Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

6.10 My sporting skills
Level
**
Language focus
Procedure, imperative
Skills focus
Writing
Thinking focus
Creating
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Write the sample procedure on a transparency. See Box 120.
Procedure
1 Divide the class into pairs. Try to match children with similar sporting
interests.
2 Ask the children to think about one specific skill they need in order to be
successful in their sport. It could be how to hold a bat, how to serve in
tennis, or how to dive into a pool. For those who do not play a sport,
encourage them to choose leisure activities like how to bait a fishing
hook, or musical skills like how to hold a violin.
3 Show the children the sample procedure from Box 120 and read it
together.
4 Ask the children to write four or five steps to describe a skill to a Martian.
They should keep their sentences short and begin each sentence with the
imperative form of the verb.
5 Select children to read out their instructions to their classmates.
About me
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