Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 51
Good king story
Good king
Bad king
In a faraway place there lives a good king.
bad
He is very young and handsome.
old and ugly
He wears beautiful, clean, new clothes.
ugly, dirty, old
For breakfast he eats eggs.
snakes
For lunch he eats bananas.
horse hair
For supper he eats rice.
children
All day he drinks orange juice.
onion juice
Follow-up
• The children write the description of the bad king. They illustrate their
description and display it in the classroom.
• For other narratives, see Activities 2.16, 3.13, 3.14, 3.18, 4.10, 5.1, 6.18.
Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
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3.6 Draw a dinosaur
Level
*
Language focus
Description, vocabulary: body parts, numbers, colours
Skills focus
Listening for details
Thinking focus
Recalling
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Ask the class to take out coloured pencils and paper. Tell them they are
going to draw a mystery animal.
2 Explain to the children that the drawing is a side-on view of the animal,
and demonstrate this by standing side-on to the class, e.g. they will see
only one eye.
3 Carefully read out the description of the mystery animal from Box 52,
one line at a time.
4 When you have finished, check the children’s drawings to see that
they have followed your instructions. Ask them to guess what they
have drawn. They should have something resembling a Tyrannosaurus
Rex.
Follow-up
Ask the children to prepare their own descriptions of a mystery animal. Ask
them, in pairs, to describe their animal for their partner to draw. They
should then check that their partner has understood their instructions.
Fantasy and adventure
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