Contents 1- THE ARTICLE AND THE NOUN

2- THE NOUN: GENDER AND NUMBER

3- CAPITAL LETTERS

4- THE LEXICAL FAMILY

Language functions - INTRODUCING OUR FAMILY MEMBERS PERSONAL DATA AND PROFESSIONS

- GETTING TO KNOW THE THINGS AROUND THEM AND THEIR USES

Objectives - TO READ, LISTEN AND DISTINGUISH PERSONAL INFORMATION - TO GIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION - TO USE CORRECTLY THE ARTICLE, THE GENDER AND NUMBER OF NOUNS, AND CAPITAL LETTERS - TO RECOGNIZE HOW WORDS ARE FORMED - TO ENHANCE THEIR VOCABULARY ABOUT FAMILY, PROFESSIONS, TIME EXPRESSIONS, AND NUMBERS

Grammar and Vocabulary Appendix - USE OF THE ARTICLE. THE NOUN: GENDER AND NUMBER. USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS - COUNTRY, NATIONALITY, LANGUAGE, FAMILY, PLACE, THING, JOB, LIKES AND

DISLIKES. TIME EXPRESSIONS AND NUMBERS

FINAL TASK FINAL TASK – ROLE PLAY – GOING ABROAD. FAMILY ACCOMODATION

Things you need for this lesson …

AUDIOVISUAL MEANS, COLOURS, CRAYONS AND SCISSORS

WORKSHEET 1 – Nick’s family

We are Sidney and Rita. We have got 1 _______ girl, Pamela and 1

______ boy, Barry and they have got children too. Pamela has got a boy

-Nick- and a girl -Mindy- and her husband is John. Barry has got 2

_______ girls -Lyn and Cathy- and a boy -James- and his wife is Lorna.

Here is the dialogue between Sidney and his grandson Nick:

SIDNEY: “Good morning, Nick!”

NICK: “Hi, granddad!”

SIDNEY: “How are you today?”

NICK: “I’m a bit tired because I’ve got an exam tomorrow, and I’m studying a lot.”

SIDNEY: “That’s a student’s job”.

NICK: “What is your job?”

SIDNEY: “Now I’m retired but when I was younger, I was a gardener and it was very

hard but I liked it a lot.”

NICK: “I want to be a teacher because I like teaching people useful things.”

SIDNEY: “Fantastic, but now your aunt and uncle are coming for dinner with your 3

_______ cousins. Let’s get ready! You have to go to bed early. You go to school

tomorrow morning. Don’t forget about your exam.”

A) Answer the following questions: How do you write the numbers? What date is it tomorrow?

B) Complete the family tree below with all the NAMES that appear in the dialogue.

C) Complete the information from the dialogue:

1.- Sidney is Lorna’s father-in-law. 2.- The name of Pamela’s mother is ________.

3.- Pamela has got a __________ and a __________ . 4.- James is Lorna’s _____.

5.- Mindy is Nick’s __________.

D) Write in two columns all the vocabulary you know related to the FAMILY in three columns: MASCULINE / FEMININE / BOTH.

GRANDPARENTS

SON - WIFE DAUGHTER - HUSBAND

CHILDREN: CHILDREN:

WORD BANK 4 – FAMILY WORDS

COMPLETE HARRY’S FAMILY TREE WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS:

WIFE – SON – DAUGHTER-IN-LAW – MOTHER – FATHER – GRANDFATHER – GRANDMOTHER – MOTHER-IN-LAW – FATHER-IN-LAW –

BROTHER-IN-LAW – SISTER – NIECE – GRANDSON – NEPHEW

QUICK THINKER QUIZ – ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ASAP AND YOU WILL BE THE

WINNER…

WHO IS your mother’s mother?

WHO IS your father’s brother?

WHO IS your aunt’s father?

WHO IS your mother’s mother’s mother?

WHO IS your father’s brother’s son?

WHO IS your daughter’s father?

WHO IS your mother’s husband?

WHO IS your brother’s daughter?

WORKSHEET 2 – a song for Nick!

Nick is in bed. His granddad, Sidney, is next to him. He feels curious about …

NICK: Granddad, what did you want to become when you were younger?

SIDNEY: Uh, I wanted to be a doctor, because I liked looking after people’s

health, but I changed my mind, and I decided to take care of plants and

flowers.

NICK: Let me tell you about my dreams … As I told you before, I want to be a

teacher, live in a big city, have a nice pet, a dog or a cat, and not to eat

carrots, broccoli or spinach.

