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Page 1: Activity for  7th grade  students Unit  1

A C T I V I T Y F O R 7 T H G R A D E S T U D E N T S

U N I T 1

FRIENDS

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INTRODUCTION This lesson is aimed to cover the thematic vocabulary

required in Unit 1 for 7th grade students. This includes spare time activities (riding a bike, playing the guitar, doing sports, etc) and adjectives (boring, shy, talkative, etc).

A famous animated television comedy serie will be used to catch students attention and to make the lesson more interesting to them.

Using music and characters to carry out with the activities.

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Pre -activities! (30 minutes)

Listening and watching the video of Phineas and Ferb Theme song. Handing out the lyrics of the song to the students.

Identifying spare time activities Introducing vocabulary Introducing characters for posterior

activities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKXYxGfFBig&feature=related

Duration of the video: 0:57 seconds

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PHINEAS AND FERB THEME SONG LYRICS There's 104 days of summer vacation

And school comes along just to end itSo the annual problem for our generationIs finding a good way to spend it

Like maybe... Building a rocketOr fighting a mummyOr climbing up the Eiffel Tower

Discovering something that doesn't exist (Hey! )Or giving a monkey a showerSurfing tidal wavesCreating nanobotsOr locating Frankenstein's brain (It's over here! )

Finding a dodo birdPainting a continentOr driving your sister insane (Phineas!)

As you can seeThere's a whole lot of stuff to doBefore school starts this fall (Come on Perry)

So stick with us 'cause Phineas and FerbAre gonna do it allSo stick with us 'cause Phineas and Ferb areGonna do it all! (Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!)

Identify vocabulary about spare time activities related with the images in the video. (8 minutes)

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Show images of the characters doing different activities Emphasizing what they like and don’t like to do

(expressions)

A B C

E

D

GF H

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A. Candace loves dancing with JeremyB. Candace likes riding her bikeC. Phineas and Ferb enjoy playing the guitar D. Phineas likes playing footballE. Phineas, Ferb and Perry enjoy doing sports togetherF. Candace enjoys singing with PhineasG. Stacy likes reading magazines in her free timeH. Phineas and Ferb love creating new things

LANGUAGE FOCUS: LOVE, LIKE, ENJOY or HATE, DOESN’T/DON’T LIKE + verb +

ing

Candace doesn’t like fighting with StacyPhineas and Ferb don’t like doing boring

thingsDr. Doofenshmirtz hates losing all the time

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Who’s in the class? (Adapted) LEARNING GAME

Distribute a page of blocks with traits, preferences, and other characteristics that students in your class may share. Give the students several minutes to find a peer with each of the characteristics and obtain a signature in every block, if possible.When time is up, find out who has gathered the greatest number of names and discuss each trait. Invite students to raise their hands if they possess a trait as you talk about it.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame024b.shtml

Likes going to the cinema

Loves playing the guitar

Likes doing sports

Hates doing the dishes

Hates cleaning the bedroom

Loves reading books

Loves playing the piano

doesn’t like going to the dentist

Likes going to the beach

Doesn’t like vanilla ice cream

Loves playing football

likes english class

Hates reading books

Hates eating vegetables

Doesn’t like sports class

loves watching action movies

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while-activities! (30 minutes)

ACTIVITY 1 Coment about characters

personalities and encourage students to provide an adjective to describe them.

Use crossword about adjectives

creative friendly

talkativestrong

boringshy

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ACTIVITY 2 Crosswords with adjectives. Ask

students to use their dictionaries if necessary.

http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/crossword/crossword-puzzle.php

ACTIVITY 3 Match OppositesWrite two lists of adjectives on the board or a worksheet. The first list should contain adjectives and the second the opposite of those adjectives.http://esl.about.com/od/esleflteachingtechnique/a/lmh_vocab.htm

BORING RESERVEDSHY UNFRIENDLYKIND SADHAPPY MEANFRIENDLY INTERESTIN

GTALKATIVE SOCIABLE

ACTIVITY 4

Create sentences using the adjectives

Ex: • Candace never shuts up, she is a very talkative person.• Dr. Doofenshmirtz is always inventing evil devices, he is

really mean.

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ACTIVITY 5 Reading comprehension and

writing. Describe your best friend. Worksheet.

http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/My_Friend.pdf

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post-activities! (30 minutes)

Create a simple dialogue with a partner about your favourite activities, changing what is underlined in the example dialogue.

Present it to the classEXAMPLEA. what’s your name?B. John Smith.A. How old are you?B. I’m thirteen.C. What are your favourite

activities?D. I like playing football and

tennis. A. And what do you like doing after school?B. I like swimming.

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