Mabel Cristina Anastácio
Michele C. Souza
Michelle Menezes
Simone Vitor Demicheli
Teacher’s guide
Introduction
This unit provides drivers with four lessons considering their needs of knowing places, directions and signs, besides a spate of ways to help foreigners to get around the city.
As the book’s philosophy underlies on the principles of Teaching English for Specific Purposes, an equal value on content and language objective is considered here. For this reason, students learn not only the form, but also how to apply them in everyday situations. In addition to this, different skills are integrated and enjoyable activities are proposed to motivate students and involve them in the learning process. The language tips draw drivers attention to important words, expressions, abbreviations and rules of English language. As a result, the unit “Don’t get lost” helps increasing drivers’ self- confidence to use new and specific vocabulary in order to succeed in the communication with their foreign customers.
Finally, the teacher’s guide will work as a reference for teachers, but we strongly recommend the use of other resources, such as internet, realias, pictures, photos, maps or any other items that will help students to maximize their learning and vocabulary.
Mabel Cristina Anastácio
Aim:
The aim of this lesson is to provide students with vocabulary to be used in the rest of the unit, as well as reinforce some vocabulary learnt in the previous units.
Exercise 1
As a warm up the teacher can bring to the classroom pictures of different places in town and with the whole class elicit from students the names of the places they already know. (many words might be familiar to students, such as drugstore, mall etc). Paste the pictures on the board and write the names of the places under each picture.
Alternatively, teachers can give half of the class some pictures and the other half the name of the places. Students should work together in order to match the names with the pictures they correspond to.
After doing this, students can complete exercise one. Tell students how important the correct pronunciation of words is. Some of the words form exercise one might be easy for them to recognize because they have became international words. However when these same words are heard in English they might sound different because they are stressed differently. Students should repeat the words out loud after you.
Most of the places should be known by students since they are in Belo Horizonte. Example: drogaria Araújo, igreja da Pampullha, Santa Casa, Palácio das Artes, etc.
KEY
drugstore, bank, hotel, hospital, square, restaurant, travel agency, theater, museum, post office, supermarket, airport, park, building, disco, church, mall, stadium, bus station, library, gas station.
Language in use
This part aims to teach students the use of there is and there are. The teacher can show students a big picture where they can use there is and there are. (A good picture would be a picture of a city, or a park with some people, or a busy street). The teacher can introduce there is and there are by giving two or three examples. And ask some students to give other examples.
After that explain the use of there is using the example sentences in the box.
Language tips
This part is presented to help to improve students´ vocabulary. It can be presented before or after exercise 2.
The teacher can ask students what are the abbreviations we use in letter envelopes in Brazil. Ask them if they know how they write the same abbreviations in English. Focus on the example in the box.
If the teacher wants she/he can bring envelopes to the classroom and ask students to fill in the envelopes, pretending they are sending a letter to someone abroad, or even write a postcard.
Exercise 2
This exercise is an opportunity for students to practice what they have just seen in Language in use. They should look at the map and complete with true (T) or (F). Remind students that they have to correct the false statements.
For further practice the teacher can ask each student to say a sentence about his/her neighborhood using there is or there are.
KEY:
- F – There isn’t a library on the ThirdAvenue.
- T
- F. There is a bookstore on this map OR There is a book store o the First Avenue.
- T
- T
Exercise 3
This exercises consolidates what students have learnt in exercise one. They should complete the sentences with the place, as shown in the example. Check the exercise with the whole class, asking individual students to answer it.
KEY:
a) hotels
b) hospitals
c) travel agency
d) museum
e) theater
f) supermarkets
g) airports
h) parks
i) buildings
Useful words
This part presents useful words for taxi drivers who deal mainly with tourists. The teacher should bring to class realia of these things, so students can see and touch them, what will help them to remember the new vocabulary later.
For further practice as a writingassignment and if the teacher feels students will be able to create one of these items, she/he can assign as homework, for example, create your own business card, or make a leaflet. Or the class can create something together or in group.
