DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 26
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 1
PART 1: Meet Tom and Kate (pages 2-3)
Curriculum:
SI: Students will answer questions about
familiar topics.
AI: Students will extract information
from visual data.
1. Let’s Talk! (pages 2-3)
Have the students turn to pages 2- 3 and look at the picture in the double spread. Ask leading
questions to help them notice all the items on the page.
Say and ask:
Let’s look at the picture. Who do you see? (Tom, Kate, Prof. Sparky)
What are they doing? (Kate and Tom are eating ice cream and Prof .Sparky is working on his
computer.)
What other people do you see? (a man on a bike, a kid talking on the phone, etc.)
Now look at the picture again. What seems strange to you? (The man is selling umbrellas but
no one is buying, the girl’s headset looks like bunny ears, there is a pirate hiding in the
shrubs, a kid is talking on a real phone and not a mobile, a big ant is climbing up the building,
a lady is looking at us through a telescope, the clock and Prof. Sparky's watch are showing
different times.)
NOTE: The students may not have the vocabulary to explain these events, so they might try in
their own language. Allow that and translate into English and then have them repeat. It’s very
important that they notice the clues in the pictures.
To encourage prediction and to help notice more clues (HOTS)
Ask:
Why do you think the man is selling umbrellas in the middle of the summer? Is it really
wrong to sell umbrellas in the summer? (Umbrellas can be used to protect us from the sun.)
What happened to the clock, in your opinion?
What do you think Prof. Sparky is doing on his computer?
KIM GAME
Have the students look at the picture for one minute. Time them.
Then tell them to close their books and write down all the things they remember from the picture.
If they write in their own language, that’s fine, too, as long as they try to explain it in English
afterwards.
Give them two minutes to write down everything they can remember. Time them.
Now ask:
What do you remember?
Write down what they say and tell the students that if they have the items you write down, they
must cross those items off their list.
The winner is the student who remembered something no one else did.
NOTE: If there are items that no one remembered, has everyone open their books again and see
what else there is.
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