Heggy: Wow... look... a tower... Is it the Eiffel Tower?
Hoggy: Yes... Id like to climb the tower.
Heggy: Well... its not easy... you know there are 674 steps.
Hoggy: ... OK... I see...
Heggy: You know... about 6 million people visit the Eiffel Tower every year. Its very famous.
After a while
Hoggy: Heggy, look: mountains...
Heggy: Yes... you know skiing is a very popular sport in France. They have ski schools for children.
Hoggy:What school? Ski school? What do children learn there?
Heggy: They learn how to ski, and they learn by playing and having fun.
Hoggy: Wow... Id like to go to ski school.
Heggy: OK... now were flying to Great Britain. Hooray!
Answer key:
1) Where is the Eiffel Tower? Its in Paris.
2) How many steps does the Eiffel Tower have? 674.
3) How many people visit it every year? About 6 million.
4) What do children do in ski schools? They learn how to ski.
Activity 3a.Look, read and complete. 10 min
Objectives: to learn more about Great Britain; to learn how to work with mind maps; to teach pupils to say the new geographical names correctly
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to open the Workbook to Page 104 and copy the mind map (graph) into their exercise books.
STEP 2: Draw the pupils attention to the map of the UK. Explain to the pupils that the full name of Great Britain is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK).
STEP 3: Then draw the pupils attention to the centre of the mind map. Ask them to repeat after you and help with the pronunciation of the geographical names.
Ask: Whats the capital of Wales? Elicit the answer (Cardiff), and
draw their attention to how they are written on the mind map.
STEP 5: Once the pupils understand what to do, ask the pupils to complete the mind map for the other 3 countries.
Answer key:
Scotland Edinburgh
England London
Northern Ireland Belfast
Activity 3b. Read and check. 6 min
Objective: to develop reading for specific information
STEP 1: Say that now they will read the text and check their answers.
STEP 2: When they finish, ask the questions:
1) Whats the capital of the UK? Elicit that London is the capital of England and the UK.
2) Whats the capital of Wales/Scotland? Elicit the answers.
V. Post-activity
Activity 4. Read and match.
Objective: to give practice in reading for gist
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures. Ask: What can you see in the pictures? Accept all answers.
STEP 2: Ask the pupils to read the texts and match with the pictures. Check the answers together.
Answer key: 1c; 2a; 3b
Note:There are some unfamiliar words in the text. Encourage your pupils to read the texts without translating all words and do the task. Explain that in real life we have something to read in order to understand what to do and usually we can understand the meaning of the text even if we do not know all the words.
VI. Homework
Read the texts in Activity 4. Draw a mind map for London.