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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 1 – Teacher’s Notes

Description

This activity gives students practice in matching definitions to pictures with particular emphasis on identification of key words in the sentences.

Time required: 20–25 minutes

Materials required:

Student’s Worksheets 1 and 2 (one of each worksheet for each pair of students)

Scissors

Aims: to introduce students to Part 1 of the Movers Reading & Writing paper and to the task type

to encourage close reading of definitions and use of key words

Procedure

1. Introduce the activity by giving students a definition of a something in the school for them to guess, e.g. This is a place in the school where you can use computers and borrow books to take home. (library). Write the definition on the board. Elicit definitions from students for other places in the school or in their houses. Encourage them to use phrases such as:

• This is a place where…

• You can …… here

• This is (e.g. next to..) …..

Write one or two of their better definitions on the board.

2. Introduce the word ‘definition’. Use the examples on the board to remind students that the word itself does not appear in the definition, e.g. the definition of library is This is a place in the school where you can use computers and borrow books to take home.

3. Divide the class into pairs. Hand out Student’s Worksheet 1 and scissors to each pair. They cut out the six definitions. They read them silently and then in pairs they try and guess what the answers for each one might be. Elicit their ideas but do not confirm if they are correct in their guesses.

4. Hand out Student’s Worksheet 2 and scissors to each pair. They cut out the eight pictures. In pairs, students match each definition to a picture. They place the definition next to each picture. Tell them that they don’t need to use all the pictures. There are two extra pictures. Pairs check with other pairs before they write the correct word on the line at the end of each definition. Remind students to copy the words clearly, making sure they are legible (it’s best if they print words rather than use joined-up writing) and the spelling is correct.

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5. Check answers with the class. One student from a pair reads the definition and the other says the word, including the article if it is given (sometimes it is not e.g. uncountable nouns). Ask the rest of the class if they agree with the answer before saying if it is correct or not.

6. Students focus on the board and on the definitions from Step 1. Ask them which the important words are, i.e. the words that helped them find the answer. Underline them (e.g. place/use computers/borrow books). Tell students that we call these the key words.

7. Ask students to find and underline the key words in the definitions from Student’s Worksheet 1. Discuss as a class the words they underlined and why. Draw students’ attention to definitions 2 and 4 to emphasise the importance of finding all the key words.

• In sentence 2. the key words are biggest anima/the sea. It’s important that students look at all the key words because there are two animals to choose from (whale and elephant). If they don’t read the sentence fully, they could easily focus in on biggest animal and choose the elephant, which is incorrect.

• In sentence 4 the key words are animal/hot countries/leaves/grass. As with sentence 2, if they don’t read the whole sentence they might incorrectly choose whale as the animal.

8. Elicit what else students notice about the activity by asking the following questions. They may give you different ideas but make sure they notice the points below. e.g.

a) How many pictures are there? How many definitions are there? (there are more pictures than definitions)

b) Are the pictures all part of the same word family? (the words do not form a lexical set or word family)

c) Why do some words have ‘a’ or ‘an’ (e.g. a whale) and others don’t (e.g. milk)? (some words are countable and that some are uncountable)

d) Look at the example definition, question 2 and question 4. What word do they all have? (animal: sometimes definitions are quite similar)

e) What do you do to answer the questions? (they have to copy the word (including article if it is there) correctly at the end of the definition)

Tell students that in the test they are given one example.

9. In their pairs, students write definitions for the two extra pictures. Remind them to include key words but not to make it too easy. Go around the class and check their work. If time, pairs can take turns to read their definitions to the class for the class to vote on the best definitions.

Suggested follow-up activity

1. For homework or in class, students can write definitions of six to eight nouns from the current unit of their text book. They swap definitions with another student and write/ find the answers.

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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 1 – Answer Keys

Key to Procedure steps

Step 6

1 You can eat this from a bowl. Sometimes there are vegetables in it.

2 This is the biggest animal in the world. It lives in the sea.

3 This is part of your body. All your food and drink goes here first.

4 This big animal lives in hot countries and eats leaves and grass.

5 This is between your neck and your arm.

6 Mothers give this white drink to their babies.

Step 8 (possible answers)

People often have this for breakfast. You can drink it black, or with milk and sugar. (coffee).

This animal can fly and it comes out at night. (a bat)

Key to Student’s Worksheets 1 and 2

1. soup

2. a whale

3. a stomach

4. an elephant

5. a shoulder

6. milk

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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 1 – Student’s Worksheet 1

Cut out the six definitions. With your partner, try and guess the answer for each one.

Do not write anything on the line!

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1 You can eat this from a bowl. Sometimes there are vegetables in it. _________________

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2 This is the biggest animal in the world. It lives in the sea. _________________

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3 This is part of your body. All your food and drink goes here first. _________________

_________________________________________________________________________

4 This big animal lives in hot countries and eats leaves and grass. _________________

_________________________________________________________________________

5 This is between your neck and your arm. _________________

_________________________________________________________________________

6 Mothers give this white drink to their babies. _________________

_________________________________________________________________________

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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 1 – Student’s Worksheet 2

Look and read. Choose the correct picture for each definition and place the definition under the picture. Then write the words on the lines.