Listening Texts
Before using the listening texts below, read the section on Listening in the online Teacher’s Guide ( www.macmillan-caribbean.com ) Remember that any of the reading texts can be read aloud to pupils. Questions can be asked to check their understanding and their ability to infer and use context clues orally. You may wish to change the speech in stories to Creole, then repeat it later in Standard English for your pupils to compare. There follows a series of read-aloud texts, designed to practise and assess pupils’ listening skills. Each is signposted in the Student’s Book by in the unit to which it relates.
Unit 3: In the Morning, pages 12–13 Read the text below aloud. Emphasise Tom’s words in bold as a model for pupils to speak in Standard English. After reading about each picture, ask: What did Tom say? This is what Tom told his teacher. 1. On school days Mommy wakes me up. I wake up at 7 o’clock. 2. I go into the bathroom and I wash my face. 3. Then I get dressed. I sit on the bed to put my socks on. Mommy gets cross if I put my shoes on the bed. 4. I go downstairs and I have breakfast with Mommy. Kim does not like waking up and Daddy has to keep telling her to hurry up. They come down later and have to eat their breakfast quickly. 5. Before I go to school I brush my teeth . 6. I put all my things in my backpack and then I walk to school with Daddy. Mommy and Kim are always behind us because Kim is so slow. Extension: Children can sing and mime this song, substituting other actions – to the tune of “Here we go round the mulberry bush”.
Unit 1: At Home, page 6–7 Read each text aloud twice before asking the questions. 1 Meet Kim and her family. Kim is 5. Her brother, Tom, is 7. Kim lives with Tom, Mom, Dad, grandma and grandad. Ask pupils to point to Kim and to each member of her family on the page. Ask: How old is Kim? How old is Tom? Where do they live? Encourage pupils to speak clearly enough to be understood by peers and teacher. 2 Kim likes singing and playing with her friends. Tom likes drawing and playing football. The family do not have any pets but Tom wants a dog. Ask: What does Kim like doing? What does Tom like doing? Does the family have a pet? Unit 2: On the Beach, pages 10–11 It is Sunday. The family came to the beach in Grandad’s car. Mom has been swimming and now she is tired. Grandad is putting out the picnic but he is also listening to the sounds on the beach. Ask: How did Kim get to the beach? Why is Mom tired? Extension: Read aloud this poem and ask pupils if they are like the poet. Do they do any of the things described in the poem? Me come from the Caribbean Me come from the Caribbean The sun well hot but the river dem cool Me play pon the beaches me nah need no pool Me love to fly kite and climb all kinda tree Me come from the Caribbean Are you like me?
This is the way I get out of bed Get out of bed, get out of bed. This is the way I get out of bed Early in the morning.
In subsequent verses, substitute: wash my face/put on my clothes/have my breakfast/brush my teeth/go to school Sing to the tune of “Here we go round the mulberry bush”. Ask pupils to mime the actions and speak then sing the words. Unit 5: The Tortoise and the Hare, pages 16–17 Ask pupils to look at the pictures on pages 16–17 while you read the text below. Then ask pupils to retell the story, picture by picture.
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