SIDNEY: Oh, I see. I remember a song about all these persons, places and

things…

A) LET’S LISTEN TO IT! Nouns, nouns, looking all around

A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Boy, girl, mom, dad, Doctor, teacher, or my grandma.

If a person’s there, I declare, “You have found a noun!”

Nouns, nouns, looking all around A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Space, store, city, town, Forest, yard, or in the country.

If a place is there, I declare, “You have found a noun!”

Nouns, nouns, looking all around A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Dog, cat, boat, car, Carrots, broccoli, and spinach.

If a thing is there, I declare, “You have found a noun!”

B) WORKING ON IRREGULAR PLURALS – Choose the correct word:

1. Mr García is a man/men 4. A person/people came to see you.

2. I’m afraid of mouse/mice. 5. Two ox/oxen carry La Virgen Bella.

3. I’ve got two child/children. 6. Mr Omar has got 30 wive/wifes.

WORKSHEET 3 – Nick is at school

SIDNEY:Good morning, grand-son!

NICK: Good morning, granddad!

SIDNEY: Did you sleep well?

NICK: No, I had a nightmare about doctors, teachers, forests, yards, carrots…

SIDNEY: Hold on! Always imagining stories. Now it’s time to school. You can take a rest

after it. All right?

NICK: Ok. See you later.

Nick gets to school. He sits down and looks around … he can see his SSMECALATS, the ESKDS,

the OOKSB, the NEPLICS,… but he is so absolutely tired that he falls asleep.

A) Unscramble the bungled-up words in the text to find out what Nick can see in his class. B) Write as many THINGS/OBJECTS as you can that you find in the classroom. Now, can

you find some of those objects in the chart below? And others?

C) People and places in the school.

D) Write the plural of all the

nouns above in the three

columns.

THINGS

PEOPLE

PLACES

WORKSHEET 4 – Nick falls asleep

This is Nick’s class. Follow the instructions below and draw each row descriptions:

ROW 1- There is an apple on the second desk. There is a pencil on the third desk. There are some books on the fifth desk. Next to the sixth desk, there is a schoolbag.

ROW 2- There are some pens on the first desk. There is some paper on the fourth desk.

ROW 3- There is a pencil-case on the fourth desk. There is an eraser on the sixth desk.

ROW 4- There are some crayons on the first desk. There is a ruler on the third desk .There is an exercise-sheet on the fifth desk. There is a student on the sixth chair.

There is a universe map on the wall behind the students. Beside it, there is an hourly-timetable.

Now, add up some other things you can find in the classroom and classify them into SINGULAR / PLURAL / COUNTABLE (C) / UNCOUNTABLE (U).

ROW 4

ROW 3

ROW 2

ROW 1

DESK 1 DESK 2 DESK 3 DESK 4 DESK 5 DESK 6

SINGULAR -

PLURAL -

WORD BANK 5 - NUMBERS

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW BY WRITING NUMBERS AS IN THE EXAMPLE.

How old is your English teacher? THIRTY

How many people are there in your hometown?

How old are you?

What is your lucky number?

How old is your father?

When was the Spanish Civil War?

How old is the Solar System?

How many people speak Spanish in the world?

How many students are there in your class?

How old is your grandmother?

NOW, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS BY ADDING THE TWO MISSING LETTERS EACH.

___ N ___ HUND ___ ___D MI ___ ___ION EI ___ ___TH

FIR ___ ___ FOUR ___ ___ THOUS ___ ___D TWE ___ ___TH

NINE ___ ___ THI ___ ___ SEVE ___ ___H EL ___ ___EN

F ___ ___TH ___E ___ TWENT ___ ___H F ___ ___TY

SECO ___ ___ S ___ ___ THR ___ ___ SIX ___ ___

FINISH THE NUMBER SERIES BELOW:

TWO – FOUR – EIGHT – SIXTEEN – … FIRST – THIRD – …

FIRST – SECOND – … ONE HUNDRED – TWO HUNDRED – …

TEN – TWENTY – THIRTY – FORTY – … ONE – FIRST – TWO – …

FIVE – TEN – … THREE – SIX – NINE – …

TENTH – TWENTIETH – THIRTIETH – … ONE – ELEVEN – TWENTY-ONE – …

WORKSHEET 5 – Nick’s first dream!

A) READ and answer the following question: What does Nick want to become? Nick is asleep. He starts dreaming …. He works with kids. He works in a school. He is in front of the students. He writes some numbers with a chalk on the board. He speaks about sums, divisions,... He wants to become a ____________________.

