Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 120
How to catch a ball
1 Watch the ball.
2 Bend your knees.
3 Hold up two hands next to your chest.
4 Watch the ball all the way into your hands.
5 Use both hands to catch the ball.
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Follow-up
• The children’s procedures could be decorated with pictures to illustrate
the instructions and then be displayed in the classroom.
• For other procedures and instructions, see Activities 2.9, 3.4, 4.12, 4.15,
4.18, 5.8, 6.13, 6.16.
6.11 My favourite TV show
Level
**
Language focus
Survey, interrogatives
Skills focus
Speaking: accuracy and fluency, listening for details
Thinking focus
Giving examples
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Photocopy the survey questions and the sentence stems from
Box 121.