Swan(sea) Song – personal research during my six years at Swansea ... and bey...
Presentation 1 metho textbook
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2. Lesson objectives
In this unit, students will know about different
climates and situations around the world. Also, they
will read and create newspaper articles, poems,
compositions and a weather report.
3. Adapting
Talking points:
Activity:
You have to answer
the three questions
in groups of five.
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4. Adding and adapting
Wordpool:
The students will
have images and
definitions of the
words (adapting) and
also they will have to
complete a crossword
at the end of the unit
(adding).
Read it as an
example in order
to do the activity
on the page 30.
5. Wordpool 1:
1. Havoc: widespread destruction, great confusion or disorder.
2. Disorientated: cause (someone) to lose their sense of direction or feel confused.
3. Founder: a person who founds an institution or settlement.
4. Forage: food for horses and cattle.
5. Distressed: extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain.
6. Spines: part of a plant or animal that punctures.
7. Dehydrated: lose or cause to lose a large amount of water.
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6. Wordpool number 2
Adding
Activity:
You have to create a
newspaper article considering
the next rules:
-Use Simple Present
-Use Simple Past
-Use vocabulary according to
the unit
- Draw a picture that
represents the new
vocabulary (for you) used in
the article
7. Wordpool 2:
1. Decrease: make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity or degree.
2. Reduce: make or become smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.
3. Recycle: convert (waste) into reusable material.
4. Contribute: give in order to help achieve or provide something.
5. Mammal: a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class
6. Programme: a planned series of events.
7. Outlook: a person's point of view or attitude to life.
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11. Wordpool 3:
1. Vulnerable: exposed to the risk of being attacked or harmed, either physically or
emotionally.
2. Inhabitants: a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place.
3. Desperately: feeling, showing, or involving despair.
4. Refugees: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape
war, persecution, or natural disaster.
5. Bleak: bare and exposed to the elements
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12. Wordpool number 4
Adapting
Activity:
Read the text and work
in groups of 6 to
answer the questions
according to the text
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14. Wordpool 4:
1. Frustrating: cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled.
2. Architect: cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled.
3. Cyclone: a system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure.
4. Fizz: (of a liquid) produce bubbles of gas and make a hissing sound.
5. Paradise: an ideal or idyllic place or state.
6. Bow: the front end of a ship.
7. Solar: relating to or determined by the sun or its rays.
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15. Adapting
Students have to
answer some of
this questions.
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16. Replacing
Activity:
In groups of five and choose one
of the next topics about
landscape in Chile:
-North zone
-Central zone
-South zone
-Antarctica
-Isla de Pascua
After that you have to prepare a
presentation in which you have
to speak about your topic.
Consider:
-Type of climate
-Flora and fauna
17. Wordpool number 5
Adapting
Activity
You have to recite a poem in
groups of 3 , each student
have to memorize 1
paragraph. Then you have
to add an instrumental song
or a relaxing video. You have
to present this activity in
front of the class.
18. Wordpool 5:
1. Cherry: a small, soft round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red.
2. Cheetah: a large swift-running spotted cat found in Africa and parts of Asia.
3. Rumour: a currently circulating story or report of unverified or doubtful truth.
4. Lava: hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock
resulting from cooling of this.
5. To splutter: make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds.
6. Scorched: become burnt or cause to become burnt on the surface or edges.
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21. Wordpool 6:
1. Cavern: a large cave or chamber in a cave.
2. Storeys: a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level.
3. Intense: of extreme force, degree, or strength.
4. Background: part of a scene, picture, or description that forms a setting for the
main figures, events, etc.
5. Barrage: an artificial barrier across a river, to prevent flooding or to aid irrigation or
navigation.
6. Bowling: a round, deep dish or basin.
7. Crazed: a widespread but short-lived enthusiasm for something.
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22. Wordpool number 7
Replacing
Activity:
Watch and listen the next
3 video and then you have to
record a new video about the
weather forecast and then
show it in front of the class.
23. Wordpool 7:
1. To funnel: guide or move through or as if through a funnel.
2. Pressure: continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in
contact with it.
3. To persist: continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite
of difficulty or opposition.
4. Overnight: for the duration of a night.
5. Moderate: average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.
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24. ACROSS
3. A person who founds an
institution or settlement.
4. Widespread destruction, great
confusion or disorder.
5. a person who has been forced to
leave their country in order to
escape war, persecution, or natural
disaster.
6. Make or become smaller or fewer
in size, amount, intensity or
degree.
7. Give in order to help achieve or
provide something.
8. A system of winds rotating
inwards to an area of low
barometric pressure
10. Part of a plant or animal that
DOWN punctures.
1. Food for horses and cattle. 11. Exposed to the risk of being
2. of extreme force, degree, or strength. attacked or harmed, either
5. Convert (waste) into reusable material. physically or emotionally.
9. (Of a liquid) produce bubbles of gas and make a 13. A small, soft round stone fruit
hissing sound. that is typically bright or dark red.
12. An artificial barrier across a river, to prevent 14. Continuous physical force
flooding or to aid irrigation or navigation. exerted on or against an object by
something in contact with it.