THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 3PART 4: Ads are Everywhere! (pages 94-100)Prepare before class:Bring many magazine and newspaper advertisements to class. Make sure you have enough foreveryone in class.Discuss the title of the section.Ask: What is an ad? (Write on board.)Write the words ‘advertising’, ‘advertisement’ and ‘ad’on the board. Point out that ad is the short form ofadvertisement and is mostly used by American English.1. Let’s Read! (pages 94-95)Curriculum:AI: Students will understand thegeneral meaning, main ideas, andsequence of events in the text anduse this knowledge as needed.AI: Students will identify differenttext types and use this knowledge asneeded.AI: Students will locate relevantinformation for a specific purpose.AI: Students will extract informationfrom visual data such as a timetable.Before ReadingSay and ask:Look at the title: what do you think it means?What is advertising?Curriculum:What’s an advertisement?AI: students will extract informationWhere do you find ads? ( on TV, in magazines,from visual data, such as a timetableonline, bus stops, etc)What do ads want you to do?Let them give examples—more than likely popular TV commercials will come up.Now say and ask:Look at the picture. What do you see?How many ads do you see in this picture?(Tom with T-shirt; hot dog vendor; newspaper; van; hamburgers;English lessons; bike shop; cinema; hula hoops; comics store; jeans; clock)ReadingNow have the students read the definition of advertising:Say:An advertisement (or ad) is a message that tells you about a product, a service or an idea.Discuss what this means. (Not all ads are commercial—although most of them are!)Ask and say:Have you seen an ad in this book? (There is an ad for the Lakeview Museum Bates Collectionshow on page 78.)Now that you know what ads are, how do you think they are connected to our mystery?(Accept all logical answers.)114
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