Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

6.7 My friends
Level
**
Language focus
Song, vocabulary: adjectives describing personal attributes,
leisure activities
Skills focus
Speaking: fluency and rhythm
Thinking focus
Inventing
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
On the board, write the adjectives describing personal
attributes and leisure activities. See Box 117. Prepare a
transparency of the song.
Procedure
1 Show the children the transparency of The friendship song in Box 117 and sing
the song to them. The tune is Edelweiss from the film The Sound of Music. See
the Website appendix on page 149 for an on-line link to the melody.
2 Choose a name from the class and insert it instead of the name in the
sample song. Write the new name onto the transparency.
3 As a class, decide on four personal descriptions of this person and insert
them into the song.
4 Now include one of this person’s leisure-time activities in the song.