Exercise 4
Students can work in pairs to put the dialogues in order. After finishing it they should practice with their partner.
And finally ask students to write their own dialogues in pairs. Students who don’t feel too shy can present their dialogues to the class.
KEY:
Dialogue a
1 / Mr.Lopes: Excuse me. Can you tell me if there is a travel agency near hear?2 / You: Yes, sure. There are two on Rio de Janeiro street.
3 / Mr. Lopes: Thank you very much.
4 / You:You’re welcome.
Dialogue b
Mrs. Nagata: Are you from Belo Horizonte?You: Yes, I am.
Mrs. Nagata: Oh, perfect! So you can give me some hints about your town. What can I see in Belo Horizonte?
You: There are many interesting places you can visit. There is Pampulha lake. There are some parks and you can visit some historical cities too, near Belo Horizonte.
Mrs. Nagata: Are there any museums?
You: Yes, of course. There are many. Take this leaflet with you, there is information about the main points of the city.
Mrs. Nagata: Oh nice! Thank you very much.
You:You’re welcome. Enjoy yourself.
Exercise 5
In this exercise students need to use the clues to write the name of the place according to each situation being described. In some sentences students can write either the place or the name of the place. For example: Araújo or drugstore. It is similar to exercise 5, but here students have to think about the situation, and then decide what the place is.
KEY:
a)drugstore or Araújo
b)hospital
c)museum
d)a restaurant
e)a hotel or to Ouro Minas Hotel or any other hotels in town.
f)post office
g)travel agency
h)airport
i)a supermarket or Epa, Carrefour, Extra etc.
j)mall
Exercise 6
This is a very easy listening activity. Students will listen to a foreign asking a driver for suggestions about some places he wants to go. Sometimes he only mentions the place and sometimes the name of the places. Tell students they will only hear the man speaking.
First, students should listen to him and write the places he mentions. Second, they should compare their answers with a partner and finally take turns spelling the places they heard. Teacher should check the answers with the whole class before they do step three (spelling).
KEY
1)Five-star hotel
2)Porcão
3)Pátio Savassi
4)Citibank or bank
5)Stadium Mineirão
6)Avenida Raja Gabaglia, 1315
7)Savassi
TAPESCRIPT
Good Morning, yes. Hmm… I need to get to a hotel, preferably a four or five-star hotel in Belo Horizonte. Can you suggest a nice hotel to me, for me?
Good afternoon! I want to have lunch in a really nice restaurant, with a lot of meat, hmm, muito churrasco. Do you know how to get to a restaurant called Porcão, Porcão?
Hello! Yes, I want to do some shopping. Yeah, I wanna do some shopping, maybe in Savassi. I heard there is a place called Pátio Savassi. Yeah, where I can buy some presents and clothes. How much does it cost to get there?
Do you know where, where is the closest Citibank? Yeah, I need to withdraw money at a Citibank. Is there a Citibank here in downtown? I heard there is a Citibank on…
Hello! Can you tell me? Is there a game tonight in the Stadium Mineirão? Is there a soccer game? I wanna watch a soccer game with Cruzeiro and Atlético, a classic game.
Good morning! I need to get to the following address: 1315, Avenida RajaGabaglia. Yeah, I have a meeting with an important client. Ok, let me say the address in Portuguese. Mil e trezentos…
Hello! Boa noite, motorista! I wanna know, are there any places where I can drink a beer, see some new people, you know, to enjoy the nightlife? Maybe in Savassi. Do you know if there are any bars? What bars…
Suggestions for teachers:
If you have access to the internet you can find many interesting websites to use with your students. Or you can only suggest some of them to your students to use at home. Here are some useful and interactive websites.
Places in town:
There is/there are:
Sources:
I)Pictures
Leaflets:
Brochures
Flyers
Maps
Business card
Notepad
II)Listening activity:
Jonathan Reyes Morales – American accent.