Teaching notes and key
EXTRA SUPPORT
Unit 1
Vocabulary consolidation
1–3
Type of activity: Labelling pictures and miming.
Organisation: Individual work.
Time: 15 minutes.
Preparation: Copy one worksheet per SEN student.
To use: After Lesson 3.
INSTRUCTIONS
• Hand out the copies of the worksheet. Ask students
to name the objects in the pictures in Activity 1 and to
show them as a mime.
•Explain that students are going to label the pictures
with the correct words from the box. Using the
example, point out that the shape of the box suggests
what type of letter they need. Draw the three types of
boxes on the board. Write a few random letters, eg.
c,
g, d
on the board and elicit which box they should
go in. Then ask students to write the words on their
worksheets. Check the answers.
•Point to Activities 2 and 3. Ask students to fold the
worksheet in half, with the pictures and words on the
outside. They should look at the part with the pictures
and try to name the objects. In Activity 3, they should
turn the worksheet over so that they can only see the
words. They should read each word and show it as
amime.
KEY (ACTIVITY 1):
1 notebook 2 pen 3 board 4 computer 5 pencil case
6 chair 7 rubber
Unit 1
Lesson 7. Reading
1
Type of activity: Reading comprehension, vowel
recognition.
Organisation: Individual work.
Time: 20 minutes.
Preparation: Copy one worksheet per SEN student.
You need the recording of the text from the
Student’s Book, lesson 7.
To use: With lesson 7.
INSTRUCTIONS
•Hand out the copies of the worksheet. Ask students
to listen to and read the article. Use the recording
from the Class CD. Pause after each paragraph and ask
comprehension questions, e.g.
Do Chinese people use
letters similar to those in Europe? What’s in the photo?
Is Chinese easy or difficult? Does the Hawaiian alphabet
have 12 or 20 letters?
Is the Hawaiian alphabet easy?
How many vowels are there in English? What’s in the
photo?
•Students complete the task based on the information in
the article. Check the answers.
•Students complete task b) and circle all the words
beginning with vowels. Check the answers.
KEY
a) a, e, i, o, u
b) The words beginning with vowels are highlighted.
Chinese
There are no letters in Chinese! Chinese people use over
4,000 symbols. Look at this photo! It’s a school in China.
The symbols mean
school
. Chinese is beautiful, but it’s
very difficult to read.
Hawaiian
Hawaiian has got a very short alphabet. There are only
12letters: a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p and w. The alphabet is
easy, but the sounds are difficult for language learners.
English
The English alphabet has got 26 letters. The number
ofvowels is five: a, e, i, o, u. People use picture alphabets
for fun. This is an alphabet with people.
