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How to start
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Place flashcards of the family on the walls around the
classroom. Ask the students to stand up and to point to the
different members of the family. When they have pointed
to the family members, ask different individual students
to bring you the cards, for example,
Cristina, bring me
grandmother
, please
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Granny! Ask students to discuss the different ways they
address or refer to their grandmothers. For example, in
some homes, students might call their granny
‘ya ya’, ‘gran’,
‘nana’ or ‘noni’.
Different regions, cultures and families
will refer to family members in different ways. Encourage
students to respect diverse ways of showing affection for
family members
Activities: step-by-step guide
Activity 1
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Ask the students to look at the three photos at the top of
the page. Are they all family photos? (No). Tell them to tick
the photo of the family. Check answers. Ask the students
about the other photos. Say:
Point to the photo of friends.
Point to the photo of a football team. Are these families?
Why not?
Activity 2
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Explain that some families are big and some families are
small; that some families all live in the same house while
some families live in different houses or in different cities or
countries. Point out that all families are different. Encourage
students to talk about their families. Do they have any
family members living in other places? Do they have a big
family or a small family?
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Tell the students to look at the photos of different families.
Explain that they need to count the family members and
then write the number in the space provided. Allow time for
students to complete the activity. When they have finished,
they can compare their answers in pairs. Check answers.
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As students are writing the numbers of people in the
family walk around the class checking understanding and
informally assessing progress
Activity 3
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Do!
Ask students to work in pairs, to show the drawing of
their family from the previous lesson to their partner and
to say how many people there are in his/her family. They
can say, for example,
Look, a family of (5) or There are (8)
people in my family.
If they complete the task successfully,
they can colour 3 stars.
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Do a survey about families in the class. Draw a table on the
board with the numbers. Invite students to come to the
board and draw a smiley face in one of the middle rows in
the middle column. Count the totals together and put them
in the last column.
There are two people
in my family.
There are three people
in my family.
There are five people
in my family.
There are six people
in my family.
There are seven
people in my family.
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Encourage the students to respect the similarities and
differences. Explain that all families are different.
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Read the sentence at the bottom of the page.
Content objectives
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Distinguish between different types of family.
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Show respect and tolerance towards others.
Vocabulary
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big, different, family, numbers, people, small
Structures
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This
is
a family of three.
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There
are
five people in my family.
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This
is
a family.
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Is this a family of three?
Resources
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Flashcards
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Track 8
Families are different
Assessment opportunity
