Family and friends
Introduction
Welcome to the third theme of English.
This theme is about Family and friends.
How?
You are going to practise your writing, reading, listening and speaking skills.
What?
You are going to talk about yourself and your family in English.
You are also going to listen to people who talk about their relatives.
You are going to use nouns and plurals, the articles a/an and the correct word order. And you will be going to use the present continuous.
After the assignments in the Lessons you are going to do the Finishing touch; the final projects.
Have fun!
Getting started
You have just started the theme Family and friends.
You will find different things to watch, to listen to, to read and of course to do.
There are videos, recordings, pictures, 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 assignments will be checked by the computer.
Need to know
How much do you know about famous families?
Do the following assignment to find out.
Assignment: Members of the family
Can do
In this theme you will focus on the following 'can do' statements.
Listening
- You can understand words and basic sentences about yourself, your family and immediate 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 about yourself and your family when your 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 direct needs or highly confidential subjects.
Speaking
- You can use simple phrases and sentences to describe your family and friends.
Writing
- You can describe a family tree, write a short and simple e-mail about your family and send a postcard with holiday greetings.
- You can fill in forms with your personal information.
For example: your name, nationality and address onto a registration form for a holiday home.
To do
In this theme you are going to listen, read, speak and write about family and friends.
You will be speaking about your own family, royal families, other famous families and your relationship with other people.
Ready? Let's go!
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Lesson
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Activities
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Relatives
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Listen to / read texts and answer questions about relatives.
Have a conversation about your relatives and write an email.
Grammar: practise nouns and plurals.
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My family
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Have, and listen to, a conversation about relationships. Write an email about your family.
Grammar: practise the articles and correct word order.
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My dad
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Listen to / read texts about fathers. Have a conversation about your father.
Grammar: practise present continuous.
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Fairy tale families
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Listen to a song about family. Have a conversation about fairy tales and read a text about a fairy tale.
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Lessons
In this theme there are four lessons.
Vocabulary Family and friends
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.
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 'Family and friends'.
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: Famous families
You are going to give a presentation on a famous family together with a classmate.
- Think of a famous family. They can be real (for example the Dutch royal family) or fictitious (for example The Simpsons). Don't tell your classmates which family you have chosen!
- Look for information on them, their lifestyle, their social environment (friends etc.) on the internet.
- Prepare a presentation of about two minutes, but make sure you do not mention the names of the famous people.
- Give the presentation in front of your class.
- Did your classmates guess which family you chose?
Variation: Tell the class which famous family the presentation is about and let pupils write questions about their own presentations for their classmates to answer.
OR let the classmates write down questions during the presentation for other classmates to answer.
Project B: Holiday cottage
Situation
You are at the reception of a holiday park. The receptionist gives you the following form. Register your family by filling in the form. You stay for a week.
You want to rent bicycles on Thursday. On Tuesday you want to order a take-away meal. Write down what kind of take-away meal you want.
Fill in the form.
Tip:
Ask two classmates to have a look at your form and comment on it.
Evaluation of the task
You did well if:
- You filled in the right words in the right spaces.
- You have included all points of the task in the form.
Project C: Holiday greetings
Situation
You are on holiday. You are really enjoying yourself but you do miss your friend.
You write him/her a postcard to tell him/her about your holiday.
Evaluation of the task
You did well if:
- You greeted your friend.
- You said how you are and how your holiday is.
- You made a classmate read your postcard and comment on it.
D-test
Test your knowledge. Make the diagnostic test.
Engels: Family and friends D-toets
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
You can learn a lot of your mistakes! What mistakes did you make?
What did you learn of the mistakes you made in this theme?
- 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 are your thoughts about 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(s)?
