vocabulary and structures
 Extra vocabulary: backyard, bowl, break, every, early, exercise, fish, games, lunch(time), more, nap, national, parent,
usually, vegetable
Materials
 Student Book p. 2829

Introduction
Weather report: Ask the class about today’s weather.
Song: Play a warm-up song.
Warmer
 Tell the children that you are thinking about a country, but you can’t remember its name. Ask them to guess the
country. They have twenty guesses.

Presentation
Look at the pictures. Where do you think the children are from? What do you think they do every day? (Exercise 1)
 Ask the children to look at the pictures. Ask Where do you think the children are from? What do you think they do
every day? Ask questions and encourage children to make predictions about the text.
 Elicit and model new vocabulary where necessary.
Read. (Exercise 2)
 Choose four children and assign them half of each section each. Ask them to read both texts aloud to the class.
 Help with the pronunciation of difficult words.
 Put children into groups of four and repeat.

Development
Read again. Who takes a nap at lunchtime? Who does homework after dinner? (Exercise 3)
 Discuss the texts with the class, and ask questions to check comprehension.
Read again and answer the question. (Exercise 4)
 Ask the children to read the texts again silently.
 Then ask the questions in turn. Give children a minute to check the text if necessary.
 Go through the answers with the class.
Answers
1 one
2 a bowl of rice noodle soup
3 She walks to school.
4 Grandma
5 He reads or watches TV.
6 He goes to bed at nine o’clock.
Ask and answer. (Exercise 5)
 Discuss the question with the class, either as an open-class activity or in smaller groups.
 Ask children to describe their daily routine.

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Project
Make a family poster. (Exercise 6)
 Ask the children to find or draw pictures of their family at home and make a poster.
 At the next lesson, choose some children to present their posters to the class. The remaining children then present
their posters to one another.

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