About this lesson
This unit, titled 'Smart Choices,' focuses on decision-making and its consequences. It presents reading texts about a student named Youssef who must decide whether to let two classmates join his birthday party, and an interview with an athlete named Adam who chooses not to run a race due to an injury. The unit also includes a story about a team of children building a water-saving machine, emphasizing teamwork, fairness, and honesty. Listening exercises involve conversations about making smart choices and a blog post about a decision. Speaking activities encourage students to discuss personal daily choices and problems, while writing tasks guide them to produce a blog post about a personal problem, including advice. The unit integrates vocabulary related to decisions (e.g., decision, consequence, risk, responsible) and grammar points such as the first conditional and the use of 'should' and 'shouldn't' for advice. By the end, students should be able to identify main ideas and details in texts about choices, use context clues for vocabulary, talk about choices and give advice, form first conditional sentences, and write a blog post about a problem.
Main topics in this lesson
- Making smart choices
- Decisions and consequences
- Asking for and giving advice
- Teamwork and fairness
- Role models and wise decisions
Key terms and vocabulary
- decision
- consequence
- benefit
- risk
- responsible
- careless
- positive
- negative
- evaluate
- impact
- recover
- injury
- influence
- create
- ignore
- honesty
- give up
- goal
- option
- problem
Questions and answers on Smart Choices - practice and revision
Multiple choice questions on this lesson in English Second Foreign Language for 1st secondary, First Term, with practice exercises for revision and exam preparation.
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A team of children builds a water-saving machine. What does this story teach about smart choices?
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1
Working alone is always the best option.
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Teamwork, fairness and honesty are important.
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3
Children shouldn't create new things.
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Ignoring problems helps the team.
2
Adam is an athlete who has an injury. If he runs the race, what will happen?
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He will recover quickly.
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He will make a positive choice.
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3
His injury will get worse.
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He will win the race easily.
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Youssef has a problem: two classmates want to come to his birthday party, but he is not sure. What is the best thing he should do?
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He should ignore the problem and say nothing.
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He should think about the decision and its consequences.
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He should give up his birthday party.
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4
He shouldn't be responsible for his choice.
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