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SCHOOL CAN BE FUN!
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SCHOOL CAN BE FUN!
Unit Overview
TOPIC
At school
VOCABULARY
Trip
activities
AND LISTENING
A talk about a school trip
GRAMMAR
have to / don’t have to
PRONUNCIATION
have to / has to
READING
The flipped classroom – what’s it all about?
VOCABULARY
School collocations
LISTENING
A description of a boarding school
SPEAKING
Giving a presentation
about your perfect
school
Resources
GRAMMAR REFERENCE AND PRACTICE: SB page 156; TB page 250
WORKBOOK: pages 80–83
VIDEO AND VIDEO WORKSHEET: School life
PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEETS: Grammar worksheet Unit 19;
Vocabulary worksheet Unit 19
TEST GENERATOR: Unit test 19
WARMER
Challenge the students to guess the unit title
School can
be fun!
Write _ _ _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ /_ _ /_ _ _! on the board.
Encourage students to take turns to guess the missing
letters. Tell them that they can only guess five wrong
letters. Next, check that
the students understand the
difference between
fun
and
funny
by asking ‘Which word
describes something you like doing or you enjoy?’ (
fun
)
‘Which word describes something that makes you laugh?’
(
funny
) Then, in groups, ask them to write a list of four
things that are fun about school and four things that are
not fun, e.g.:
fun
not fun
meet
friends
do homework
go on school trips
do exams
play matches
sit down for a long time
try
new activities
get up early
ABOUT YOU
First, brainstorm a list of different types of school trips
(e.g.
a visit to a museum, sports activities
)
onto the board,
then ask the students to take turns to ask and answer the
questions in pairs.
VOCABULARY
LISTENING
AND
Trip activities
1
Ask the students to look at the photos and describe what
the young people are doing in each one before they
match them to the words and phrases.
After the students
have repeated the words and phrases, encourage them
to note the stressed syllables, in particular
canoeing
,
disco
,
museum
,
amusement
park
,
aquarium
and
nature
walk
.
Answers
The answers are recorded for the students to check and then
repeat.
A going on a nature walk B visiting a farm
C going to an amusement park D cooking on a fire
E canoeing F dancing at a disco G going round a museum
H visiting an aquarium I watching a show J sailing
2
Organise the students into small
groups and ask them to
take turns to ask and answer these questions about the
activities in Exercise 1.
