5A Unit 2 E-age

Unit 2 E-age Listen and chant How are the children communicating with each other? Say the chant. Coco is using his computer, To upload a photo. Wow! Mon Mon, look at this now! Witchy is using her tablet, To chat online. Great! Didi, let's make a date! Miss Tickle is using her smartphone, To send a text message. Cool! Children, it's time for school! Coco is using his computer, To upload a photo. Wow! Mon Mon, look at this now! Witchy is using her tablet, To chat online. Great! Didi, let's make a date! Miss Tickle is using her smartphone, To send a text message. Cool! Children, it's time for school!

Read Class 5B is doing a project on means of communication in the e-age. The children are reading an article in a children's magazine about different means of communication. Read it with them. This is the e-age! Imagine you will have a birthday party next week. How will you tell your friends about it? Will you send them e-mails, phone them or send them text messages? Communication is easy now, but how did people in the past communicate with each other? Communication in the past At first, people used pigeons to send messages to each other. They needed to tie their messages onto the legs of the pigeons. The pigeons took up to a few months to send the messages. Later, people wrote letters. They used quills to write them. A quill is a pen made from a bird's feather. People dipped it in ink to write on paper. Long afterwards, scientists invented the telephone. People could phone each other. But look! How can you put that into your pocket? Communication today How do our readers communicate with their friends? We did a survey last month. Here are the results. Haw do you communicate with your friends? Means of communication Number of people chat online 340 phone 185 send e-mails 300 send text messages 170 write letters 5 How often do you check your e-mail? Frequency Number of people once a day 280 twice a day 400 three times a day 210 four times or more a day 110 Some of our readers still write letters to their friends, but some of them check their e-mail up to four times a day! How often do you check your e-mail? Word building chat online fax a message send an e-mail send a telegram send a text message surf the Internet upload a photo write a letter

Grammar time 1 We use infinitives to talk about activities. People used pigeons to send messages to each other. 2 We use ‘will . . . ’to talk about the future. I will have a birthday party next week. 3 We use ‘How often' to ask about frequency. We use adverb phrases to express frequency. How often do you check your e-mail? I check my e-mail once a day. I check my e-mail twice a week. I check my e-mail three times a month.

Phonics time g Listen to the sentences. Say them aloud. Great! I got a message from Gary. He lives in Greenland, but we are the same age. E-mail is magic, don't you think? No pen and paper, no page and ink. Just type gently, and then send your message. Away it goes! Great! I got a message from Gary. He lives in Greenland, but we are the same age. E-mail is magic, don't you think? No pen and paper, no page and ink. Just type gently, and then send your message. Away it goes! Now underline the words with the same ‘g' sound as ‘good'. Circle the words with the same ‘g’sound as ‘large'.