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Instructions framed in single-outlined boxes are only for students using the Level 1 Workbook, and instructions framed in double-outlined boxes are only for students using the Level 2 Workbook. Any paragraphs not boxed at all are instructions which apply to both Workbooks.
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If you would prefer to use a guide in the form of a physical book instead of downloading this Guide, the entire Guide is included in the authors book Recurrent Action Grammar (2009).
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INTRODUCTION
This Teachers Guide, and the two Live Action English Interactive Workbooks, Level 1 and Level 2, have been written specifically to accompany the software Live Action English Interactive. These two Workbooks are not a series! Students will not use first one book and then the other. Rather, they will use one or the other as they make their way thru the software, depending on their level at the time. It is also recommended that, before beginning with the software and the workbooks, several of the lessons in the book Live Action English be taught first, to familiarize the students with the procedures of a TPR action series, and to introduce at least the Present Progressive, the Present, the Simple Past and the Future tenses before venturing into the software and the workbooks. The author usually begins with page 1, Washing Your Hands (great for introducing the Present Progressive tense), and continues with at least pages 2-7, introducing one per day (or per two days), before getting to the first unit in the software, Good Morning. For a complete guide for beginning with eight of the first Live Action English action series, and an expanded description of the methods used in this guide, see the book Recurrent Action Grammar (Elizabeth Kuizenga Romijn, 2009, Command Performance Language Institute). What follows are some notes on two unique properties of the Live Action English course and curriculum.
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1. REDUNDANCY IN FORM, VARIETY IN CONTEXTa different way to organize the ESL curriculum While most language learning materials present different language forms (verb tenses, modals, subject/verb agreement, adjective/noun word order, formation of questions and negatives, use of prepositions, etc.) in each chapter or unit of study, along with an introduction of new vocabulary and a new context for each, the Live Action English curriculum also presents a new context for each lesson (the action series, to be acted out by the students), but uses that context to practice very similar language forms each week. So, for example, the four tenses included in the curriculum, Present Progressive, Simple Present, Simple Past, and Future, are often all presented in the same unit, all in real time to create a natural context. And most of them are presented in almost every unit (note: the future tense is not presented in the first five units). This built-in redundancy helps the students to acquire the different forms, as they are confronted with them repeatedly thruout the semester. In contrast, many beginning materials leave the introduction of the past tense, for example, to the end of the text, so that the students who are not present for that particular week miss it entirely. In the Live Action English course, it cannot be missed, as it is presented again and again thruout the semester, often in exactly the same way, differing only in vocabulary and context.
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This is uniquely effective for adult non-credit open-entry/open-exit classes where the students come and go and attend as their adult lives, full of adult responsibilities to jobs and family, allow. But it is even more effective with the students of all ages who attend every class session; they are the ones who reap the full benefit of the natural redundancy this curriculum format provides. And not only are the language forms reinforced by constant repetition in this format, but the vocabulary of the action series is also practiced and re-practiced, first in the context of one verb tense, and then in another and another. So by the end of each unit, the students have learned and used in context the -ing and past forms of each verb in the particular lesson. But doesnt this redundancy get annoying or boring to the faithfully regular attenders? Not at all. Because the action series, which provide the context of each days class session, are so varied, and so actively and graphically presented and practiced with physical activity and props and thru natural conversation, that the students have the impression of anything but redundancy. They have been know to excitedly exclaim at the end of a class session that this is their favorite feature of these materials: I love this class! We do something different every day!
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2. MEANINGS of verb tenses thru REAL TIME CONTEXT and CONTRAST Another feature provided by this course that is absent in many language teaching materials is the acquisition of not just the formation of the verb tenses, but also natural, realtime contexts for each verb tense, so that its meaning is clear and can be naturally internalized by the student who is engaged in the activities. In many materials the focus of the exercises is on the formation of the verb tenses, a left-brain intellectual exercise, and the meanings of the utterances being practiced are all but forgotten for the duration of the exercise. In the Live Action English course presented in this Guide, the right side of the brain is engaged in the holistic experience of the physical activity, so that even as the students are being asked to use the correct forms, they are also constantly and fully aware of the meaning of what is being said.
