1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01

Sequence One: Listening and Speaking.

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:

-listen and respond orally and in writing to a tale

-express likes and dislikes about literary works

-recognise stress in three-syllable words

-recognise and pronounce inflected endings (verb+ed)

Anticipate: (p 36)
1.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001$ Look at the pictures and say which of the following tales from Arabian Nights they illustrate:

Key: The pictures illustrate “The Voyages of Sindbad the sailor".
2.      Look at the characters in the picture story, then identify the hero and say who he is:
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Key: The hero is Sindbad; he appears in pictures A, B, E and F.

3.     Look at picture B and say which part of the world the map represents by circling the appropriate letter. Justify your answer:
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Key: The Middle East (The Trigris and Euphrates appear clear in picture B).

Listen and Check: (p 37)
1.     Listen to the first part of the tale and check your answers to ex. 1, 2 and 3:
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2.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005$ The pictures on page 36 are in scrambled order. Reorder them by writing letters A-F in the boxes below:

Key:           (1-C) – (2-B) – (3-D) – (4-E) – (5-F) – (6-A)

3.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image006$ Listen to the second part of the tale and check your answers to ex. 2:

4.     Here is the picture story in words. The sentences and paragraphs below are scrambled. Reorder them to get a coherent story:
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Key:          (1-B) – (2-D) – (3-E) – (4-F) – (5-A) – (6-C).

5.     Now, close your books and tell Sindbad's tale to your classmates.


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Key:

Sandbad the sailor is one of the unforgettable stories. He made seven voyages. In his first one, he traveled from Bagdad to Basra and from there sailed down chatt el Arab; he continued sailing until he reached an island. Unfortunately, it was not an island but a whale.

Say it Clear: (p 38)
1. Draw a table and indicate how ‘ ed’ is pronounced in each verb. Tick in the right box. Then check with your teacher and say them aloud:
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Key:

/d/	Travelled – sailed – climbed.[used – called – allowed - followed]
/t/	Stopped.[looked]
/ɪd/	Started – landed.[wanted – suggested ]

2. $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image010$ Draw the table and write the adjectives according to their stress pattern. Then check with your teacher:

Key:

000	000
Dramatic / drəˈmætɪk / Fantastic / fænˈtæstɪk / Relaxing / rɪˈlæksɪŋ / Exciting / ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ / Depressing / dɪˈpresɪŋ /	Wonderful / ˈwʌndəfəl / Saddening / ˈsædənɪŋ / Magical / ˈmædʒɪkəl /

Ø In three-syllable words, the stress generally falls on the first syllable. But if the first syllable is a prefix, the stress moves to the next syllable.
Ø In words ending with ‘-ic’, the stress falls on the penultimate syllable (2^nd from the end).

3. Use the adjectives and play a dialogue with your classmate:


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The hidden message:

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/ aɪ laɪk ðә bʊk bɪˈkɒz ɪt hæz gʊd ˈkæræktәz /
I like the book because it has good characters.

Your Turn: (p 39)

Respond favourably or unfavourably to one of the books below. Use the nouns and adjectives in the table:


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    Key:
Student A: What’s your favourite book?
Student B: My best book is Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.
Student A: Why are you fond of it?
Student B: because it tells a delightful story and it has charming characters.
Student A: I like it very much too.
Say it in Writing:

Write a very short review of a book or a film of your choice. Use the book review below as a model:
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Sequence Two: Reading and Writing.

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:
-read and interpret a blurb on the paper jacket of a book
-read and interpret a literary portrait
-describe people’s physical appearance and personality features
-recognise corrective stress.

Anticipate: (p 40)
1.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image017$ Look at the picture of the book cover below and answer these questions:

      Key:
a.       The picture shows the back page of the book cover.
b.      The author of the book is Chinua Achebe.
c.       He’s from Nigeria.
d.      The blurb gives an appreciation and a summary of the novel. It’s included for commercial reasons.

2.     Try to guess from the jacket blurb how the novel will start. Circle the right letter:
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Key: The novel will start with a …. portrayal of the hero (b).

