Staying safe at home

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1 Teaching and Learning Engish (TaLE) project ESOL topic-based unit Staying safe at home Teacher s notes, materias and activities for use in and outside the UK Actions co-financed by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationas Working together to manage migration

2 TaLE project Staying safe at home Using this pack Teaching and Learning Engish (TaLE) is a 22-month European Integration Fund (EIF) project ed by Learning Unimited working in partnership with UKBET, St Gies Educationa Trust and Greenwich Community Coege. The TaLE project aims to provide an innovative and hoistic approach to ESOL teaching, earning and teacher training in Bangadesh to support the integration of women who are panning to join husbands and famiies and sette in the UK. It is buiding on and deveoping the work of a previous EIF-funded project, Wecome to the UK, aso ed by Learning Unimited, which ran pre-departure Preparing for ife in the UK workshops in Bangadesh for women in and around the Syhet district. This pack has been designed to suppement the Year 1 TaLE project topic-based pack ESOL in the UK, as we as the Wecome to the UK and Preparing for ife in the UK materias tookits which are free and downoadabe from the Learning Unimited website: These materias a use everyday ife in the UK as contexts for supporting adut earners to deveop their anguage and iteracy skis in Engish as we as their knowedge and confidence about ife in the UK. For this topic-based pack, Staying safe at home, the main objectives are for earners to: deveop their skis, knowedge and confidence in Engish recognise the simiarities and differences between staying safe at home in Bangadesh and the UK deveop anguage and strategies to hep them to stay safe in the UK deveop the skis, knowedge and confidence to foow up issues reating to persona safety in the UK. The pack incudes teacher s notes and materias for use with adut earners in Bangadesh or other non-eu settings and can be adapted for use in the UK. The teacher s notes are designed to provide a quick and easy overview for teachers who can then use, adapt and incorporate them into their own esson pans, as appropriate, in order to ensure that esson content and activities best meet the needs, interests and eves of their earners. These activities and materias are aimed at beginner and eementary adut earners working at the equivaent of ESOL Entry eves 1 and 2 in the UK/ A1 and A2 on the Common European Framework (CEFR). Suggestions for differentiation and extension activities for earners working at a higher eve are aso incuded. Many of the earner materias are aso avaiabe as authorabe word documents. Teachers using these notes and materias are advised to refer to the guidance Wecome to the UK and Preparing for ife in the UK materias tookits avaiabe to downoad free on the Learning Unimited website. For more information about Learning Unimited, pease see Karen Dudey TaLE Project Manager, Learning Unimited, , karen.dudey@earningunimited.co. 2 Learning Unimited

3 Staying safe at home TaLE project Staying safe outside the home Pack contents Teacher s notes Worksheets/handouts Matching/sequencing activity cards Images Listening fies to use with this unit are downoadabe from the Learning Unimited website: resources/downoads Additiona materias Research Women s Aid website to provide earners with some information about the services the organisation offers. Research Neighbourhood Watch scheme website beow to provide earners with some information about some possibe benefits of being a member of it. Research Immoboise website beow to provide earners with some information of possibe benefits on registering their beongings on it. What to prepare Print or photocopy handouts / worksheets Print set of images and activities one set for each group. Laminate, if possibe, and cut up. You can indicate answers on the back to encourage sef-checking and independent earning. Suggested pre-departure action Ask earners to research the area where their new home in the UK is either by asking friends or reatives or using the internet. They coud aso find out who their neighbours are and where they coud make new friends. Suggested action in the UK Ask earners to find out: where the nearest poice station is whether there is a Neighbourhood Watch group in their area about community centres in their area where they coud meet new friends. Usefu websites Gossary for the teachers: digitaassets/110970_tkt_gossary_august_2009_fina.pdf Domestic vioence: Neighbourhood Watch schemes in the UK: To register beongings: Metropoitan poice: Learning Unimited 3

