Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4 Write the answers in the gaps in the cloze activity.
Box 47
Description of a pirate
Cloze activity
Answers
I (1) . . . on a boat.
1 I live on a boat.
I (2) . . . fish every day.
2 I eat fish every day.
I (3) . . . on a wooden leg.
3 I walk on a wooden leg.
I (4) . . . a black hat.
4 I wear a black hat.
I (5) . . . to my parrot.
5 I talk to my parrot.
eat talk wear live walk
Note: In this reading activity, the children may not know the meaning of
wooden, but they would know the word leg. Ask them to guess what kind of
leg the pirate might have. Alternatively, break the word into wood – en. They
may know the word wood and can guess the meaning from there.
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3.3 Adventurers and heroes
Level
*
Language focus
Proper nouns
Skills focus
Pronunciation: stressed and unstressed syllables
Thinking focus
Matching
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Write a list of heroes and adventurers on the board. Choose
from the learners’ column of Box 48. Either select names
which are familiar to the children, or take the opportunity to
introduce some heroes from other cultures. Make sure you
mix up the patterns and write them randomly on the board,
i.e. don’t write all the same patterns together.