Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

As Mother’s Day approaches, you may want to start planning one or two holiday-related activities. Compositions are often a wonderful option because the students are able to find personal meaning in the holiday, though it may not be one that is celebrated in their home countries. As teachers, we are given the privilege of reading these personal forms of expression; students’ compositions allow us to learn more about the people we teach. At the intermediate level and beyond, consider developing or reinforcing students’ awareness of paragraph structure through a series of writing tasks: TASK 1 – Unity within a paragraph. Write 7-8 sentences about your own mother or grandmother. Write them in random order, starting each sentence on a new line. Ask students to read silently and then decide with a partner which sentences could form a paragraph and which ones are off-topic. They should cross out the irrelevant sentences. Correct their work as a class. Model: My mother had dark hair...

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS  (Do not show to Student B) 1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘mother’? 2) Can you describe your mother in one word? Why that word? 3) Have you ever thought that mothers might have ESP? 4) Do you always buy your mother a present on Mother’s Day? 5) What are the differences between a mother and a mother-in-law? 6) In what ways do you take after your mother? 7) What is your mother’s biggest fault? 8) Is your mother more like a mother or a best friend? 9) What do/did your mother and you argue about? 10) What do you think of Mother’s Day? Is it necessary?      STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS  (Do not show to Student A) 1) What are the biggest differences between mothers and fathers? 2) Why and how did your father fall in love with your mother? 3) Are you happy with the way your mother raised you? 4) Should mothers stay at home and look after the kids? 5) What’s the best piece of advice your mother has given you? ...

lição em pdf: http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/05/mothers_day.pdf audio: http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/05/mothers_day.mp3 READING: Mother's Day is an important day all around the world, even though it started in North America and Europe. Not all countries celebrate it on the same day, but the most popular day is the second Sunday in May. It is, of course, a day to honour our mothers and make them feel extra special. A punctuation point about the day is that most countries choose the singular possessive “Mother’s Day”, with the apostrophe before the ‘s’ to show that each family honours their mother, rather than all of the world’s mothers. Young children get especially excited about Mother’s Day and put a lot of effort into making cards and presents for their Mums, or Moms in America. For mothers, it is like having a second birthday. Mother’s Day in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. means mothers usually get the day off from housework. It is common for children to...