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LEVEL 2 Interactive Display: Unit 6

The document provides teaching notes for an interactive display lesson comparing the past and present. It includes instructions for slideshow and sentence activities to help students consolidate their understanding of differences between communication, transportation, and cities in the past versus now.

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LEVEL 2 Interactive Display: Unit 6

The document provides teaching notes for an interactive display lesson comparing the past and present. It includes instructions for slideshow and sentence activities to help students consolidate their understanding of differences between communication, transportation, and cities in the past versus now.

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U6 Interactive Display: The Past Teacher Notes

Part 2: Interactivity 1
Suggested use: after Lesson 3 (but can be • Point to the first word and ask the children if it is
used after any lesson in the unit, too) about the past or now. Have the children vote, and
then drag the word to the column they select. Ask
Time: 25 minutes (plus 5 minutes for the volunteers to drag the other words to the correct
extension activity) column.
• Before checking the answers, see if all the children
agree. Check and discuss any words that are in the
The children will:
incorrect column.
• Consolidate and extend what they have
learned about the past.
Part 3: Interactivity 2
• Research about the past where they live.
• Divide the class into two teams. Display the first
sentence, and ask each team to decide if it is True
or False. Ask one child to come to the board and
Warm Up: before using the activities select the answer their team chose.
• Show the children a cell phone. Ask them if it is • Repeat the steps for the other four sentences.
used now or was used in the past. Elicit that it is Make a note of the answers the two teams choose
something people use now. for each sentence.
• Ask the children how people communicated in the • At the end, check the answers and award a point
past before cell phones. Elicit ideas and write these for each one they got correct.
on the board.
Round Up: after using the activities
Procedure: using the activities • Call out a word, e.g. streetcar, and ask a child to
Part 1: Slideshow say now or past. Repeat with other words.
• Play Slides 1 and 2, pausing on Slide 2: This is
a city in the present, and elicit things that the
children can see in the picture. Draw the children’s Extension Activity
attention to key vocabulary items such as traffic, • Pairs: the children make a list of the
traffic signs, etc. differences between now and 100 years ago.
• Next, play Slide 3: This is a city in the past, and Encourage them to think of different areas
again elicit things that the children can see in such as communication, entertainment,
the picture. Draw the children’s attention to key transportation, school, etc.
vocabulary items such as streetcar, horse, etc.
Provide new vocabulary as needed.
• Ask the children to tell you any differences they
can see. For example, lots of traffic vs. little traffic;
in the past there were streetcars and horses, but
not cars or motorcycles. Remember, you can use • Have the children research about the past where
the pen to circle the things that the children talk they live. They might find information at the
about. local library, or they can ask their parents and
• Repeat the same steps for Slides 4, 5, 6, and 7. grandparents. Encourage the children to bring
• Finally, play Slide 8: This is how people travel anything they find, or facts they find out, to the
around the city now. The children guess what the next class to share.
next slide will show. Then reveal the slide.

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