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Episode 01x01:: Multicultural New York
Teacher's Notes
Aims:
To practice exchanging information about personal details
Language:
Present simple be, have got,, spelling, numbers, countries and languages
Preparation: Make one copy oft he Student’s worksheet (page
(
1 and 2) for each student in your class.
For weaker groups use the worksheet at the end of these teacher's notes for ex. 2 in the follow-up
follow
section
Procedure:
Before you watch
Follow-up
1. New York trivia quiz.
Students read the quiz and answer the questions. This can be
done individually, in pairs, groups or with the entire class.
1. Introducing yourself and others.
Students complete the questions, then practice them in
conversations. Make sure they use Nice to meet you and Nice
to meet you too when practicing the dialogues.
Video tasks
1. Personal information (What's
What's your name? / Can you spell
that? / Where are you from? / How old are you? / What's
your zip-code?)
Key:
1. Juan Matossian
From: d
Age: 26
Zip-code:
code: 288003
2. Alva French
From: a
Age: 36
Zip-code: 10011
3. Martin
From: b
Age: 26
Zip-code: 10036
4. Mirko Bizzi
From: c
Age: 21
Where do your parents come
2. Countries and languages. (Where
from? / What is your first language? / How do you say "How
are you"? / How do you say "I am a student"?)
student"?
Key: 1 - Alva and Mirko (students may also deduce that Juan
speaks Spanish in addition to English), 2 - Martin, 3 - Alva, 4 Martin, Alva, 5 - Juan
3. Opinions of New York. (What do you think of New York? /
And here is your voice from New York)
Key: 1 - amazing, 2 - cultures, 3 - language, 44 love, 5 never, 6 - place, 7 - city, 8 - dirty, 9 - wonderful, 10 - good,
11 - can, 12 - Gosia, 13 - Poland, 14 - Polish, 15 - twenty
five, 16 - 347-608-2688, 17 - 11103, 18 - a lot, 19 tourists, 20 - career
Key: 1 - is, 2 - spell, 3 - are, 4 - Where
1c, 2b, 3a, 4d
2. Countries and languages.
After students have completed the table you can ask them to
choose a country and imagine that they actually live there.
They then write two or three sentences about "their" country
without mentioning its name. Next, students read out their
sentences while their partners guess the country and
language. This can be done in pairs, groups or with the entire
class. With weaker groups you can put some ideas on the
board, e.g.
In my country people eat _______ . A lot of tourists who
come here visit ________.
Alternatively (or if you can't bear your students' sluggishness,
lack of creativity and whining at the fact that they have to
write whole sentences ☺)) photocopy, cut up and distribute
the slips on the next page (one set per pair, face down) and
instruct your students to read out the sentences to each
other.
Key: China - Chinese, Mexico - Spanish, Spain - Spanish,
Poland - Polish, France - French, Japan - Japanese, Wales Welsh, Italy- Italian, Morocco - Arabic, Russia
Rus - Russian,
Greece - Greek.
3. Numbers.
Pre-teach: landline, car plate
Students complete the table and then take turns to ask and
answer the questions.
Key:
1. What is your mobile phone number?
number 2. What is your
landline phone number?
3. How many CDs have you got? 4. What is your zip-code?
5. How many brothers or sisters have you got?
6. What is your parents' car plate number?
Teacher’s Notes
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Episode 01x01:: Multicultural New York
Optional cut-up
up cards for ex. 2 in the Follow-Up
Follow
section
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I like spaghetti and I play a lot of football. My favourite football team is A.C. Milan.
[Italy / Italian]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------The capital of our country is Paris. Many tourists visit the Eiffel Tower here, but I don't like it very much.
[France / French]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------My country is attractive for tourists. They come here for their summer holiday. We have got very good
feta cheese and salads. [Greece / Greek]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I live
ive in Tokyo and it's a very expensive city. People say that our food is tasty and healthy and they enjoy
the traditional sushi. [Japan / Japanese]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------My country is really big. Our language is difficult to learn but in my city - Shanghai - everyone learns
English at school. [China / Chinese]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I live in Moscow, the capital of the world's biggest country. Our language is similar to Polish and I can
sometimes understand what you say. [Russia / Russian]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I like spaghetti and I play a lot of football. My favourite football team is A.C. Milan.
