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Level: 1st year UNIT TWOCOMMUNICATION: THE PRESSSequence FourSequence Plan : Consolidation and ExtensionObjective: By the end of this sequence, learners should be able to:• write a report• report about a burglary and an accident• interpret newspaper headlines• read and identify health alerts• interpret a graph• identify problem letters (silent letters) in words.• pronounce final ‘s’ • Functions: * making suggestions/ recommendations/ narrating * expressing a point of view * describing a graph * narratingSkills: * reading health alerts/ writing an article to report about an accident * writing a memo to report about health problems. ******** forms: * Punctuation / capitalization * Adverbs of manner.Phonology: - silent letters /pronunciation of‘s’ Lexis: recommendation / alerts / cortisol…Material needed: At the Crossroads.Time expected : about 5h Part one: Write it out Act1: Fill in the blanks in the policeman’s report using the verbs in the correct tense. Aim: Use of the simple past Key : 1- asked 2- answered 3- asked 4- said 5- told 6 –said 7- told Act2 : The following text reports the events (directly) as they happened. Supply appropriate punctuation and capitalization to make it coherent. Aim: To be aware of the use of punctuation and capitalization. Key: ‘Is that your house?’ The policeman asked him. ‘Yes it is,’ the man said. ‘I can’t find my keys and I want to get in.’ ‘What’s your name please?’ The officer asked. ‘My name is Jones,’ the man answered.As he climbed down the ladder, a neighbour came out of her house. ‘What’s the problem?’ she asked. ‘Mr Jones wants to get into his house,’ the officer said. She looked at the man and told the officer in a low voice, ‘the people from number 19 are on holiday.’The police officer arrested Jones and brought/took him to the police station. Act3 /4: read the newspapers headlines and a)say what the reports are about. Aim: to interpret newspaper headlines Key: The reports are about road accidents. 1- A child was killed in a terrible road accident. 2- A car driver was badly injured. 3 -A lorry ran over a child. b) which one is the most dramatic? Why? Key : The most dramatic article headline is: CHILD KILLED IN TERRIBLE ROAD ACCIDENT The reporter has called it terrible. Act5: Pretend you are a witness to the accident. Report what you saw using the picture and the information in the table. Aim: to narrate an event (accident) Key : Sugested report A terrible accident happened near a school yesterday morning. A motorist driving very fast came out of a very sharp bend. He lost control over his vehicle, and knocked down a child who was playing with a ball. A lorry which was coming from the opposite side stopped sharply thus avoiding to run over the child who was lying on the ground, badly injured. The car driver who, fortunately was safe, immediately took the child to hospital. Act6: Pretend you are a journalist. Report about the accident, citing/ quoting your witnesses. Aim: to write a report using quotes. Key : Suggested report The accident occurred near a sharp bend in the road to Tebessa. According to a witness, the car driver who hit/ran over a boy was holding his mobile phone near his ear and driving very fast. Another witness said that the child came into the road, running after a football. ‘I don’t know how it happened exactly,’ he declared. ‘I saw the child, but I didn’t see the car. It happened very quickly,’ he added. I enquired about the child’s health, and the witness said he was not dangerously injured. When I asked him who took the child to hospital, he said that it was the car driver himself.Part two: The teacher has to select the act. That suits best his/her pps. Act1: Read the consumer reports on health. Two of them are alerts to the consumer. Identify them and say what the problem is in each case. Aim : to identify health alerts. Key : Report 2: Prostate cancer is mostly due to the lack of Lycopene-rich diets. Report 3: Sleeping pills can cause serious health problems. Some of them can even kill those who consume them. Act 2: Read the text and answer the questions. Aim : to read health alerts and understand them. Key : A. The text starts with the expression ‘Good News’ because it announces a decrease of heart attacks for men and women owing to improved health habits. B. went down: fall (fell) / decrease (decreased) / dropped C. Curve A for men - Curve B for women Act 3 : interpret the figures using the verbs and adverbs in the box. Aim : to interpret a graph Key : The consumption of:- milk and cream went down slowly between 1980 and 1987.- butter dropped dramatically between 1980 and 1987.- margarine increased slowly between 1980 and 1987.- mutton and lamb decreased dramatically between 1980 and 1987.- poultry went up steadily between 1980 and 1987.- fresh fruit decreased slowly between 1980 and 1987.- other fruit and fruit products rose steadily between 1980 and 1987.- fresh vegetables went down gradually between 1980 and 1987.- other vegetables and vegetable products increased rapidly between 1980 and 1987.