THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 2PART 7: About Bicycles (pages 59-61)Let’s RememberAsk:What did we do last time? (We made our owninventions.)Who did we learn about? (Lance Armstrong)What did we learn about him? (Accept allrelevant answers.)Curriculum:AI: Students will use simpleinformation tools such as a glossary,a simplified learner’s dictionary, anda table of contents.Draw a Word Web on the board and write the word BICYCLE in the middle.It should look something like this:bicycleAsk: What do you know about bicycles? What do you think we’ll learn in this section?Write the ideas the students come up with on the wordweb.1. Let’s Read! (page 59)Before ReadingNEW WORDSbrakesdangerousheavylightpedalswheelsVOCABULARYCurriculum: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.Write the new words on theboard. Present each wordand use it in a sentence.Then ask the students ifthey know what the word means. Allow guessing and finally give theright explanation.Vocabulary ReinforcementHave the students go over the text and find the words they just learned. Ask them to read thesentences where they found the words. If there are still unclear words, explain them.Have the students copy the words into their notebooks and write their definitions.For weaker students: Have them copy the sentence with the new word into their notebooks, nextto the definition they wrote. This will help them remember the context as well.For more ideas, go to pages vi and vii in the Yellow Pages section.74
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