[Italy / Italian]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------The capital of our country is Paris. Many tourists visit the Eiffel Tower here, but I don't like it very much.
[France / French]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------My country is attractive for tourists. They come here for their summer holiday. We have got very good
feta cheese and salads. [Greece / Greek]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I live in Tokyo and it's a very expensive city. People say that our food is tasty and healthy and they enjoy
the traditional sushi. [Japan / Japanese]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------My country is really big. Our language is difficult to learn
l
but in my city - Shanghai - everyone learns
English at school. [China / Chinese]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I live in Moscow,
scow, the capital of the world's biggest country. Our language is similar to Polish and I can
sometimes understand what you say. [Russia / Russian]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Transcript
Please note: original,
ginal, spontaneous utterances have been used throughout so minor grammatical or lexical slips may
occasionally occur. They do not affect the message though and can be exploited to show our students that English,
as a global language, can be spoken in a number of communicative ways.
Gosia: New York is sometimes called a
"melting pot". This is because all the
cultures and nationalities mix in one
place here. There are more than 8
million people living in New York and
they come from all over the world. Juan
is one of the 8,000 Spanish people living
in the city. Alva's mother comes from
France and there are more than 50,000
French people living in New York city.
Martin's parents are one of the 360,000
Chinese nationals in New York. There
are also almost 700,000 Italian people
living in New York and Mirko is one of
them. Let's meet them all.
Juan: My name is Juan Matossian
Alva: My name is Alva French.
Martin: My name is Martin.
Mirko: My name is Mirko Bizzi.
Voice: Can you spell that?
Juan: J-U-A-N M-A-T-O-S-S-I-A-N
Alva: A-L-V-A F-R-E-N-C-H
Martin: M-A-R-T-I-N
Mirko: M-I-R-K-O, Mirko, B-I-Z-Z-I, Bizzi.
Voice: Where are you from?
Juan: I'm from Madrid, Spain.
Alva: I was born in Paris, but I grew up
in upstate New York
Martin: I'm from New York.
Mirko: I'm from Italy.
Voice: How old are you?
Juan: I'm 27 years old.
Alva: I'm 36.
Martin: I'm 26.
Mirko: I'm 21.
Voice: What is your zip code?
Juan: My zip code is 28003.
Alva: 10011.
Martin: My zip code is 10036.
Voice: What's your mobile phone
number?
Voice: How do you say "I am a student"
in your language?
Juan: Soy un estudiante.
Alva: Je suis étudiante.
Martin: Wǒ
W shì yigè xuésheng.
Mirko: Sono uno studente.
Voice: What do you think of New York?
Juan: My mobile phone number is 656908-156.
Alva: My mobile phone number is 917547-8467.
Martin: It's 646-373-3335.
Mirko: 347-589-0071.
Voice: Where do your parents come
from?
Martin: My parents both come from
Madrid, Spain as well.
Alva: My mother is from France and my
father is from the Ivory Coast.
Martin: They're both from China.
Voice: What is your first language?
Juan: My first language is Spanish.
Alva: My first language is English
although my first words were in French.
Martin: I would have to say English.
Mirko: My first language is Italian, the
second Romana, Romanaccio, and then
English.
Voice: How do you say "How are you" in
your language?
Juan: New York, I think, is an amazing
place to live in. You live among people
from probably all the different cultures
in the world. You can listen to every
language spoken in the world here in
New York, so it's an amazing and pretty
interesting to live here.
Alva: I love it! I could never imagine
living in any other place but New York.
Martin: I love the city, even though it's
kind of congested and dirty but I grew
up in the city. I'm a city boy, so... it's for
me.
Mirko: New York is wonderful. It's the
dish that
hat everybody wants. Where you
can, if you are good and you're able to
make the things, you can do everything.
Voice: And here is your voice from New
York.
Gosia:: My name is Gosia. It's G-O-S-I-A.
G
I'm from Poland. My first language is
Polish. I'm 25 years
year old. My mobile
phone number is 347-608-2688.
347
My zip
code is 11103. I think New York is a big
city. There are a lot of things going on
and there are a lot of tourists. It's a
great place to start your career. And I'm
your voice from New York.
Juan: Como estas.
Alva: Ça va? Comment allez-vous?
Martin: Néih hóu ma?
Mirko: Come sta?
Teacher’s Notes