UNIT 4 - PEOPLE ON THE STREETS

Vocabulary: people's problems and difficulties, homelife
Grammar: "would like" usage
Pronuntiation: short vowels /i/ and /o/
Oral and written productions and comprehension: comparing written texts with what you hear

1) Listen the following conversation and then answer the questions:

a)What are the going to see?
b)Where is the cinema?
c)What time does the film starts?
d)Are they going to be late?
e)Who do they see in the street?

2) Look at the pictures and write a sentences to explain what is going to happen. You must use the form " to be going to "

(a car falling down a mountain/ a boy ordering a hamburguer at a restaurant/ a couple about t start to play tennis/ a sleeping boy and a clock sounding/ a girl at the cinema entrance paying the ticket/ a grey cloud)

3) Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the following words:

didn't like get cold going to I'd like I'm wasn't happy

Tom:
My name's Tom. ....... fifteen years old. I come from Leeds in the north of England. I'm living in London now. I came to London because I .......... at home and I ............... my school. It's OK here. I haven't got a job and I haven't got a flat, so I sleep here in this shop. I'd like to stay in London, and ............. to get a job, but I think I'm ........... go home. Go back to Leeds. I can't do much here. I haven't got any money. People sometimes give me money, but not much. And it's going to ........... soon. Yes, I think I'm going to go home.

4) Discuss with your partners: Do people live on the street in Spain? Do you give them money?
Imagine you haven't got a home. What do you do? Where do you go? Who can help you?

5) Put the following text fragments in the right order:

a) So I'm selling this magazine. It's called the "The Big Issue". I buy it for 30p and sell it for 70p. I'm going to save the money. Then I'm going to find a place to live. And then I'm going to get a job. Then I'm going to study for my exams. I would like to work with computers.
b)I came to London to find a job. I didn't find a job. I didn't have any money. I didn't have any friends. I didn't have any family.
c) So, if you see me, please buy the "The Big Issue"
d)So, I'm living on the street. Usually I sleep in the doorway of a shop. I would like to get a job and I would like to find a flat, but it's difficult. I haven't got any qualifications and I haven't got any money. My clothes are dirty. No one wants to give me a job.

6) Write a text explaining what you want to do in the future. This must contain the following information:
a) Where you would like to live
b)What type of job you would like to get.
c) What you are going to study

7)Rewrite the following sentences by using "would like", so that they sound more polite:
a) What do you want?
b) I want to go to the cinema
c) Do you want a coke?
d)I want more feed, I'm hungry
e) They want to go fishing

8) Listen to these words and practice saying:
/i/ /o/
pit not
hit what
ill job

and now place these words in the right column: wash, this, think, hot.

Unit 3 - Celebrating with friends

Vocabulary: personal information, festivals

Grammar: past simple tense, future plans

Oral production and comprehension: exchanging info with partners about oneself, appreciating other countries' festivities, comparing cultural info

Written production and comprehension: expressing in the past

Pronuntiation: short vowels /ae/ and /e/



1) Match the pictures with the festival date:

Pictures: a Christmas tree, a clock, an Easter egg, a bonfire, a birthday card

Dates: 5th November, 30th March, 25th December, 7th July, 31 December



2) Answer to these questions:

a)What do you do in Holly week?

b) How are you going to celebrate your birthday?

c) What do you do on Christmas day?



3) Read the following text and answer true or false:



Bonfire Night: November 5th

On November 5th every year manu British families have a big firework party with a big bonfire. On top of the fire is a guy. The burn the guy on the bonfire and they light the fireworks. Why?

Well, in 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The soldiers caught him. He did not blow up Parliament. Today we celebrate this with a guy (Guy Falwes), fireworks and a bonfire.



True of false:

1. Guy Falkes blew up the Houses of Parliament.

2. He wanted to do it in 1603.

3. We celebrate on November 5th

4. Children burn a guy on a bonfire.



4) Underline the past perfect forms that you can find in exercise nº 3.



5)Fill in the chart below (with more verbs, the whole irregular verb list)



Present: is ............. come ............... .................. get go

Past: was had .......... did gave ..... .....



6) Listen to a recording and fill in the following chart with the info given by each speaker:

Katy Melanie
Date of birth ............ ............
Age ........ ............
How is she going to celebrate ........... ............
What did she do last birthday ........... .............
What presents did she get ............ ..........
What presents does she want to get this time ............ ...........

7)Answer to these questions:
a)When was your birthday?
b)How old are you?
c)What presents did you get?
d) What did you do?
e) Did you have a good time?

