1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01

Sequence One: Listening and Speaking.

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

-listen and respond to an interview;

-read the horoscope and report orally and in writing what the stars say;

-mark stress in compound nouns and shift stress from noun to adjective;

Anticipate: (P 66)
1.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001$ Find two words in the box below which tell us what the picture shows:

Key:
        The picture shows newspapers and magazines.

2.     The remaining words in the box refer to…
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Key:
            The remaining words in the box refer to rubrics.

3.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003$ Look at the British and American newspaper titles below and say which Algerian newspapers they remind you of :

Key:                USA TODAY -----------------El Djazair EL-youm (in Arabic)
Evening Standard-----------Le Soir d’Algérie
The Daily Telegraph--------Le quotidien
Herald Tribune---------------La Tribune
4.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004$ In your view, the main purpose of a newspaper is …

Key:
            a. to inform its readers.

5.     Complete the following sentence with a, b or c:
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Key: When I read newspapers, I …

b. evaluate the information because there are ‘serious’ newspapers as well as sensational ones.

Listen and Check: (P 67)

1. Listen to this extract from an interview about British newspapers and check your answer to question 5 on the previous page:
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Key: When I read newspapers, I am very careful about the information they provide because there are ‘serious’ newspapers as well as sensational ones.

2.     Listen again and use the information in the table below to take notes. Then report what the interviewee says about newspapers::
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Key:
                 The interviewee likes/prefers reading daily serious newspapers since they are objective and provide/contain reliable information. He/she hates/dislikes reading tabloids or sensational papers which are subjective and full of half-truths.

3.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image008$ Choose the best meaning for these words from the interview:

Key:
A. sensational = shocking. (b)
B. half-truth = a statement that is true but not complete. (c)
C. tabloids = newspapers that tell sensational stories. (a)

4.     $1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image009$ Make the best use of what you have learned above to discuss these questions about the picture below:

Key:
a- The people in the picture are on a train, probably a ‘tube’ train (metro).
b- They are reading newspapers and magazines.
c- They are probably going to work.
d- No, none of them are/is talking.
e- Very few people do.
f- They talk to one another about various subjects related to politics, sports and society in general.
g- I personally……………………/ When I travel, I ………………………………


Say it Clear: (P 68)
1.     Many words in English are made of two parts:


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a.     Match he words from List A with the corresponding ones from List B to build new words:
Key:             (newspaper – broadcast – headline -– newscast - bestseller)
                          (bookshop - postcard - newsagent - sportsman – crossword)

b.     Listen to your teacher pronounce the new words and put each of them onto one of the two scales (1 or 2) below according to its stress pattern:
Key:

00 (Scale 1)	00 (Scale 2)
NEWSpaper – BROADcast – HEADline – NEWScast – BOOKshop - POSTcard – NEWSagent - SPORTSman - CROSSword	BestSELLER

2. Listen again to your teacher pronounce the pairs of words below and note the shift in stress. Then write each word in the right column:
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Key:

00	000		000	000
Atom /ˈætәm/ Civil /ˈsɪvl/ Drama /ˈdræmә/ Grammar/ˈgræmә/ Proverb /ˈprɒvɜːb/	Atomic /әˈtɒmɪk/ Civilian /sɪˈvi:lɪәn/ Dramatic/drәˈmætɪk/ Grammarian /grәˈmeәrɪәn/ Proverbial /prәˈvɜːbɪәl/		Colony /ˈkɒlәnɪ/ Comedy /ˈkɒmәdɪ/ Curious /ˈkjʊәrɪәs/ Strategy /ˈstrætәdʒɪ/ Operate /ˈɒpәreɪt/	Colonial /kәˈlәʊnɪәl/ Comedian/kәˈmi:dɪәn/ Curiosity/kjʊәrɪˈɒsәtɪ/ Strategic /stræˈti:dʒɪk/ Operation /ɒpˈreɪʃn/

The hidden message:
$1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image012$ The message below is written in phonetic scripts. Rewrite it using the letters of the alphabet:

/ ˈtæblɔɪdz ˈju:ʒәlɪ rɪˈpɔːt ˈskændlz әnd ju:z senˈseɪʃәnl ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ /
Tabloids usually report scandals and use sensational language.

