Language focus:
Using nouns to refer to places
e.g. tennis courts, kindergarten
Using proper nouns to refer to places
e.g. There is a 7-Eleven shop in Block 2.
Using the simple present tense to express simple truth
e.g. Ben and Kitty live in a housing estate.
Using numerals to show quantities
e.g. Eddie lives in Block 2, It has 20 floors.
Using ordinal numbers to show position
e.g, Alice lives on the tenth floor.
Using adjectives to make comparisons
e.g. Ben and Kitty's block is taller than Eddie's block.
Using the introductory ‘there’ to express facts
e.g. There are shops, a primary school, a garden ... in the housing estate.
Pre-task preparation
1 Introduce/review the vocabulary using the wallpicture. Point to the places on the wallpicture and read the words aloud. Ask the students some questions to find out something about their living environment, e.g. Do you live in a housing estate? What's its name? How many floors does your block have? Which floor do you live on? Is there a supermarket/school/post office/garden/kindergarten in your estate?
2 Play the recording: Look and read. Students listen and follow in their books.
3 Play the recording again. Students listen and repeat.
4 Give the students some time to read the passage silently. Then ask questions about it, e.g. Where do Ben and Kitty live? How many floors does their block have? Which floor do they live on? etc. Ask the more able students to close their books and tell the class anything they can remember.
5 Students read the sentences in Answer true/false and fill in the boxes on their own. Remind them to refer to the picture and the passage to find the answers. Read each sentence aloud and ask: True or false? to elicit answers from the students. Invite some students to rewrite the false sentences into true statements.
While-task procedure
Divide the students into groups of four. Distribute a copy of Photocopiable pages 34-36 to each group. Students are required to make a brochure to introduce Rose Garden Estate. The completed brochures can be mounted on the display board. Put a little comment sheet/card below each brochure for students to write down any comments they have.
Post-task activities
1 Workbook page l0
2 A brochure
Ask the more able students to make a brochure to introduce their housing estates. Encourage them to take photographs of the surroundings near their estates. It can be similar to the one they make for Rose Garden Estate.
Consolidation
Grammar Practice Book 6A page 18