English For Today chapter 8: My Family, Friends and I

My Family, Friends and I

Myself

A. Look at the picture. What do you see?

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Description: A girl in a red dress with dark plaits, smiling and resting her chin on her hand.

B. Chain drill. Ask and answer about yourselves (your name, age and what you do).

S1: Hello, I am …… (name). I am 7 years old. I am a student. Who are you?

S2 : Hello, I am ………. .(name) . I am 6 years old. I am a student too. Who are you?

S3: Hello, I am …… .

S4: ……… Continue…….

C. Listen and repeat.

Myself

My name is Mita. I am seven years old. I am a student. I am in class 2. I go to school everyday. I do my homework in the evening. I like to draw pictures and colour them. I have a brother. I love to play with him.

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D. Read the above text in section C.

E. Ask and answer the following questions.

1. Who is Mita?
2. How old is she?
3. Which class is she in?
4. When does she do her homework?
5. What does she like to do?

F. Ask and answer the following questions. Write them in your exercise book.

1. What’s your name?
2. Which class are you in?
3. When do you do your homework?
4. What do you like to do?
5. Who do you play with?

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My mother

A. Look at the picture. What do you see?

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Description: A village scene with a house on stilts where a woman sits sewing, a cowshed with cows, a man spreading something on the ground, a girl and a boy feeding ducks and hens, goats near bushes, a pond, and trees.

1. How many people are there?
2. Name the animals.
3. How many are they?
4. Where are the cows?
5. What are the goats doing?

B. Listen and repeat.

My mother

My mother’s name is Rahela Khatun. She is a health worker. She rides a motorbike. She goes from one house to another to monitor the health of the women in the village. She takes care of our family. She is a very good person. I love my mother.

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C. Read the text in section B. Ask and answer the following questions.

1. Who is Mita’s mother?
2. What does she do?
3. What does she rides on?
4. What does she take care of?

D. Pairwork.

S1: What’s your mother’s name? What does she do? S2: My mother’s name is ………… (name of the student’s mother). She is a ………. ( name of the profession/work). S3: What’s your mother’s name? What does she do? S4: (will answer)… Continue….

E. Read the text in B again. Now fill in the blanks with suitable word/s.

(a) Rahela Khatun is …….. (b) She ………... motorbike. (c) She monitors the health of the …….. . (c) Rahela Khatun takes care of her …….. .

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My Father

A. What do you see in the picture?

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Description: A man in a white shirt and a red headband crouches in a green paddy field under a large umbrella, working among the plants.

B. Read the text below.

My Father

My father’s name is Akbar Ali. He is a farmer, He has no land to cultivate. He works on others’ land. He helps my mother at household chores. He takes care of all the family members. He looks after our animals too.

C. Ask and answer the following questions.

1. What’s the name of Mita’s father?
2. What does he do?
3. Where does he work?
4. How does he help her mother?

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D. Ask and answer questions. write them in your exercise book.

1. What’s your mother’s name? (Student’s mother’s name)
2. What does she do?
3. What’s your father’s name?
4. What does he do?
5. How does he help in the family?

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My brother

A. Look at the picture. What do you see?

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Description: A smiling boy in a white shirt and blue shorts, carrying an orange bag on one shoulder and waving with his other hand.

B. Read the text below.

My brother

This is my brother Kamal. He is ten years old. He is in class five. He helps me with my homework. He loves to play. We play together. My brother helps our parents. Our parents love us very much. We are a happy family.

C. Read the above text and fill in the blanks.

1. Kamal is……………. old.
2. He is in class………. .
3. He helps Mita with her…………. .
4. He loves to play………….. .

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D. Pairwork: Ask and answer these questions about yourselves.

1. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
2. How old is your brother/sister?
3. What does your brother/sister do?
4. Who helps you with your homework?

E. Now write down the answers to the questions in D above.

F. Fill in the blanks with a, an, the.

Mita is …. girl. She has …. brother. Mita eats …egg every morning. Their mother is …. health worker. Their father is …. farmer. He needs …. umbrella to go to work.

G. Put , (coma), . (full stop), and ? (question mark).

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Labels: How many animals do you have; We have twenty six animals; What domestic animals do you have; We have cows, ducks, chickens and goats Description: Two girls standing and talking. The girl on the left, in a blue and white striped dress, has a speech bubble reading "How many animals do you have" and the girl on the right, in a green dress, has a speech bubble reading "We have twenty six animals". Another speech bubble from the left girl reads "What domestic animals do you have" and one from the right girl reads "We have cows, ducks, chickens and goats".

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A rhyme

A. Listen to the rhyme and recite with your teacher.

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Description: A green stylised plant with five rows of leaves, each holding two round portraits of family members: children at the top, then adults, and an elderly man and woman at the bottom.

Family

Come with me, and meet my family
Mother, father, sister, brother and me.
There are some more members I tell you
Grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt and cousins too
We spend time together
And help one another.
I love them, and they love me
We are all a happy family.

B. Group work: Read the rhyme and find out how many family members there are.

C. Recite the rhyme in chorus.