First Memories

20 Setembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up: Recycling vocabulary: beauty spot, brainstorm, chest, stare.

2) Speaking/pre-reading activity: pair work: Answering questions: When and where were you born? (Give date, day or week, exact time, place.)/ What is your earliest memory?/ What have you been told about your early days?

3) Reading: A short extract from Coming Up for Air (1934) by George Orwell.

4) Post-Reading activities: pair-work: reading comprehension questions.

B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 6-7.

5) Dictionary skills: Introducing and using monolingual dictionaries: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/help

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/

5) Vocabulary: group work: Contest on family members. Who will be the first to find out the correct terms? Sts were given slips of paper with the definitions of various family members such as “the father, mother of the person you marry”, “your aunt’s/uncle’s children”, etc.

6) Vocabulary: pair work: written exercises on family and friends. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 8-9.

8) Homework: Write a short essay detailing one of your earliest childhood memories.