Just Married Level: 1º E.S.O. Grammar: Demonstratives: this, that, these, those. Use of the definite and indefinite article "a", "the". Some and any, countable uncountable nouns. Irregular plurals Functions: Talking about shopping, food, restaurant orders. Vocabulary: Food, drink and shopping. Phonetics: Pronunciation of plurals. The didactic unit introduces two characters: Neil and Julia, they have just returned from their honeymoon and they go shopping, then they eat at a restaurant. This is the story that links the different exercises and activities which make up the lesson. There is a "task" button on the left of the screen, and the students are also helped by a vocabulary button and a grammar button, where they can find a revision of the grammar and structures used in the lesson. The structure of the unit is as follows: PART 1 - Meet Neil and Julia 1 Meet Neil and Julia: In this exercise, the protagonists introduce themselves. There is a very short reading and students may listen to it by clicking on the listen button. 2 Do the same: Here students must listen to the previous short dialogue and then record it in their own voice, finally listen to their recording to compare. They can do this using the listening/ recording icons in green. 3 Answer Neil and Julia: This exercise is a role play where students must listen to a question and give their own answer. By clicking on the microphone the screen displays the recorder and they can listen to both the question and their answer when they have finished. PART 2 - A tour around the kitchen 1 It's empty: This is a reading and listening activity. Here students can click on the audio button, which displays a screen with the tape script, and listen to the dialogue. 2 Help!: In this screen students have to join the pictures with one of two lists: food or drinks. They can clear and restart if they want to. 3 What is this?: This exercise has got ten screens. Here students listen to the correct pronunciation of the name of the item represented in the picture, record it in their own voice and listen to it again. They can read the name of the object if they roll their mouse
over the picture. 4 The shopping list: This is a writing exercise, students are given a frame to write their own shopping list freely, then they can print it by clicking on the "print" button. PART 3 - At the shopping centre 1 Where first?: In this exercise, students must look at the picture and write the name of the shop under it. They are helped by a list of names of shops provided on the left. There are six photographs, but take into account that the exercise cannot by corrected until it's finished. 2 At the supermarket: In this screen students have to click on the pictures to listen to the kind of things you can buy in those supermarket sections. 3 Where is it?: This is another listening-recording exercise: students must listen to the sentences from the previous exercise again by clicking on the listening icon, then record the name of the supermarket section in their own voice and listen to compare the pronunciations. 4. Let s buy some food: In this exercise students listen to the dialogue between the cashier at the supermarket and the two main characters of the story. 5. How much is it?: Here, students have to choose the correct answer for a question out of the ones given underneath according to the information given in the previous dialogue. There are eight screens. PART 4 - Let's have a break! 1 At the cafe I: In the first part of this exercise, students listen to a short conversation between a waiter and the two main characters. They can read the dialogue while they listen to it by clicking on the "listen to all" button. 2 At the cafe II: This is a pair work exercise where students have to record their own voices repeating the dialogue displayed under the pictures. Then can listen to all when they have finished. 3 At the cafe III: Here students have to record their own dialogue following the previous models and changing some data. As previously, they can listen to the whole dialogue when they have finished. 4 I'm hungry I: This is a dialogue, as in previous exercises students must listen to the characters and read the dialogue at the same time. 5 I'm hungry II: In the following exercise, students have to fill in the gaps with the words missing from the previous dialogue, and they can listen to it again if they cannot
remember. 6 At the restaurant: In this exercise, students must watch the video and listen to the dialogue at the same time. The second part consists of watching the video again and dragging two sentences under the character who says each. There is a third part where students watch the video again and choose the correct reply out of the three given, there are two screens and students go to the second one when the answer the first part correctly. 7 At the restaurant II: In this exercise, students must watch the video and listen to the dialogue at the same time. The second part consists of watching the video again and matching the sentences with the character who says each in the same order as they were heard. 8 At the restaurant III: In this exercise, students must watch the video and choose the right answer out of the three given under the pictures. Please notice there are two screens and they go from one to the other as they choose the correct answer. 9 At the restaurant IV: In this exercise, student must watch another video and drag the protagonists' orders into the gaps provided for that purpose under the pictures. Then they can check the answers or restart by pushing the "clear" button. 10 At the restaurant V: As a extra checking, students can watch the video again and read the dialogue at the same time. 11 At the restaurant VI: In this exercise, students must watch the same video again and fill in the gaps with the words missing. They get a hint as extra help if they double click on the gap, and they'll be able to write by clicking only once. 12 At the restaurant VII: As a final exercise, students must drag the words given here into the right place according to the spelling of their plurals ("s" or -"es"). PART 5 - Consolidation 1 How do you say in English?: This is a pronunciation exercise, students must drag the words given into the correct box according to the pronunciation of their -s endings. 2 Guess what!: In this screen, students must click on the letters given in the grid to guess the name of the food or drink in the picture as in a typical hangman game. Please notice there are ten screens. 3 People: This listening exercise consists of watching a video and deciding if the sentences given are true or false by clicking on the right button. There are two screens. 4 Count it!: This is an exercise on countable and uncountable words. Students have to drag the words into the correct box depending on whether they are countable or uncountable.