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To further reinforce the meanings of the various tenses, this course is also full of contrastive exercises where the students are asked to use their cognitive skills to consider the difference in meaning of one verb tense contrasted with another, or often with two or even three other verb tenses. This gets some of the more right-brained students to increase their awareness of the different verb tenses, encouraging them to engage their internal monitors of their use of the language (see Krashen).
To bring about real acquisition of English, please read this guide and follow the instructions for the classroom activities.
It is hoped that the teachers using the Live Action English Interactive Workbooks with their students will not limit themselves to just the simple written exercises in the Workbooks, but will take the time and effort to read, digest, and use the many TPR activities and dictations presented here to help their students to use the language of the action series actively and physically, thereby engaging both sides of the brain for a full and natural language learning/acquisition experience. Please feel free to contact the author at [email protected] with questions or comments about the use of any activity or exercise in this Guide. As mentioned above, if you would prefer to use a guide in the form of a physical book instead of downloading this Guide, the entire Guide is included in the authors book Recurrent Action Grammar (2009). That book includes additional material and information on the methodology used in the Guide, forming a complete beginning course.
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References
Asher, James J. 1996. Learning Another Language Through Actions: The Complete Teacher s Guidebook. 5th ed. Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks. Garca, Ramiro. 1988. Instructor s Notebook: How to Apply TPR for Best Results. 2nd ed. Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Krashen, Stephen D. 1981. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Ray, Blaine and Contee Seely. 2008. Fluency Through TPR Storytelling. 5th ed. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute. Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga. 1998. Puppies or Poppies? ESL Bingo. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute.
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Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga. 2005. Live Action English Interactive Workbooks, Levels 1 and 2. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute. Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga and Contee Seely. Live Action English Millennium (3rd) ed. 1997. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute. Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga, Contee Seely, Larry Statan, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Robert Wachman. 2008. Live Action English Interactive, v.1.4. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance. Seely, Contee and Elizabeth Kuizenga Romijn. 2006. TPR Is More Than CommandsAt All Levels. 3rd ed. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute.
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GOOD MORNING
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Wake up! Stretch and yawn and rub your eyes. Get up. Do your exercises. Wash your face. Get dressed. Make the bed. Eat breakfast. Read the newspaper. Brush your teeth. Put on your sweater. Kiss your family goodbye. Leave the house.
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9 6. Student(s) speaking/other person responding Ask for a volunteer to read the series to you, as you respond appropriately to each command. Or, as the items of the series are numbered, assign each number to a different student to read in order, as you respond physically to the commands. Next, with the whole class looking on, have one student read the series while another student responds physically. 7. Students all working in pairs When you feel that the students are clear enough on the language of the series (comprehending, responding, pronouncing), ask them to work in pairs or threes, one telling (reading) what to do and the other(s) listening and responding physically. Circulate around the room, listening for problems, answering questions, encouraging reluctant or hesitant students to try it, or just observing all the different ways that different students find to fix the new words in their minds. The first six steps are used as a method of preparing students to be ready to work effectively and independently in the seventh and final step (pair practice). These first six steps are only suggestions and can be changed or alternated. You may experiment and do whatever you find necessary to properly prepare students for step 7.
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If you run out of time during the class session, start at the beginning again at the next session. The review will go faster and make things easier for everybody.
Note: This action series is shown in a video at the beginning of the first unit of the software (the Watch screen). Altho this action series is quite easy to depict with props in the classroom, you may wish to show the video as part of your initial presentation of the action series. If you dont have access to the software, but do have access to the Internet, you can find this video on YouTube as LAEi Good Morning.
