B1 UNIT 1 Everyday English Teacher's Notes

Everyday English teacher’s notes B1 Unit
It’s great to meet you! LEARNING OUTCOME using photos to talk about yourself and your family
WARMER
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Ask if any students have travelled abroad and stayed
in a family home. Encourage students to share their Language for:
experiences with the rest of the class. Explain the ■ talking about the number of people in your family:
term host family. … There are six of us in my family.
Ask students to look at the learning outcome. Explain ■ introducing someone in a photo: These are (my two
that in this lesson they are going to learn how to talk brothers) …; This is (my Mum) …
about themselves and their families with the help of ■ asking about someone’s personality: What is (she)
photos. like?
■ making guesses about someone’s personality/
ability/possessions based on evidence: She looks
Everyday life really sweet; Your house looks lovely; You look like a
1 Ask students to work in pairs, look at the photograph good skier; You must take after your mum!
and answer the questions.
EVERYDAY ENGLISH TOOLKIT
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Ask students to look at the expressions and find them in
They are at home surfing the internet/looking for
the dialogue, noting who says each one. Ask students
information online/looking at photographs.
to think about the meaning of each expression and how
Some of the people are members of the same family.
they could say the underlined expressions in a different
The other is a guest. He/she may be from another
way. Check answers as a class and write some good
country. He/she may be staying with a host family.
sentences on the board.
Everyday vocabulary Answers and suggested answers

2 Ask students to look at the family names in 1–7 and Tell me about your family. (Sam)
match them with their opposites in a–g. Then return There are six of us in my family. (Lily)
to the photo in 1 and ask students to suggest the We get on really well together. (Lily); get on (with
relationship between the people in the photo. someone) = have a good relationship
Answers What is she like? (Sam)
1 e 2 g 3 a 4 b 5 d 6 c 7 f I look after her when Mum is busy. (Lily); look after
(someone) = take care of
Dialogue This is my Mum and my stepfather. (Lily)
Your house looks lovely. (Monica)
3 Read the context for the situation aloud. Tell students
I love skiing. (Lily)
that they are going listen to a dialogue between Lily
and her host family. They should cover the dialogue You must take after your mum! (Sam); take after
on the page and listen. Tell them not to worry about (someone) = to be similar to, to inherit looks or character
understanding every word. They should listen and find traits from an elder relative
out how many people there are in Lily’s family. Ask
students to check their answer in pairs, before checking Over to you!
as a class. 6 Students work in pairs and decide who will be the
Answer host and who will be the guest. Ask them to read the
She talks about her two brothers (Nico and Jon), her little instructions and follow the steps. Students can use
sister (Mandy), her mother (Mum) and her stepfather real family photos if they wish. Remind students to use
(Mark). expressions from the Toolkit and the dialogue in 4.
Students can then swap roles and do the role-play
4 Ask students to look at the dialogue on the page and again. Monitor and make a note of errors or good
complete gaps 1–6 with the missing sentences a–f. They language during role-plays. Write these on the board
check answers in pairs, then listen to the dialogue again (anonymously) for the class to correct or note in their
and check. notebooks. Some pairs could act out their dialogues in
Answers front of the class.
1 e 2 c 3 a 4 f 5 b 6 d Extension: Students look at pictures of people in a
magazine/on a website and speculate about what they
5 Ask students to look at the dialogue again to find are like (e.g. He’s cycling up a mountain – he must enjoy
examples of the language necessary to talk about, and being active; She’s talking to a group of people – she
answer questions about, yourself and your family. must be really sociable.).
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