1st year lessons UNIT 02 PART 02

(p 48 -49)

1. Look at the verbs in the box below. They are all infinitives of irregular verbs. Read the text below and say what the past simple tense of each verb is:
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Key:

To be	To have	To get	To think	To take
Was - were	had	got	thought	Took
To find	To see	To feel	To understand	To go
found	saw	felt	understood	went

2. Read the text again (the 1^st two paragraphs and complete the table):
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Key:

Who are the characters?	What are they doing?	Where and when did the action take place?	What was the weather like?
Alice Her sister Her cat “Dinah” A white rabbit	Alice was sitting in the garden. Her sister was reading. Her cat was mewing.	The action took place in the garden in Spring.	The weather was very hot.

3. Copy down the verbs from the first two paragraphs of the text. Then say what their tenses are:
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Key:

Infinitives of the verbs	Past simple	Past continuous
To be To sit To have To read To mew To find To think To feel To consider To pass	was had did not find thought felt passed	Was sitting Was reading Was mewing Was considering

4. What conclusion can you draw about the use of the tenses in the first two paragraphs?


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Key:
The verbs are either in past continuous or past simple. They are in past continuous to indicate lasting (long) actions in the past, but they are in past simple to indicate short actions in the past or to describe a state of things.

5.     Read the story very quickly and find who the narrator is. Justify:
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Key:             The narrator is a third person (an unknown narrator).

6.     Rewrite the first two paragraphs of the story from Alice’s point of view. Make any necessary changes in the text:


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Key:

It was spring and I was sitting in the garden. I had nothing to do. My sister was reading while her cat Dinah was mewing. But I did not find the book interesting. ‘How stupid!’ I thought, ‘a book with no pictures in it’. The weather was very hot, and I felt I was going to sleep. I was just considering what to do when a white rabbit passed near me.

7. Join these pairs of sentences from the text above with “while” or “when”. Make any necessary changes. Don’t look at the text:


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Key:
a.       Her sister was reading while her cat was mewing.
b.      She was considering what to do when a rabbit suddenly passed.
c.       She was looking at the objects when she saw a little bottle.

8.      Write a personal story making the best use of the information in the table below:
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Key:

It happened on January 10, 2003. It was early afternoon. The weather was very cold and rainy. I was watching a handball game on TV in the living room while my sister and my brother were playing games on the computer. I was having a cup of tea when suddenly the Algerian team scored the first goal. I jumped with joy, dropped the cup and spilt the tea on the carpet…

Stop and Consider: (p50-52)

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:
-use the past continuous and the past simple + “when” and “while”
-use “besides” and “beside”
-use the relative pronouns “who”, “whom” and “which”

1.     Study the Reminder and the exercise below:
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Key:
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B: They were having breakfast.
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B: She was playing chess.
$1st year lessons UNIT 02 PART 02 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image010$ A: What were you doing at 8:15 p.m. yesterday?
B: We were watching the news.

2.     Pretend you are John. Use the cues to reply to Peter as in the example:
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Key:
John: I had a terrible day yesterday.
Peter: Really? What happened?
John: I was having a beautiful dream when I hit my foot on the bed.
Peter: What next?
John: While I was having a bath, the telephone rang.
Peter: And then?
John: I was just lifting the receiver when the telephone stopped ringing.
Peter: Did anything else happen?
John: While I was walking in the park, a dog bit me.
Peter: Incredible! What then?
John: I was running for the bus when I fell over.
Peter: Oh no! What did you do in the evening?
John: While I was watching TV, the TV set went out of order.
Peter: What next?
John: I was reading a book when the light went out and let myself fall sleep.

3.     Read the Reminder below and do the next exercise :
In each of the pairs of pictures below, two actions are taking place simultaneously in the past. Give names to the people and make sentences using “while”:
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Key:
He was playing golf while she was playing tennis.
The girls were playing field hockey while the boys were playing volleyball.
She was playing table tennis while he was skiing.
While she was playing ice hockey, her friends were swimming.

                                                      (P 52 - 53)

4.     Use “who”, “which” or “whom” to join sentences (a) an (b) in the table below. Make any necessary changes. Refer to the Reminder below:
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Key:
-Charles Dickens was born on Friday 7^th, 1812 in Portsmouth which is a naval town on the south coast of England.
-Charles Dickens’ father was a clerk who worked for the navy.
-In 1814 Charles’ family moved to London which was the financial and industrial centre of the world at that time.
-After that, his family moved to Chatham which is a small town to the east of London.
-When Dickens was twelve, the police arrested his father whom he missed very much.
-Dickens left school and went to work in a factory which was far from his home.
-He experienced the life of exploited children whom he portrayed in his books.
-One of these books is Oliver Twist which Dickens published in 1836.

5.     Study the Reminder below and fill in the blanks in the sentences below with “beside” or “besides”:
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Key:     a- beside        b- besides      c- beside      d- beside      e- besides      f- besides.

Sequence Four: Consolidation and Extension.

