First day of school

First day of school

How does thinking about the first day of school make you feel?

Let's start with answering these questions

• How old are children when they start school in your country?

• Do you think this is too old/young? Why?

The best days of your life?

• How old do you think the girl is?

• What is the situation? How do you know?

• How do you think she is feeling? Why?

• Use these ideas to help you answer the questions: primary school/ school gates/ playground/ school uniform/ say goodbye to/ feel small, proud, anxious, excited, calm, ...

Try it out

• You are going to listen to a part of the talk; listen carefully, because you will only listen ONCE!

• After the listening ends you should write down everything from memory, you are NOT ALLOWED to write before the audio is paused!

• You are going to write the exact sentences you hear, DO NOT CHNAGE THE SUBJECT; VERB; OR ANYTHING ELSE!

Time to check your work. What are the DIFFERENCES between what you wrote and what you see here?

Multiple Choice

Which tense is Kate talking about?

• present

• past

• future

Poll

How do you learn the past simple of irregular verbs better?

• I just memorize the list at the end of the book.

• I check the past simple forms in my dictionary.

• I make my own list based on the similarities between the verbs, (e.g. speak/ spoke; steal/ stole; ...)

• I underline past simple forms when I see them in a text.