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Low Beginners will probably answer with the appropriate line from the series, in the now inappropriate imperative form, and High Beginners may answer this way too. For example, if you are washing your face, and ask them, What am I doing? They may answer with wash your face. Encourage them, saying:
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After theyve heard your present progressive version several times, write this verb form on the board and explain that youre no longer giving instructions, as you were doing on page 1 (imperative form), but are now talking about an action that is happening right now, at the same time theyre talking. Have them repeat the appropriate response in the second person. In other words, when you ask What am I doing? have them repeat, Youre washing your face. Repeat this with every action in the series, reminding them to use the -ing forms of the verbs as they answer you. This is an introduction to the present progressive tense for users of the Level 1 Workbook and a review of the tense for users of the Level 2 Workbook.
11 Next, have members of the class do certain actions, and ask them what theyre doing. Better yet, ask them to do any action from the lessonthis is much more interesting and makes a game of it: Luis, show us a different action from the same lesson; no, dont say anything, just do one action. Look, everybody, look at Luis. What is he doing? Point out (or in the case of High Beginners, remind them) that the verb to be is used here, and review its various forms, if necessary. Along with the present progressive, introduce or review possessive adjectives: Luis, wash your face. Whats he doing? Hes washing his face. Anne, wash your face. Whats she doing? Shes washing her face. Look, everybody, what am I doing? Youre washing your face. Introduction to the Written Exercise (for Level 1) While presenting and playing the Pantomime Game, you may have written the possessive adjectives on the board. If you have not already done so, list them now with their corresponding subject pronouns:
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Then have the students open their books and complete the Long Answer exercise on page 2. Exercise (or Dictation) (for Level 2) When you are satisfied that the students have a fairly good grasp of how to formulate the answers to the questions in the Pantomime Game, have them open their books and complete the exercise on page 2. If they experience quite a bit of difficulty with it, or you expect that they will, dictate the answers to them instead. Or ask the first question, pointing to the illustration there, and after one student, or the whole class, has answered the question, tell them to write or complete the answer to number 1, before going on in a similar way to item number 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What is she doing? What are you doing? What are they doing? What is he doing? What are we doing? What am I doing? Shes washing her face. Im rubbing my eyes. Theyre brushing their teeth. Hes putting on his sweater. Were doing our exercises. Youre kissing your family goodbye.
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12 For either level, the question of consonant doubling may come up at any time. See notes for text page 46, on page 97, for tips on teaching or reviewing this rule as well as the rule to drop silent -e. Correcting the Exercise After the students are finished, write the answers on the board so that the students can correct their own work, or go around the room and check their work yourself. You can also have individual students volunteer to come to the board to write one item each. (This can take a lot less time than just one personyou!writing the whole exercise, because this way several students may write their respective items at the same time.) After students are finished and the entire exercise is on the board, go over each item together, asking the students if anything needs correcting. Dictation At this point, Low Beginning students can be given a dictation: dictate the questions and answers of the exercise on page 2, or the answers only (according to the capabilities of your students). Students can write the dictation on a separate piece of paper or on page 9 of their workbooks. The dictation is an exercise, not a test! Students with literacy problems (even if just mild literacy problems) should be allowed to refer to the exercise as often as needed, even to the extent of copying, to ensure that they write the sentences correctly. In this way they will begin to acquire experience with the fact that English spelling does not represent the spoken word very accurately, as they hear, see and write the words all at the same time. After the dictation, have students correct their own, or a classmates paper, comparing it to the corrected exercise on page 2. Pronunciation Practice When the exercise has been corrected, have the students repeat the questions and answers after you, to practice their pronunciation. Pair Practice Have the students practice the questions and answers in pairs. Suggested instructions: Now practice speaking, two people together. One person can read the questions (with beautiful pronunciation!). Youre the teacher. Point to the picture, read the question and listen to your friends answer to see if its correct. Help your friend if the answer is not correct. UNIT The other person is the student. Look at the picture and answer the question, but dont read the answer! Only look at the photo in your teachers book. Your teacher will help you if you are not correct. Only one person is supposed to read from the book! If you have a problem or a question, please ask me. If necessary, demonstrate this process with two students who understand, or who can catch on quickly, or you can demonstrate it yourself with one student.
