 ACTIVITY FOR 7TH GRADE STUDENTS  UNIT 1

INTRODUCTION This lesson is aimed to cover the thematic vocabulary required in Unit 1 for 7th grade students. This includes spare time activities (riding a bike, playing the guitar, doing sports, etc) and adjectives (boring, shy, talkative, etc). A famous animated television comedy serie will be used to catch students attention and to make the lesson more interesting to them. Using music and characters to carry out with the activities.

Listening and watching the video of Phineas and Ferb Theme song. Handing out the lyrics of the song to the students.  Identifying spare time activities  Introducing vocabulary  Introducing characters for posterior activities ?v=xKXYxGfFBig&feature=related  Duration of the video: 0:57 seconds

PHINEAS AND FERB THEME SONG LYRICS There's 104 days of summer vacation And school comes along just to end it So the annual problem for our generation Is finding a good way to spend it Like maybe... Building a rocket Or fighting a mummy Or climbing up the Eiffel Tower Discovering something that doesn't exist (Hey! ) Or giving a monkey a shower Surfing tidal waves Creating nanobots Or locating Frankenstein's brain (It's over here! ) Finding a dodo bird Painting a continent Or driving your sister insane (Phineas!) As you can see There's a whole lot of stuff to do Before school starts this fall (Come on Perry) So stick with us 'cause Phineas and Ferb Are gonna do it all So stick with us 'cause Phineas and Ferb are Gonna do it all! (Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!)  Identify vocabulary about spare time activities related with the images in the video. (8 minutes)

 Show images of the characters doing different activities  Emphasizing what they like and don’t like to do (expressions) A BC E D GF H

A.Candace loves dancing with Jeremy B.Candace likes riding her bike C.Phineas and Ferb enjoy playing the guitar D.Phineas likes playing football E.Phineas, Ferb and Perry enjoy doing sports together F.Candace enjoys singing with Phineas G.Stacy likes reading magazines in her free time H.Phineas and Ferb love creating new things LANGUAGE FOCUS: LOVE, LIKE, ENJOY or HATE, DOESN’T/DON’T LIKE + verb + ing Candace doesn’t like fighting with Stacy Phineas and Ferb don’t like doing boring things Dr. Doofenshmirtz hates losing all the time

 Who’s in the class? (Adapted) LEARNING GAME Distribute a page of blocks with traits, preferences, and other characteristics that students in your class may share. Give the students several minutes to find a peer with each of the characteristics and obtain a signature in every block, if possible. When time is up, find out who has gathered the greatest number of names and discuss each trait. Invite students to raise their hands if they possess a trait as you talk about it. /learninggame/learninggame024b.shtml Likes going to the cinema Loves playing the guitar Likes doing sports Hates doing the dishes Hates cleaning the bedroom Loves reading books Loves playing the piano doesn’t like going to the dentist Likes going to the beach Doesn’t like vanilla ice cream Loves playing football likes english class Hates reading books Hates eating vegetabl es Doesn’t like sports class loves watching action movies

ACTIVITY 1  Coment about characters personalities and encourage students to provide an adjective to describe them.  Use crossword about adjectives

ACTIVITY 2  Crosswords with adjectives. Ask students to use their dictionaries if necessary. -your-own/crossword/crossword-puzzle.php ACTIVITY 3  Match Opposites Write two lists of adjectives on the board or a worksheet. The first list should contain adjectives and the second the opposite of those adjectives. ue/a/lmh_vocab.htm BORINGRESERVED SHYUNFRIENDLY KINDSAD HAPPYMEAN FRIENDLYINTERESTING TALKATIVESOCIABLE ACTIVITY 4  Create sentences using the adjectives Ex : Candace never shuts up, she is a very talkative person. Dr. Doofenshmirtz is always inventing evil devices, he is really mean.

ACTIVITY 5  Reading comprehension and writing. Describe your best friend. Worksheet. y_Friend.pdf

 Create a simple dialogue with a partner about your favourite activities, changing what is underlined in the example dialogue.  Present it to the class EXAMPLE A.what’s your name? B.John Smith. A. How old are you? B. I’m thirteen. A.What are your favourite activities? B.I like playing football and tennis. A. And what do you like doing after school? B. I like swimming.