Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 72
Having fun in nature: sentences
1 He/She is flying over a mountain.
2 He/She is jumping in a river.
3 He/She is riding around an island on a bike.
4 He/She is running on a beach.
5 He/She is swimming under the sea.
6 He/She is swimming across a lake.
7 He/She is walking behind a waterfall.
8 He/She is sitting on a mountain.
4.4 North, south, east and west
Level
*
Language focus
Chant, vocabulary: names of cities and countries
Skills focus
Speaking: stress patterns
Thinking focus
Inventing
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 Point to the north and ask the children to copy you and say North.
2 Now point to the south, the east and then the west, and each time ask the
children to point and say the word.
3 Together, chant North, south, east and west in a singsong style, taking
care to stress all words except and. Each time the children say a direction,
get them to point in that direction.
4 Next, ask the children to name a favourite place in the world. It could
be their own town or country, or it could be a place they would like to
visit.
5 Write the place on the board and make a note of the number of syllables it
has and where the stress falls. See Box 73 for some examples.
6 Add this place to the chant. The children will now say something like