Vocabulary Core vocabulary: Everyday objects

Creativity and Skills
M Y COUNTRY Communication and technology
I can read and understand a text about apps.
Aims
• Learn vocabulary for talking about communication and technology.
• Read a text about apps.
• Learn the rules for using determiners and quantifiers.
Warm-up (3–4 minutes)
• With books closed, write the word app on the board and elicit the meaning. If necessary, explain that an app (application software) is a computer program that is designed for a particular purpose. It can be downloaded from an app store and run on a mobile device such as a smartphone or a tablet.
• Ask students to put up their hands if they have ever used an app.
• Ask some of the students who put their hands up which apps they use and what they use them for.
Exercise 1 CD 1.15
• Draw students’ attention to the words in blue and ask if any of them are similar in Kazakh. Encourage students to try to guess the meaning of the words before they look them up in a dictionary.
• Model and drill the pronunciation of the words
• Play the recording. In a stronger class, you could ask students to close their books as they listen to the recording. In a weaker class, encourage students to follow the text as they listen
• Ask students to decide if the sentences are true or false, then correct the false sentences.
• Allow students to check their answers in pairs before checking as a class.
answers.
1 False. He doesn’t send any emails. He sends a lot of messages.
2 True.
3 True.
4 False. She uses apps for learning languages.
5 False. It’s the name of a travel app.
6 True.
Optional activity: Reading
Dictate these questions to the class, or write them on the board. Ask students to read the texts again and answer the questions.
1 Which app has got all the letters of the Kazakh alphabet? (iTys)