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:
-read and write a short biography
-read and interpret a short poem / a folktale
-read and use a street map
-write a folktale

Write it Out: (p 54 - 55)

1.     Read the information below, then ask and answer questions about Shakespeare. Use the question words “who”, “when”, “where”, …
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Key:

Questions	Answers
*When* was Shakespeare born? *Where* was he born? *What* was his father? *Whom* did he marry? *Who* was his first child? *What* did he do in 1589?	He was born *in 1564. He was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon. He was a wealthy glove maker. He married Anne Hathaway. (Susanna* was) his first child (was *Susanna). He wrote his first play Henry VI* in 1589.

2.     Use the information in the box above and the link words in the box below to complete Shakespeare’s short biography:
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Key:        (1=on) – (2=in Stratford-Upon-Avon) – (3=a wealthy glove maker)
                   (4=At the age of) – (5=Anne Hathaway) – (6=Susanna) – (7=Susanna)
                   (8=later) – (9=At first) – (10=1589) – (11=when) – (12=1594)
                   (13=The Globe) – (14=in 1612) – (15=later) – (16=After).

3.     Read the summary below and replace the underlined words with the words in the box to avoid repetition:
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Key:        (1=tragic plays) – (2=He) – (3=in the capital) – (4=him) – (5=his)
                   (6=They) – (7=he) – (8=At the funeral speech).

4.     Use the notes below about Charlie Chaplin and write a short biography. Use link words such as: “later, at first, after, before, …”:
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Key:

Charlie Chaplin was born in London on April 16, 1889. His father and mother were very poor. They were music hall performers. At first, he started clog dancing and singing for money in 1894. Ten years later, he joined a travelling theatre company and emigrated to America. In 1910, a film director offered him a role in a film. After four years, he became a film director himself. From 1914 to December 25, 1966, he made funny films. He died in Switzerland in 1977.

Work it Out: (p 56)
1.     Say the order in which you are going to do the following actions in order to find your way in London. Put numbers 1-5 in boxes a-e below:
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Key:                (a-5) – (b-2) – (c-1) – (d-3) – (e-4)

2.     Now read the dialogue below and check your answers to ex. 1:
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3.     Situate yourself on the map above. Then ask for and give directions either to Victoria Coach Station or Victoria Railway Station:
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Key:
A: Can you show me the way to Victoria Railway Station, please?
B: Yes, of course. Let’s see the street map. We’re here in Vauxhall Bridge Street.
     You said you wanted to go to Victoria railway Station, didn’t you?
A: Yes, that’s right.
B: Well, let’s have a look at the index first. Victoria Railway Street is in area E4. So
     go along this road and turn left into Buckingham Palace Road. Then go straight
     ahead. It’s on your left-hand corner of Buckingham Palace Road and Ecceleston
     Belgrave Road.
A: Is it far from here?
B: Let’s look at the scale of miles. No, it isn’t. It’s about a mile.

                                                          (p 57)
1.     Listen to your teacher recite the poem about Australia below and note if her/his voice goes up or down at the end of each verse:
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Key: The voice goes down at the end of each verse.

2.     Read the poem aloud and pay attention to intonation and rhyme:
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3.     $1st year lessons UNIT 02 PART 02 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image016$ Read the poem again and answer these questions:

Key:
a.       In the second stanza, she is describing the diversity of Australian landscape and beauty.
b.      Pupils should give their appreciation about the poem.
c.       No, it is not. She says: “I know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise.”

4.     Now, observe the poem and discuss the following aspects with your teacher:
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Key:
Punctuation: The verses are not sentences.
Capitalisation: The verses begin with capital letters.
Number of verses: There are eighteen verses.
Organisation of verses: these verses are divided into stanzas. The stanzas are not         paragraphs.

5.     Rewrite the poem into a prose passage. Make any necessary changes:
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Key:

Dear readers, the love of field and coppice, of green and shaded lanes, of ordered woods and gardens is running in your veins. I know that you have a strong love for grey-blue spaces, brown and soft streams, dim skies, but I cannot share it because my beloved country is otherwise.

I love a different part of my country. I love the sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her jewel-sea, her beauty and her terror, and the wide brown land.

6.     Now write a poem about your country, town, and village to say what you love about it. Use the poem above as a model.
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(p 58)

1.     Discuss these sayings in class and try to find their equivalents in your own culture:
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2.     Now, read the two folktales below and find out which of the sayings above each of them illustrates and write it at the end as a moral:
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Key:
             The stork and the pitcher ---- necessity is the mother of invention.
                 The oak and the reeds      ---- it is better to bend than to break.

3.     Read the folktales again ad identify which of the following parts each of them contains:
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Key:

The stork and the pitcher	The oak and the reeds
a. Description of a situation. b. A little story about what happened because of the situation. d. The moral of the story.	a. Description of a situation. b. A little story about what happened because of the situation. c. A comment from another character on the central character’s action. d. The moral of the story.

4. $1st year lessons UNIT 02 PART 02 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005$ Think of a well-known folktale from your own culture and write it down using the folktales above as models:

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