Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

6.16 My social education class
Level
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Language focus
Making suggestions, modal verbs, conjunctions
Skills focus
Speaking
Thinking focus
Creating
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Group work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
On the board, write the words Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Then
write the sentence stems from Box 127.
Procedure
1 Remind the class that everybody should play a part in protecting the
environment and one way to help is through limiting the amount of
rubbish we generate at school and at home.
2 Direct their attention to the three words on the board (Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle) and explain these terms in their first language.
3 Tell the children that you want them to come up with suggestions about
how they could implement these environmental principles at home and at
school.
4 Divide the class into three groups. Allocate one of the words on the board
to each group. If you have a large class, divide the children into six or
nine groups, and divide the words on the board between the groups.
5 Now ask the children to use the sentence stems to make suggestions
about how to reduce, reuse or recycle waste. See Box 127 for some ideas.
Encourage each person in the group to make a suggestion.
6 Mingle among the groups and offer praise and other suggestions.
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