Now, exchange the same information with your peers and get, at least, 3 charts like the one in ex. 6

8)Listen to these words and practice saying them:
/ae/ /e/
have get
had head
that men

9) Listen to these words and place them in the right column: bag, beg, said, sad

Unit 2 - Meet people on the Internet

Vocabulary: computers, technology and adjectives.
Oral production and comprehension: saying what you can do on a computer, comparing compruter technology
Grammar: comparative and superlative adjectives and progressive present
Written production and comprehension: understanding the world wide web.
Pronuntiation: /W/

1) Listen and the following dialogue and fill in the gaps;

Bob: Hello,Paul?
Paul: Yes.
Bob: It's me, Bob.
Paul: Bob¡ What is the matter?
Bob: Nothing. I'm on a ......... phone
Paul: What¡ You've got a mobile phone¡
Bob: No, it's my Dad's phone.
Paul: Well, be quick. Mobile phones are much more ............. than normal phones.
Bob: Yes, but they are more useful. Have you got one?
Paul: My dad has at the office. But I don't use it. He says it's more practice ..... and quicker letters. He says letters are snail mail¡
Bob: Has you dad got a fax machine?
Paul: He's got a fax at the office, I think. Why?
Bob: I've got this great photo. I can send it to you.
Paul: No, don't. I can see it when I see you.
Bob: Ok, I'm going to suf the ......... now.
Paul; What?
Bob: I'm going to talk to someone on the internet. It's great. It's ........... than phones and it's much more exciting. See you, bye¡

a) Read the text in pairs. The teached may change key words so that students can get deeper awareness of text structures.
b)Underline the adjectives on the text
c) Complete these sentences:

• The internet is cheaper ..... phones.
• Mobile phones are much more expensive ....... normal phones.
• E-mail is qucker and cheaper ...... letters.

2) In pairs, discuss what you can do on a computer. The following expressions may be useful:

*Do your homework * Play computer games *Talk to your friends on the internet * Watch series and films * Send e-mails * Use facebook/Tuenti, etc * Write a blog * Edit and watch pictures * Listen or download music *Design your own website

3) Look at the following adjectives. Write their comparative and superlative form:

old/new/expensive/cheap/quick/slow/exciting/fat/thin/big/small/tall/short/good/bad/intelligent/dark/light/large/narrow/easy/difficult/funny/interesting/ happy/ sad/

4) Read the following text extracted from a website and complete the sentences below:

KRAZY KAT

Hi, it's me, Dave the Krazy Kat¡¡ I welcome to my website. My website is the place I live. You can talk to me here any time. Are you an experienced surfer or are you a newbie?

You're a newbie? Ok, On the internet you're on the worldwide web. On the web you can visit lots of different places and meet thousands of people from every nation. Click on my picture and you'll go to my website. If you see an underlined word, click on it and you can go to a new website.

Krazy Kat is the best website for kids. Come and join me¡

a) if you don't know the Internet you are a ........

b) A short word for the Internet is....

c) A place on the worldwide web is a .....

d) To find a place you ...... on it with your ......

e) If you go to different places on the Internet we say you are an Internet........

5) Read aloud the following clauses:

a) What's the worldwide web?

b) Why will we work on the web?

c) Which web site do you want?

6) Complete the following sentences by using a comparative form:

a) My motorbike isn't very fast, I'd like a ............

b) My husband isn't very rich, I need a .......

c) Your computer is old already. You need a ......

d) His camera isn't very good. You need a .....

e)It isn't very hot today. It was ....... yesterday.

f) I'm not very interested in football. I'm .................. in tenis.

7) Complete the following sentences by using adjectives in superlative form:

a)She is a pretty girl. She is the ....... in my class.

b) August is a hot month in Spain. It usually is the ........ one of the year.

c) That one is a very expensive restaurant in Madrid. I think it is the ...................... restaurant of the city.

d)It's a very interesting book. It is one of the ......................... books I've ever read.

e)My wedding day was the ................. day of my life

Tema 1 - New school and new friends

Grammar focus: revision of present simple tense

Vocabulary: school routine, talking about holidays

Pronuntiation: Prensent tense -s

Oral comprehension and production: discussing in pairs, producing ideas about school timetable

Reading: understanding schedules

Writing: producing scheduled timetables



Exercises:

1) Listen and read the dialogue below:



Paul: Hi, I'm Paul

Bob: Hello, my name is Bob

Paul: Where are you from, Bob?

Bob: I'm from London. But my dad's working here now. What about you?

Paul: I live here, I live in Mandela Road

Bob: Mandela road? I'm in Bank Street, that is not far.

Paul: Great. See you, Bob

Bob: See you.



Then, practice this conversation with a partner. The teacher may change certain text key words (names, street, mum instead of dad...) and tell the students to reproduce the dialogue with these changes, in order to encourage comprehension of structural patterns.



2) Listen to a dialogue about school timetable (subjects and lunch's time and place) between 2 students. The pupils must fill in the gaps of a provided timetable with the information from the dialogue. The timetable's gaps may change according to internal differences among students' level.



3) Listen to a dialogue between 2 students talking about their peers: they ask for their peers' names to each other, providing phisical description, clothes' description and names. The students are given a picture where 4 or 5 persons are drawn, and they must link them to their name according to the info provided by the dialogue.



4) Read the following letter and answer to this questions.



