1grandparents 4parents 7children* 2 grandmother 3 grandfather 5 mother 6 father 13 wife 15 sister 14 husband 16 brother 8 daughter 9 son 28 UNIT 4 GOALIdentify people in your family 10grandchildren 12 granddaughter 11 grandson 2PAIR WORKPoint to two people in the family. Describe their relationship. 3LISTENING COMPREHENSION Listen to a man identify people in his family. Check the correct photo. 1 VOCABULARY •Family relationshipsRead and listen. Then listen again and repeat. She’s his daughter. * one child/ two children 1 2 3 4 5 6 LESSON1 2:03 2:02 GOALIdentify people in your family Family UNIT 4 1 Identify people in your family. 2 Describe you r relatives. 3 Talk a bout your family. GOALS After Unit 4, you will be able to: ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ LESSO PLAN LESSO Lesson 1 Family UNIT 4 T28 1 Vocabulary Suggested teaching time: Your actual teaching time: 7–10 minutes • Give students a minute to look at the family tree before listening. Write on the board: man woman boy girl. Point to people in the pictures in the family tree and askIs shea woman? Is he a boy?Students can answeryesor no. • After students listen twice, askHow many syllables are in each word?Say each word again and have students saythe number of syllables. • Write the words on the board and draw dots above each syllable (see page 16 of the Student’s Book for an example). Draw a larger dot above the first syllable ofall the multi-syllabic words. SayThe first syllable hasmore stress; for example, GRANDmother GRANDfatherMOTHer FATHer. • Have students chorally practice each word with the proper stress. • To check comprehension, askIs a grandson a boy or girl?(A boy.) Is a daughter a boy or a girl?(A girl.) Is a brother a boy or girl?(A boy.) Is a grandmother a man or a woman?(A woman.) Is a husband a man or a woman?(A man.) Isa wife a man or a woman?(A woman.) Is a grandfathera man or a woman?(A man.) Is a sister a boy or a girl?(Agirl.) Is a father a man or a woman?(A man.) Is a son a boy or a girl?(A boy) Is a mother a man or a woman?(Awoman.) Is a granddaughter a boy or a girl?(A girl.) Option: [+5 minutes] To review subject pronouns and the verb be, have students work in pairs to say or write sentences a bout the people in the pict ures; for example, She’s a grandmother. He’s a grandfather. They’regrandparents. Language and culture• In spoken informal English, these words are often used, especially within a family: (grandmother) Grandma;(grandfather) Grandpa,Granddad; (mother) Mom, Ma, Mommy(by young children); (father) Dad, Daddy(by young children). In informal English, many pe ople use the expressions my baby sisterormy baby brotherfor a youngersister or brother and my big sisterormy big brotherfor an older sister or brother. • In British English, Mum orMummy(by young children) are often used for mother and Dadis often used for father. ActiveTeach Multimedia Disc •Vocabulary Flash Cards 2 Pair work Suggested teaching time: Your actual teaching time: 3–5 minutes • Model the activity. Point to the mother on the family tree and then point to the daughter. SayShe is her daughter.Point to the grandmother and then point to the daughter. SayShe is her granddaughter. Say the followingsentences and have students point to the pictures of the people in the relationship. She’s his sister. He’s her brother. She’s their granddaughter. He’s her husband. They’re their children. FYI: Some studen ts may struggle with a feminine possessive adjective before a masculine word (for example, his sister) or a masculine possessive adjec tive before a feminine word (for example, her brother). In English, the possessive adjective is determined by the possessor (she or he), not the person possessed. To clarifythis point for students, point to the picture of the mother [5] and sayherand then point to the picture of the son [9] and sayson. Repeat with a few other combinations ( hiswife, his daughter, her brother, his sister, his grand daughter, her father, his mother). • Move around the room as students are talking and make sure they are using the subject pronouns and possessive adjectivescorrectly. 3 Listening comprehension Suggested teaching time: Your actual teaching time: 5–10 minutes • First listening: Have students look at the pictures and check the correct picture. • Second listening: Review answers by asking students to identify the correct picture; for example, Teacher: Number one. Student: Picture two. • You may want students to listen again to review the correctin formation . Option: [+5 minutes] For a challenge, give students a dictation. Say each sentence from the audio twice. Askstudents to write the sentence. To review answers, askvarious students to write one sentence on the board. Correct any mistakes. Then ask students to repeat each sentence chorally. AUDIOSCRIPT1 The boy? He’s my grandson. 2 She’s my wife. 3 They’re my sisters. 4 He’s my brother. 5 She’s my daughter. 6 The girls? They’re my granddaughters.