B) THE JOBS MY FAMILY DO: “My father is an electrician, my mother is a

teacher, my grandfather was a farmer,...”

C) WHERE DO YOUR FAMILY WORK? “My father works in an office, or my cousin

works with people in a hospital. Try to guess your partner’s family jobs.”

D) MAKING A PROFESSIONAL POSTER: Colour the photocopies of the professions and hang them on the wall of the classroom, writing the names of the jobs below the pictures. NOW TIME FOR FUN: Help you partner to find out his/her profession.

E) WHO’S FASTER? Can you find the jobs? Here are the names: secretary, optician, judge, priest, politician, soldier, waitress, scientist.

S M A S P E A R O R

E O L U O C R O J E

C P T A L L O D U W

R T E R I S D E D A

E I M O T R I I G I

T C P R I E S T E T

A I L O C E S Y O R

R A R T I A W O C E

N O C A M N T I S

S C I E N T I S T S

WORD BANK 6 – Peter’s school!

A) Read Peter's letter about his school. Underline the words related to school.

My name's Peter and I go to a Secondary School in

Hastings. My school isn't very big. The main

building has got two floors. Classrooms are on the

ground. They are nice because they have got

computers for students. We have got toilets for boys and girls. We

have also got a science lab for Chemistry lessons, but we haven’t

got any language lab.

On the first floor, teachers have got some rooms: They are very big

and well decorated: the Director's office, the Teacher's room, the

different Departments and a computer room where they can

work, because they haven’t got computers.

They have got toilets, too.

Outside the main building, the school has

got a small cafeteria where I have lunch

every day, a library with lots of books

inside, a music room and a gym for P.E.

Lessons.

I enjoy my school very much!

Do you like yours?

Pete

B) Say if the following sentences are true or false. Correct the false ones.

1. Peter's school is a Primary school in London. …

2. All teachers have got computers. …

3. All the classrooms have got computers for students. …

4. The school hasn´t got any language lab. …

5. Toilets are only for girls. …

6. Peter has lunch at school every day. …

7. Teacher's rooms are small but well decorated. …

C) Now, move around your school and take notes about the different places you can find in it, as follows: We have got a gym.

WORD BANK 7 – JOBS

Quick thinker quiz Follow the definitions below and answer the next question as in the example.

What does he/she do?

1- He makes movies. He is a film-maker.

2- She works with ill people. She is a …

3- He makes bread.

4- She puts criminals in jail.

5- She operates people.

6- He mends pipes and taps.

7- She teaches English to children.

8- He looks after ill animals.

9- She grows plants and flowers.

10- He plays the trumpet.

Quick acting out Look at the list below, choose any of the provided jobs and act it out. Your teacher must guess what you do.

painter sailor politician dancer

journalist model taxi-driver secretary

civil-servant fisherman cook surgeon flight-attendant dentist farmer engineer

hairdresser doctor postman tailor

Quick matching pairs According to their genres, find the corresponding pairs and match them.

actor policeman princess nun

waiter waitress priest policewoman

actress prince

Quick word bank You have got 5 minutes to think of other professions and write them down in alphabetical order. Don’t repeat letters!

WORKSHEET 6 – a teacher works from Monday to Friday

Nick is back home. He wants to rest for a while. He goes to his bedroom. His granddad is with

him.

NICK: Granddad, do you know if a teacher works hard?

SIDNEY: Dear grandson, everybody has to work hard EVERY WEEK OF EVERY MONTH OF

A YEAR.

NICK: But if I were a pirate on a desert island…

SIDNEY:No, no, no. Come on, just try to rest. Have a nice siesta.

A) Listen to The Cure’s “Friday I’m in love” and then make a list with all the days of the week!

B) THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR. Listen to the song “I just called to say I love you”, by Steve Wonder. Find all the months of the year and facts about them.

C) WORKING ON TIME: Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions.

1- It rains a lot __________ autumn. 2- I don’t go to school __________ Sundays. 3- We get a lot of presents __________ Christmas. 4- Peter gets up __________ 7:30 every morning. 5- When is your birthday? It’s __________ October, 6th. 6- We have a holiday __________ Easter.

D) In groups, make a calendar for the class with the

main festivities. You can use the web page: www.ego4u.es, calendar.

FACTS MONTHS

WORD BANK 8 – TIME

A) TIMELINE – UNSCRAMBLE THE LETTERS TO GET

THE NAMES OF THE DIFFERENT PERIODS OF

TIME.

