DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 124
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 3
Extra Activity:
Simpler: Have the students copy the words in the exercise and alphabetize them. When they are
finished, you choose three words and scramble the letters. Give the scrambled words to the
students and tell them to figure out what word it is.
More challenging: Have the students write a short paragraph using all the words in the exercise.
The paragraph could be read aloud or hung up in the English corner for everyone to enjoy.
Detective's Notebook! (1) (page 83)
Curriculum:
Students should copy the chart into their Detective’s
AI: Students will locate relevant
Notebooks.
information for specific purposes.
Say:
Fill in the information we have about each
person in the correct column.
Some of the information can be used in more than one column.
You can work with your friend to check your answers.
When they have finished, check the answers on the board with the class.
Answer Key:
BETTINA
MISS BATES
A MAN
woman
woman
Wears a hat
wears a hat
has a poodle
toolbox
gallery owner
black hair
wears overalls
round face
glasses
brown hair
red hair
older lady
glasses
wears a B
William Bates's daughter
7. Language Focus (page 83-84)
You are going to teach the Past Simple tense, all forms: positive, negative and yes/no questions.
Say:
We use the Past Simple to talk about actions that happened in the past— yesterday, last
week, two days ago, etc.
Let’s look at the examples in your books.
Read with the class.
Say and ask:
We have two types of verbs in the Past Simple – regular and irregular verbs.
Let’s first look at regular verbs.
What do you notice in all these verbs? (Copy the verb from the book: climbed)
That’s right, they end in ed.
To form the Past Simple, we add ed to the base form of the verb.
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