4 TaLE project Staying safe at home Objectives For this topic-based pack, Staying safe at home, the main objectives are for earners to: deveop their skis, knowedge and confidence in Engish identify what constitutes a heathy reationship earn about what is acceptabe/unacceptabe in the UK earn about Neighbourhood Watch schemes in the UK deveop the skis, knowedge and confidence to discuss reationships deveop the skis, knowedge and confidence to phone for hep and/or support. Main focus for each section Target anguage for each section Warm up activities 1. Heathy reationships 2. Where to get hep and support 3. Phoning for hep and support 4. Keeping your home safe Vocabuary for famiy, e.g. mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, husband. Higher eve earners can earn additiona vocabuary, e.g. in-aws, cousin, aunt, unce. Present simpe, e.g. I m in, I m with, I fee, I can see Making and responding to suggestions: - I think it d be great - We, I m not sure. - OK, but... Giving soutions: - I can - You can Vocabuary for home security, e.g. prevent burgaries, protect your home, confidentia advice, nationa hepine, domestic vioence. Imperatives for advice, e.g. Don t, Use Language structures for phoning for hep and/or advice, e.g. I m caing for., My name s., My address is. Vocabuary for home security: e.g. keep in a safe, get on we, eave the ights on, make sure 4 Learning Unimited

5 Staying safe at home TaLE project Warm up activities Here are some warm up activities to choose from to use at the beginning of essons: A fond memory of my famiy 1. Ask earners to sit comfortaby and cose their eyes. Ask them to think of an enjoyabe moment they have had with their famiies. It coud be a moment when visiting their other famiy members or whie doing something together when they fet very happy. 2. Guide earners through their experience by asking them to think of the time and pace it happened. Ask earners to imagine it happening again using a their senses. Ask earners a of the foowing questions first and then eicit a few exampe answers: Where are you and who are you with? What time of day is it? What can you see and hear? What can you sme? How do you fee? I m in... and I m with It s I can see I can hear I can sme I fee 3. Divide earners into sma groups of 3 or 4 and ask them to share their experiences. My famiy 1. Preparation: Get two bank A4 sheets of paper for each earner and some coouring pencis or crayons. 2. Draw a funny picture of your famiy on the board and write the name of each person. Expain this is your famiy. Encourage earners to ask you about who the peope in your picture are, e.g. Who is Aysha? She s my sister. 3. Give out two bank sheets of paper and some coouring pencis or crayons for each earner and ask them to draw a picture of their current famiy on one sheet and a picture of their new famiy on the other. Aow 5 minutes for this. 4. Divide earners into sma groups of 3 or 4 and ask them to ask each other about the peope in their pictures. 5. Eicit, dri and practice the vocabuary for famiy members, e.g. This is..., He/She is my (husband, sister, brother etc). 6. Differentiation: Adjust the number and compexity of vocabuary items depending on earner s eve, e.g. for higher eve earners you can incude in-aws, cousins. Learning Unimited 5

6 TaLE project Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Teacher s notes 1. Preparation: Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Fashcard Save Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Listening fies Conversation (1) and (2) onto a aptop or memory stick and ensure there are speakers avaiabe in cass. Print, aminate and cut up sets of cards one set for each group: Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Conversation cards (1) and (2) Print one worksheet for each earner: Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Worksheet Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Soution cards Get two A3 sheets of paper and Bu-tac or Vecro for each group. 2. To set the context, expain that earners are going to tak about reationships in a famiy. Divide earners into pairs or sma groups and ask them to discuss the foowing questions in their groups: How do you fee eaving your famiy and friends? How wi you keep in touch with them? How wi you buid new reationships with your new famiy? Who do you think your new friends wi be? 3. Hod up or pass round the Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Fashcard. Expain that this is a newy-wed coupe. Ask earners to discuss what they think the coupe is taking about. Eicit some ideas about how they might be feeing. 4. Pre-teach: fyer, confident and independent. 5. Expain that earners are going to isten to a conversation and answer these questions: What are they taking about? Why is she worried? What does he offer to do? How do they both fee? 6. Pay Conversation (1). Ask earners to isten and answer the questions. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: They re taking about ESOL casses. She is worried about the housework and getting to casses on her own. He says he can hep with the housework and she can get a bus. He is happy because he wants his wife to earn Engish and fee more confident and independent. She is happy because he is very encouraging. 7. Divide earners into pairs or sma groups. Give out Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships - Conversation cards (1). If possibe, make sure there is a higher eve earner in each group. Ask earners to put the cards in the correct order for the conversation. 6 Learning Unimited

