Lesson 6 · Needs and Wants

Needs and Wants

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1Can we get all the things we want? Why?
2What is the difference between needs and wants?
3Choose the correct words from the box (preserve, productive, concentration, enroll, gardening, fence, achievements, rare) to complete the sentences.
4Write True or False: statements about 'My Holiday Plan'.
5What two things is the writer going to do during her holiday?
6What is the advantage of doing yoga?
7Is the writer going to yoga classes alone?
8Why couldn't she do gardening in the past?
9What type of plants is she going to grow in the garden?
10What does she plan to do when she goes to the next grade?
11How many syllables do these words have: productive, summer, preserve, concentration, plant, herbal, fence, achievement, holiday, gardening?
12Complete the sentences from 'My Holiday Plan' with the correct words, then say what class of words they are and what tense they are in.
13Complete these sentences about yourself with correct verb forms: my friend, my parents, our school, tea or coffee, classes, homework, dancing, money.
14Write a short essay of about 100 words on how you spend your holidays.
15Listening: write True or False. (a) We must have food to live. (b) Shelter keeps us safe. (c) People have the same needs to stay safe and healthy. (d) Games and computers are necessary for us to live. (e) We don't need any of the things if we want to survive.
16Listening: complete each sentence with only one word. (a) We need food to ......... (b) It's ......... to decide if something is a need or a want. (c) A hamburger is a type of ......... (d) Trees and ......... create other things we need and want.
17Categorise these into NEEDS and WANTS: food, computer, water, cold drinks, air, mobile phones, shelter.
18Does the elephant in the picture look happy or sad? Why? Where do you think he wants to go?
19Find the rhyming words in the poem for: fight, pill, play.
20Write True or False: statements about 'The Circus Elephant'.
21Have you ever been to a circus? What types of things did you see there, or what do you think you would find there?
22Choose the correct response for each first conditional sentence.
23Complete the sentences: if you want to be an engineer, a pilot, a driver, a teacher; if you work hard; if you don't sleep well.
24Put the verbs from the brackets into their past forms to complete the story of the farmer and his lazy sons.
25Project work: what do you have to do, and how do you present it?
26What was the problem with the boy in 'Controlling Anger'?
27What did his father give him?
28What do the holes in the wall mean in the boy's life?
29Why does the poet call the circus elephants 'gentle giants'?
30Write three first conditional sentences of your own about your studies.
31Is a school uniform a need or a want? Argue both sides in two sentences each.