Vocabulary Core vocabulary: Everyday objects

More practice
Communication: Pairwork, Teacher’s Photocopiable Resources page 195
Tests
Speaking test 1, Test Bank MultiROM
WRITING An internet profile
I can write about my likes and dislikes.
Aims
• Study a model internet profile.
• Learn about capital letters and punctuation.
• Write an internet profile.
Warm-up (2–3 minutes)
• Ask students if they use the internet, and ask what they use it for.
• Ask if they use the internet to talk to friends and meet new friends.
• Write internet profile on the board and elicit or explain that it is a description of yourself that you put on the internet in order to meet new friends.
• Ask students who has an internet profile, and what information is in it.
Exercise 1
• Students read the profile, then answer the questions. In a weaker class, do this together as a class activity.
answers.
1 happy, sentimental, disorganized
2 music, manga, Japanese things
3 magazines and music blogs
4 by instant messenger
Exercise 2
• Read through the key phrases with the class.
• Ask students to find the key phrases in the profile and translate them into their own language.
• Ask students to think about the part of speech that follows each phrase. Confirm that they can all be followed by either a noun or verb + -ing.
• In a weaker class, provide further examples on the board of the key phrases followed by both parts of speech. In a stronger class, ask students to think of more examples and write these on the board.
answers.
1 really 2 not / about 3 big fan 4 bothered about
Exercise 3
• Students write their sentences individually, using each of the key phrases and information that is true for them.
• Ask some students to read their sentences to the class.
answers.
Students’ own answers.
Exercise 4
• Read the task with the class and make sure that students understand the terms contractions, lists and names.
• Students work individually to complete the rules.
answers.