Home Plan - [GR1-L4-U1-LC1-12 Roadside Oddities]
The document provides language teaching tips, activities, and exercises related to various topics, vocabulary words, and reading strategies. It aims to help students understand new words, enhance comprehension skills, identify main ideas, and develop vocabulary. The second part delves into unique roadside attractions worldwide, detailing their features and historical backgrounds. Interactive activities encourage students to reflect on their learning, use comparative adjectives, and explore these unusual sites freely.
Contents
- Pages 1—30: Language teaching activities
- Pages 31—53: Roadside attractions worldwide.
Pages 1—30: Language teaching activities
This section of the document provides tips and activities for language teaching related to different topics, vocabulary words, and reading strategies. It includes goals for students to be introduced to various topics, understand new words, and improve comprehension skills. The section contains exercises where students look at pictures, read new words and sample sentences, and answer questions related to the content. It also covers comprehension skills such as identifying main ideas and details in a text. Additionally, the document introduces reading strategies through activities like summarizing texts and answering questions based on the content. There are also examples of vocabulary words and their meanings provided throughout the section to enhance students’ understanding and vocabulary skills.
Pages 31—53: Roadside attractions worldwide.
This section of the document discusses various roadside attractions around the world, such as the world’s largest baseball bat, the largest elephant you can climb inside, the boll weevil monument, a giant basket that workers can work inside, and other oddities like the world’s largest tire and ketchup bottle. It provides information about each attraction, including details like height, weight, and historical background. Additionally, there are interactive activities for students to engage with the content, such as answering questions and reflecting on what they have learned about these unique roadside sites. It also involves exercises to help students summarize, identify main ideas and details, and use comparative adjectives based on the text. The students are encouraged to freely discuss and explore these roadside attractions.