Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 76
Sphere chant
Apples and onions,
The moon and the sun.
These are spheres – every one.
The world is a sphere – spin, spin, spin.
The world is the sphere that we live in!
Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
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4.7 New Year celebrations
Level
**
Language focus
Vocabulary: size, colour, adjectives, nouns, names of
countries
Skills focus
Listening for details
Thinking focus
Sorting
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Group work
Preparation
Photocopy the listening grids for the children to complete.
Their copies should contain only the headings in the shaded
areas of the grid. See Box 77.
Procedure
1 Tell the class that people all over the world celebrate the New Year in
different ways. If you have time, ask them to tell you briefly how they
celebrate the New Year.
2 Divide the class into teams with four children in each team. Allocate one
of the headings to each member of the team: size, colour, other adjective
and noun. See Box 77.
3 Tell the children that each person in the team has to listen for different
key words.
4 Read out the sentences from Box 78, allowing enough time for each
member to write down their key word and complete the listening grid.
Note: In this activity, check that the less able learners listen for vocabulary
like size or colour, and the more advanced learners listen for the other
adjective or the noun.