This PowerPoint is additional material for the Passages unit on Storytelling. In this case the story is about Dan and an unfortunate incident on the way to work last year. There are worksheets to accompany the story and as a special surprise, some pronunciation exercises with audio. The story also lends itself to the ‘grammar focus’ on page 59, as several of the adverbs are included in the slides and on the worksheets.

Powerpoint: PowerPoint file

Student Worksheet:dans-story-worksheet-students-copy.doc

Teacher’s Answer sheet:dans-story-worksheet-teachers-copy.doc

Teacher’s notes page:passages-unit-7a.doc

Here is an additional worksheet for the listening in Passages Unit 2A on page 12.

The main aim is to give students a task to do whilst they listen to the CD again. Thus there is a purpose in playing the CD several times.

Copies of the worksheets are in the Level 3 binder.

Student’s worksheet.
Passages Unit 2A Listening student.doc

Teacher’s copy.
Passages Unit 2A Listening teacher copy.doc

Here is an additional worksheet for the listening in Passages Unit 1B on page 6.

The main aim is to give students a task to do whilst they listen to the CD again. Thus there is a purpose in playing the CD several times.

Copies of the worksheets are in the Level 3 binder.

Student’s worksheet.
Passages Unit 1B Listening.doc

Teacher’s copy.
Passages Unit 1B Listening teacher copy.doc

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support the Passages textbook Unit 1B ‘Every family’s different’ on pages 6, 7.

The teaching materials include:

1. A PowerPoint presentation
2. A Student worksheet
3. A Teacher’s notes sheet
4. Speaking cards (There are two sets of these cards. They are on the Level 3 shelf.)

You can use these materials in a number of ways, for example to introduce the topic or to review the topic. It is important though, that you go through the different slides first to familiarise yourself with the presentation.
The teacher’s notes sheet provides more information on how to use this material.

The presentations require a computer and projector. Since we are unsure how soon the classrooms will be equiped with a computer, you can borrow one of the ELP laptops.
These materials will also be available in the Level 3 binder.

The Teacher’s notes document.
Passages Unit 1B.doc

The PowerPoint presentation.
Passages unit 1B.ppt

The Student Worksheet. (NB. This is a colour version. There is a black/white version in the binder on the shelf.)
Passages 1B worksheet.doc

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support the Passages textbook Unit on Friends and Family pages 2, 3.

The teaching materials include:

1. A PowerPoint presentation
2. A Student worksheet
3. A Teacher’s notes sheet

You can use these materials in a number of ways, for example to introduce the topic or to review the topic. It is important though, that you go through the different slides first to familiarise yourself with the presentation.
The teacher’s notes sheet provides more information on how to use this material.

The presentations require a computer and projector. Since we are unsure how soon the classrooms will be equiped with a computer, you can borrow one of the ELP laptops.
These materials will also be available in the Level 3 binder.

The Teacher’s notes document.
Passages Unit 1A.doc

The Student worksheet.
Passages 1A worksheet .doc

The PowerPoint presentation.
Passages unit 1A.ppt

This is a supplementary activity for the reading in Unit 8: “It’s not so bad to be middle-aged.” It is intended to help students process some target words in the unit deeply by finding substitutes for selected words in the article.

Passage Unit 8 Vocab&Reading activity.doc

I liked Kay’s Understanding Newspaper headlines, and added a “sentence to headlines” translation task to it. I used it to extend Passages p. 62. Students seemed to enjoy.

Understanding Headlines (JS)

This is something I put together to help students read and write newspaper headlines for Passages Unit 7 Reading (p.65 “Nutty News”). But it can be used as a prep or review of Lesson B (Waht’s in the News). The headlines are taken from real rewspapers.

Understanding Newspaper headlines.doc

Here’s the Passages vocab list useful for the vocabulary and reading quizzes as well as small group discussions (and group presentation!)

Passages Vocabulary List (Autumn).doc

Here are some handouts I made to help Level 3 students who are finding the textbook passages difficult to understand.

Unit 2: Home Schooling
1) Students read the first and the last sentence of each paragraph to get the main idea of each paragraph and get a big picture of the whole passage.
Home Schooling.doc

2) Comprehension questions for each paragraph
Home Schooling Qs.doc

Unit 3: Get yourself Lost
3) Students read only the first and last paragraph to get the main idea of the passage before reading the entire text.
Get yourself lost.doc

Here’s the list of target words in Unit 1 - 6 of Passages. Please distribute this to the students and inform them that

1) words on the vocab quizzes will be selected mostly from the Vocabulary and Reading sections of Unit 1, 2, 3, and 5.

2) the words on the list will help their speechs and group discussions.

Passages Vocabulary List (spring).pdfPassages Vocabulary List (spring).doc