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Group Work Here is an alternative to pair practice. It may be a bit tricky to set this up the first few
13 times you try it with each class, but the effort is well worth it, as it can be a very productive practice session, with the students taking the initiative themselves to direct their own practice. It also uses the real-time context of live action instead of the tiny photographs in the Workbook. Have the students get up and move their chairs into circles to form groups of 4 or 5. If possible, make sure each group has at least one he and one she so the group will be practicing all pronouns. Then have them tell each other to do (pantomime) an action (by reading one item of the action series on page 1). While one or more of the students are doing the action, ask the rest of the group the question. Demonstrate this with one group before everyone tries this. For example: 1. (To a female student) Wash your face. (S washes her face.) (To rest of group) Whats she doing? Shes washing her face. 2. (To one student) Rub your eyes. (S rubs his/her eyes.) (To same student) What are you doing? Im rubbing my eyes. 3. (To two students) Brush your teeth. (Ss brush their teeth.) (To rest of group) What are they doing? Theyre brushing their teeth. 4. (To a male student) Put on your sweater. (S puts on his sweater.) (To rest of group) Whats he doing? Hes putting on his sweater.
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5. (To whole group) Do your exercises. (Everyone, including the speaker, does their exercises.) (To whole group) What are we doing? Were doing our exercises. 6. (S pantomimes kissing family) (To rest of group) What am I doing? Youre kissing your family goodbye. Emphasize that this is the present progressive tense, so its important to have an action first, and then, during the action, to ask the question. While students are practicing, circulate to offer any help needed. If a group is trying to discuss everything in their own language(s), again direct them thru the exercise yourself until they catch on. If one student clearly understands the procedures, ask that one student to be the director of the group, but instruct him or her not to try to explain what to do, but just to take on the role of the teacher and to start doing it. Before you go on to the next group, watch to see that theyre getting it, and then tell them to continue practicing, but to speak only English. UNIT
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14 familiarize students at the lowest levels of English acquisition with its use in normal conversation. One simple way we use it overtly is in Short Answerssimple if you limit yourself to one or two auxiliaries at a time. Students often get all the way to advanced stages of fluency without ever understanding even this elementary use of auxiliaries, answering yes/no questions with a large variety of auxiliaries but never selecting the correct one! (Did you see him? Yes, it is. Will they recognize you? No, they dont.) However, if students are guided thru the correct selection of person, tense and auxiliary verbs from the most rudimentary levels of their acquisition of English, they come out with an implicit understanding of the way the system works, and they have no problem sorting thru all the choices available to them later at the more advanced levels. What is so fundamentally important about the English auxiliary system and what is the value of spending so much time and effort to help students grasp it? English auxiliaries mark person, tense, voice, and modalityconcepts which in other languages are marked in entirely different ways, such as with dozens of verb forms. In English, what our paltry four or five forms of each verb lack in number, our auxiliary system makes up for in intricacy. Until ESL students understand this basic difference between our verb system and their own, many things we do with verbs in English elude them as subtlety or outright mystery. For a more thorough treatment of the subject of teaching auxiliary verbs at all levels, and the many ways in which we use them, see Chapter 11 of Puppies or Poppies? ESL Bingo (Romijn, 1998) by the same author. Several of the Short Answer Bingo games from that chapter are adapted in this Teacher's Resource Guide, beginning with one of the simplest and easiest games, and gradually increasing in difficulty as you and your students work your way thru this guide. The following exercise introduces the English auxiliary system in a very simple way by teaching Short Answers with only the verb to be in the present tense. Introduction: Yes/No Questions with Short Answers With students books closed, ask a student to do an action from the lesson. (You can specify an action or let the student select one.) While the student is pantomiming the action, ask the rest of the class a yes/no question. For example, if the student is doing his exercises, ask the class, Is he eating breakfast? When the students say no, teach them the short answer form, No, he isnt. Next ask two students to rub their eyes. Ask the rest of the class:
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THEY RUBBING THEIR EYES?
