READING & VOCABULARY
READING 1 - Activities 1 and 2 are related to this reading.
Teenangers: earning money
In many countries, you can only get a proper, full-time job if you are 16 or 18 years old. But there are things that teenagers in some places can do to earn some pocket money. Here are a few ideas.
a) Parents with a small child want to go out for the evening for dinner, or to the cinema, but they don’t want to leave their child alone. So, they ask a teenager to stay in the house and look after him or her while they are out. And if the child’s asleep, you can do your homework and not waste time!
b) Some adults have a dog but they don’t have time to take it for a walk. Dogs need a lot of exercise! So some teenagers work on that. It’s a good idea- you earn money and you’re outside in the fresh air, getting some exercise too!
c) Teenagers can deliver newspapers – usually you ride a bike around a neighbourhood and leave the newspaper at each house. Normally you have to have your own bike – and you have to get up early too, because people want their newspaper to read with their breakfast!
d) Lots of older people are happy for teenagers to help them carry their shopping or do small things in their home, like washing or ironing or keeping them company. You earn money, and people in the neighbourhood get your help.
e) It’s crazy for adults to drive to an expensive car wash when they can get a teenager to do the job for less money. Wash the car well and carefully and people will want you to do it again. Then you’ve got customers!
They’re all great ideas. Just choose one of them to earn some money. Then you can spend it or save it! But don’t forget it’s important always to tell an adult where you’re going. Be safe! Don’t be stupid!
1. Match the following words with the paragraphs a-e. Then, Put the five jobs in order. 1= the job you would like to do most, 5= the job you would like to do least.
Washing cars _
Delivering newspapers _
Babysitting_
Dog-walking _
Helping elderly people _
2. Which job (or jobs) above involves:
Water?
Walking?
A bicycle?
Carrying things?
Going to another person’s house?
Animals?
3. Fill in the spaces: Complete the text with the following words:
Have has player job successful doctors dentist dream hours vet
Susan’s mother is a vet, her father is a ________ and her two brothers are studying to be ________. But Susan’s isn’t interested in getting a ________ in medicine – she wants to become a professional tennis ________, and her ________ is to play tennis for her country at the Olympic Games. At the moment, she’s in the girls’ under-18 national team. Top tennis players ________ to be very fit, so every morning Susan gets up at 6.30 and runs for an hour before breakfast. Before and after school, she goes to her tennis club – she has to practice for three ________ a day. But she also ________ to go to school and do her homework in the evening. It’s very hard work, but Susan is determined to be ________ in her sport.
4. Complete each sentence with a word from the box:
Saturday job earn spend waste full-time pocket money save part-time
a) She only works two hours every morning – it’s just a ________ job.
b) When I’ve got some money, I always put it in the bank and ________ it.
c) My sister works 9-4, five days a week, it’s a ________ job!
d) That film is really awful – so don’t ________ your money by going to see it!
e) I like to ________ my money on DVDs.
f) I don’t work at all because my grandparents give me ________ every week.
g) I go to bed early on a Friday because I’ve got a ________.
h) I work every Sunday to ________ some money for myself
5. Answer these questions. What’s the difference between:
a) A part-time job and a full-time job?
b) To earn money and to spend money?
c) To spend money and to save money?
d) To spend money and to waste money?
6. Choose the correct answer
a) ________ help people when they are in hospital.
Nurses Vets Dentists
b) ________ fly planes
Pilots Lawyers Drivers
c) Peter ________ money in the bank to buy a good computer
Saves Earns Works
d) To be a lawyer, you have to get very good ________ at school.
Exams Dreams Results
e) I took my dog to the ________ because he wasn’t well.
Engineer Firefighter Vet
READING 2 -
John: My uncle’s a vet and in the holidays I often help him. It’s great for me because I really love animals. Of course I know that you have to study hard and for a long time to be a vet, but that’s my dream and I’m sure I can do it.
Mary: My dream is to play professionally. I know I have to practice a lot, so I joined a club and I practice almost every day, and play matches at the weekend. One day I want to be as good as Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer.
Preston: I want to work in IT – information technology. You have to be really good to get the best jobs, and then you can earn a lot of money but that’s not my real interest. I just love computer programming.
Sarah: Well, a lot of my friends want to be flight attendants, and I know why- you get to travel to lots of great places! And that’s what I want to do too – but I don’t want to travel as a flight attendant, I want to be the pilot flying the plane! There are lots of women pilots, and I want to be one of them.