Your Turn: (P 69)
$1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image013$ Use the information in the horoscope page below to act out short dialogues:

Key: (Sample dialogue)
Ali: Tell me Ryan, what’s your star sign?
Ryan: It’s (Aries). What does the horoscope say?

Ali: Well, it says that (you like jokes and loud music). It also says that (you don’t often ask for advice.)

Ryan: Oh! That’s (quite right)!

Say it in Writing:
Ask your partner to tell you what his/her star sign is. Then write down what the stars say about him/her:
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Key:
The stars say that Karim works hard; he is good at making money.

Sequence Two: Reading and Writing.

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:
-read and interpret a graphic display, a questionnaire, a survey…
-report questions;
-pronounce the sound /h/ in unstressed syllables;
-turn direct speech into reported speech;

Anticipate: (P 70)
Look at the graphic display and answer the questions below :


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      Key:
                (A – c) – (B – a) – (C – b) – (D – a)
          E- (a = 60) – (b = 28) – (c = 16) – (d = Cool

– (e = 6) – (f = 4).

F- The students should make the best use of their personal experience to guess the informants’ different uses of the computer (guessing game).

*Number of informants who use the computer…
- to keep addresses and phone numbers = 16
- to learn programming = 6
- to play games = 60
- as a calculator = 2
- for their studies = 4
- to do some word-processing at home = 28

Read and Check: (P 71)
1. Read the text and answer the questions:
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Key:
A- The reporter asked/questioned 60 teenagers.
B- S/he decided to do a survey to find out if it was true that teenagers knew about computers.
C- The survey shows that teenagers don’t really know how to use computers. (b)
D- a. b. c. d. (The reporter asked all the questions. Learners should justify their answers.)
E- The reporter uses the following verbs to report his/her findings: “said - told”.
F- The verbs used for reporting are in the past simple tense.

G- The verbs following the reporting verb are also in the past simple tense.

H- Interact with your learners about the differences in word order, tenses …to introduce the
     notions of direct and indirect speech.(There are differences in the word order and tense in the
     reporter’s questions in D ‘direct speech’ and the way of reporting them in the text ‘reported
     speech’)

Discover the Language: (P 72)
1.     Pretend you are one of the 60 informants interviewed about computer use. Take turns to interview each other:
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Key:                                           (Suggested interview)
Reporter: What’s your name?
Informant: (My name’s) Karim.
Reporter: Where do you go to school?
Informant: I’m a first-year secondary school student at El-Karimia secondary school.
Reporter: Do you have a computer?
Informant: Yes, I do.
Reporter: What do you use it for?
Informant: I generally use it for my studies, but I sometimes use it to play games.
.

2.     Pretend someone enquires about the questions which the reporter asked you. Act out the dialogue using the cues below:
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Key:                             (Suggested dialogue)
A: What questions did she ask you at the interview?

B: She asked me what my name was and where I went to school.

A: And then?

B: Then she asked me if I had a computer and what I used it for.

3. Listen to the teacher read the dialogue below and note how he/she pronounces (him) and (her):


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Key:

Consonant /h/ in ‘him’ and ‘her’ is not pronounced. It is silent.

4.     Pretend someone enquires about the questions which the reporter asked to your friend. Act out a dialogue as the one in the previous exercise:
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Discover the Language:
1.     [Reported Questions with introductory verb in the present]
Look at the following example and do the same:
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Ø The reporter asks the informant: “What is your name?” (‘your’ refers to ‘the informant’)
The reporter asks the informant what his/her name is.
a.      The reporter questions the informant: “Where do you go to school?”   (wh- question)
b.      “Do you have a computer at home?” the reporter asks the informants. (auxiliary question)
c.       The reporter questions the informant: “What do you use it for?”          (wh- question)
Key:
a.      The reporter questions the informant where he/she goes to school.
b.      The reporter asks the informants if/whether they have a computer at home.
c.       The reporter questions the informant what he/she uses it for.