- white bread decreased quickly between 1980 and 1987. Act4: Describe the graph using the plan Aim : to describe a graph. Key : Suggested graph description The graph shows the change in food consumption in Great Britain between 1980 and 1987. The horizontal line represents the direction of change whereas the bars show the percentage of change in the consumption of foods. You can see immediately that the British now drink less milk and cream; eat a little less fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. They eat much less butter and white bread, too. But they eat much more brown and wholemeal bread. In my opinion, this means that our food habits have become less healthy. We should inform the consumers about the danger of eating less fruit and vegetables, and drinking less milk. Getting enough of these foods prevents diseases.Act 5: Write a health report about the change in food consumption in Algeria making recommendations. Use one of the texts on the previous page as a modelAim : to write suggestions and recommendations. Key : Model / parallel writing Group work: The students should take the texts on p. 86 as modelsPart three: work it out p88Act1: . Find the silent letters and cross them out.Aim : to identify silent letters Key : Seek help in any English dictionary containing phonetic entries. Act 2 orally) listen to your teacher to check your answers. Then pronounce yourself the WordsAim : to pronounce words correctly. Act3: read the sentences and cross the letter ‘h’ in the words in which it is silent.Aim : to distinguish the weak form of the letter “h”Key : ‘h’ in bold print is not pronounced.-He said he would. - He says that he has lost his hat.- What’s his name? - His name’s Hamlet.- This is his answer. - Give him the address of the hotel.- Who told her that he was here? - He’s the one who told herRule: Silent /h/ in weak forms Pronouns with initial /h/ commonly lose /h/ when they occur unaccented within a sense group ; they retain /h/ when they are initial in a group or when they are accented ( for loss of /h/ in auxiliaries: had, has, have ). Usually affected are : he, his, him,herPart four: p89Act 1: Read the exchange between Hanz and Peter and identify the problem. Aim ; to be aware that correct pronunciation is important for the listener to understand. Key : Hanz has misheard Peter. He heard clocks instead of clogs.Act2: Guess how “s” and “es” are pronouncedAim : to distinguish the different final “s” pronunciation.Key : /s/ /z/ /iz/Clocks – knots – caps – banks – docks – ropes – backs – beliefs - Clogs – nods – cabs – bangs – dogs – robes _ bags – believes - Watches –finishes – boxes -misses - quizzesAct 3 : Tongue twisterPart five: project workshopTasks: Conducting a survey about:• people’s newspaper reading habits• TV viewing habits• Different uses of the computer.Part six: Check your progressAct1 :read the paragraphs and guess what the rest of the article will be aboutAct2 : read paragraph D and check your answer.Key : The rest of the article will be about relaxing. (a)Act 3: read the text and answer the questions.Key : A: Most of us suffer from stress because it is difficult to relax in modern life. B: The author defines stress as ‘the pressure we live with every day.’ C: They say that many serious diseases are due to stress. D: No, there are other causes, such as smoking, pollution, unhealthy food… E: The author will show how and why modern life creates tension. (a)Act4 : reorder the following sentences to form a coherent paragraphKey : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9b a d h g c e f iAct 5: match numbers with letters.Key : 1 C 2 B 3 A 4 DAct 6: Read the findings of the survey conducted by the author. Then guess the questions which s/she asked to his/her informants.Key : Suggested questions1- Do you take any rest at all?2- What kind of music do you like to listen to?3- Do you take time to meditate?4- Which do you prefer, reading books or watching films?5- What do you ususally do to relax?6- What do you regularly do to keep cool?Act7: turn the questions into indirect speech.Key : -The reporter asked his informants:- if they took some rest regularly.- what kind of music they liked to listen to.- if they took time to meditate.- whether they preferred reading books or watching films.- what they usually did to relax.- what they regularly did to keep cool.Act 8: analyse the results in exercise 5 and choose the best interpretations from the list below. Circle the appropriate letter and justify your choice.Key : b. Young people drink too much coffee… d. Young people spend too much time watching… f. Young people’s musical habits are not healthy… music.g. Young people spend little time…Act 9: How are the final ‘s’ and ‘es’ pronounced?Key : /s/ : breaks - excites - habits - makes - techniques /z/ : calms - does - nerves /ız/ : relaxesAct 10: make the best use of the information in exercise 7 to write a logical conclusion to the article.Key : Suggested conclusion As I expected, the results of the survey show that many teenagers do not know how to relax and thus get rid of stress. Most of them prefer watching adventure films or drink coffee in the morning and the evening to reading books and drinking milk. They do not know that all those little things that make up modern life can cause tension. …Act11 : Use the cues below to write a short paragraph stating what the reporter will recommend to young people to do or not to do.Key : Suggested paragraph The survey reveals that our teenagers do things that are bad for them. We should advise them to stop drinking coffee and watching adventure films. They should also stop listening to Jazz music and Rock music which is an unhealthy musical habit. To fight stress, they should spend time more in relaxing activities like reading books and meditating...Questionnaire p. 94Learners fill in the self assessment sheet