English for Life Learner's Book Grade 5 Home Language. Lynne Southey
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Название: English for Life Learner's Book Grade 5 Home Language
Автор: Lynne Southey
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Учебная литература
Серия: English for Life
isbn: 9781775892458
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(j) Choose five words from the list above and make a sentence with each. Your sentence must show you understand the meaning of the word.
(k) Divide the poem equally between groups of four so that everyone has an equal number of lines to read. Practise reading the poem a few times in your group and then read it aloud for another group.
(l) Discuss in your group how a poem such as this one, a limerick and a story you have read differ from each other in terms of vocabulary, layout, and style of language.
You can use the following checklist to assess each others’ reading:
Give a speech
What do you think about television? Do you watch a lot at home? Are there any rules about television in your family?
In the next activity, you are going to give a speech about television. Your topic is ‘Television and my family’. You can talk about the shows you watch, or how much television you are allowed to watch, or what your parents say about television. You could talk about differences between you and your siblings – do you fight over the remote? You could even talk about what you do instead of watching television.
How to write a speech
A speech, like an essay or story, needs a beginning, a middle and an end. Your beginning or introduction should tell your audience what you are going to talk about. Make sure that your audience knows what to expect. For example, you could start by saying: ‘Good morning. Today I am going to talk about the television rules we have in my family. My parents think books are very important so we don’t really watch a lot of television.’ An introduction like this tells your audience what you are going to be talking about and gives them a general idea of what the rules are.
The middle of your speech should give all the information. Your information should be in a logical order. Give details and try to make your speech interesting.
When you finish your speech, your audience needs to know that your speech is finished. Your speech needs a conclusion. In the conclusion you summarise what you have said, but you do not repeat the introduction. For example, you could say, ‘… and that is why we don’t watch a lot of television’.
Guidelines for giving a speech
Giving a speech is different to writing because you have to speak aloud in front of an audience.
It is important that you remember that you are talking to your audience and that they are
listening to you. Here are some tips for giving a speech:
Make eye contact – look at people in your audience.
Speak in a loud, clear voice – don’t rush your words, and make sure that the person at the back of the room can hear you.
Do not fidget – keep your hands at your sides, or they can hold your speech notes, but don’t touch your face or hair and do not make unnecessary gestures.
Smile and look interested in your topic – if you are not interested, your audience is going to lose interest too.
Do not read your speech – you should practise enough that you only need to look at notes to remember what you want to say.
Relax – everyone gets nervous when they have to give a speech, so do not think that you are alone in the way you are feeling.
1. The first thing you should do when you have to give a speech is to think carefully about the topic. You can do this by brainstorming – take a piece of paper and write down everything you think of about television. Do not stop to put your thoughts in any order, just write them down as you think of them.
2. Once you have written down everything you can think of, decide what you are going to use in your speech – you cannot use everything. What information do you need in order to write your speech? Do you need to talk to your parents or siblings to get their opinions? Do you need to talk to your classmates to compare your television habits or rules at home? Do you need to make a list of all the programmes you watch?
3. Once you know what information you need, go out and get it.
Your teacher will use the following checklist to assess your speech:
Listening comprehension
In the next activity you are going to listen to an extract from a novel called My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell.
The Durrell family is made up of four children and their mother. Larry is the eldest, followed by Gerry, then Leslie and finally Margo. When the story starts the Durrells are living in England, but they are all sick and the weather is miserable. The extract that you are going to listen to is about Larry convincing their mother that they should all move to Greece where the weather is better and they will not all be so sick.
1. Your teacher is going to read an extract from the novel My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell. You have most of the story below. Can you hear the missing words? First of all write the numbers 1-25 in your workbooks and then write the words down as you hear them.
The Migration
It was Larry, of (1), who started it. Larry was (2) by Providence to go through life like a (3), blond firework, exploding (4) in other people’s minds, and then curling (5) with cat-like unctuousness and refusing to take any (6) for the consequences. He had become increasingly irritable as the (7) wore on. At length, glancing moodily around the room, he decided to attack Mother, as (8) the obvious cause of the (9).
‘Why do we stand this bloody climate?’ he asked (10), making a gesture towards the rain-distorted (11). ‘What we need is (12),’ Larry continued; ‘don’t you agree, Les? … Les … Les!’
Leslie unraveled a (13) quantity of cotton wool from one ear. ‘What d’you say?’ he asked.
‘There you are!’ said Larry, (14) triumphantly to Mother, ‘it’s become a major (15) to hold a conversation with him. I (16) you, what a position to be in! One brother can’t (17) СКАЧАТЬ