Part B Exercise 2 and
Part
C Exercise 1 are like mood boards of Patrick’s and Abie’s
childhoods.
3. Give the students large pieces
of paper on which to stick
their photographs, etc.
4. Tell students they can add text to their boards and ask
them what adjectives they have learned in this unit that
they would apply to their own childhood, and what new
ones they can think of.
5. Students can work in pairs to create their mood boards.
6. Monitor and get students to say what they think the
things on the boards represent.
7. For
feedback, allow willing students to present their
mood boards to the class. Encourage the use of
adjectives and monitor for the emphasis.
8. Get the class to make notes, and add new adjectives and
activities to their vocabulary books/lists.
MUSIC IN CLASS
If you want music and songs in your classroom you might
want to use Baggy Trousers by Madness which is a song
about childhood and school. You can use it in various ways:
• It is entirely in (half) rhyming couplets.
Hand out the
lyrics with one or other of the rhymes deleted and get
the students to guess the missing rhyme. Play the song
as feedback. Or if you can get the funny video – all the
better!
• Find pictures of the vocabulary items in the song, and get
students to identify them in the lyric sheet, or again with
gaps you make in the lyric sheet.
• There is a lot of fun in the vocabulary/phrases. You may
want to pre-teach some words (naughty, woodwork,
ready-rub,
bend/break the rules,
cane,
backsides,
break
it up, etc.).
