Unit 1: Lesson 4B Elementary (A1-A2)

Objectives
In this lesson you will write a profile of a classmate and explore types of errors students often
make.

After completing this lesson you should be able to:

Ask for personal information and make Identify types of errors you can make in
notes of the answers people give you. your writing.

Write a personal profile using your notes. Understand the symbols in a correction
code your teacher will use for your written
work.

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Writing: A personal profile

A Work with a partner.

Interview each other.

Take notes.
B Write a profile of your partner.

Use the profile of a teacher on the previous

page to help you.

C Give your teacher your profiles.

Use these questions to help you.

D Read the student profile below.

What’s your full name? My partner, her name is Zifan Yang. She’s
Chinese. She come from the Shenzan in the
Where are you from? China, where she live there with her
mother and father. She has fifteen and an
Where do you live?
only child. Her father’s name, it is

Who do you live with? Chaoxiang and her mother she is Ju. They
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both teechers at scool in city centre. She
if you can.
What are their names? like very much play computer game and
Examples: the shopping too. But she love mountain
What do your parents do? also. She don’t like TV. Her favourite colour
is green. Green is colour of mountain. She
What do you like doing in What else do
your free time? you like doing? want to be IT engineer in the future.

What about something you

don’t like?

What’s your favourite Why do you

colour? like it?

What about the future?

Shenzan, China

Work as a class.

Find as many errors as you can in the profile.

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Writing: Correction code

A Read the information below.

B Sentences 1-10 each have one error in them.
Work in teams.
Find the errors.
Write the sentences again.
ABOUT LANGUAGE 1. I play bingo right now. 6. Her name Tanya.

Learning from your errors 2. He’s from the Hong 7. Is of the Russia my
Kong. brother.
 Everyone makes errors! Your errors 3. I like very much 8. She like the colour
football. blue.
are an essential part of your learning.
4. He’s from china 9. My teacher’s
 For example, this sentence has three name’s James.
5. I am an English
types of error which are useful for the estudant. 10. Her school is on the
city centre.
student to know.

C
She come from the Shenzan.
Work as a class.
 The first is a grammar error. Match a description from a-j with each of 1-10.
‘She’ means the verb ‘come’ needs an
‘s’. a. Word missing f. Wrong word

 The second is also a grammar error, b. Word not necessary g. Punctuation

but this time of a different type. c. Word order h. Spelling
‘Shenzan’ is the name of a city. d. Wrong structure i. Wrong preposition
These are not usually marked with an e. Agreement j. Try again!
article.

D
 The third is a spelling error. Shenzhen
Here are the symbols your teacher will use
is spelt with an ‘e’ not an ‘a’. It also has when correcting your written work.
an ‘h’.
Word missing Λ Wrong word WW
Word not necessary the Punctuation P
Word order WO Spelling S
Your teacher will
Wrong structure T Wrong preposition Prep
use a code to help
you correct the Agreement AG Try again! TA
errors in your
writing.
Make sure you keep them in a useful place.

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Summing up
Today you… Homework Idea
 constructed some questions and used these to find  Rewrite your profiles after you check for errors.
out personal information. You wrote a profile of a
classmate.  Interview another person and write a profile of this
person.
 corrected your profiles and identified different types
of errors. You were presented with a correction  Give your written work to your teacher.
code your teacher will use to help you with your
 Use the symbols on your work and think about how
written work.
you could change things.

 Keep an ongoing record of errors you often make.

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