7 Staying safe at home TaLE project 1: Heathy reationships Teacher s notes 8. Pay Conversation 1 again so earners can check the answers in their pairs and discuss as a whoe group. 9. Dri the conversation and then ask earners to practise in pairs. 10. Expain that earners are going to isten to another conversation. Ask them to answer these questions: What are they taking about? What does she want to do? What are the probems? How do they both fee? 11. Pay Conversation (2). Ask earners to isten and answer the questions. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: They re taking about ESOL casses. She wants to improve her Engish and make new friends. Her husband thinks she doesn t have the time and she doesn t need any friends. She s upset and he s bossy. 12. Give out Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Conversation cards (2). Ask earners to put the cards in the correct order for the conversation. 13. Pay the recording for the earners to check the answers. Check the answers as a whoe group. 14. Ask earners to identify which conversation shows a heathy reationship and expain why. Ask them which conversation matches the coupe in the fashcard. Make sure earners identify the different ways in Conversation 1 that the husband is encouraging and supportive: He encourages his wife to earn Engish He wants her to become more independent He offers to hep with the housework He offers to transfer some money into her account. 15. Ask earners to ook at Conversation cards (2) and discuss what they think about this conversation. Make sure they identify the husband s controing behavior: He doesn t want his wife to earn Engish to become independent His wife has to ask him for money She is not aowed to go out or make friends. Learning Unimited 7

8 TaLE project Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Teacher s notes 16. Give out Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Worksheet. Ask earners to compete Activity 1 and check the answers together. Answers: a. great; b. worry; c. not; d. can; e. But; f. have; g. can. 17. Dri the sentences together. 18. Ask earners to ook at the picture of Kusoom and Beeja in Activity 2. Ask some concept checking questions about the situation. 19. Divide earners into sma groups of 3 or 4. If possibe, make sure there is a higher eve earner in each group. Give out the Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Soution cards. Ask earners to match the probems, soutions and the pictures. 20. Ask earners to roe pay the conversations in pairs. Encourage them to use the target phrases and to make other suggestions. 21. Invite a coupe of confident pairs to perform their conversation in front of the cass. 8 Learning Unimited

9 Staying safe at home TaLE project Heathy reationships Fashcard Learning Unimited 9

10 TaLE project Staying safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Conversation cards (1) % Have you seen this fyer from the oca coege? It d be great for you to go to ESOL casses? We, I m not sure. I have so much housework to do. Don t worry about that. I can hep you. OK. But how wi I get to casses when you re at work? You can get a bus from the corner. I can put some money into your account for a trave card. OK. I do it! I m gad you re going to improve your Engish. It wi hep you fee more confident and independent. Thank you, daring! 10 Learning Unimited

11 Staying safe at home TaLE project 1: Heathy reationships Conversation cards (2) % Have you seen this fyer from the oca coege? I d ike to go to ESOL casses there. We, I don t think you have the time for this. But I need to improve my Engish so I can do things by mysef. We re your famiy and we decide what you do. I d ike to make some new friends too. You re a married woman now you don t need friends. Go and see if my mum needs hep in the kitchen. OK, I hep her now. Coud I have some money to go shopping ater, pease? You don t need to go out. I can buy everything you need. Learning Unimited 11

12 TaLE project Staing safe at home 1: Heathy reationships Worksheet 1. Fi in the gaps. have not worry great But can can a. It d be.. for you to go to ESOL casses. b. Don t. about it. c. We, I m.. sure. d. I hep you. e. OK... how wi I get to casses when you re at work? f. I.. so much housework to do. g. You. get a bus. 2. Look at the picture. What s the probem? Can you think of some soutions? That d be great... but I don t have any money for the bus. Sha we go to the ibrary today? Beeja Kusoom 12 Learning Unimited

13 Staying safe at home TaLE project 1: Heathy reationships Soution cards % I don t have anyone to ook after my chidren. Your mother-in-aw might hep. I don t have enough money for my trave card. I can end you some. My husband eft his house key at home. I have to go out. You can eave the key with your neighbour. Learning Unimited 13

