English_Book_2-Teacher_300913

Learning goalsLearning strategy• Plan your weekly and daily activitiesPronunciation• The pronunciation of -s and -esendingsThe following are additional learning goals in this unit:Skills• Read for specific information• Study a graph• Listen for specific information andcomplete a chart• Talk about routines and activities• Write about your typical day or weekTEACHER’S NOTESWarm-up (5 min.)• Bring in some pictures of people doing typicaleveryday activities, such as brushing their teeth,eating breakfast, getting on a bus to go to school,doing homework, and so on. Tape them on theboard in random order.• Call on several individual volunteers to come tothe front and rearrange the pictures in an orderreflecting their own day. For each arrangement,ask for a show of hands of students who performthe activities in the same order.• Tell students that they will learn how to tell abouttheir typical (usual) everyday activities today.Have students open their books. Introduce theunit title.Using the large photo (5 min. or less)• Have students look at the picture. Ask questionsto help students create a context for the readingpassage: Who do you see in the picture? (Brian) Whereis Brian? (in his room, at home) What time is it?(six-thirty) Is it morning or evening? (morning) Whatis Brian doing? (waking up; stretching)1 Reading (10 min.)• 21 Play the audio. Tell students to read alongas they listen. Then let them read the articleagain silently. Tell them that there will be somevocabulary that they don’t understand but thatthey may be able to guess the meanings of thesewords and phrases.T14:27:36 PMPostcards_splitB_TE1_U02.indd T142/27/07 10:22:05 AM