Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 113
Household items
Ordinal number clue
Household list
Example: Write the third word.
Example: clock, TV, chair
Write the second and fifth words.
phone, cupboard, mat, lamp, bath
Write the second, fourth
bed, armchair, garden, mirror,
and fifth words.
bookcase, table
Write the third, sixth, seventh
camera, lamp, radio, bed, phone, sofa,
and ninth words.
window, chair, door, bath
Write the second, fourth, fifth,
mat, garden, bookcase, TV, clock, bed,
eighth and tenth words.
door, table, camera, box
Follow-up
This activity can be adapted to include any vocabulary that you want to
revise.
About me
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6.4 My school books
Level
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Language focus
Label, vocabulary: classroom book labelling
Skills focus
Reading and writing
Thinking focus
Recalling and naming
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
If you have time, create label templates on your computer and
print them onto sticky paper. Otherwise, simply write the
label template on the board. See Box 114.
Procedure
1 Tell the children that they are going to create personalised labels for their
English exercise books.
2 Draw their attention to the six headings in the label template. See Box
114. Make sure they know the meaning of each of these headings.
3 Ask the children to complete the template with their own details.
Box 114