Just Married - Answer key PART 2 - A tour around the kitchen 1 It's empty: food: cheese, biscuits, sandwiches, bananas. drink: water, coffee, soft drink 3 What is this?: 1. sandwich 2. a cup of coffee 3. a bottle of water 4. soft drink 5. biscuit 6. an apple 7. an orange 8. an egg 9. an onion 10 a tomato PART 3 - At the shopping centre 1 Where first?: 1. bookshop 2. clothes shop 3. butcher's 4. restaurant 5. café 6. supermarket 5. How much is it?: 1. How much is the milk? - It is 1.50 2. How much is the pizza? - It is 3.00. 3. How much is the beer? - It is 2.25. 4. How much are the hamburgers? - They are 6.75. 5. How much is the bread? - It is 0.50. 6. How much is the cheese? - It is 4.40. 7. How much are the bananas? - They are 7.05 8. How much is altogether? - It is 25.45. PART 4 - Let's have a break! 4 I'm hungry: hungry / some / restaurant / dinner / let's 6 At the restaurant I: Neil: a table for two, please /can I have the menu? Waiter: would you like this table?/ here you are, sir. 7 At the restaurant II: Can we have the table over there?
8 At the restaurant III: Julia: tomato salad, fish and vegetables, red wine Neil: chicken, mineral water. 10 At the restaurant V: order / starter / vegetable soup / tomato salad / main course / steak / chips / fish / vegetables / beef / chicken / red 11 At the restaurant VI: "s" chicken, steak, vegetables, salad "es" sandwich, anchovy, potato, tomato PART 5 - Consolidation 1 How do you say in English?: /s/ /z/: salads / steaks / wines / drinks /iz/: oranges / glasses / fridges 2 Guess what!: 1. bananas 2. beans 3. biscuits 4. sandwich 5. water 6. coffee 7. cashier 8. cheese 9. soft drink 10. peanuts. 3 People: There are no bananas - True We haven't got any milk - False We need some potatoes - True I want some sugar, coffee and tea - True We need some orange juice - True We need some baby food - True We haven't got any potatoes - False I want some chocolate milkshake - True 4 Count it!: countable: bananas, potatoes. uncountable: milk, sugar, bread, milkshake, orange juice.
Just Married - Audio scripts PART 1 - Meet Neil and Julia 1 Meet Neil and Julia: Neil: I'm Neil, Neil Black, and this is my wife Julia. Julia: Hello!, I'm Julia Black, Neil's wife. 3 Answer Neil and Julia: Hi!, I'm Neil, Neil Black, what's your name? PART 2 - A tour around the kitchen 1 It's empty: Julia: This is our kitchen and this is our fridge. But oh!, it's empty! Neil, there isn't any food! Neil: Yes, there is. There's some chocolate! Julia: Oh, Neil, come on! Let's write a shopping list. PART 3 - At the shopping centre 2 At the supermarket: Checkout: at the supermarket, you pay the cashier at the checkout. Tinned food: buy baked beans in the tinned section. Snacks: You can find peanuts in the snacks section. Frozen food: In the frozen food section you'll find fish fingers. Dairy: go to the dairy section if you need some butter 4. How much is it?: Cashier: So, some milk, that's 1.50, and a pizza, 3.00. Some beer, that is 2.25, four hamburgers, that's 6.75, and some bread, that's 0.50, and some cheese, 4.40 and, finally, some bananas, that's 7.05, so that is 25.45 altogether. Neil and Julia: OK, thank you Bye, bye. Cashier: Bye. PART 4 - Let's have a break! 1 At the café I: Neil: Good afternoon, can I have two coffees, please? Waiter: Yes, here you are. Julia: Thank you very much
4 I'm hungry. Neil: I'm hungry! Julia: Oh, Neil, there is some food in the bags, right here. Neil: No, thank you. Let's go to a restaurant. Julia: Now? Neil: Yes, now. It's dinner time. Julia: OK, let's go! 5 At the restaurant I: Neil: Good evening. A table for two, please. Waiter: Would you like this table? Neil: Can we have the table over there? Waiter: Yes, sir Neil: Can I have the menu, please? Waiter: Here you are, sir Neil: Thank you 9 At the restaurant IV: Neil: Can we order, please? Waiter: Yes, sir. What would you like for a start? Neil: What would you like, Julia? Waiter: Would you like a soup?. It's vegetable soup. Julia: I'd like a salad, please, a tomato salad. Waiter: And, what would you like for the main course, madam? Julia: Can I have steak and chips? No, I'd like fish with vegetables. Neil: Mmm.. I'd like.. Julia: Roast beef? Neil: No, I'd like chicken. Waiter: What would you like to drink? Julia: A glass of red wine, please. Neil: A glass of mineral water, please. PART 5 - Consolidation 3 People: Woman: There are no bananas. Man: We need some potatoes Woman: We haven't got enough milk! Oh, baby. Girl: I want some bread and milk, some sugar, coffee and tea, and some chocolate milkshake. Woman 2: We need some orange juice. Woman: And we need some baby food for George.