B) TELLING THE TIME – DRAW THE TIME ON THE

CLOCKS BELOW.

It’s three o´clock. It’s a quarter past

eight. It’s half past six.

It’s twenty to four. It’s ten to nine. It’s twenty-five past

eleven.

C) PREPOSITIONS OF TIME – ARRANGE THE TIME EXPRESSIONS IN THE

BOX INTO THE THREE COLUMNS ACCORDING TO THE

PREPOSITONS.

six o´clock – (the) spring – lunchtime – the afternoon – January –

Christmas – the 80s – the weekend – night – 1970 – Tuesday –

Easter – April – the morning – (the) summer – the evening –

Friday – midnight – (the) autumn – midday – (the) winter –

September

On in at

TCRERNYU

AREY

TONHM

KEEW

YDA

ROUH

TEMIUN

CONDES

WORKSHEET 7 – Nick’s second dream!

It is next day at school. The students are writing a story called On an

Island. Nick has got his notebook, his pencil and his rubber on his desk. All

the students are writing the story, but Nick is looking out of the window

and dreaming again.

“It is a hot day and Nick is sailing on a boat to an island. He has got

a bottle of water and a bag of food. He has also got a pen and a notebook to

write about the island. He sails for a long time.

Suddenly, he sees a hole in his boat. The water is

coming in. He quickly sails to the island and gets

out of the boat. “I can write a message and put it in

the bottle”, he thinks. He writes the message and

puts the bottle into the water. A man finds the

bottle and reads the message. He sails to the island and finds Nick.”

“Nick, Nick. You’re dreaming. Please write your story.” “Oh, that’s

easy,” says Nick to his teacher. “I have got a great story!”

READ THE STORY AND …

A) Choose the correct answer.

1- The students are _____.

a. sailing to an island. b. writing a story. c. sleeping.

2- Nick has got a bottle of _____ with him.

a. juice b. milk c. water

3- Nick has also got a pen and a _____.

a. Book b. Notebook c. pencil

4- A man ______ the bottle and reads the message.

a. finds b. starts c. eats

5- Nick is dreaming _____.

a. on the island b. in her bed c. at school

B) Underline all the nouns in the text and write their plural forms.

Do you like reading?

I love reading books . . . and magazines . . . and newspapers . . . and stories on the

Internet. Actually, I like reading everything I can … and YOU? Let’s see what you

know about universal literature:

A) A QUEST IN LITERATURE. CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION A, B OR C.

QUESTIONS / ANSWERS A B C

1. WHO IS DON QUIXOTE?

A KNIGHT A CRAZY MAN A BUTCHER

2. WHO WROTE ROMEO AND JULIET?

SHAKESPEARE CERVANTES OSCAR WILDE

3. WHAT TYPE OF BOOK IS FRANKENSTEIN?

ADVENTURE HORROR CRIME

4. WHO IS CHARLES DICKENS?

A COMEDIAN A WRITER A CELEBRITY

5. WHAT IS THE WIZARD OF OZ?

A TALE A NOVEL A PLAY

6. WHO IS HARRY POTTER?

A WITCH A WIZARD A STUDENT

7. WHO WROTE TOM SAWYER?

MARK TWAIN CELA LEWIS CARROL

8. WHAT COLOUR IS MOBYDICK?

BLACK GREY WHITE

9. WHO IS SHERLOCK HOLMES?

A DETECTIVE A BAKER A TEACHER

10. WHAT IS THE MISSING ADJECTIVE IN MANOLITO

MANOTAS GAFOTAS PELOTA

B) FOCUS ON READING 3: OUR BOOKS LINE FROM THE MOST

INTERESTING BOOK YOU HAVE READ TO THE MOST BORING ONE

… NOW WE ARE ARRANGING THEM…

ENJOY READING 1 - GUESS WHICH BOOK IT IS!

Key Facts FULL TITLE · ……………….… or The Whale

author · Herman Melville / type of work · Novel / genre · Epic, adventure story,

quest tale, allegory, tragedy / language · English / time and place written · Between

1850 and 1851, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and New York City / tense · Past / setting

(time) · 1830s or 1840s / setting (place) · Aboard the whaling ship the Pequod, in the

Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

MUCH THE SAME AS A CLOTHES LINE, WE ARE

CREATING OUR BOOKS LINE WITH OUR

FAVOURITE BOOKS IN CLASS.