Vocabulary Core vocabulary: Everyday objects

Social and civic competences, Learning to learn
This activity will help your students to work in a cooperative manner. It will also help them to be aware of their own ability to learn a foreign language.
More practice
Workbook page 8
Tests
Five-minute test, Test Bank MultiROM
READING People’s possessions
I can talk about school rules.
Aims
• Read about young people and their possessions.
• Read for general meaning and specific information.
• Talk about rules at school.
Warm-up (2–3 minutes)
• Ask individual students: What do you always have in your bag? What possessions are important to you?
• Elicit ideas from the class, and ask students if they think they have a lot of possessions.
Background
Buddhism is a religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. Buddhists believe that life should be as simple as possible, and people should try to be unselfish and not concerned with material possessions. Buddhists live very simple lives and spend time each day praying and meditating.
Buddhism originated in Nepal, but there are now Buddhists all over the world.
Exercise 1
• Students use their dictionaries to check the meaning of the words in the list.
• Ask students to work in pairs to guess which possessions belong to each person.
• Ask for ideas, but do not confirm or deny answers at this stage.
Exercise 2
• Allow students time to read the Study strategy, then ask them to identify the key words in the question in exercise 1 (possessions, Phra Pachak, Laura).
• Tell students to scan the text, following the instructions in the Study strategy box. They do not need to worry about the blue words at this stage.
answers.
1 Phra Pachak 2 Laura 3 Phra Pachak 4 Laura 5 Phra Pachak
Exercise 3 CD 1.04
• Explain that students are now going to study the text in more detail.
• Allow them time to read the sentences before they hear the text again. Point out that some sentences are true and some are false, and that they will need to supply the correct information where necessary.
• Play the CD so that students can listen as they read.
• Ask students to compare their answers in pairs, then check answers with the class.
• In a stronger class, ask students if they would like to live with fewer or more possessions. Ask if the rules for Laura and Phra Pachak seem strict.
• In a weaker class, ask how Laura’s school rules compare to their own. What is different?
answers.