This document provides information and instructions for an English language lesson about reality television programs, fame, and social networking. It includes texts and readings about reality TV programmers and interviews about fame. It provides vocabulary about television and social media. There are speaking activities to discuss reality shows and rules at home. Grammar focuses on expressions of permission and obligation. Students are asked to complete activities expressing what they are allowed or not allowed to do at home. They also analyze interviews about fame and provide opinions about reality shows.

1. Shy hungry be allowed
Let the mountain fit in
Exhausted mustn’t stranger
Sea freezing to make

2. TOPIC:
Reality TV programmers, fame, social networking.
TEXTS
Reading and listening: an article about a reality TV programmers.
Listening: An interview about fame.
Reading and speak: Social network sites.
Portfolio: Personal opinion about a reality show.
Writing: a personal opinion about a reality show.
SPEAKING AND FUNTIONS
Discussing reality TV programs.
Talking about rules in your home.
Using extreme adjectives in descriptions.
LANGUAGE
Grammar: make / let / be allowed to; modal verbs of obligation, prohibition and
permission
Vocabulary: television; extreme adjectives and modifiers; making new friends
Pronunciation: allowed.

3. Definition:
1. Show
2. Apprentice
3. Resident
4. Contestant/participant
5. Producer.
The amazing race:
This very popular US television show first appeared in 2001. It has since won seven
Emmy awards in the United States, including all six ‘Outstanding Reality Competition
Program’ awards. The same format has since been used in countries all around the
world.
Witch are you favorite program?
My parents let me…
I am not allowed to…
Rules:
1.We don’t use to in the expression let someone do something.
Example: My dad let me to stay out late.
2. The expression allow someone is always followed by the infinitive with to.
Example: I’m allowed stay out late.
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4. ACTIVITY 1
In pair read the items in the box and think each other about rules at home related to the
things. And Complete the sentence with the followed picture from the Communication
activity 5 Resources, add it at you portfolio:
Are you allowed to…?
Do your parents let you…?
Do your parents make you…?
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Who wants to be a millionaire?: This show is now made and broadcast in
over 60 countries around the world. It is a simple quiz show where
contestants answer multiple-choice questions in order to win money and
this show is an example to follow and make more similar shows.
Can you name one?
Long vowel sound.
SB page 110 and find the 6 vowel long sounds.
Under line the long vowel sound.
1. How are you now?
2. I’m allowed to have a mouse in the house.
3. You aren’t allowed to sing loudly in the shower.

5. ACTIVITY 2
In pair you will hear an interview on a radio show about fame. Read through
the questions and work together, try to predict the answers that will be
given.
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Rules:
1. Mustn’t is often used in the same way as can’t to express
prohibition or something that is not allowed.
Example:
You can’t walk on the grass.
(because you are not allowed to)
You mustn’t walk on the grass:
(because somebody says it is not allowed)
2. The correct way to use to with modal verbs is.
Example:
I have to go now. ( I have go now )
I must go now. ( I must to go now )
3. The correct way to use the negative of have to ( haven’t to) is
mustn’t.
Example:
You mustn’t eat that! ( You haven’t to eat that! )

6. Extreme adjectives and modifiers are those like:
More big
Very small
Rules:
1. Huge, fantastic, awful are called extreme adjective because are
not use with very or more. Instead we use adverbs like: really or
absolutely.
Example:
It’s absolutely awful. ( It’s very awful )
It’s really awful.
2. Most extreme adjectives have an equivalent word like a
synonym.
Example:
Very big = huge
Very small= tiny
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ACTIVITY 3
In pair you answer the Resources Grammar Practice 5, paying attention t
the extreme adjectives and modifiers.

7. INFORMATION:
The web sides in the photos are all social networking
wed sides. These are just a few of the most popular
ones. There hundreds of social networking sites in
existence today, and new ones are springing up all the
times. Basically, their purpose is to allow users to
“interact” over the internet, with the aim of building social
relations and /or activities.
Can you name one?
ACTIVITY 4:
In pair answer the vocabulary section from SB and WB
try to ask the correct meaning of the words in teams.

8. Write a personal opinion of a reality show you most
know, use the unit TV vocabulary and extreme
adjectives the opinion have to be dedicate to the director
of the show have to be a less 100 to 150 words, add
images of the reality show too, remember this is portfolio
work and don´t forget to post it at the blog.
Use this sentence like reference to focus in your opinion.
1. But not everything that is said about them is good.
2. The show are blamed for a number of things.
3. The show can’t manage without them.
4. The show has been ruined by…..