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Teacher’s name: silvia covaci

WORKING PLAN

Date: 25 April, 2008Title: Street children

Communicative aims: Talking about different life conditions

Skills covered: SPEAKING, Reading, Writing

Grammar: adjectives, verbs

Class: 7

Teaching materials: a picture of a street boy, cassette player 

Timing Procedure Modes of  

Interaction

1min Informing the Ss about the aims of the lesson T→ Ss

3 min Ask the children to speak about themselves: What are you? Howold are you? Where do you live? Do you eat enough? Do you sleep

in warm and clean beds? So, do you live a happy life? 

T→ SsSs→ T

2 min Tell the Ss to look at the picture of a street boy in Manila. Ask them

if they think he is happy. What is he doing? Why?

T→ Ss

Ss →T

2 min Pair work: Imagine you are Eduardo. What are your thoughts?

Write them in your notebook.

T→ Ss

S→ S

S → T

10 min Write the sentences on the blackboard in the reported speech. Eduardo thought/said to himself that he was very poor . Ss → T

10 min Inform the Ss that they are going to get a song text about a poor 

woman. First they have to fill in some words and then they will

check listening. Pair work.

T → Ss

S → S

5 min Explain the new words: blister, sole, whistle, embarrassed,

 Paradise

T→ Ss

5 min Find some action words related to the word STREET T → Ss

Ss→ T

7 min Ss have to answer some questions about the text of the song: How

does the woman feel? What about the man? What is your attitude?

T → Ss

S →T

1 min Homework : Make a comparison between you and the children of the street.

T→ Ss

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ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

By Phil Collins

She calls out to the ……………… on the street:

‘Sir, can you ……….. me?It’s cold and I’ve nowhere to ………………

There’s somewhere you can tell me?’

He walks on, doesn’t look …………..He pretends he can’t hear her 

Starts to whistle as he crosses the street

Seems ……………….. to be there.

Chorus: Oh, think twice

‘Cause it’s another day

For you and me in ParadiseThink about it.

She calls out to the man on the streetHe can see she’s been …………………..

She’s got blisters on the soles of her feet

She can’t walk but she’s trying

Chorus: Oh, think twice …

Oh, Lord, is there nothing more anybody can do

Oh, Lord, there must be something you can say.

1.  Look at the text of the song and fill in the blanks with one of the words in the list:

embarrassed, help, crying, sleep, man, back 2.  Listen to the song to see if you were right.

3.  Give a short definition for or explain the following words:

 street, Paradise, cry, day

4.  Find rhymes for the words in Ex. 3.5.  Find some action words related to the word ‘street’.

6.  Think about it:

a.  How does the woman feel?

 b.  What about the man?

c.  What is your attitude/ What would you do?7. Make a comparison between you and the children on the street.