Lesson Plan 8 5 Our Amazing Body GE3

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Unit 8 lesson 5: Amazing facts Answers

Learner’s Book pages: 112–115 Learners’ own answers.

Activity Book pages: 96–97


For further practice, see Activity 1 in the
Lesson objectives Activity Book.

Listening: Listen to facts. 4 Word study


Speaking: Speak about the body and amazing facts. • Ask learners to look at these words from the quiz.
Reading: Read a quiz. Read about amazing facts. They act out or draw a picture of one of the words.
Read a riddle. • Can their partner guess which word it is?
Values: Finding a fair solution.
Answers
Language focus: questions Learners’ own answers

Vocabulary: the body, fingernails, toenails, speed,


frown, mammals, asleep, awake, pump, thump, beat For further practice, see Activities 2, 3 and 4 in
the Activity Book.
Materials: Sheets of paper.
5 Read
Warm up • Ask the class to read and listen to the riddle.
• Remind the class of the puzzles they read about in • Play the audio at least twice. Elicit the answer from
• Unit 7. Do they remember any of them? the class.
• Ask the class if they know any riddles. Encourage • What helped them decide?
learners to say them to the class. • Help learners discover the meaning of the new words.

1 Talk about it Audioscript: Track 59


See Learner’s Book page 115
• Ask the class to cover page 113 with a sheet of
paper and read and solve the quiz.
Wrap up
• When they have finished answering the questions,
• Ask the class to say the riddle together as if it was a
ask them to discuss the answers as a class.
poem.
• They vote for each answer. Then they copy the chart
• They draw a picture of their heart as they imagine it
on the board and record the votes.
to be.
2 Read
Activity Book
• Tell learners that they are going to read and listen to
the answers to the quiz. They are also going to learn 1 Read
more amazing facts. • Learners read each sentence and decide if it is a fact
• Play the audio at least twice. Then play it again or an opinion.
stopping after each answer. Discuss the information Answers
and the new words. Have they learned anything 1 fact 2 fact 3 opinion 4 fact 5 opinion
new? What is it?
2 Word study
Audioscript: Track 58
See Learner’s Book page 113–114.
• Learners choose the correct words and write them
on the lines.
Answers
3 Talk
1 lips 2 human 3 forehead 4 smile 5 frown 6 shark
• Ask learners to look at the voting chart in Activity 1
and see for each question how many learners voted 3 Read
for the correct answer. • Learners read and look at the chart, then answer
• Discuss which questions were the trickiest. the questions.
• Look at the facts on pages 113 and 114. Ask Answers
learners which fact is the most amazing. A mouse’s heart beats more quickly.
• They write it down. How many people had the same A bat’s heart beats more quickly.
opinion? A whale’s heart beats more slowly.

1 Cambridge Global English Stage 3 Teacher’s Resource © Cambridge University Press 2019
4 Over to you
• Learners compare themselves to a friend (or
someone in their family). They write their name.
• Then they follow the instructions with their friend.
• They write the missing words and circle the correct
answer.
Answers
1 more quietly + Learners’ own answers.
2 more neatly + Learners’ own answers.
3 more quickly + Learners’ own answers.

Differentiated instruction
Additional support and practice
• Ask learners to draw a human body and label
its parts without looking at the unit. When
they have finished, they can check their work
with the unit in the book.
Extend and challenge
• Ask learners to search the Internet for more
amazing facts. They work in small groups and
prepare a fact file. They can add pictures. You
may ask them to choose a subject, e.g. reptiles,
plants, countries, etc.
• They write quiz questions following the model
in Activity 1 and give the questions to the
class.
• The class answers the questions.
• Then they discuss as a class.
• Make a class display of the quiz questions.

2 Cambridge Global English Stage 3 Teacher’s Resource © Cambridge University Press 2019

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