When the students say yes, teach them the short answer form, Yes, they are.
With the students books still closed, go thru the entire exercise on page 3 in this way, eliciting an action from one or two students, and eliciting the correct short answer from the class.
15 Point out that if the question begins with is, the short answer must end with is, and if the question begins with are, the short answer must end with are. The students may also need to have it pointed out that the person (he, she, they, we) must be the same in both question and answer as well. Notice that you have just done the entire written exercise on page 3 orally, before the students have even looked at the page. So now they will open their books and write the answers they have already heard in the context of real-time action. Doesnt this make the written exercise too easy? Not if short answers are new to them. Theyve begun with live action they can see and understand, theyve been shown how to answer your questions with the correct form in this meaningful context, and theyve practiced using these forms in several real-life examples. They still have to make the leap to writing the new forms down for the first time ever. You will see this technique of guiding the students orally thru a written exercise first, and thus providing them with the answers before they see the exercise, used many times in this book. It is a way of instructing the students with very small steps to successful completion of the exercise. As the course progresses, the students will require fewer and fewer of these tiny steps with each subsequent return to each grammatical form. So now finally have the students open their books and complete (for Level 1) or answer (for Level 2) the questions on page 3 with short answers, after you all do item 1 together. Point out that the top photo is for items 1 and 2, the second photo is for numbers 3 and 4, the third is for numbers 5 and 6, and the fourth is for numbers 7 and 8. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Is she rubbing her eyes? Is she getting dressed? Are they reading the newspaper? Are they brushing their teeth? Is he leaving the house? Is he stretching and yawning? Are we eating breakfast? Are we making the bed? No, she isnt. Yes, she is. Yes, they are. No, they arent. No, he isnt. Yes, he is. No, we arent. Yes, we are.
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Correcting the Exercise as on page 72 Dictation: Dictate the questions and answers of the exercise. Students can write the dictation on a separate piece of paper or on page 9 of the Level 1 workbook . Upon completion, have volunteers come to the board, each writing a different item, so that you can correct them with UNIT the class help, and the students can correct their own papers.
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Note on Giving Dictations: Dont hesitate to repeat words and sentences in each item many times. This is excellent aural input during an activity in which the students are very focused on listening to details, but at the same time are very aware of the meaning and content of the sentences theyre hearing. Make the most of it by repeating as many times as needed. Also, vary the speed of delivery, alternating speaking slowly and precisely, with using a natural, conversational speed, and elision. Pronunciation Practice as on page 12 Pair Practice as on page 12
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Level 1: When you are satisfied that the students have a fairly good comprehension of the questions and answers, have them open their books and complete the exercise on page 4.
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Level 2: When you are satisfied that the students have a fairly good grasp of how to answer the questions, have them open their books and write answers to the questions on page 4. Correcting the Exercise Since students will have individual answers, circulate and check their work for accuracy yourself.
17 Pronunciation Practice Have the students repeat the questions after you, to practice their pronunciation. Pair Practice as on page 12 Level 2: Using the answers received during the pair practice about their classmates morning routine, have the students write, on a separate piece of paper, the paragraph suggested at the bottom of text page 4. Some review of the third person singular -s will probably be needed beforehand. Refer also to the story (from the software) at the top of page 5.
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OFTEN DO YOU EAT BREAKFAST? EVERY DAY, TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK, NEVER?