7. Read and write which job does each teenager want to do in the future:
John __________
Mary __________
Preston __________
Sarah __________
8. Let's practice!
A) What jobs do the people in your family do?
- My mother is a _____________.
- My father is a _____________.
- My grandmother is a _____________.
- My grandfather is a _____________.
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B) Interview a member of your family about his or her job and then write about it.
READING 1 - Activities 1 and 2 are related to this reading.
Teenangers: earning money
In many countries, you can only get a proper, full-time job if you are 16 or 18 years old. But there are things that teenagers in some places can do to earn some pocket money. Here are a few ideas.
a) Parents with a small child want to go out for the evening for dinner, or to the cinema, but they don’t want to leave their child alone. So, they ask a teenager to stay in the house and look after him or her while they are out. And if the child’s asleep, you can do your homework and not waste time!
b) Some adults have a dog but they don’t have time to take it for a walk. Dogs need a lot of exercise! So some teenagers work on that. It’s a good idea- you earn money and you’re outside in the fresh air, getting some exercise too!
c) Teenagers can deliver newspapers – usually you ride a bike around a neighbourhood and leave the newspaper at each house. Normally you have to have your own bike – and you have to get up early too, because people want their newspaper to read with their breakfast!
d) Lots of older people are happy for teenagers to help them carry their shopping or do small things in their home, like washing or ironing or keeping them company. You earn money, and people in the neighbourhood get your help.
e) It’s crazy for adults to drive to an expensive car wash when they can get a teenager to do the job for less money. Wash the car well and carefully and people will want you to do it again. Then you’ve got customers!
They’re all great ideas. Just choose one of them to earn some money. Then you can spend it or save it! But don’t forget it’s important always to tell an adult where you’re going. Be safe! Don’t be stupid!
1. Match the following words with the paragraphs a-e. Then, Put the five jobs in order. 1= the job you would like to do most, 5= the job you would like to do least.
Washing cars _
Delivering newspapers _
Babysitting_
Dog-walking _
Helping elderly people _
2. Which job (or jobs) above involves:
Water?
Walking?
A bicycle?
Carrying things?
Going to another person’s house?
Animals?
3. Fill in the spaces: Complete the text with the following words:
Have has player job successful doctors dentist dream hours vet
Susan’s mother is a vet, her father is a ________ and her two brothers are studying to be ________. But Susan’s isn’t interested in getting a ________ in medicine – she wants to become a professional tennis ________, and her ________ is to play tennis for her country at the Olympic Games. At the moment, she’s in the girls’ under-18 national team. Top tennis players ________ to be very fit, so every morning Susan gets up at 6.30 and runs for an hour before breakfast. Before and after school, she goes to her tennis club – she has to practice for three ________ a day. But she also ________ to go to school and do her homework in the evening. It’s very hard work, but Susan is determined to be ________ in her sport.
4. Complete each sentence with a word from the box:
Saturday job earn spend waste full-time pocket money save part-time
a) She only works two hours every morning – it’s just a ________ job.
b) When I’ve got some money, I always put it in the bank and ________ it.
c) My sister works 9-4, five days a week, it’s a ________ job!
d) That film is really awful – so don’t ________ your money by going to see it!
e) I like to ________ my money on DVDs.
f) I don’t work at all because my grandparents give me ________ every week.
g) I go to bed early on a Friday because I’ve got a ________.
h) I work every Sunday to ________ some money for myself
5. Answer these questions. What’s the difference between:
a) A part-time job and a full-time job?
b) To earn money and to spend money?
c) To spend money and to save money?
d) To spend money and to waste money?
6. Choose the correct answer
a) ________ help people when they are in hospital.
Nurses Vets Dentists
b) ________ fly planes
Pilots Lawyers Drivers
c) Peter ________ money in the bank to buy a good computer
Saves Earns Works
d) To be a lawyer, you have to get very good ________ at school.
Exams Dreams Results
e) I took my dog to the ________ because he wasn’t well.
Engineer Firefighter Vet
READING 2 -
John: My uncle’s a vet and in the holidays I often help him. It’s great for me because I really love animals. Of course I know that you have to study hard and for a long time to be a vet, but that’s my dream and I’m sure I can do it.
Mary: My dream is to play professionally. I know I have to practice a lot, so I joined a club and I practice almost every day, and play matches at the weekend. One day I want to be as good as Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer.
Preston: I want to work in IT – information technology. You have to be really good to get the best jobs, and then you can earn a lot of money but that’s not my real interest. I just love computer programming.
