1. Things in the classroom
A1-A2
Unit One
Lesson 1D
Things in the classroom

2. Overview
A1-A2
In this lesson you will learn the names of some things in your classroom, write a profile of your teacher and explore types of errors students often make.
You’ll work on these areas of language.
Pronunciation-word stress in compound nouns
Lexis-personal information
Constructions-SVO statements
Sentence grammar- wh- questions (present tense markings)
Discourse-linking words -and, but, also Functions-find out personal details
Speaking-ask and answer questions
Listening-listen for specific details
Reading-use notes as an aid to speaking
Writing-taking useful notes
You’ll focus on these skills today.
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

3. Objectives
Ask for personal information and make notes of the answers people give you.
Write a personal profile using your notes.
Identify types of errors you can make in your writing.
Understand the symbols in a correction code your teacher will use for your written work.

4. Language Review
Some students were making a poster with useful language for display in their classroom.
Unfortunately, the two halves of the items for the poster got mixed up.
Work with a partner.
Put them back in the right order.
Divide the class into larger groups.
Choose a ‘leader’ for each group.
The other students in the group make bingo grids. Use numbers between 80 and 100.
How do you say Japanese, please?
How do you write that on the board?
How do you pronounce I’m late?
Could you understand.
Can I have ‘bom dia’ in English?
I’m sorry you spell that?
Ask and answer it.
Can you write the questions?
Don’t speak a pen, please?
Sorry, I don’t repeat that, please?
Example 93 87 85 90 83 98
Write 5 words that you think your classmates will not know.
Say the words.
Ask questions about the words you hear.
Leaders call the numbers at random.
Mark the numbers on your grid you hear.

5. Things in the classroom
Before you start
Things in the classroom
Check your spelling.
Work with a partner.
Write the names of these things.
Practice saying the items.
Look around the classroom and add more words to your lists.
Compare your words with your partner.
an eraser
a desk
a trash can
a pen
a chair
a handout
a notebook
a cell phone
a whiteboard
a pencil case
Match each instruction to one of the objects 1-10.
Sorry... How do you spell ‘whiteboard’?
Sit down, please.
Use colored pencils.
Write this down.
Erase it.
Please dispose of that.
Write it on the board.
Put it in your bag.
Read this, please.
Make a note.
Sit in groups, please.
An eraser goes with erase it…that’s an easy one… I think!
Listen to your teacher say the names of the objects.
Interrupt if you’re not sure of how to spell the names of the objects.
Yes, I’m sure it’s right…a desk…mmm?
Check as a class.

6. More things in the classroom!
Language in context
More things in the classroom!
What’s probably the most important thing in your classroom?
What can you remember?
Work in the same groups.
Write notes.
Check your information.
Ask more questions.
Joanna Jones
reading-likes
the sea-loves
How do you spell ‘tennis’? Is that double ‘n’?
Work in groups.
Write questions to find out this information.
Write a profile of your teacher.
Use this example to help you.
first names
last name
from
age
nationality
favorite color
brothers or sisters
lives
plays
likes
doesn’t like
wants
Example
My teacher’s name is Joanna Susan Jones.
She’s from Miami in the US but she lives in Busan in Korea. She likes reading in her free time and she loves the sea. She also loves classical music. Her favorite color's blue, the color of the sea. She plays tennis on the weekend and doesn’t like rain. She’s got one sister-Emma back in the US. She wants to learn to play the violin well.
What do you like?
The sea… I really love the sea.
What else do you like doing?
In my free time… when I have any… I Iike reading a lot.
Show your teacher your profiles.
Interview your teacher.

7. Writing A personal profile Write a profile of your partner.
Use the profile of a teacher to help you.
Work with a partner.
Interview each other.
Take notes.
Zifan Yang, 15
from Shenzen, China
mountains-loves
technology-likes
Give your teacher your profiles.
My partner, her name is Zifan Yang. She’s Chinese. She come from the Shenzan in the China, where she live there with her mother and father. She has fifteen and an only child. Her father’s name, it is Chaoxiang and her mother she is Ju. They both teechers at scool in city centre. She like very much play computer game and the shopping too. But she love mountain also. She don’t like TV. Her favorite color is green. Green is color of mountain. She want to be IT engineer in the future.
Use these questions to help you.
What’s your full name?
Ask more questions if you can.
Where are you from?
Where do you live?
Examples
Who do you live with?
What are their names?
What do your parents do?
What do you like doing in your free time?
What else do you like doing?
Work as a class.
Find as many errors as you can in the profile.
What about something you don’t like?
What’s your favorite color?
Why do you like it?
What about the future?

8. Learning from your errors Make sure you keep them in a useful place.
Writing
Correction Code
Sentences 1-10 each have one error in them.
Work in teams.
Find the errors.
Write the sentences again.
ABOUT LANGUAGE
Learning from your errors
Everyone makes errors! Your errors are an essential part of your learning.
For example, this sentence has three types of error which are useful for the student to know.
She come from the Shenzan.
The first is a grammar error.
‘She’ means the verb ‘come’ needs an ‘s’.
The second is also a grammar error, but this time of a different type.
‘Shenzan’ is the name of a city.
These are not usually marked with an article.
The third is a spelling error. Shenzhen is spelt with an ‘e’ not an ‘a’. It also has an ‘h’.
I play bingo right now.
He’s from the Hong Kong.
I like very much football.
He’s from china
I am an English estudant.
Her name Tanya.
Is of the Russia my brother.
She like the color blue.
My teacher’s name’s James.
Her school is on the city centre.
Work as a class.
Match a description from a-j with each of 1-10.
Word missing
Word not necessary
Word order
Wrong structure
Agreement
Wrong word
Punctuation
Spelling
Wrong preposition
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Here are the symbols your teacher will use.
Make sure you keep them in a useful place.
Your teacher will use a code to help you correct the errors in your writing.

9. Today you… A2-B1 Unit One Lesson 1c HOMEWORK IDEAS
checked how to say and to spell the names of objects in your classroom. You also checked your understanding of some classroom instructions.
constructed some questions and used these to find out personal information. You wrote a profile of your teacher and one of a classmate.
corrected your profiles and identified different types of errors. You were presented with a correction code your teacher will use to help you with your written work.
HOMEWORK IDEAS
Rewrite your profiles after you check for errors.
Interview another person and write a profile of this person.
Give your written work to your teacher.
Use the symbols on your work and think about how you could change things.
Keep an ongoing record of errors you often make.