3.2 My Family - tto123

3.2 My Family - tto123

My family

Introduction

The subject of this period is your family.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • How many children are there in your family?
  • Tell something funny about your parents.
  • Who is the most important person in your family? Why?
  • Do you prefer living in a big or small family? Why?
Step   Activity Aim Time
  Introduction Find out what you already know. 10
Step 1 Listening
Family relationships  		 You can understand a converstation about relationships and answer questions. 15
Step 2 Reading
Mary’s family		 You can understand a text about relatives and answer questions. 15
Step 3 Vocabulary You can understand and use vocabulary about relatives. 15
Step 4 grammar
a/an + word order 		You can use the articles a/an and use the correct word order. 15
Step 5 Speaking
Speech card		 You can have a conversation about your relatives. 10
Step 6 Writing
An email about your family		 You can write an email about your family. 15
Step 7 Evaluation Reflect on what you have learned. 05
Step 8

Extra
Introducing me

Watch the video.

  

 

Step 1 - Listening

Family relationships
You are going to listen to a conversation between Carl and Pancho. They are talking about Pancho’s family. First read the questions:

  • Where is Pancho from?
  • How many brothers and sisters does Pancho have?
  • What is his father's job?
  • What does his mother do?
  • Which thing does Pancho not say?



Do the assignment.

Step 2 - Reading

Mary’s family
You are going to read a story about Mary's life.
After that you are going to tell if the following statements are true.

  • Mary has got a spider.
  • Mary's mother is 38 years old.
  • Nick is Sean's father.
  • Sean has got a sister.
  • Mary has got two brothers.
  • Tiny is a horse.
  • John is a bus driver.
  • Tom is Peter's friend.
  • Fluffy is a cat.

Now you are going to read the story and do the exercises.

Mary is ten years old. She is from Dorset. Her hair is long and brown. She has got brown eyes.
She has got a cat and a dog. Their names are Pat and Fluffy. Pat, the dog, has got a small house in the garden.
Mary's cat, Fluffy, is three years old.
Mary's mother is Jane. She is a teacher. She's thirty-six years old. Jane's hair is blonde and her eyes are brown. Jane hasn't got a pet.
She has a friend. Her name is Laura.
Her husband is Nick. He is thirty-eight. He's a bus driver. He has got brown hair and blue eyes. Nick has got a horse. Its name is Lightning. Nick's friends are bus drivers. They are Tom, Charles and John.
Jane and Nick have got three children: Mary, Sean and Peter.
Sean is six and Peter is twelve years old. The children are pupils.
Sean's hair is blonde, Peter's hair is brown. The boys have got blue eyes.
Peter's pet is a hamster. Its name is Tiny. She is so small.
Sean has got a goldfish. Its name is Goldie.

 

Step 3 - Vocabulary

To be able to do all the assignments correctly, you need to know some words and sentences.
For each theme there are word lists ready in Wozzol, with which you can practice:

Vocabularylist My family
  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Do the exercise.

Tip!
There are many ways to study vocabulary. You can read the words aloud or copy them. The most important rule is never to spend more than 10 minutes studying words. Every minute you spend longer is a waste of time.

Step 4 - Grammar

Study the 'knowledge base'.

A or an?


Now, do the following assignment:

Step 5 - Speaking

Speech card
Expressions: If you need some extra help, go to your Wozzol account and take another look at the chunks.
Now you are going to try to have a conversation with someone else.

  1. Find someone to work with and use the speech card A or B.
  2. Write down a couple of words to help you during the conversation.
  3. Practise your conversation at least twice.

After practising twice, do the following things:

  1. Find another pair to work with.
  2. Act out your conversation.
  3. Let them write down feedback for you.
  4. Let them act out their conversation and write down feedback for them.
  5. Discuss what things were good and what you can do better next time.

Person A

Person B

1

Greet person B.

1

Greet person A.

2

Ask what his or her name is.

2

Tell them your name.
Ask what his or her name is.

3

Tell them your name.
Ask what is the make up of her/his family?

3

Answer the question.

Ask what the structure of her/his family is.

4

Answer the question.
Ask if he or she has a big family and who the members in the family are.

4

Answer the question.
Ask if he or she has a lot of friends, how often they see each other and what they do together.

5

Answer the question.

5

Ask a made up question.

6

Answer the question.
Also ask a made up question.

6

Answer the question.

7

End the conversation.

7

React and end the conversation.


Have a good look at your speech card and think of how you can say or ask the different things.

  • Take some time to look things up if you need.
  • You can write down notes on your speech card but keep them short!
  • Practise the conversation several times with a classmate.
  • Take at least ten minutes to do so.

Step 6 - Writing

An email about your family.
You are going to write a message to your Facebook friend from London.
Use the following prompts:

  • Say hello to your friend (think of a name).
  • Write about your family.
  • Give information about your mother (what does she look like, age, work ?).
  • Give information about your father (what does he look like, age, work ?).
  • Tell something about your brothers and/or sisters.
  • Think of a question you could ask your friend.
  • Ask your pen pal to write about his/her family.
  • End your message.
     

Step 7 - Evaluation

What have you learned in this period?
Answer the following questions:

  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?
  • What was new to you in this lesson?
  • Do you have any questions for your teacher?

Step 8 - Extra

Introducing me

You are going to listen to the song Introducing Me by Nick Jonas.

  • Watch the video.
  • Discuss the song.
  • What do you like about this song?
  • What do you dislike about the song?

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    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor tweetalig onderwijs, leerjaar 1, 2 en 3. Dit is thema 3 'Family and friends'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: My family. In deze les staat het eigen gezin centraal. Bij de grammaticaopdracht wordt 'a/an' en 'word order' besproken.
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    a/an, arrangeerbaar, eigen gezin, engels, my family, stercollectie, tto123, word order

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