Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Thinking focus
Classifying
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Write the information report headings and questions on the
board from Box 15, e.g. FOOD: What do koalas eat?
Procedure
1 Explain the meaning of the information report headings to the children.
2 Then choose a sentence at random from the sample information report in
Box 15. Read the sentence out to the class.
3 The children have to listen to the sentence and guess which heading
matches your sentence. For example, if you read out Babies are born in
summer or spring, the children should connect this sentence with the
Breeding heading.