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Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays)

Unit One

Classroom and Online Resources

And the winner is

- Instant Lesson

Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing

- Instant Lesson

Toys

- Instant Lesson

Ordering Festivals

- Weekly Warmer

Me, Too!

- Weekly Warmer

Happy Birthday Athina!

- Instant Lesson

Draw Your Name

- Weekly Warmer

Skills covered in Unit One:Grammar and Vocabulary

- identifying grammatical mistakes, brainstorming vocabulary, celebrations and festivals vocabulary, sales,merchandise and toys vocabulary, present simple, present continuous.

Reading and Writing

- understanding text organization, writing questions, collating and reporting information, scanning, practice textorganization and sequencing skills, writing appropriate questions, reading to complete a summary, predicting, makingcomparisons, developing strategies to guess the meanings of unknown words, comprehension, designing a poster.

Listening and Speaking

- asking and answering questions, answering a questionnaire, listening for gist, listening for specific information,agreeing and disagreeing, retelling information, asking questions to find out information about someone, makingcomparisons to show similarity, ranking, discussion, debating a topic, planning and making decision.

Classroom and Online Extra Resources

Turkeys Galore

- Instant Lesson and

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Tomatina Festival

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Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays) - Resources Listed With Skills

Classroom ResourcesAnd the winner is - Instant Lesson

Reading - understanding text organization,Speaking - asking and answering questions, answering a questionnaire,Writing - writing questions, collating and reporting information,Vocabulary - festivals, racing and gambling vocabulary,Grammar - identifying grammatical mistakes

Ordering Festivals - Weekly Warmer

Reading - practice text organization and sequencing skillsVocabulary - brainstorming vocabulary, festivals and special events vocabulary

Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing - Instant Lesson

Reading - developing strategies to guess the meanings of unknown words, comprehension, completing a table of information

Speaking - retelling information, discussionVocabulary - brainstorming vocabulary, festivals vocabularyGrammar - present simple tense, spelling of third person singular present simple verb forms

Me, Too! - Weekly Warmer

Speaking - asking questions to find out information about someone, making comparisons to show similarity

Draw Your Name - Weekly Warmer

Speaking - Asking questionsVocabulary - Revising vocabulary items to work something out

Toys - Instant Lesson

Reading - predicting, skimming, completing a table,Speaking - ranking, discussion, debating a topic, planning and making decisionsWriting - designing a posterVocabulary - sales and merchandise, toys and birthday vocabularyGrammar - Present simple and present continuous tenses

Happy Birthday - Instant Lesson

Reading - scanning, reading to complete a summary, predicting,Speaking - agreeing and disagreeingListening - listening for gist, listening for specific information,Writing - writing appropriate questions, making comparisonsVocabulary - festivals vocabulary, collocationsExtra Resources Include:Turkeys Galore - Instant LessonReading - finding the main idea, scanning,Speaking - describing symbols, festivals and special days, making a phone call, describing a problem and asking for helpListening - listening for gistWriting - writing sentences using conjunctions although and even thoughVocabulary - holiday vocabulary, synonyms,Grammar - punctuation: apostrophes to show possession, although and even thoughTomatina Festival Food Fight! - Instant WorkbookReading - Reading ComprehensionVocabulary - festivals vocabularyTurkeys Galore - Instant WorkbookReading - Reading ClozeVocabulary - celebrations vocabulary

Extra Help for TeachersVerb Forms Perfect and Continuous - Anna GrammarGrammar - perfect and continuous verb forms

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