Read and Check: (p 41)
1.   Read the text and complete the table with information:
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Key:

Character Traits	Okonkwo	Unoka
Physical appearance	Tall and huge, with a dark complexion, a wide nose and bushy eyebrows.	A thin, handsome man.
Personality features	He had a fierce look. He was a very hard worker. He was courageous. He was a hero.	He was lazy and improvident. He was a coward.
Likes and dislikes	He was a man who liked action.	Playing on his flute and talking about music.

2. What tense is used in this text? Why?


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Key:
The tense used is “the past simple tense” because the action took place in a definite time in the past and is over.

Discover the Language: (p 42 – 43)
1. Look at the pictures below, then ask and answer questions about the identity of each person. Use the cues in the table:


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Key:
A: Tell me, B! Who’s the man with a thin moustache and a wide nose?
B: It’s Fellag, the comedian and playwright. He’s Algerian, isn’t he?
A: Yes, he is. How do you know?
B: Because he speaks Arabic, Berber and French.
A: Oh, yes! That’s right.

2.     Match the questions in column A with the answers in column B:
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Key:     (1–E) – (2-F) – (3-A) – (4-B) – (5-C) – (6-D).

3.     Think of a person in the class. Then ask your partner the same questions in ex. 2 to find out who that person is:
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Write it Right:
Think about a deceased member of you family whom you miss. Write a short paragraph to describe her/him to your classmates.


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Sequence Three: Developing Skills.

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:
-read and interpret a street map
-read and respond to a short narrative
-ask for and give directions and locate places.

(p 44 -45)

1.     Facilities number 5, 6, 10 and 15 are not indicated on the map. Listen to the dialogues and write the number of each in one of the little boxes:
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10    $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image027$ Bank between 8 and 13 .

2.     Use the tactics summary to ask for and give directions to the facilities on the street map:
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Key:
A: Excuse me. Is there a hospital near here?
B: Yes, there is one on/at the corner of Spring Avenue and Duke Street.
A: Can you show me to get there?
B: Let me see. Go straight ahead and turn right at the roundabout. Walk along
Spring Avenue until the second roundabout. The hospital is at the corner of Spring Avenue and Duke Street.

3.     Write a short note or an e-mail to a friend of yours. Give him/her directions where to meet you starting from the bus station:
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Key:
Meet me at the school. It is in Penbroke Street. Turn right as you walk out of the bus station. Then, cross Madison Street. Keep to the right. It’s opposite the railway station.

(P 46 – 47)

1.     Look at the book cover below and answer these questions:
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Key:
a.      The author of the book is Charles Dickens
b.      Its title is Hard Times. I expect it to be depressing.
c.       The picture illustrates an industrial town. We can see the smoke coming out of factories’ chimneys and the polluted canal.

2.     Read the passage and answer the questions below. Give evidence from the text:


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Key:
a.       The author compares Coketown to the painted face of a savage.
b.      The canal was black because it was polluted by water from the factories.
c.       Most people in Coketown worked in the textile factories near their homes.
d.      It was a noisy town because of the piston engines of the machines.
e.       No, it wasn’t because there was nothing in it except for some rare facilities such as a bank, an infirmary, a school, a town hall, an old church and a prison.

3.     Complete the sentences below with information from the text:
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Key:
a.       The smoke from the factories resembled serpents trailing themselves.
b.      The piston engines were similar to a melancholy elephant.
c.       The people who lived in Coketown looked like one another.

4.     How does the author convey the idea of…
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a.       Dirtiness in §1: the use of words related to colour and smell (black town, smoke, black canal, river with purple water, ill-smelling dye).
b.      Monotony in §2: the use of “streets were like one another”, “people were like one another”.
c.       Boredom in §3: the use of “There were no recreational facilities”, “you saw nothing in Coketown”, “All public inscriptions were written in black and white”, “All the buildings looked like one another”.

5.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 02 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image020$ Imagine you are a novelist. Write an introductory paragraph about an imaginary town or village where your story will take place:

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