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Unit 6, Semester 1

This document provides objectives and exercises for a lesson about families. It includes activities like filling in a family tree, defining family member vocabulary terms, describing family activities, and translating a passage about a family. The lesson teaches the present continuous tense and compares it with the simple present tense. Students are asked to find family member names, activities people are doing currently, and express family relationships and structures in sentences using the target grammar.

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Unit 6, Semester 1

This document provides objectives and exercises for a lesson about families. It includes activities like filling in a family tree, defining family member vocabulary terms, describing family activities, and translating a passage about a family. The lesson teaches the present continuous tense and compares it with the simple present tense. Students are asked to find family member names, activities people are doing currently, and express family relationships and structures in sentences using the target grammar.

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Family

UNIT 6

Objectives:
1. Students can mention any member in the family.
2. Students can be able to draw their family trees.
3. Students can be able to write grammatical sentences using present continuous.
4. Students can be able to describe a family's activities from a picture.
5. Students can be able to translate a passage about family.

A. WARM UP
Look at Barbaras family tree and fill the blanks with the appropriate family
member names.

B. VOCABULARIES
Find the correct words and write them into the gaps.
Example: horadgmthner grandmother
1. fathre - ____________

3. rbthoer __________

2. osn - ______

4. sesitr - _________

5. othemr - __________

13. cenie _________

6. necul - _________

14. peermsotht ____________

7. aarndgfther ______________

15. reptans ____________

8. atnu ________

16. bandhus ___________

9. nriachgdld

17. pehwen ____________

________________
10. agdtuehr - ___________

18. sno-ni-alw
_________________

11. scioun _________

19. usospe __________

12. fwie _______

20. ooerdgtmh - __________

C. USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
Tell me about your family.
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Yes, I have two brothers and a sister.
No, Im the only child.
Are you the first child?
Yes, I am.
No, Im the third child of five children.
How old is/are your brother(s)/sister(s)?
The oldest one is 22 years old. The second oldest is 19 years old.
The youngest is 15.
Are you married?
Yes, I am.
No, Im single.
No, Im divorced.
No, Im widowed.

D. GRAMMAR FOCUS (PRESENT PROGRESSIVE/CONTINUOUS)


We use present progressive/continuous for:
a. actions happening at the moment of speaking
E.g. Peter is reading a book now.

b. fixed plan in the near future


E.g. She is going to Basel on Saturday.
c. temporary actions
E.g. His father is working in Rome this month.
d. actions happening around the moment of speaking (longer actions)
E.g. My friends are preparing for their exams.
e. trends

E.g. More and more people are using their computers to listen to music.
f. repeated actions which are irritating to the speaker (with always,
constantly, forever)

E.g. Andrew is always coming late.


Signal Words:
-

now,

at the moment,

Look!

Listen!

FORMS
1. Positive
S + is/am/are + V-ing
2. Negative
S + is/am/are + not + V-ing
3. Interrogative
Is/Am/Are + S + V-ing ?

Example:
1. (+)

Anne is cooking in the kitchen.

(-)

Anne is not cooking in the kitchen.

(?)

Is Anne cooking in the kitchen?

2. (+)

Jody and Jane are studying in that room.

(-)

Jody and Jane are not studying in that room.

(?)

Are Jody and Jane studying in that room?

3. (+)

I am reading the Twilight Saga.

(-)

I am not reading the Twilight Saga.

(?)

Am I reading the Twilight Saga?

SIMPLE PRESENT vs. PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

NONACTION VERBS NOT USED IN PRESENT PROGRESSIVE


Want

Like

Need

Love

Hate

Understand

Hear

Know

See

Believe

Smell

Think (meaning believe)

Taste

Example:
1. I want an apple. NOT Im wanting an apple.
2. I hear a siren. NOT Im hearing a siren.
3. She hates children. NOT She is hating children.

E. EXERCISES
a.

Find out and write down ten activities that are being done by ten different
people around you.
1. ______________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________________________
8. ______________________________________________________________
9. ______________________________________________________________
10. ______________________________________________________________

b.

Ask for the bold part of the sentence.


1. Ashley is going to a restaurant.
______________________________________________________________
2. Gareth is reading the paper.
______________________________________________________________

3. Stacey is playing in the garden.


______________________________________________________________
4. She is wearing a red dress.
______________________________________________________________
5. Britney is doing her homework.
______________________________________________________________
c.

Translate this passage with your group.


My Friend Peter
My friend's name is Peter. Peter is from Amsterdam, in Holland. He is
Dutch. He is married and has two children. His wife, Jane, is American. She is
from Boston in The United States. Her family is still in Boston, but she now
works and lives with Peter in Milan.
They speak English, Dutch, German and Italian! Their children are pupils at
a local primary school. The children go to school with other children from all
over the world. Flora, their daughter, has friends from France, Switzerland,
Austria and Sweden. Hans, their son, goes to school with students from South
Africa, Portugal, Spain and Canada. Of course, there are many children from
Italy. Imagine, French, Swiss, Austrian, Swedish, South African, American,
Italian, Spanish and Canadian children all learning together in Italy!

d.

Write down what Kates family is doing.

John (Kates older brother)

Kates father

Charlotte (Kates younger sister)

Kates mother
Verbs:
Watch TV
Paint
Play guitar

e.

Brad (Kates younger brother)

Kate

Read newspaper
Wash the dishes
Play computer

1.

_________________________________________________________

2.

_________________________________________________________

3.

_________________________________________________________

4.

_________________________________________________________

5.

_________________________________________________________

6.

_________________________________________________________

Draw your own family tree from your nuclear family.

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