ACTIVITY FOR 7TH GRADE STUDENTS UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION This lesson is aimed to cover the thematic vocabulary required in Unit 1 for 7th grade students.

ACTIVITY FOR 7TH GRADE STUDENTS

UNIT 1

INTRODUCTION

This lesson is aimed to cover the thematic vocabulary required in Unit 1 for 7th grade students. This includes spare time activities (riding a bike, playing the guitar, doing sports, etc) and adjectives (boring, shy, talkative, etc).

A famous animated television comedy serie will be used to catch students attention and to make the lesson more interesting to them.

Using music and characters to carry out with the activities.

Listening and watching the video of Phineas and Ferb Theme song. Handing out the lyrics of the song to the students.

Identifying spare time activities Introducing vocabularyIntroducing characters for posterior activities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKXYxGfFBig&feature=related

Duration of the video: 0:57 seconds

PHINEAS AND FERB THEME SONG LYRICS

Identify vocabulary about spare time activities related with the images in the video. (8 minutes)

Show images of the characters doing different activities

Emphasizing what they like and don’t like to do (expressions)

A B C

E

D

GF H

A. Candace loves dancing with Jeremy

B. Candace likes riding her bike

C. Phineas and Ferb enjoy playing the guitar

D. Phineas likes playing football

E. Phineas, Ferb and Perry enjoy doing sports together

F. Candace enjoys singing with Phineas

G. Stacy likes reading magazines in her free time

H. Phineas and Ferb love creating new things

LANGUAGE FOCUS:

LOVE, LIKE, ENJOY or HATE, DOESN’T/DON’T LIKE + verb + ing

Who’s in the class? (Adapted) LEARNING GAME

Distribute a page of blocks with traits, preferences, and other characteristics that students in your class may share. Give the students several minutes to find a peer with each of the characteristics and obtain a signature in every block, if possible.

When time is up, find out who has gathered the greatest number of names and discuss each trait. Invite students to raise their hands if they possess a trait as you talk about it.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame024b.shtml

Likes going to the cinema

Loves playing the guitar

Likes doing sports

Hates doing the dishes

Hates cleaning the bedroom

Loves reading books

Loves playing the piano

doesn’t like going to the dentist

Likes going to the beach

Doesn’t like vanilla ice cream

Loves playing football

likes english class

Hates reading books

Hates eating vegetables

Doesn’t like sports class

loves watching action movies

ACTIVITY 1Coment about characters personalities and encourage students to provide an adjective to describe them.Use crossword about adjectives

ACTIVITY 2Crosswords with adjectives. Ask students to use their dictionaries if necessary.http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/crossword/crossword-puzzle.php

ACTIVITY 3Match OppositesWrite two lists of adjectives on the board or a worksheet. The first list should contain adjectives and the second the opposite of those adjectives.http://esl.about.com/od/esleflteachingtechnique/a/lmh_vocab.htm

BORING RESERVED

SHY UNFRIENDLY

KIND SAD

HAPPY MEAN

FRIENDLY INTERESTING

TALKATIVE SOCIABLE

ACTIVITY 4

Create sentences using the adjectives

Ex: •Candace never shuts up, she is a very talkative person.•Dr. Doofenshmirtz is always inventing evil devices, he is really mean.

ACTIVITY 5

Reading comprehension and writing. Describe your best friend. Worksheet.

http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/My_Friend.pdf

Create a simple dialogue with a partner about your favourite activities, changing what is underlined in the example dialogue.

Present it to the class

EXAMPLEA.what’s your name?B.John Smith.A. How old are you?B. I’m thirteen.A.What are your favourite activities?B.I like playing football and tennis. A. And what do you like doing after school?B. I like swimming.