14 TaLE project Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Teacher s notes 1. Preparation: Print, aminate and cut up sets of cards one set for each group: - Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Matching cards - Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Fyers (1/4), (2/4), (3/4) and (4/4) - Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Headings - Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Cards Print one handout for each earner: Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Worksheet 2. To set the context, expain that the earners are going to tak about staying safe at home. Divide earners into pairs or sma groups and ask them to discuss the foowing questions in their groups: How do peope stay safe at home in Bangadesh? How do peope earn about staying safe at home? Who can you ask for hep if you have a probem at home? 3. Give out the Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Matching cards. Divide earners into pairs or sma groups. If possibe, make sure there is a higher eve earner in each group. Ask earners to match the cards. Encourage them to use their first anguage and/or a biingua dictionary if appropriate. 4. Check the answers and carify the meaning as a whoe group and dri the phrases. 5. Expain to the earners that they are going to read some fyers about getting hep, advice and support in the UK. Emphasise that this is not to aarm them but to give hepfu and important information. 6. Pre-teach or eicit any vocabuary from the fyers that you think wi be new for the earners, e.g. the difference between a caer and a visitor, prevent, protect etc. 7. Divide earners into groups of four. If possibe, make sure there is one higher eve earner in each group. Give out Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Fyers (1/4), (2/4), (3/4) and (4/4). Make sure each earner gets a different text. 8. Ask earners to read their texts and take turns to te their group: a. The name of the organisation b. What hep this organisation can offer c. How to contact them 14 Learning Unimited

15 Staying safe at home TaLE project 2: Where to get hep Teacher s notes a. Organisation b. The hep it can offer c. How to contact them Fyer (1/4) Neighbourhood Watch heps you get to know your neighbours better heps you keep your home and your area safe Visit their website: Fyer (2/4) Metropoitan Poice gives advice on how to protect your home Ca: 101 Visit their website: crimeprevention Fyer (3/4) Women s Aid gives advice, hep and information about domestic vioence Ca: Visit their websites: or Fyer (4/4) Metropoitan Poice tes what to do when there s a caer at the door Ca: 101 non-emergency number or 999 emergency number 9. Check the main purpose of each text with the whoe group. Then ask earners to match the phrases from the previous matching activity with the correct fyer. 10. Expain that Domestic Vioence is a situation when a person is treated bady at home by a partner or famiy member. For exampe, if someone is not aowed to do what he or she wants, or is not aowed to visit friends and famiy, or is hurt physicay. This coud be expained in Bengai, if necessary. 11. Give out Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Worksheet, one for each earner. Aow earners some time to read the questions on the worksheet and then ask them to work together to do Activity 1. Encourage them to refer to the fyers. Check the answers together. Answers: a. T; b. F; c. T; d. F; e. T; f. F; g. F; h. F. 12. Then ask earners to compete the gap fi sentences in Activity 2. Encourage higher eve earners to support other earners in the group. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: a. door; b. nationa; c. out; d. confidentia; e. prevent; f. keep. 13. Dri the sentences in Activity Stick the Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Headings onto the wa or board or pace on a tabe. Check that earners understand that we ca 101 in a non-emergency situation and 999 in an emergency. Expain to earners that they are going to ook at some situations and decide if they an emergency or not. Learning Unimited 15

16 TaLE project Staying safe outside the home 2: Where to get hep Teacher s notes 15. Give out the Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Cards. You can adjust the number of cards according to the eves of the students. Ask earners to discuss their cards together and stick/pace their card(s) under an appropriate heading. Answers: 101 non-emergency number 999 emergency number There is a caer at the door. He says he is from the counci. He doesn t have an ID. Your bicyce has been stoen from outside the fat. Chidren are paying footba outside. They ve broken your window. There s a fire in your neighbour s garden. You see a stranger in your neighbour s garden. He is trying to get inside. Your neighbour is on hoiday. Your neighbour fas over. She hurts her head and does not move. 16. Extension activities: A. Print off copies of the Met Poice eafet on Staying safe at home. You can cut it up so earners can: match the images with a key word or phrase from each sentence (beginner readers) match the images with the sentences try to remember and write the sentence for each picture pay pemansim have a copy to take home (whoe eafet). B. Divide earners into sma groups. Ask earners to make a poster about safety at home using the ideas in the tabe, the fyers and adding their own ideas. Encourage them to use the anguage in Activity 2. Ask earners to present their posters to the cass. 16 Learning Unimited

