Using 'They' and Expressing Opinions: Walkthrough

Section role: supports the 'Mapping the Rules and Expressing Opinions' section while the teacher guides students through sentence transformation and evaluation. Slides: (1) Title — 'Replacing Names: Using "They"'; (2) 'They' Replaces People — two students (e.g., Lia and Ben) eating pizza, sentence 'Lia and Ben eat pizza', prompt to rewrite with 'They'; (3) 'They' Replaces Objects — several books (e.g., red and blue books) on a shelf, sentence 'The books are old', prompt to rewrite with 'They'; (4) 'They' Replaces Animals — two dogs (e.g., a big dog and a small dog) barking, sentence 'The dogs bark', prompt to rewrite with 'They'; (5) Expressing Opinions — visual cues for 'good' (thumbs up) and 'bad' (thumbs down), examples like 'Pizza is good!', 'Barking is bad!'; (6) Practice Transformation and Opinion — an image of children playing soccer (e.g., 'Sofia and Alex kick the ball'), with a two-step prompt: 'Rewrite using "They"' and 'Add an opinion using "good" or "bad"'. Concrete examples: 'Lia and Ben', 'The books', 'The dogs', 'Maria and Tom eat pizza', 'Pizza is good!', 'The dogs bark', 'Barking is bad!'. Hooks back to the 'Mystery of the Missing Pronouns' challenge by formalizing the use of 'They' and sets up the 'Great Substitution Race' by practicing sentence structures. Closing slide: 'What groups of people, animals, or objects can you describe with "They"?' This material is part of a English foreign-language class for students in Chile learning English. Regardless of the material's language, the key terms and examples being taught must be written in English, not in the students' native language.

Lara de Teachy