Sarah: Well, a lot of my friends want to be flight attendants, and I know why- you get to travel to lots of great places! And that’s what I want to do too – but I don’t want to travel as a flight attendant, I want to be the pilot flying the plane! There are lots of women pilots, and I want to be one of them.
7. Read and write which job does each teenager want to do in the future:
John __________
Mary __________
Preston __________
Sarah __________
8. Let's practice!
A) What jobs do the people in your family do?
- My mother is a _____________.
- My father is a _____________.
- My grandmother is a _____________.
- My grandfather is a _____________.
-
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B) Interview a member of your family about his or her job and then write about it.
Here are some questions you could ask him/her:
Where do you work?
What do you do?
What time do you start and finish?
Do you have to wear a uniform?
What do you like about your job?
What don’t you like about your job?
Would you like to work in another place?
When you were a child, what was your favorite job?
Laura & Chiara
NAME OF ACTIVITY: What’s Halloween about?
OBJECTIVE OF THE STRATEGY: To acquaint students with vocabulary related to the topic of the text. To teach them to make predictions about the text they are going to read and the basic vocabulary items they are going to encounter. To show them how they can work on their previous knowledge of the topic and thus improve, fasten and optimize the understanding of the text.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEACHERS: The teacher must encourage students to provide anything they come up with: there are no wrong or right answers. He or she should not solve any doubt related to the meaning of the words they are going to be working on until the moment of facing the text comes: only students can intervene in the pre-reading activities. During the reading, the teacher can pass around every group and answer any question related to the text. In the speaking post-reading activity, the teacher has to correct any error students have in expressing themselves so that the new vocabulary they are meant to learn is definitely stored.
AGE: 12 (Basic-Low intermediate level)
The origin of Halloween
1) Halloween is a great day for parties. Children dress up as witches, ghosts or vampires, and they go from house to house playing TRICK OR TREAT. But what’s the origin of this custom?
2) Halloween means Hallows’ Evening. It is the evening before All Hallows’ Day (now called All Saints Day), a Christian holiday, celebrated on the 1st of November. But that day was important already in ancient times. On the 1st of November, Celtic peoples celebrated the festival of Shamhuinn, which marked the beginning of winter and the Celtic New Year.
3) “How come a Christian and a pagan holiday are celebrated on the same day?” you might ask, “Is it just a coincident?” – No, it isn’t. When Christianity spread, the Church tried to disturb the pagan customs as little as possible, and so they merged their festivals with pagan ones.
4) It was widely believed that on Hallows’ Evening the dead would rise from their graves to roam the earth. Afraid of evil spirits, people therefore either wore ugly masks to frighten those spirits away, or they stayed at home saying prayers. Some would also go from house to house, begging for ‘soul cakes’, square pieces of bread with currants. In return they promised to pray for dead members of the donors’ families.
5) Going from house to house, begging for sweets – doesn’t that sound familiar? Indeed, that’s the origin of TRICK OR TREAT. Be aware, however, as the custom has changed! Nobody is going to pray for you nowadays. Instead, if you don’t have a TREAT for the children in front of your door (some sweets for example), they will most likely play a TRICK on you – that’s what TRICK OR TREAT is all about.
ANTICIPATION
1. Brainstorming: the class group is asked to say all those words they think a text about Halloween will contain. The teacher writes them all down on the blackboard in order to make them all known to them. These are read aloud by the teacher first and then repeated by the students.
2. The teacher asks the whole class what are their ideas about the origin of this tradition and to create a short paragraph that summarises this using the words that have been noted on the board.
3. The teacher shows another list of words that they will run into in reading the text. Students are asked to guess the meaning of those words which have not been mentioned up to then
READING
1. In small groups, the students are asked to read and comment together on what they have understood and to try to deduce the meaning of those words they do not know. The teacher must give them some tips on how to figure out the meaning of words they have never read before such as looking and the context and to use the information that the previous anticipation discussion has put forth.
POST-READING
1. Make the students give their impressions about the text and whether it has matched or not their expectations, what they have learnt and what has surprised them.
2. Invite the students to explain or to invent an experience of their own related to this festivity, so that they can draw on the new vocabulary they have learnt.
Suggestions / homework for further mastery of this vocabulary:
1. Classify the vocabulary according to the categories they choose themselves and share it with the ones of other students.
2. Write a short scary story (either invented or one that they know).
Gerard & Jose
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