Unit 2 lesson 2B Your lifestyle and you

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Can you name any weird thing about life in the UK?

Let's find out about 33 weird things when we have our dessert.

https://youtu.be/dOTslS6WOTY

Grades + exam

Exam 1 = 

listening and reading 

January 25th

Beroepsgericht Engels = woorden 111-193

Keuzedeel Engels = 

SpeakOut assignments

Date:

January 25th

Ss learn adverbs and phrases to describe frequency. They also learn common verb phrases used to talk about everyday activities. The context is a reading where they do a quiz about their lifestyles. This leads into the grammar, where Ss also practise linking in connected speech. 

What have I done today?

I got up this morning.

I ate breakfast.

I took my children to school.

I drove my car to Emmeloord.

I prepared my lessons.

I had a meeting at 9.00.

I am teaching English now.

To start

What have you done

 so far today?

Make a list of at least 10 items in English.

1. Share a list of all the things you’ve done so far today.

2. Ss to make a similar list of everything they’ve done so far today. 

3. Monitor and help with vocabulary, writing any new words and phrases on the board. 

4. When they have finished, put Ss in pairs to compare their lists and find out what they have in common.

Our goal today

You are going to read

 and do a lifestyle quiz: everyday activities.

You are going to discuss

 what is important in your life.

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Everyday activities

Studenten vullen de juiste antwoorden in op hun whiteboard.

Daarna bespreken.

Everyday activities

2B Lifestyle

1A Read the example. Work alone, check in pairs, check in class. ANSWERS meet someone for coffee / for lunch, check messages / emails, spend time online / with your family, 

go to a party / a meeting, get up early / late.

1B Read the example. Work in pairs to ask and answer questions. When they have finished, ask a few Ss to share anything interesting they found out about their partner. EXTRA: put my in e.g. I check my emails/messages, I spend time with my family, etc. Also use the plural in: I go to meetings/parties, rather than I go to a meeting/party.

2A, B, C Lifestyle quiz, work alone, check in pairs. 

6 Speaking, NEXT SLIDE, close laptop.

 

Speaking in pairs

6B Compare things that are important to you. What do you have in common? Find 1 thing that is the same and 1 thing that is different.

Work is very important to me. I enjoy it. I often work at the weekend. Animals aren’t important to me. I don’t have a pet.

6C Work with a different student. Talk about your first partner.

Sleep is very important to Yulia. She sleeps for ten hours every night, but I usually sleep about six or seven hours. 

 

6B and 6C in steps:

1 Work in pairs. Share your answers. 

2 Find one thing that is the same as your partner. 

3 Find one thing that is different. 

4 Work in another pair. Work with a new student. 

5 Tell him/her what is the same and different.

To finish

Think of one more thing that is important and one more thing that is not important to you.

Share with a classmate.

The lesson ends with a speaking activity in pairs, where they talk about things that are important to them.

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