4. Ask some questions to check understanding.

Part B

Teaching procedures

3. Ask one student at a time to read a paragraph. After each paragraph, ask students to say which parts of the text they do not understand. Less able students may find some of the names of the star signs difficult. If so, do not force them to learn them by heart because they are only used here to arouse students’ interest. It is more important for them to learn the adjectives that describe people’s characteristics. This will enable them to complete the Main Task at the end of the unit.

2. Read the passage aloud to students. Ask them to listen carefully to you and follow the text on page 4 and 5.

1. Brainstorm the vocabulary that is used to describe people’s characteristics. Encourage students to explain each word to their classmates.

3. To use adjectives to describe someone’s characteristics

teaching procedures:

2. To recognize and understand vocabulary about characteristics

1. To understand what star signs are and what they represent

5. Ask students whether they know what their star sign is. Encourage them to day the name of their star sign aloud.

Reading

Objectives

4. Ask students to complete Part B. explain that there are 12 star signs in total---- those in Part A and those in Part B. Each star sign represents a period of time in a year.

3. Explain to students that each picture in Part A represents a star sign. Ask them to complete Part A, then discuss the answers as a class. Students who have made mistakes in this section will benefit form correcting their answers before proceeding to the Reading section.