17 Staying safe outside the home TaLE project 2: Where to get hep Matching cards % Prevent burgaries Confidentia advice Nationa hepine Use a door chain Learning Unimited 17

18 TaLE project Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Fyers (1/4) Neighbourhood Watch heps you to: get to know your neighbours better keep your home safe make your area safe and cean prevent burgaries To find your oca Neighbourhood Watch, visit: 18 Learning Unimited

19 Staying safe at home TaLE project 2: Where to get hep Fyers (1/4) Keep your home safe Don t eave your keys near doors or windows Cose and ock a your doors and windows when you go out Keep your vauabes in a safe For more information ca the poice non-emergency number: 101 or visit: Learning Unimited 19

20 TaLE project Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Fyers (3/4) domestic vioence Do you need confidentia advice or hep? Ca Women s Aid 24 hour free nationa hepine: For more information, visit Are you worried about your safety? In an emergency, ca: Learning Unimited

21 Staying safe at home TaLE project 2: Where to get hep Fyers (4/4) DoorStep Safety Someone at your door? Look out of the window Use a door chain Don t open the door for peope you don t know Ask caers to come back when someone is with you Are you worried about your safety? Ca the poice: Emergency number: 999 Non-emergency number: Learning Unimited 21

22 TaLE project Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Worksheet 1. Read the fyers and mark the statements True (T) or Fase (F). a. You can find your oca Neighbourhood Watch onine. b. There is a Neighbourhood Watch hepine number. c. You can keep your passport in a safe. d. You can ca 999 for more information about keeping your home safe. e. Women s Aid can give advice about domestic vioence. f. Women s Aid is ony for women in London. g. You can open the door for strangers. h. 101 is an emergency number. 2. Fi in the gaps. prevent nationa out Keep confidentia door a. Use a. chain. b. Ca a 24 hour free hepine. c. Look..of the window. d. Ask for. advice. e. Lock your doors to.. burgaries. f. your home safe. 22 Learning Unimited

23 Staying safe at home TaLE project 2: Where to get hep Headings % Learning Unimited 23

24 TaLE project Staying safe at home 2: Where to get hep Cards % There is a caer at the door. He says he is from the counci. He doesn t have ID. Your bicyce has been stoen from outside your home. Chidren are paying footba outside. They ve broken your window. There s a fire in your neighbours garden. There is a stranger trying to get inside your neighbour s house. Your neighbour is on hoiday. You need some advice about making your home safe. 24 Learning Unimited

25 Staying safe at home TaLE project 3: Phoning for hep and support Teacher s notes 1. Preparation: Print one handout for each earner: Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Worksheet Print, aminate and cut up sets of cards one for each group: Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Conversation cards. Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Cards. Save Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Listening fie onto a aptop or memory stick and ensure there are speakers avaiabe in cass. 2. To set the context, expain that the earners are going to isten to a woman phoning the poice 101 (the non-emergency poice phone number). Ask earners to discuss in sma groups why someone might ca 101. What do they remember from the fyers in Section 2? 3. Pre-teach/revise: stranger. Write these questions on the board: What is the ca about? Does the woman get hep? 4. Pay the recording. Ask earners to isten and answer the questions. Check the answers as a whoe group. 5. Give out the Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Worksheet. Ask earners to do Activity 1. Carify the meaning of True and Fase. Pay the recording again and ask earners to mark the statements True or Fase. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: a. F; b. T; c. F; d. T; e. F; f. T. 6. Ask earners to compete Activity 2. Pay the recording again if necessary. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: a. course; b. I ; c. What s; d. name s; e. Can; f. correct; g. worry. 7. Divide earners into sma into sma groups. If possibe, make sure there is a higher eve earner in each group. Give out the Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Conversation cards. Ask earners to put the cards into the correct order for the conversation. Encourage them to use their first anguage and/or a biingua dictionary if appropriate. 9. Pay the recording for earners to check their answers. Check the answers as a whoe group. Ask earners to work in pairs to practice the conversation. 10. To focus on target structures, pay the recording again but stop after each turn to eicit the anguage to ask for and give information and ask for and give persona detais, e.g. How does the poice officer answer the phone? Heo, Metropoitan Poice. How can I hep you? Then dri the conversation ine by ine. Learning Unimited 25

