Theme Contacts - tto123

Theme Contacts - tto123

Contacts

Introduction

Welcome to the fourth theme.
This theme is about Contacts.

How?
You are going to practise your writing, reading, listening and speaking skills.
You will visit websites, play games, do exercises and listen to stories.

What?
You are going to read, listen, speak and write about 'contacts'.
By practising a lot, your English will improve!

Have fun!

Getting started

You have just started the theme Contacts.
You will find different things to watch, to listen to, to read and of course to do.
There are videos, recordings, pictures, photos, texts and assignments.
There are different types of assignments. Some of them you have to do on your own, others you are doing in a group.

At the end of those group assignments you are going to discuss the answers in your group. Some assignment will be checked by the computer.

 

Need to know

Before starting to work in this theme, check with a classmate how much you know about 'contacts' already.
To do so:

  1. For yourself, make a list of ways you can contact other people.
    Then compare your list to that of a classmate.
  2. Together, answer the following questions:
    1. How did people communicate a long time ago?
      What ways of communication existed?
      What ways of communication didn't exist?
    2. How do people communicate nowadays (= tegenwoordig)?
    3. How do you communicate with friends and family?
      Is your way of communication with friends and family different to the way you communicate with people who are not your family or friends? How?
    4. Think of five English words that have to do with communication.

Can do

In this theme you will focus on the following 'can do' statements.

Listening

  • You can understand words and basic sentences that have something to do with: yourself and your nearby surroundings.

Reading

  • You can understand names, words and basic sentences.
    For example: in announcements, on posters and in catalogues.

Having a conversation

  • You can join a simple conversation when the conversational partner is willing to speak slowly, repeats the sentences, formulates the words and helps you formulate what you're trying to say.

  • You can ask and answer simple questions about things that you need and familiar subjects.

Speaking

  • You can use simple phrases and sentences to tell about the contacts with the friends you have.

  • You can have short interviews with people.

Writing

  • You can write an email and make an appointment.

  • You can fill in a form with your personal details.
    For example: your name, nationality and address onto a registration form for your stay with a host family.

To do

At the end of this theme you:

  • will have listened to different people talking about different ways of contacting people;
  • will have read some texts about different ways of contacting people and how they are experienced by people;
  • will have learnt how to write an email;
  • will have learnt how to have a telephone call;
  • will have learnt about the differences between British and American English and the different variants of English in the United Kingdom.

But you don't have to be able to do this right away!
If you take the following steps you'll find out what you need to know!

Lesson

Title

 

1

Meeting in the park

Read about meeting people, a conversation about a meeting in the park and writing an email about this meeting.

Grammar: adjectives.

2

Calling for help

Read and talk about telephones, listen to a video about emergency calls.

Grammar: comparatives and superlatives.

3

Texting

Listen to a conversation about text messages and read a text about it. Discuss about texting.

Grammar: Simple present and Question tags.

4

Writing letters

Listen to a conversation about a post office and read a text about pen pals. Have a discussion about pen pals.

Grammar: a grammar test

 

Lessons

In this theme there are four lessons.

Lesson 1

Meeting in the park
Lesson 2

Calling for help
Lesson 3

Texting
Lesson 4

Writing letters

Vocabulary Contacts

Here you can find the vocabulary lists with sentences (chunks) that accompany this theme.
These lists will also be used in the diagnostic test. Talk to your teacher about when you will learn these lists.

Vocabularylist Contacts A Contacts chunks A
Vocabularylist Contacts B Contacts chunks B
Vocabularylist Contacts C  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip

There are many ways to study vocabulary. You can read the words aloud or copy them.
Click in StudioWozzol on the red arrow for the options.

Finishing touch

You've finished the lessons for the theme Contacts.
Now it is time for the Finishing touch.
Here you will find four extra reading or speaking assignments.
Choose one or two of the assignments and work together with a classmate.
When you are finished you will make the diagnostic test and fill in the evaluation.

Good luck!

Project A: Different generations

Do you know what 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G stand for in mobile phones?
Do you know what the differences are?

You are going to write about these G's
Look at this picture:



Go to the following article and read the information on 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G.
What 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G actually means.

Write a text
Write a piece of text on the differences between 2G, 3G and 4G phones.
Mention these issues in your text:

  • images
  • music
  • organiser
  • games
  • what will 5G be like?

You can read about 'the G's' on the website above.
Look up information on 4G (and maybe even 5G) on the internet.

Ask your teacher how to hand in your piece of writing.

Before you hand in your piece of writing, check the following points:

  • Did you mention the five issues?
  • Is your piece of writing informative? Did you mention some details?
  • The sentences do not start all in the same way.
  • My writing is about 20 sentences.

Project B: Cell phones

A necessity or just a convenience?
How important do you think cell phones are?
Are they necessary or not?

Interview

  • Interview three classmates about the topic.
  • Make sure you have about three questions ready.
  • Interview your classmates. Write their answers down.


Write!

  • Then write a report on the results of your interview.


Ask your teacher how to hand in your piece of writing.

Project C: Email survey

Write five good questions about e-mail in the left column of the worksheet.

  • Do this in pairs.
  • Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.
  • When you have finished, interview other students and write down their answers.
  • Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you have found out.
  • Then, prepare a mini-presentation on your findings.
  • Google for ‘presentation in English’ or similar if you want to know how to make a presentation in English.

Project D: Mobile phone use

You start with a class survey or a survey among some classmates about the following questions.

  • How many of you had a mobile phone when they were in between seven and ten years old? How many percent is that?
  • How many of you talked more than 45 minutes on the phone when they were in between seven and ten years old?
    How many percent is that?
  • How many of you preferred to text rather than chat to stay in touch?
    How many percent is that?

Read the following text.
How does your class (or do your classmates) compare to this article?

How many of us have mobiles?

Nearly half of the children ages five to ten own mobile phones, according to a report of 2020.
The report also states that most children are actually mobile phone owners by the time they reach seven.
They are dependent on them too, with more than half of those surveyed admitting to 'always sleeping with their mobile next to their bed'.
Meanwhile, the amount of time children spend online has continued to increase over the years, with the average child now spending roughly three hours on the internet a day, which is a slight increase from last year.
Over half of children with mobiles prefer to text rather than chat to stay in touch.


Bron: Independent.co.uk


Now match the words to their definitions.

Write!
Now write a similar article about yourself or your class(mates) survey using the words above.

D-test

Test your knowledge. Make the diagnostic test.

What did you learn?

Can do statements

Take a look at the Can do statements in the introduction - 'Can do'.

  • Are you able to do what you have to do?
  • Which assignment was the best one to learn from?

Analyse your mistakes

What did you learn of the mistakes you made in this theme?
You can learn a lot of your mistakes! What mistakes did you make?

  • I did not learn enough
  • I did not understand the grammar.
  • I made sloppy mistakes.
  • I lost concentration.
  • I used the wrong words, I had to check my vocabulary.

Group work

  • What do you think of working in a group?
  • Did every group member do the same amount of work?

Projects

  • Which project(s) did you choose? Why?
  • What did you think of the project?

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    Dit thema valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollecties voor Engels voor tweetalig onderwijs, leerjaar 1, 2 en 3. Dit is thema 4 'Contacts'. Het thema omvat de volgende onderwerpen: Meeting in the park, Calling for help, Texting en Writing letters. Het doel is het kunnen toepassen en begrijpen van gesproken of geschreven zinnen en woorden in de naaste omgeving. In de grammaticaopdrachten wordt er geoefend met het bijvoeglijk naamwoord, de vergrotende en overtreffende trap (met uitzonderingen) en question tags.
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