English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

1

Unit 1: American Pie

Contents

� Grammar: Revision of basic tenses (presents and pasts)

� Vocabulary: Nutrition and recycling. Adjectives and verbs.

� Objective: revise the basic present and past tenses. Learn new

vocabulary related to the topics. Read and elaborate menus.

� Materials used: Burlington books photocopiable material and web

resources.

1st task: Vocabulary review

1. What other types of food do you know? Name at least 3 types of…

Junk food

Healthy food

Food with many

calories

Vegetables Fruit

2. What’s your usual diet? Name the food you usually eat on a typical week day (Monday – Friday).

Include all the meals:

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

3. What do you usually eat on a weekend day?

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

2

2nd task: Listening

1. Listen to a radio quiz show about nutrition and check your answers to the quiz above.

2. Listen again. Who is the winner, Linda or Alice? ______________________________

3rd task: Reading: A Magazine Page

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

3

• Act. 1

• Act. 2

• Act. 3

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

4

4th task: Grammar

1. Choose the correct time expression.

1. What is Janice eating never / at this moment / tomorrow?

2. Do you at the moment / often / every day clean your room?

3. Our grandparents always / right now / today give us gifts at Christmas.

4. The students are making sandwiches for the trip now / every day / often.

5. Steve doesn’t now / usually / tomorrow have breakfast before he goes to school.

2. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brack ets. Use the Present Simple or Present

Continuous.

1. Quiet! We ………………… (try) to concentrate.

2. At the moment, Jane ………………… (study).

3. I ………………… (not have) a party this year.

4. The teacher ………………… (not give) us homework on Fridays.

5. Where ………………… you ………………… (go) every day after school?

3. Write the words in the correct order to make sentences. Use the Present Simple or Present

Continuous.

1. never / eat / we / junk food / at home / .

_________________________________________________________

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

5

2. want / Dan / today / ice cream / to eat / .

_________________________________________________________

3. snacks / eat / she / healthy / always / ?

_________________________________________________________

4. fruit juice / I / sometimes / take / to school / .

_________________________________________________________

5. bake / the children / this afternoon / biscuits / ?

_________________________________________________________

4. Complete the questions with the verbs in brack ets. Use the Present Simple or Present

Continuous. Then answer the questions so they are t rue for you.

1. Where ………………… your best friend ………………… (live)?

_________________________________________________________

2. What ………………… you ………………… (wear) at the moment?

_________________________________________________________

3. When ………………… you ………………… (go) to bed at night?

_________________________________________________________

4. What ………………… you and your friends usually ………………… (do) at weekends?

_________________________________________________________

5. What book ………………… you ………………… (read) right now?

_________________________________________________________

5th task: Vocabulary

1. Draw conceptual maps. Write words instead of the pictures

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

6

2. Answer the questions about the types of food in activity 1.

3. Think about your favourite restaurant. C omplete the chart below

Name of restaurant

Location

Type of restaurant

When it is open

Who you go with

Favourite food

Adjectives to describe the

food

6th task: Quantifiers and Determiners

� Look for information to complete the following table

Countable singular Countable plural Uncountable

Affirmative

Negative

Questions

a/an some any many much a lot

(of)

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

7

1. Complete the sentences with the words below.

a • an • any • how many • how much • some

1. Is there ………………… apple in the bag?

2. ………………… days are there in a year?

3. Darren hasn’t got ………………… friends.

4. ………………… sugar is there in the tea?

5. Jon wants to buy ………………… mobile phone.

6. Peter will bring ………………… fizzy drinks.

7th Task: Miniproject. A food mindmap

In pairs, you’re going to creat a mindmap with vocabulary about food. It’s an excuse to learn how to use

the application bubbl.us. The idea is to create a mindmap with four main categories: protein,

carbohydrates, vitamins-minerals and fiber. Then, you have to add at least 5 sub-elements to each

category. Follow the instructions and try to be original in your presentation.

In the image below you have instructions to use the application.

Enjoy!!