26 TaLE project Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Teacher s notes 11. Expain that earners are now going to roe pay phoning for hep and/or advice in different situations. Give out Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Cards. Ask earners to match the probems and advice. Check the answers as a whoe group. 12. Ask earners to discuss which numbers they think they need to ca in each situation. Refer back to the fyers in Section 2. Answer: 101 these are a non-emergency situations. 13. Ask earners to choose one situation and roe pay it in pairs. Encourage earners to use the conversation cards, probems/advice cards and add their own ideas. 14. Invite a coupe of confident pairs to perform the conversation in front of the cass. Ask them to sit back to back so they can t see each other. Heo. Metropoitan Poice. How can I hep you? There s a stranger at my door. I asked him to eave but he won t go away. Is your door cosed and ocked? Yes, but he s asking me to open it. Don t open the door. I send a poice officer to your home. OK. Thank you. What s your name, address and teephone number, pease? My name s Ritu Begum. That s Ri-tu Begum Be-gum. 95 Eieen House, Pumstead Road, London SE18 7DQ. And your teephone number? It s Can I just doube check that, pease? Yes. Ritu Begum? Yes 95 Eieen House, Pumstead Road, SE18 7DQ? Yes, that s right That s right. Thank you. Don t worry, a poice officer wi be with you soon. Ca back if you need to. Thank you very much. 26 Learning Unimited

27 Staying safe at home TaLE project 3: Phoning for hep and support Worksheet Heo. Metropoitan Poice. How can I hep you? There s a stranger at my door Listen again and mark statements True (T) or Fase (F) a. Ritu is caing Women s Aid. b. There s a stranger at her door and he doesn t want to eave. c. The door is open. d. The poice officer asks her name, address and teephone number. e. Her phone number is f. A poice officer is coming to her home soon. 2. Fi in the gaps. I name s hep right can worry What s a. How can I. you? b. send a poice officer to your home. c. your name, address and teephone number? d. My. Ritu Begum. e. I just doube check that, pease? f. Yes, that s. g. Don t, a poice officer wi be with you soon. Learning Unimited 27

28 TaLE project Staying safe at home 3: Phoning for hep and support Conversation cards % Heo. Metropoitan Poice. How can I hep you? There s a stranger at my door. I asked him to eave, but he won t go away. Is your door cosed and ocked? Yes, but he s asking me to open it. Don t open the door. I send a poice officer to your home. OK, thank you. What s your name, address and teephone number, pease? My name s Ritu Begum. That s Ri-tu Begum Be-gum. 95 Eieen House, Pumstead Road, London SE18 7DQ. And your teephone number? It s Can I just doube check that, pease? Ritu Begum? Yes 95 Eieen House, Pumstead Road, SE18 7DQ? Yes, that s right That s right. Thank you. Don t worry, a poice officer wi be with you soon. Ca back if you need to. Thank you very much. 28 Learning Unimited

29 Staying safe at home TaLE project 3: Phoning for hep and support Cards % There s a man at the door. He says he s from the counci. He doesn t have ID. Don t open the door. Ask him to come back when someone is with you. Chidren are paying footba outside. They ve broken a window Try to speak to their parents first. My bicyce has been stoen from outside my home. Go to the oca poice station to report it. Learning Unimited 29