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34 UNIT 4
Relative’s name Relationship Age Occupation Description
Doug brother 14 student He’s very tall.
1 READING Read about some famous actors and their families and friends.
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
Extra practice • p. 139
2 READING COMPREHENSION Read about the people again. Complete the sentences.
“ ”Doug is Laura’s brother.He’s 14. . . .
Relative’s name Relationship Age Occupation Description
4 GROUP WORK Now tell your classmates about your partner’s family.
Before the first activity, give students a few minutes
of silent time to explore the photographs and become
familiar with them.
Pair work 1
Suggestedteaching time:
Your actualteaching time:
7–10minutes
• Say the names of each person in the photographs and
have students repeat.
• Have two students read the conversation aloud. Ask
Who’s Meg? Have them point to the picture of Meg.
• Move around the room to listen in and make sure
students are forming questions correctly.
A: Who’s Pia? B: She’s Amy and Mike’s daughter. A: Is Piaold? B: No, she isn’t. A: How old is she? B: She’s about 3or 4. A: Is Pia Eddie’s sister? B: Yes, she is. A: Is Pia Beth’sdaughter? B: No, she isn’t. She’s Beth’s granddaughter. A: Is Pia handsome? B: No, she isn’t. She’s cute.
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Pair work 2
Suggestedteaching time:
Your actualteaching time:
5–7minutes
• Have students point to Mike in the picture. Read the
example to the class.
• Point to two other people in the pictures and call on
students to make sentences with has or have.
Option: [+5–7 minutes] As an altern ative, have student s
work together to write st atements inste ad of maki ng them
orally.
Option: [+5 minutes] For a different approach, form groups
of three and have students play a guessing game. Student
A describes a pers on in one of the pictures . Students B and
C try to identify the person. Then students switch roles.
Herb is a grandfather. / His wife is Meg. / He has adaughter. / Her name is Sue. / Herb has two grandchildren. /
Their names are Dora and Carter. / His grandchildren arevery cute.
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Description
Suggestedteaching time:
Your actualteaching time:
5minutes
• Review the adjectives students have learned in this unit.
• Students can do this activity in pairs as a speaking
Option: [+5 minutes] Have students compete in teams of
three to write as many sentences as possible about one
person in the photos. Set a five-minute time limit. Then
have teams take turns reading sentences from their list
aloud to the class. Every correct sentence gets a point.
Writing
Suggestedteaching time:
Your actualteaching time:
8–10minutes
• Have students work individually to write their sentences.
• In pairs have students read their sentences aloud to a
partner and make any necessary corrections before
submitting their writing to you.
My grandparents are old. They are 82. They’re from Chicago. Their names are Jim and Sara Parker. My parents aredoctors. My mother’s name is Sandra Allen. My father’sname is Jules Parker. My mother is very short. My father isvery tall. My mother is from New York. I have two brothers.
They are 20 and 17 years old. Their names are Jules andJimmy. They are students.
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ActiveTeachMultimedia Disc • Writing Process Worksheets
Option: [+5 minutes] For a different approach, organize a
student dictation. In groups of three, have students take
turns saying two statements about their families. Other
students write what they hear.
Option: Oral progress check
Use the illustration on page 35.• Test listening comprehension: Say Point to the
correct person; for example, say I am Beth. She is my
daughter. (Student points to Amy.) Say They are my
grandchildren. (Student points to Eddie and Pia.)
Say He is my husband. (Student points to Sam.)• Test speaking: Point at one of the photos. Say Tell me
about the family .
Evaluate students on intelligibility, fluency, correct use
of target grammar, and appropriate use of vocabulary.
• Weblinks for Teachers: pearsonlongman.com/topnotch/
And on your ActiveTeach Multimedia Disc:Top Notch Pop Song ActivitiesTop Notch TV Video Program and Activity WorksheetsSupplementary Pronunciation LessonsAudioscriptsUnit Study Guides
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PAIR WORK
1 Ask and answer questions about thepeople. For example:
A: Who’s Meg?B: She’s Sue’s mother.A: Is Dora Meg’s daughter?B: No, she’s not.
2 Take turns making statements aboutthe family relationships. For example:
Mike has two children. Pia is
his daughter.DESCRIPTION Choose a photo.Use adjectives to describe the peoplein the family. For example:
Pia is very cute.
WRITING Write ten sentences todescribe the people in your family.For example:
NOW I CAN…
Identify people in m Describe my relative Talk about my famil