| FUNCTIONS |
 |
Narrating past events / Asking and answering about past events / Describing the
background in a story / Asking and answering about actions in progress at a certain time
in the past |
| VOCABULARY |
|
Important personalities of the past / A burglary / Dates & years / Weather collocations /
Natural disasters & accidents |
| LANGUAGE FOCUS |
|
Past Simple / Prepositions of Time / Past Continuous / Past Simple vs Past Continuous |
| THEMES |
|
Time / Change / Relativity of actions & events / Logical reasoning |
| LEARNING STRATEGIES |
FOCUS ON LEARNING NEW VOCABULARY |
| |
|
Guessing unknown words from context / Keeping a record of new vocabulary / Using a
dictionary |
| LINKS |
|
Science / History / Art / Music / Geography / ICT |
| PROJECT |
|
Who is who / Natural disasters around the world |
| READING |
|
A magazine quiz about important personalities / Students' short stories / A quiz about
tsunamis / Newspaper articles about natural disasters and accidents |
| LISTENING |
|
An extract from a radio play / short dialogues |
| SPEAKING |
|
My activities at a specific time in the past / Specific information in a short story / A day I
did something wrong |
| WRITING |
|
A ‘Mystery Person' quiz / Opening paragraphs in stories / An article about a disaster /
Information cards about a disaster |