30 TaLE project Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Teacher s notes 1. Preparation: Print, aminate and cut up sets of cards one for each group: Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Matching cards Print one handout for each earner: Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Worksheet Save Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Listening fies onto a aptop or memory stick and ensure there is a aptop with speakers to use in cass Large sheets of paper and crayons/cooured pencis for the option a. in the fina activity. 2. To set the context, write the foowing names on the board (but do not number these) Kate, Khadija, Nadia, Sam. Expain that these are four teachers and earners in the UK. They describe how they keep their homes safe in the UK. Eicit a few ideas about what they might hear. 3. Give out Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Matching cards. Divide earners into pairs or sma groups. If possibe, make sure there is a higher eve earner in each group. Ask earners to match the cards. Encourage them to use their first anguage and/or a biingua dictionary, if appropriate. Check the answers and the meaning as a whoe group and then dri the phrases. 4. Give out the Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Worksheet. Ask earners to discuss what they see in each image in Activity 1, i.e. a poster for Neighbourhood Watch, a UK scheme that heps peope in oca areas to work together to stay safe; a hand coming through a front door etter box; neighbours having a cup of tea and chatting; jeweery. 5. Ask earners to number the images in the order they hear about them in the corner of each image and say the name of the speaker. Pay Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Listening fies. Check the answers as a whoe group. 6. Listening transcripts and answers: 1. My name s Nadia. I aways make sure I cose and ock a the windows and doors before I eave home. I aso don t eave my keys in the ock. 2. My name s Khadija. I never eave my jeweery out, not even in the bedroom. Burgars know where to ook. I keep my jeweery in a safe. 3. My name s Kate. I eave the ights on when I go out at night and say, See you ater! even if no one s at home. I got this idea from a Neighbourhood Watch meeting. 4. My name s Sam. I get on we with my neighbours. We ook after each other s homes when we go away. 30 Learning Unimited

31 Staying safe at home TaLE project 4: Keeping your home safe Teacher s notes 7. Ask earners to read the statements in Activity 2. Check that they understand them and that each one is either True or Fase. Pay each recording again and ask earners to work in pairs and mark the statements True or Fase. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: a. F; b. T; c. F; d. T; e. T. 8. Ask earners to compete the gap fi activity. Pay the recording again, if necessary. Check the answers as a whoe group. Answers: a. near or in (check that earners understand the difference); b. in; c. on. 9. Foow this up with a whoe group discussion. Discuss the foowing questions: Why is it a bad idea to eave your keys in or near the door? Why is it a good idea to keep your vauabes in a safe? Why shoud we eave ights on when we eave home? 10. Finish by eiciting and recapping the main earning from this section and any key words/phrases. Eicit the correct speings or invite earners to write the words with correct speing onto the board. Learners can then copy the words in their notebook. 11. Extension activity: If there is time, earners can choose an activity to work on in sma groups to consoidate the earning from this unit on the theme of Staying safe at home in the UK. Encourage earners to ook back at a sections. If possibe, make sure there is a higher eve earner in each group: a. Make a poster, mind-map or spidergram. Ask earners to present their posters to the cass. b. Write a short quiz to test other earners a. Have a whoe cass debate about the main simiarities and differences between staying safe at home in Bangadesh and the UK b. Write some questions to ask famiy members in the UK. Learning Unimited 31

32 TaLE project Staying safe at home 4: Keeping your home safe Matching cards % Leave the ights on Go away Keep vauabes in a safe Get on we 32 Learning Unimited

33 Staying safe at home TaLE project 4: Keeping your home safe Worksheet 2. Listen again and mark the statements True (T) or Fase (F). a. Nadia eaves her keys in the ock. b. Khadija keeps her jeweery in a safe. c. Kate turns her ights off when she goes out at night. d. Kate gets safety ideas from Neighbourhood Watch. e. Sam and her neighbour ook after each other s homes. 3. Listen again and fi in the gaps. in near on a. I don t eave my keys the door. b. I keep my jeweery a safe. c. I get we with my neighbours Learning Unimited 33

34 TaLE project Staying safe at home Acknowedgements The Teaching and Learning Engish project, ed by Learning Unimited and deivered in partnership with UKBET, St Gies Educationa Trust and Greenwich Community Coege, was funded through the European Integration Fund. This ESOL topic-based unit was produced as part of the EIF funded Teaching and Learning Engish (TaLE) project. The materias were written by Ege Pavioniene (Greenwich Community Coege) with support from Karen Dudey and Judith Kirsh (Learning Unimited), and the TaLE project advisory group. We are gratefu to UKBET and Greenwich Community Coege teachers and earners for pioting these materias and for their vauabe feedback and suggestions. We are aso gratefu to Greenwich Community coege staff and earners for giving us permission to use their images. Additiona copyright free images were sourced from Microsoft Cipart onine. For more information or to contact us, pease visit 34 Learning Unimited