SECURITY

Introduction

Security is a cross-curricular topic which means that far too often it is left uncovered. The present study material is trying to cover a part of it. The subtopics here are Missing people and Emergency call.

Both parts have been constructed by similar principles - starting with audio items and listening-comprehension tasks; proceeding with vocabulary or grammar, rules and practice; going on with reading texts (authentic news material from BBC) and reading-comprehension tasks; and ending with revision exercises.

The material is composed for students in forms 6-9 and is suitable to use with any textbook.

Goals

After acquiring the present study material, the students –

• are able to find specific information in the audio text;
• are able to interpret the information they hear;
• are able to understand and interpret the information they read;
• have enriched their vocabulary of people’s physical appearance;
• can ask questions about the person’s appearance;
• know how to form and use compound adjectives;
• know how to order different adjectives in one clause;
• are able to describe people’s appearance using new vocabulary, compound adj. incl.
• are able to change reported sentences into direct;
• know how to order words in indirect questions;
• know the names of punctuation marks and the basic rules of them;
• are able to use punctuation marks in direct speech;
• can discuss security topics with a partner and look for solutions;
• understand the importance of security;
• know how to behave in emergency situations.

How to use the material

The exercises are linked together in two portions – 1) Missing people and 2) Emergency call. It is wise to start clicking on the first exercise of Part I – Missing people, that is Lost in a crowd, and then move on clicking on => Next exercise .

To hear the listening tasks properly it is necessary to use Internet Explorer. Click on Allow blocked content if the yellow bar appears at the top of the page.

CONTENTS

Part I – Missing people.

Language focus – describing physiscal appearance.

1. Lost in a crowd (listening-gapfilling)
2. A lost child (picture-short answer quiz)
3. Who’s who? (desciptions-matching ex)
4. Compound adjectives (text/rules-matching)
5. Memory Game on Compound Adjectives (matching)
6. Classification (matching)
7. Adjective order 1 (mixed ex)
8. 2 (mixed ex)
9. 3 (mixed ex)
10. 4 (mixed ex)
11. Vocabulary practice (flash-card task)
12. Satellite pinpoints lost children (reading-multiple choice)
13. Revise vocabulary (crossword)

Part II – Emergency call

Language focus – Direct-Indirect Speech

Punctuation

1. Emergency call (listening comprehension-short answer quiz)
2. Emergency call (listening-gapfilling)
3. Indirect Speech (rules-gapfilling)
4. Indirect questions 1 (mixed ex)
5. 2 (mixed ex)
6. 3 (mixed ex)
7. 4 (mixed ex)
8. Classification 2 (matching)
9. Memory Game on Indirect Speech (matching)
10. Six-year-old praised for 999 call (reading-multiple choice)
11. Punctuation marks 1 (rules-matching)
12. 2 (short answer)
13. Punctuation rap (listening-gapfilling)

Topic	Task	Vocabulary	Grammar	Listening	Reading	Discussion
Missing people	Lost in a Crowd			Gap-filling		Introductory discussion
	A lost child		Forming questions			Discussion (pair work)
	Who’s who?	Physical appearance
	Compound adjectives		Compound adjectives
	Memory Game on Compound Adjectives	Physical appearance	Compound adjectives
	Classification	Physical appearance
	Adjective order 1-4		Adjective order
	Vocabulary practice	Physical appearance				Describing appearance
	Satellite pinpoints lost children				Reading comprehension – multiple choice	Discussion (pair work)
	Revise vocabulary	All vocab. of the subunit

Topic	Task	Vocabulary	Grammar	Listening	Reading	Discussion
Emergency call	Emergency call			Short-answer quiz
	Emergency call	Emergency situations		Gap-filling
	Indirect Speech		Transforming sentences
	Indirect questions 1-4		Word order in indirect questions
	Classification 2		Parts of speech
	Memory Game on Indirect Speech		Transformations of indirect speech
	6-year-old praised for 999 call				Reading comprehension – multiple choice	Discussion (pair work)
	Punctuation 1	Grammar terminology (punctuation marks)	Punctuation marks
	Punctuation 2		Punctuation marks and capitals
	Punctuation Rap			Gap-filling		Rap along

Resources:

Audio files – www.esl-lab.com http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/playtimerap.html News material – www.bbc.co.uk Grammar rules - http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/reported.htm Photos – www.flickr.com

Katrin Saks

Pärnu Koidula Gümnaasium

kat3z@hot.ee

Materjal on valminud Tiigrihüppe SA toel

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