Language focus:
Using ‘like to’ to express preferences
e.g. I like to help people.
Using the simple present tense to express simple truth
e.g. Firemen put out fires.
Asking ‘Wh-‘ questions to find out a person's occupation
e.g. What job do you do?
Pre-task preparation
1 Ask individual students: What job does your father/mother/uncle/aunt do? to elicit: My father/mother/uncle/aunt is a/an (job). Ask the class: Whose father/mother/uncle/aunt is a (job)? Ask for a show of hands from the students.
2 Ask the students to guess whose father visits Rose Garden School.
3 Play the recording: Read. Students listen and follow in their books.
4 Play the recording again. Students listen and repeat.
5 Review: a fire-engine. Ask: What do firemen drive? What colour is it? Ask the less able students to look at the pictures in Read. Ask the more able students to draw a fire-engine on the board. Ask the students to read the text again silently. Then tell them to close their books. Ask: Whose father visits Rose Garden School? What job does he do? What does he usually do? Does he like his job? Why?
6 Students complete Answer true/false individually. Invite individual students to read aloud the true statements. Encourage the more able students to correct the false statements and read them aloud.
While-task procedure
1 Divide the students into groups. Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 27 to each group. Ask them to make a similar poster to show what firemen usually do.
2 Distribute some drawing paper to each group. Students are required to collect pictures of firemen from newspapers/magazines first. Then they write captions for the pictures. Finally, they add a suitable title for their posters, e.g. What do firemen usually do?/How much do you know about firemen?, etc. Mount your students' work on the display board.
Post-task activity
Workbook page 8