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

8

8th Task: Vocabulary review

1. Take a look at this advert. Then answer the ques tions

� What is the largest category of rubbish?

________________________________________

� What percentage of the rubbish is plastic?

________________________________________

� What type of rubbish is 18% of the total rubbish?

________________________________________

2. Think of items your family throws out. What cate gory in the chart above does each item

belong to?

Metal Cloth Wood Glass Plastic Paper /

Cardboard

Organic Other

9th Task: Listening

1. Listen to a radio show about recycling. What mus t you do before recycling bottles, jars

and cans?

____________________________________________________________________________

2. List 2 items you should not throw into recycling bins according to the radio show.

____________________________________________________________________________

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

9

10th Task: Reading

Act 1. What do these numbers refer to?

a. 34 kilos: _____________________

b. 1,768 kilos: ___________________

c. 12%: ________________________

d. 34%: ________________________

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

10

Act 2. Act 3.

11th task: Grammar

� Look at the cartoons and try to remember what we le arnt last year. Then complete the tables

below.

Past simple Use:

Form and examples:

Affirmative Questions Negative

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

11

1. Complete the paragraph with the verbs in bracket s. Use the Past Simple, affirmative and

negative.

Children in Naples 1………………… (stay) home from school in the winter of 2008, because the streets

were full of rubbish. The people of Naples 2………………… (throw out) their rubbish, but the rubbish

workers 3………………… (pick up) anything. This rubbish 4………………… (cause) dangerous pollution.

The landfills – special holes in the ground to throw out rubbish – were full, so the city 5…………………

(close) them. What 6………………… the city (do) with all the rubbish in the streets? It 7…………………

(send) its rubbish to another country – to Germany.

2. Write the words in the correct order to make que stions. Use the Past Simple. Then answer the

questions with the information in brackets.

1. Lucy / put / yesterday / what / into the recycling bin (old newspapers)

............................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................

2. Neil Armstrong / on the moon / when / walk (in 1969)

............................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................

3. first / appear / recycling bins / where / the (in Britain)

............................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................

4. his ship / Christopher Columbus / call / what (La Santa María)

............................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................

Past simple or past continuous? Give examples

Past continuous Use:

Form and examples:

Affirmative Questions Negative

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

12

5. see / last night / film / you and your friends / what (Avatar)

............................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................

3. Write sentences with the words below. Use the Pa st Simple or Past Continuous and when or while.

1. it / start / to rain / the children / swim / in the sea

............................................................................................................................................

2. we / play / computer games / the biscuits / start / to burn

............................................................................................................................................

3. the participants / clean up / the park / people / take photos

............................................................................................................................................

4. I / walk / to school / I / fall / on some ice

............................................................................................................................................

4. Complete the sentences so they are true for you.

1. Last year at school…_________________________________________________________

2. Yesterday I… _________________________________________________________

3. At 17.30pm yesterday I… ________________________________________________________

4. Last Saturday at 22.00h my mother… ______________________________________________

5. Last summer, I think that my teacher… ____________________________________________

12th Task: Vocabulary

1. Make word pairs with the verbs and nouns below. There are different possibilities.

Verbs Nouns

destroy / pick up / damage / clean up / plant /

collect / throw out / recycle / collect

rubbish / our planet / the beach / the

environment / trees / the air / bottles and cans

/ food waste / animals / paper

2. The sentences below do not make sense. Can you correct them with the correct form of the verbs in

activity 1?

1. The volunteers helped us throw out the beach.

______________________________________________________

English 3rd ESO – Unit 1

13

2. The fire protected the school building.

______________________________________________________

3. The volunteers came to destroy the birds.

______________________________________________________

4. The metal factory recycled the neighbourhood.

______________________________________________________

5. It’s important to damage bottles and newspapers.

______________________________________________________

6. On Saturday, we planted a lot of cans for the recycling bin.

______________________________________________________

13th Task: Miniproject: Let’s recycle!!

Go into this page and follow instructions… let's recycle!!