Explain that you are asking for frequency. Provide the class with the following adverbs of frequency: always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never
18 Explain the Meanings of the Words Use whatever means you have to explain the meanings of these adverbs: a. Some teachers just let their students look them up in their bilingual dictionaries. Note: If the students are looking the words up in their dictionaries, tell them to look up rarely or seldom for the meaning of the phrase hardly ever. (hardly ever is used here because it is much more commonly used in spoken language than rarely or seldom). b. If all the students have the same language, the teacher can save a lot of time by translating these six terms. c. Another approach is to give a range of percentages of time for each term: I always get up at 6:00 means I get up at 6:00 every day, 100% of the time. I usually make the bed means I make the bed most of the time, 51-99% of the time, etc. Conversation Continue asking students, in a natural and conversational way, how often they do various activities in this lesson. Write the Exercise When you are satisfied that the students have a fairly good comprehension of the meanings of the adverbs of frequency, have them open their books and complete the exercise on page 5. Tell them to find something in the list at the top of the page that they always do, and to copy it for the first item, which begins, I always..., then to continue with the rest of the items, looking for phrases which are true for them, for each frequency term. Model this for the students by going thru the exercise with personal information about yourself, telling the frequency with which you do various actions which are listed. The additional blank lines are for more practice for those students who finish quickly. Correcting the Exercise Since students will have individual answers, circulate and check students work for accuracy, helping anyone who is having difficulty or who wants to use additional phrases that they dont know how to spell.
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Correcting the Exercise/Pronunciation Practice Have the students repeat the questions after you, to practice their pronunciation. They will also be able to make any needed corrections at this time. Pair Practice as on page 12 Note: For additional practice, see the Bingo Game based on this exercise on pages 27-29.
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He woke up at 7:00 this morning. He stretched and yawned. He rubbed his eyes. He did his exercises. He washed his face. He got dressed. He made the bed. He ate breakfast. He read the newspaper. He brushed his teeth. He put on his sweater. He kissed his family. He left the house.
She didnt wake up at 7:00. She didnt stretch and yawn. She didnt rub her eyes. She didnt do her exercises. She didnt wash her face. She didnt get dressed. She didnt make the bed. She didnt eat breakfast. She didnt read the newspaper. She didnt brush her teeth. She didnt put on her sweater. She didnt kiss her family. She didnt leave the house.
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Lesson Have students open their books. Looking at the example, point out that in negative sentences we use the basic forms of the verbs because of the presence of the past form did. Then we use the past forms of the verbs in the affirmative, where we dont use the auxiliary did. Writing the Exercise Have the students complete the exercise on pages 6 and 7 after you do the example and item 1 together. Correcting the Exercise Circulate to check students work.
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21 Pronunciation Practice Have the students repeat the sentences after you, to practice their pronunciation. Note: For additional practice of the past forms in this unit, play the Bingo game on pages 27-29.
Pronunciation With their books open to the correct page, have the students listen to and repeat the pronunciation of the basic forms and past forms of the verbs: basic forms past forms get dressed got dressed wake woke make made eat ate stretch stretched read read yawn yawned brush brushed rub rubbed put on put on do did kiss kissed wash washed leave left
Pronunciation Have the student repeat each sentence of this story after you: Carol This morning Carol woke up at 7:00. She got up and did her exercises. After that she washed her face. Then she got dressed and made her bed. She ate breakfast and read the newspaper. Then she brushed her teeth. Carol put on her sweater and kissed her family goodbye. She left the house at 8:30.
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(These verbs are not in the story, but they are in action series on page 1, and in the list of verb forms.)
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Instead of referring to the story, you may also create a more immediate context by asking a female student to rub her eyes and stretch and yawn all at the same time. You could also ask her to go thru the entire action series again in response to your reading of it. This will create the context needed for this exercise. However, since by the time you reach this page, the students will have seen the action series many times, in the imperative form, as well as in the present progressive and past tenses, they will probably not need to go thru it again at this point. This series and order of actions have already been very well established for them. Circle the word while and point out that this is a word connecting two complete sentences. You might also want to circle the two sentences: She rubbed her eyes and she stretched and yawned. Now write the sentences:
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She got up before she did her exercises.
