ACTIVITY FOR 7TH GRADE STUDENTS
UNIT 1
INTRODUCTION
This lesson is aimed to cover the thematic vocabulary required in Unit 1 for 7th grade students. This includes spare time activities (riding a bike, playing the guitar, doing sports, etc) and adjectives (boring, shy, talkative, etc).
A famous animated television comedy serie will be used to catch students attention and to make the lesson more interesting to them.
Using music and characters to carry out with the activities.
Listening and watching the video of Phineas and Ferb Theme song. Handing out the lyrics of the song to the students.
Identifying spare time activities Introducing vocabularyIntroducing characters for posterior activities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKXYxGfFBig&feature=related
Duration of the video: 0:57 seconds
PHINEAS AND FERB THEME SONG LYRICS
Identify vocabulary about spare time activities related with the images in the video. (8 minutes)
Show images of the characters doing different activities
Emphasizing what they like and don’t like to do (expressions)
A B C
E
D
GF H
A. Candace loves dancing with Jeremy
B. Candace likes riding her bike
C. Phineas and Ferb enjoy playing the guitar
D. Phineas likes playing football
E. Phineas, Ferb and Perry enjoy doing sports together
F. Candace enjoys singing with Phineas
G. Stacy likes reading magazines in her free time
H. Phineas and Ferb love creating new things
LANGUAGE FOCUS:
LOVE, LIKE, ENJOY or HATE, DOESN’T/DON’T LIKE + verb + ing
Who’s in the class? (Adapted) LEARNING GAME
Distribute a page of blocks with traits, preferences, and other characteristics that students in your class may share. Give the students several minutes to find a peer with each of the characteristics and obtain a signature in every block, if possible.
When time is up, find out who has gathered the greatest number of names and discuss each trait. Invite students to raise their hands if they possess a trait as you talk about it.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame024b.shtml
Likes going to the cinema
Loves playing the guitar
Likes doing sports
Hates doing the dishes
Hates cleaning the bedroom
Loves reading books
Loves playing the piano
doesn’t like going to the dentist
Likes going to the beach
Doesn’t like vanilla ice cream
Loves playing football
likes english class
Hates reading books
Hates eating vegetables
Doesn’t like sports class
loves watching action movies
ACTIVITY 1Coment about characters personalities and encourage students to provide an adjective to describe them.Use crossword about adjectives
ACTIVITY 2Crosswords with adjectives. Ask students to use their dictionaries if necessary.http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/crossword/crossword-puzzle.php
ACTIVITY 3Match OppositesWrite two lists of adjectives on the board or a worksheet. The first list should contain adjectives and the second the opposite of those adjectives.http://esl.about.com/od/esleflteachingtechnique/a/lmh_vocab.htm
BORING RESERVED
SHY UNFRIENDLY
KIND SAD
HAPPY MEAN
FRIENDLY INTERESTING
TALKATIVE SOCIABLE
ACTIVITY 4
Create sentences using the adjectives
Ex: •Candace never shuts up, she is a very talkative person.•Dr. Doofenshmirtz is always inventing evil devices, he is really mean.
ACTIVITY 5
Reading comprehension and writing. Describe your best friend. Worksheet.
http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/My_Friend.pdf
Create a simple dialogue with a partner about your favourite activities, changing what is underlined in the example dialogue.
Present it to the class
EXAMPLEA.what’s your name?B.John Smith.A. How old are you?B. I’m thirteen.A.What are your favourite activities?B.I like playing football and tennis. A. And what do you like doing after school?B. I like swimming.