Food
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0882305.html
Twelve interesting articles about food that would make a great basis for a jigsaw reading task or a project. Divide your class into groups and allocate each group a different article to read. Ask them to write four or five comprehension questions for the other students to answer or find three interesting facts that they can share with the class.
Grammar: quantity
Do you want to give your students more practice with countable and uncountable nouns and words that are used to talk about quantities in English? If the answer is yes, try one or more of the sites below:
http://www.better-english.com/easier/counta.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/count.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.count.p.htm
Unit 7
Work
http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
Unit 7 combines two topics: peoples’ character and jobs. This site also looks at the jobs people choose, based on what they like. Ask your students what school subjects they enjoyed most (and possibly the ones they enjoyed least). Then ask them what jobs they wanted (or still want) to do and why (you could brainstorm different kinds of jobs and what people do in those jobs). Finally get them to click on the relevant icons to bring up jobs that are linked to favourite school subjects as well as more detailed information about each job.
http://www.whatdotheydo.com/
Ask your students to write down a job they would really like and one they would never want. Then ask them to write down two things that the person in each job would do (connected to their reasons for wanting, or not wanting, the jobs). Then ask them to read about the jobs and see if what they have written is included (and accurate).
Describing people: character
http://www.talkeasy.co.uk/link/materials/esl11.html
The second exercise on this webpage has a list of adjectives used to describe peoples’ character. Try the activity described, but ask your students to pick one adjective from each set, using a dictionary to help with any unknown words.
Unit 8
Sharks
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/sharks/index.html
On page 37 there is a short story about a shark attack – the first thing that people think of when they hear the word shark. However, there is more to sharks than teeth and Jaws. Here is a site which give your students a visually stimulating look at sharks as well as lots of interesting information. Encourage students to read the shark myths and try the online quizzes or post a question to the experts.