Circle the words after and before, again pointing out that these words connect two complete sentences.
23 Completing the Exercise Have the students open their books to page 8. Go over the example together. You might want to go thru the entire exercise asking individual students to state the compound sentences for each item. Then have the students write the exercise, filling line A only at this time.
Example: She rubbed her eyes while she stretched and yawned.
1. She did her exercises after she got up. 2. She got dressed before she made the bed. 3. She ate breakfast while she read the newspaper. Or: She read the newspaper while she ate breakfast. 4. She brushed her teeth before she put on her sweater. 5. She left the house after she kissed her family goodbye. Correcting the Exercise After the students are finished, have volunteers write the sentences on the board. Together, you and the class can then correct the sentences they write. The students can correct their own work. Part B: Lesson Now under the first sentence on the board, write the two phrases in reverse order:
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Point out that this is another way to say exactly the same thing. The only difference is that here you are beginning with the connecting word while and now you need a comma to separate the two complete sentences. (In the first sentence the connecting word while separated them.)
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Exercise Now have the students go back and write each sentence of the exercise again, but this time beginning with the connecting word and remembering to use a comma. Example: While she stretched and yawned, she rubbed her eyes. 1. After she got up, she did her exercises. 2. Before she made the bed, she got dressed. 3. While she read the newspaper, she ate breakfast. Or: While she ate breakfast, she read the newspaper. 4. Before she put on her sweater, she brushed her teeth. 5. After she kissed her family goodbye, she left the house.
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24 Correcting the Exercise Again, have volunteers write the sentences on the board to be corrected by you and the class together. Writing Assignment To explain why we vary the sentence form in this way, tell the story of Carol with the same form for each sentence to show how boring and monotonous that sounds: Carol woke up. She stretched and yawned and rubbed her eyes. She got up. She did her exercises. She washed her face. She got dressed. She made the bed. She ate breakfast. She read the newspaper. She brushed her teeth. She put on her sweater. She kissed her family goodbye. She left the house. Then have them write about what they did this morning, using compound sentences. Circulate as they write to help people with their sentence structures, and to encourage them to write in a paragraph form rather than making a list of sentences.
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After correcting the exercise together, go over any pairs that the students find particularly difficult to distinguish, by writing them on opposite ends of the board and asking the class to point to the word you pronounce. Repeat the two words in random order many times to allow the students to practice listening and distinguishing them.
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Write the answers to the questions on the board. 1. Who stretched and yawned? 2. Who rubbed her eyes? 3. Who did his exercises? 4. Who washed her face? 5. Who got dressed? 6. Who made the bed? 7. Who ate breakfast? 8. Who read the newspaper?
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10. Who put on her sweater? 11. Who kissed her family?
(For Level 1: You can play this game directly following the completion of the exercise on page 6, in which case you will have the names of the 12 students who performed the 12 actions already written on the board.)
28 For four additional items, ask the students yes/no questions about the same 12 actions. For example:
Did Ahmad make the bed? Did Sara eat breakfast? Did Masha put on her sweater? Did Chen do his exercises?
No, he didnt. Yes, she did. No, she didnt. Yes, he did.
Write the four short answers on the board as the students answer your questions. Preparation You now have 16 responses on the board, consisting of 12 student names (with the word did) and four short answers. Give each student a copy of the Bingo grid. Have them copy each of the responses into one of the 16 squares on the grid, in random order. While the students are preparing their grids, prepare your 16 calling cards by copying one of the 16 responses each on a different card.