Dear Tessa,

I'm back and the weather's terrible, what's the weather like in London? It was great to meet you in Lanzarote. I hope we can meet in London or Northampton soon. You must come and visit me. Here's a photo of my house. Can you send me a picture of your house? I also need your telephone number. Lanzarote was wonderful. I got a letter from Jorge, he sent his love¡

We go back to school on September 5th. I've got my timetable for this term. We've got maths everyday¡ I hate maths. And we've got double science on Friday afternoon¡ And Ms. Martin's our science teacher. She doesn't like me and I hate her¡ My favourite subject is English. I'm brilliant at it¡ Ms. Paul's our teacher this year. She is great. Also we've got lots of homework this term - two hours a night¡ I won't have time to write to Jorge¡

What's your timetable this term? Write and tell me.

Lots of love, your friend

Lindsay



questions:

1.where did the girls go on holiday?

2. Is the weather in Northampton good or bad?

3. Has Lindsay got any Spanish friend?

4. What subject does Lindsay hate?

5. What teacher doesn't like her?



5) Write a letter in response to Lindsay's. The letter must contain the following info:

a) how the weather in your city is

b) Info about your timetable this year: the subjects you like, the subjects you hate, the subjects you are good or bad at

c) Dates about when you are visiting Lindsay in Northampton



6) In pairs, talk about your holidays: where did you go? How was the weather like? What did you do?



7) Pronuntiation: Listen and practice saying this: /s/: he works here; /z/: he swims a lot; /iz/: she teaches here.



8) Listen to the following words and say how they are pronounces (/s/, /z/ or /iz/): asks, knows, wishes, chooses, rains, makes



9) Grammar: Write the correct verb form in the following sentences:

1. John ...... to Mary now (talks)

2. I ...... television every night (watch)

3. The children usually....... to bed at 10 o'clock (go)

4. ....... a book now? (Richard read)

5. They ........ to the theatre very often ( not go)

6. She .......... every night (not study)

7. I ..... in Valencia, I ......... live in Bilbao (live, not live)

8. She ....... from Chile (come)



10)Grammar: put in order the following sentences:

a) your/London/in/mother/does/live/?

b) favourite/what/your/is/subject/school/at?

c) at/in/I/get/every/eight/up/o'clock/day

d) In/bad/the/Galicia/weather/today/is

e) the/shine/in/sun/your/morning/does/city/this?

Objetivo:

Introducir la complejidad cultural de una nacion a alumnos hispanohablantes de aleman, cuyo perfil seria el de un adulto de nivel medio en españa, o de un adulto que vive ya en un pais de habla germana y necesita entender mejor el mundo que le rodea.

Ziel:

Die kulturelle Komplexität von einer Nation zu Spanischen Deutschestudenten presäntieren. Diese haben das Profil von einem im Spanien lebenden Mittelstuffe Erwachsener, oder einem Erwachsener, der in einem Deutschesprächigen Land wohnt und braucht, besser seine Umgebung zu verstehen.

Introduccion:

Si te preguntasemos que opinas de los alemanes, que tipo de palabras te vienen a la cabeza... Mallorca, cerveza, salchichas, Claudia Schieffer,puntualidad, gente en sandalias y calcetines....
Hoy vamos a intentar desmontar este mito e intentar profundizar un poco mas en una cultura que es mucho mas compleja de lo que se pueda imaginar.
Teneis que responder, en aleman por supuesto, a las preguntas que se encuentran a la derecha, de las cuales 8 tienen respuestas cortas y 2 son para desarrollar. Teneis que buscar las respuestas a las preguntas cortas a traves de los links que os proporciono mas abajo, y despues contestar a las preguntas 10 y 11, dando vuestra opinion. Y, por supuesto, en el transcurso de esta actividad esta prohibido hablar en español.

Vorwort:

Wenn du gefragt wurdest, wass du über die Deutschen denkts, solche Wörte fallen dir ein?...
Mallorca, Bier, Würste, Claudia Schieffer, Punktlichkeit, Leute mit Socken und Sandalen...
Heute werden wir versuchen, diese Legende abzubauen und ein Bisschen tiefer in diese Kultur gehen, die mehr komplex als gedacht ist.
Ihr sollt auf Deutsch auf die rechts sich befindenden Fragen antworten, 8 von dieser kurze Antwort haben, und die andere 2 zum Entwickeln sind. Ihr sollt durch den herunter gegebenden Links die Antwort auf die kurzeren Fragen suchen, und danach antworten auf die Fragen 10 und 11 mit ihrer Meinung. Natürlich ist es auf Spanish zu sprechen während dieser Aktivität verboten.

EL PROCESO:

1- Encuentra un compañero
2-Pensad en lo que sabéis de Alemania, los estereotipos, y pensad en las diferencencias en comparación con España
3- Echad un vistazo a los enlaces que os proporcionamos. También podéis buscar en google todo lo que queráis.
4. Responded al cuestionario que adjunto. Las preguntas finales son a desarrollar (200 palabras aproximadamente)



PROZESS:

1-Du sollst ein Partner finden
2-Denk mal daran, dass Ihr über Deutschland, die Vorurteile und die Unterschiede in Vergleichung mit Spanien weisst.
3- Guckt mal die gegebene Links. Ihr könntet weitere Informationen im Google suchen
4-Antwortet auf die Fragenboge, die im Anhgang sich findet. Die zwei letzte Fragen müssen länger sein (200 Wörte umgehfär)