English Teacher

Pre-Activity

Activity 1 Listen and sing.
Objective: to warm up
Explain that the pupils are going to listen to the song “One and two” and play the DVD. Tapescript:
One and two and three and four I am playing with a ball I am sitting on the floor And a little pretty doll.
After listening to the song, ask the pupils which words they have heard and recognised from the song. Translate the song together with the pupils. Then you can have the pupils listen to the song once again and have them sing only the words that they know. Thus, when the numbers are being sung, show the numbers with your fingers. When the “floor” is being said, point to the floor. As regards to the words “ball” and “doll”, shows appropriate pictures.

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Activity 2 Look, listen and say.
Objectives: to revise colours; to practise the pronunciation of the sound [æ]
P ut red, yellow, green, blue, pink, orange, purple, white and brown colour flashcards in front of the blackboard. Have the pupils say them. Then add black and white flashcards. Here have the pupils practise the sound [ ] in “black” in chorus and individually.
Then remind the pupils that they have already met the English gentlemen Mr Brown and Mr Black. Make a special stop at pink and white colours, and ask who these colours in their opinion are: girls Miss or gentlemen Mister. Ask the children why they think so. Children usually give different answers. As a teacher accept them all without any criticism. The main thing is that the pupils worked with colours. If the pupils remember the other colours, encourage them and prompt.
Activity 3 Play “Run and Say Colours”.
Objective: to revise colours
Put colour flashcards in 2 rows of 5 on the blackboard. They look like the racetrack for runners.
First, have the pupils repeat all the colours after you in chorus. Then divide the class into two teams. Explain that they are runners. Each team has its colour track. Show each team their tracks. From each team one pupil comes to the blackboard. They must say all of the colours in a row from the first to the last flashcard, all the five colours as quickly as possible. This means that he/she is running on the track. Each pupil at the blackboard can be helped by his/her team. Every time new pupils from the teams come to the blackboard, you must change the colours. Play 2-3 times. The team that best coped with the task is the winner.