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Explain the Game Suggested script: Im going to ask one of these questions again, for example, Who rubbed her eyes? Dont say anything! Put a marker on the correct answer like this. When you have four squares marked in one row, say, Bingo! They can be horizontal, like this, or vertical, like this, or diagonal, like this. The first person to say Bingo and is correct is the winner. The second person is...too late! Play the Game Scramble the 16 calling cards face down, then select one at random and ask the question which elicits the response on that card. After giving the students enough time to find the correct answer on their Bingo grids, set the card aside and select another card at random and ask the question.
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Continue selecting, asking, and setting aside the calling cards until someone says Bingo! UNIT If no one says Bingo, but you notice that someone has four marked squares in a row, point this out and coach them to say Bingo!
Check for Correct Responses Have the potential winner read the four winning squares to you. Check them against the calling cards you have called and set aside. If all four squares are correct, reward the winner (see Prizes on previous page). Have everyone clear their grids of markers and begin again. New game!
29 If the four squares do not match the items you have called, announce that there is No Bingo! Lets continue!
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Before copying the Word Search for high beginners, you might want to cover, cut off, or white out the word list at the bottom of the page to make the puzzle more challenging. Then youd need to tell them the number of words they are looking for so theyll know when theyre finished.
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Word Scramble Do not distribute the Word Scramble until after the Past Tense exercise has been covered, because this puzzle contains additional words that appear in the exercises. Permission is granted to photocopy the puzzle on page 33 for classroom use only. For students who have never seen this kind of puzzle before, explain that all the words listed at the bottom of the page are listed in the Scrambled List, but the letters are not in the correct order. Demonstrate by writing one of the scrambled words on the board (choose a short one from the list) and asking if anyone can tell what word the letters are from. When someone comes up with it, or if you have to tell them what word it is, write the word on the board. Then, one by one, point to each letter in the word and then to the same letter in the scrambled word. Emphasize that there have to be exactly the same letters in the word and in UNIT the scrambled word, no more, no less.
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Then show them where to write the correct word in the second column (unscrambled list). Explain that they have to finish all the words before they can go to the alphabetized list. With children, wait until all students have completed the unscrambled list to explain how to alphabetize the words. With adults, it is more practical to go around and show each person individually what is required for the alphabetized list, since there will probably be many students who already know how to do this, but others for whom this is a brand new skill to be learned. Remember that some people might not even understand the purpose of alphabetizing, so the place to begin for them is to ask them how they can find
31 their name on the attendance roster, or a word in the dictionary. (And they might not know how to find their name in any systematic way!) For Level 2 students, you might want to cut off, or white out, the word list at the bottom of the page to make the puzzle more challenging. Word Scramble Solution Scrambled List 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. aldyhr yfialm nfeot syalaw resesixce eewtrsa yese doybego meesitmos sertbfaka yululsa csthert hrsbu sedresd nibubrg penerspwa rveen Unscrambled List hardly family often always exercises sweater eyes goodbye sometimes breakfast usually stretch brush dressed rubbing newspaper never Alphabetized List always breakfast brush dressed exercises eyes family goodbye hardly never newspaper often rubbing sometimes stretch sweater usually
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GOOD MORNING
Word Search
B A M U B C N J Y R Y R R N U H W W Y R R N R H B H T A U N S C N N Y A A U R D E E H Z R R S W E A T E R E E E S S A E A W N X U D Z V L S R F P O P H F A A U W E T F S G T I I I L E L I T I H U J S K S H Y S T K F E O E F B T H G V S
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breakfast exercises family leave read sweater wash brush eyes goodbye make rub teeth yawn dressed face house newspaper stretch wake
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Word Scramble Scrambled List
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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Unscrambled List
Alphabetized List
aldyhr yfialm nfeot syalaw resesixce eewtrsa yese doybego meesitmos sertbfaka yululsa csthert hrsbu sedresd nibubrg penerspwa rveen
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goodbye sometimes rubbing never breakfast brush family sweater stretch usually always often newspaper exercises hardly eyes dressed
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BINGO!
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