Mobiles

1. Week 2
Mobiles and daily
activities

2. • Lead in – mobile phone facts (5 mins)
• Discussion questions – mobile phones (10 mins)
• Reading text – new vocabulary – find the info – (10 mins)
• Reading descriptions – matching / pictures – (10 mins)
• Reading text – comprehension questions (10 mins)
• Reading text – matching a description (10 mins)
• Fun facts about mobile phones quiz (10 mins) 65
• Everyday items mini lead in quiz – (5 mins)
• Daily activities – speaking activities (5 mins)
• Writing skills – understanding requests (15 mins)
• Spelling check – words with double letters (5 mins)
• Writing skills making requests – ordering (10 mins)
• Writing skills making requests – changing (5 mins)
• Writing practice – writing requests to a friend (10 mins)
• Writing practice – peer feedback (5 mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)

3. 220m sold 1973
1992
Which
year?
Which
year?
How many sold
(millions)?

4. • What type of mobile phone do you have?
• I have a .................................
• How often do you use your phone per day?
• I use my mobile phone ......... hours per day.
• What do you use your phone for?
• I use my phone to .........................., ..................... and ....................
• What’s your favourite app on your phone? Why?
• My favourite app is ......................... because ................................

5. 1. She always uses a
mobile phone.
2.She never uses a
home phone.

7. 1
2
3
4
5

8. 1. True – always near her and never leave home without it.
2. True – The phone is my alarm clock
3. False – she hasn’t got a home phone
4. False – she calls her mum and texts her friends.
5. True – she keeps her diary and address book on it.

12. The first mobile phone cost about £______
2500
A) 1500 B) 2000 C) 2500

13. Mobile phones are ___ times dirtier than a
toilet seat.
18
A) 8 B) 18 C) 28

14. The first mobile phone weighed ______ compared
with 200g for mobile phones in today's world.
1.13KG
A) 513g B) 1.13KG C) 1.51kg

15. ___% of smartphone users download no apps at all
each month.
65
A) 35% B) 65% C) 85%

16. ___,000 phones are dropped down the toilet in the
UK each year!
100
A) 33,000 B) 50,000 C) 100,000

17. More than ____% of Smartphone users in the
world have an Android phone.
80
A) 35% B) 65% C) 80%

18. Now write the sentences for your partner (for example)
Steve uses a mobile phone every day but he never uses a CD player.
He never uses a car but he uses a dictionary every day.
Steve does homework and he opens and shuts the windows every day.
He buys food and he phones his family some days.

21. buy food CD player

22. dictionary
phone
family

24. dictionary
phone
family
Of course I can. I’ll put
it next to your bed.
No, I can’t. I need it.
Yes, I can. No problem.
No, I can’t. I’m busy.

25. Can you buy food for dinner?
Could I borrow your CD player?
Can you put your dictionary in my room?
Can you phone your family this evening?

26. oo: food, too, room
ee: see, need
rr: borrow, tomorrow, sorry
nn: dinner,
ss: class , Tess
(x3) (x2) (x3) (x1) (x2)

28. Could I borrow your car tonight? I’ve got a party at 8 o’clock.
Can you shut the windows at night, please? It’s very cold.
Can I borrow your dictionary? I want to do my homework.

32. Writing tasks

33. Not used

34. Talking about every day things
•What do you always do in the morning?
•I always.....
•What do you sometimes do at the
weekend?
•I sometimes.....

35. •What do you never do at night?
•I never.....
•What do you normally do in the
afternoon?
•I normally.....

36. • How often do you go to the park?
• I go to the park..... / I __ go to the park
• How often do you watch TV?
• I watch TV ...... / I ___ watch TV.