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Unit Twenty-four: People, People Everywhere
Lesson 1
What's the problem?
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• talked about your reading room/place where you study
• identified any problems(s) you might face while studying
• compared and contrasted two pictures
• written a paragraph using but, though/although, etc
• identified how you can help make a difference to the population situation in Bangladesh
Function: identifying, comparing, contrasting, inferring
A Work in pairs. Talk about your reading room/ place. Ask and answer these questions.
Where do you study at home?
How is it? (small? big? facilities? etc)
Do you have any problem while studying?
B Work in pairs. Look at the pictures below. Ask and answer these questions.
1 What can you see in the pictures?
2 How are the two pictures similar or different?
3 Make one list of similarities and another list of differences.
4 What do the differences mean to you?
Picture
C Write a paragraph in about 150 words describing the rooms in B and consider why they may have become like this or have the things in them that you can see. Also write about what the children are doing in the rooms. Use such words as but, though/although, as much as necessary. For Example: Though both the rooms are more or less, of the same size, room 2 looks smaller than room I, because room 2 does not have any empty space.
D Imagine what kind of family the students and children in both the pictures might have. Write 2/3 sentences about
• their parents (what they do)
• other family member?
• where they live
• their economic conditions
• their children's education, etc
• the prospects for their children
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Unit Twenty-four: People, People Everywhere
Lesson 1
What's the problem?
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• talked about your reading room/place where you study
• identified any problems(s) you might face while studying
• compared and contrasted two pictures
• written a paragraph using but, though/although, etc
• identified how you can help make a difference to the population situation in Bangladesh
Function: identifying, comparing, contrasting, inferring
A Work in pairs. Talk about your reading room/ place. Ask and answer these questions.
Where do you study at home?
How is it? (small? big? facilities? etc)
Do you have any problem while studying?
B Work in pairs. Look at the pictures below. Ask and answer these questions.
1 What can you see in the pictures?
2 How are the two pictures similar or different?
3 Make one list of similarities and another list of differences.
4 What do the differences mean to you?
Picture
C Write a paragraph in about 150 words describing the rooms in B and consider why they may have become like this or have the things in them that you can see. Also write about what the children are doing in the rooms. Use such words as but, though/although, as much as necessary. For Example: Though both the rooms are more or less, of the same size, room 2 looks smaller than room I, because room 2 does not have any empty space.
D Imagine what kind of family the students and children in both the pictures might have. Write 2/3 sentences about
• their parents (what they do)
• other family member?
• where they live
• their economic conditions
• their children's education, etc
• the prospects for their children