2.     [Reported Questions with introductory verb in the past]
Look at the following example and do the same:
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Ø The reporter asked the informant: “What is your name?”              (‘your’ refers to ‘the informant’)
The reporter asked the informant what his/her name was.
a.       The reporter questioned the informant: “Where do you go to school?”   (wh- question)
b.      “Do you have a computer at home?” the reporter asked the informants. (auxiliary question)
c.       The reporter questioned the informant: “What do you use it for?”          (wh- question)
Key:
a.      The reporter questioned the informant where he/she went to school.
b.      The reporter asked the informants if/whether they had a computer at home.
c.       The reporter questioned the informant what he/she used it for.

3.     Listen to the teacher read the dialogue below and note how he/she pronounces (him) and (her):


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Key:

Consonant /h/ in ‘him’ and ‘her’ is not pronounced. It is silent.

4. Pretend someone enquires about the questions which the reporter asked to your friend. Act out a dialogue as the one in the previous exercise:
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(P 73)

Write it Right:
Read the results of the sports questionnaire and complete the report below. Use the report on page 71 as a model:


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Key: (Suggested report)


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Sequence Three: Developing Skills.

By the end of the sequence, pupils should be able to:
-conduct an interview;
-read and interpret a newspaper article;
-summarise what people say: orders, requests, greetings…

(P 74)

1.     Look at the form below and guess what it is:
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Key:       The form is a questionnaire. (c)


2.     Listen to an interview about leisure time activities and fill in the form above to record the interviewee’s answers:
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Key:      Name:    Leila   Chennab

Boy                Girl   X

      ACTIVITY                      YES               NO

Listening to music                     X
Surfing on the Web                                        X
Going to concerts                                          X
Watching TV                                                X
Taking part in team sports        X
Camping                                                        X
Bicycle riding                                                X

3.     Draw the form above on your copybook. Then use it to conduct a survey about your classmates’ leisure time:
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4.     Now, collect the forms and interpret the results of your survey. Then complete the report below:
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Key:

This is a report of the findings of a survey about students’ leisure time activities. I submitted a questionnaire to……………………... Surprisingly, most students said that they……/I found it natural that……………..because…………/As I expected, most……………………………….

(P 76-77)

1. $1st Year lessons UNIT 03 PART 01 C:\Users\win7\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image008$ Look at the picture and say what attitude it illustrates. Say why:

Key:

The picture illustrates love and kindness. The man is doing something nice and kind for the boy. The piece of watermelon he gives him has the shape of a heart (heart-shaped).

2. Read the paragraph below and check your answer:
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3. Read the text on page 76 and answer the questions below:
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Key:
A. Suggested title: Choosing to be kind (c)
B. The author cites them in order to support her point of view about kindness. (b)

C. He says that when we do something nice and kind to someone, we experience a beautiful feeling of ease and peace.

D. ‘On the contrary’ in § 2 expresses contrast. (c)

E. I can use the conjunction ‘but’ to replace ‘on the contrary’. (b)

F. In the first paragraph, the author defines kindness as a decent and generous behaviour.

G.

Words ending in “-ness” (NOUNS)	Roots (ADJECTIVES)
Kindness Tenderness Calmness happiness	Kind Tender Calm Happy

Conclusion: In English, we can derive nouns from adjectives by adding the suffix ‘-ness’ to some adjectives.

H. Direct speech:

Sinatra says, ‘rage and anger, which are the reverse side of kindness, increase surges in adrenaline and cortisol, two of the main hormones which contribute to heart disease’.

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