DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 78
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 2
Detective’s Notebook! (2) (HOTS – Prediction, Inference) (page 43)
Say and ask:
Curriculum:
What do you know up till now?
SI: Students will answer questions
Open your Detective’s Notebooks. What clues do
about familiar topics.
we have so far?
AI: Students will extract information
Review all the clues in your Detective’s
from visual data.
Notebooks. (We know that bikes were stolen on
Tuesday and Wednesday.)
Now look at the timetable; do you see something strange?
1. When is this person free? (on Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
2. Is this person interested in bikes? (yes)
3. How do you know? (On Sundays he takes pictures of bikes, on
Mondays he shows pictures to buyers, on Thursdays he cleans and
fixes the bikes, and on Fridays he takes the bikes to the buyer.)
So whose timetable might this be? (Accept all possible guesses, but guide
them toward the thief.)
Why do you think so? (Accept all possible explanations, but guide them
toward the clues – free on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, interested in bikes.)
Write this clue in your Detective’s Notebooks under CLUES.
Who is Al? (He owns a bike store in Greenville – see cast of characters.)
Is he a suspect? Why do you think so? (Yes, Al has a bike shop. This person is
interested in bikes and calls him.)
Add his name to your Detective’s Notebook under SUSPECTS.
4. Language Focus: Present Simple (page 44)
You are going to teach the Present Simple tense, starting with positive sentences.
Say:
We use the present simple to talk about habits or things we do every day.
Let’s look at the timetable again.
We know a few things about what this person does every day or as a habit.
Ask:
Which things does this person do every week or every day or on certain days
of the week? (He/She eats lunch at Mom's every day, he/she goes to
basketball game every Tuesday, he/she works four days a week, etc.)
Say: Now look at the substitution table in the box and form three sentences
(e.g. I eat lunch every day, She eats lunch every day, they eat lunch every
day.)
Then write the sentences on the board:
1. I eat lunch every day.
2. She eats lunch every day.
3. He eats lunch every day.
4. They eat lunch every day.
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