Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 97
Healthy habits
Wash your face
Wash your dishes
Brush your hair
Wash your clothes
Clean your teeth
Wash your glasses
Clean your shoes
Wash your socks
Wash your hair
Wash your hands
5.6 Footprints
Level
*
Language focus
Vocabulary: nouns – what we wear on our feet; verbs – what
our feet can do
Skills focus
Dictionary work
Thinking focus
Selecting and investigating
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Small group work
Preparation
Provide each group with a large sheet of paper, large crayons
and a number of bilingual dictionaries.
Procedure
1 Tell the children to fold their large sheet of paper in half and make a line
along the middle of the page (horizontally).
2 Ask one member of each group to take off his/her shoes and socks, and
stand on the line on the large sheet of paper with half the feet in the top
half of the paper, and half the feet in the bottom part of the paper.
3 Then one group member traces around the feet of their classmate, leaving
two footprints on the line in the middle of the page.
Healthy bodies
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4 Meanwhile, some group members use their dictionaries and try to fill up
the top half of the paper with words which describe what we can do with
our feet, leaving the footprint as an illustration in the middle of the page.
See Box 98.
5 The other group members try to fill up the bottom half of the paper with
the names of things we can wear on our feet. For all group members,
encourage them to use their dictionaries to find the English words they
want to write.