Unit 5

Lesson 1

• In your house, look at the text. DON'T PANIC - the text is long. Highlight the words you know and in your house try to understand the meaning. Highlight the name of the different subjects and what they are about. If you can, highlight when they occur.
• Figure out the title of the unit: 2 words, 9 letters SCHOOL SUBJECTS).

"And then, […] there were the classes themselves. […]They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for.

Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. At the start of their
first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harry's name he gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight.

Professor McGonagall was again different. Harry had been quite right to think she wasn't a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class.

"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."

Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again. They were all very impressed and couldn't wait to get started, but soon realised they weren't going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time. After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson,
only Hermione Granger had made any difference to her match; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile.

The class everyone had really been looking forward to was Defence Against the Dark Arts, but Quirrell's lessons turned out to be a bit of
a joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to ward off a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid would be coming back to get him one of these days. His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but they weren't sure they believed this story.
For one thing, when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly to hear how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pink and started talking about the weather; for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed
full of garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went.

Harry was very relieved to find out that he wasn't miles behind everyone else. Lots of people had come from Muggle families and, like him, hadn't had any idea that they were witches and wizards. There was so much to learn that even people like Ron didn't have much of a head start.

Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. […]

"What have we got today?" Harry asked Ron as he poured sugar on his porridge.

"Double Potions with the Slytherins," said Ron. "Snape's Head of Slytherin House. They say he always favours them -- we'll be able to see if it's true."

"Wish McGonagall favoured us, " said Harry. Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, but it hadn't stopped her from giving them a huge
pile of homework the day before.[…]

It was lucky that Harry had tea with Hagrid to look forward to, because the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst thing that had happened to him so far.

Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons. It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls."

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling, ch. The Potions Master, pp. 106-9

• Figure out the name of the unit.
• Make a list of all the subjects and the classrooms of the school

Lesson 2

Time:

• Do the worksheets on time and the exercices. 

Timetable:

• Try to describe the timetable in the school

When does school start?
When does it finish?
When is recess?
When is lunch?

Lesson 3

• Listen to Ryan's timetable and fill in the timetable.

Lesson 4

• Ryan's feelings: likes and dislikes. What subject does he like? Which ones does he hate?
• Vocabulary Treasure Hunt: find 7 adjectives to qualify one's opinion per house. Try to answer the following questions: what is your favourite subject? What is your most hated subject? Why?

Lesson 5

• In groups of 3: 3 picks a subject, 1 & 2 choose a word to say if they like it or not. 3 has to write a sentence to tell the class of their opinion

=> 3 sentences per group

Lesson 6

• Have a look at the different activities you can do around the house.

Now, have a look at the worksheet below and with your neighbour, try to find as many answers as you can. 

Then do the next one. 

Now that you know some vocabulary, try to describe how often you do them at home using the help below. 

=> Assignment: Try to find an example for each adverb with a chore and write 3 sentences. 

FINAL TASK

Write a comic strip about your typical day and another about someone else's typical day. Use the vocabulary from the unit, house chores, school subjects, and as many adverbs of frequency as you can.