Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
Download 0.87 Mb. Pdf ko'rish
|
five-minute-activities-for-young-learners-by-mckay-and-guse
- Bu sahifa navigatsiya:
- Procedure 1
- 5.13 The senses Level *** Language focus Vocabulary: parts of the body, sensing verbs, appraisal adjectives Skills focus
|
5.12 Unhealthy activities
Level ** Language focus Past continuous and simple present tense, vocabulary: ailments Skills focus Reading Thinking focus Locating and matching Teaching approach Promote accuracy – correct errors Interaction Whole class work Preparation Photocopy the sentence strips from Box 104. You will probably have to make a few copies. Cut the sentences up into individual sentence strips. Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners 114 Procedure 1 Jumble the sentence strips and distribute them around the class: one sentence strip for each child. 2 Tell the children that some of them will have an unhealthy activity, and others will have the results or consequences of this activity. 3 Each child then silently reads his/her own sentence strip and circulates around the room to find a partner with a matching sentence strip, i.e. they match an unhealthy activity to a consequence. 4 When they think they have a match, they read out the activity and the consequence to the class. Box 104 Unhealthy activities and their consequences Sentence strips: unhealthy activities Sentence strips: consequences Yesterday I was listening to loud CDs Today I have an earache. all day. Yesterday I was swimming in the hot sun Today I have sunburn. all day. Yesterday I was eating chips Today I have a stomach all day. ache. Yesterday I was crunching sweets Today I have a toothache. all day. Yesterday I was playing in the snow Today I have a cold. all day. Yesterday I was playing football Today I have sore legs. all day. Yesterday I was watching TV Today I have sore eyes. all day. Yesterday I was singing loudly Today I have a sore throat. all day. © Cambridge University Press 2007 Healthy bodies 115 5.13 The senses Level *** Language focus Vocabulary: parts of the body, sensing verbs, appraisal adjectives Skills focus Speaking Thinking focus Inventing Teaching approach Promote creativity – accept errors Interaction Group work, suitable for large classes Preparation Write the parts of the body on the board, along with the senses. Make sure you jumble the words in the senses column, so that the children can match them to the body part later. Write the sentence stems on the board. See Box 105. Procedure 1 Divide the class into small groups with five children in each group. Their first task is to match the body part to the sense. 2 Then ask each child to choose one of the senses. Ask the children to think about a pleasant experience and an unpleasant experience when they have used this sense. Some sample answers are in Box 105. 3 Finally, each member shares his/her experience with the group, using the sentence stems from Box 105, e.g. Once I saw a flower. It was beautiful. Box 105 Experiencing the senses Body Senses Sentence Pleasant Unpleasant Download 0.87 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
|