Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Contents
Introduction
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1 Animals
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1.1 What animals do you know? (*)
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1.2 Describing well-known animals (*)
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1.3 Animals moving about (*)
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1.4 Animal rhythms (*)
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1.5 Singing about animals (*)
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1.6 Writing an animal Haiku (*)
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1.7 Wild animals (**)
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1.8 What animal am I? (**)
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1.9 Guess the animal in 20 questions (**)
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1.10 Personal animal recount (**)
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1.11 Animal raps (**)
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1.12 Animal habitats (**)
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1.13 Animal information report (***)
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1.14 Human attributes of animals (***)
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1.15 Animal advertisements (***)
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1.16 Animal conversations (***)
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1.17 Animal escape (***)
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1.18 Which dog has a better life? (***)
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2 Journeys
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2.1 A beach holiday (*)
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2.2 Describing what we can do on a beach holiday (*)
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2.3 Types of transport (*)
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2.4 Transport: odd one out (*)
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2.5 A travel sociogram (*)
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2.6 A beach holiday checklist (*)
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2.7 Travelling to school (**)
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2.8 About the weather (**)
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2.9 Advice for a visitor (**)
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2.10 How do you come to school? (**)
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2.11 Guess the local place (**)
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2.12 Writing a ‘late note’ for the teacher (**)
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2.13 Travel diary from space (***)
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2.14 Singing about journeys (***)
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2.15 UFO (***)
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2.16 Science fiction (***)
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2.17 Holidays in space (***)
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2.18 About Mars (***)
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3 Fantasy and adventure
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3.1 The king and the dragon (*)
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3.2 The pirate (*)
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3.3 Adventurers and heroes (*)
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3.4 Witch’s magic potion (*)
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3.5 Good king bad king (*)
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3.6 Draw a dinosaur (*)
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3.7 Wizard interview (**)
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3.8 Turned into a rabbit! (**)
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3.9 Queen’s family (**)
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3.10 Fairy tale people (**)
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3.11 Contrasting fairies and witches (**)
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3.12 Three wishes (**)
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3.13 Jack and the beanstalk (***)
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3.14 Goldilocks (***)
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3.15 Fortune telling (***)
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3.16 House of horrors (***)
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3.17 The king’s challenge (***)
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3.18 Create a fantasy tale (***)
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4 The world around us
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4.1 Rivers of the world (*)
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4.2 Map making (*)
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4.3 Drawing my natural world (*)
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4.4 North, south, east and west (*)
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4.5 Geographical tongue twisters (*)
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4.6 Sphere shapes (*)
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4.7 New Year celebrations (**)
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4.8 New Year’s Day emails (**)
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4.9 Loy Krathong Festival from Thailand (**)
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4.10 Pinocchio: an Italian story (**)
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4.11 Carnival in Brazil (**)
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4.12 Popular Asian game (**)
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4.13 Natural disasters (***)
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4.14 Pompeii (***)
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4.15 Safety guidelines (***)
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4.16 Current affairs recount (***)
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4.17 Earthquakes and floods (***)
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4.18 Emergency procedures (***)
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5 Healthy bodies
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5.1 Grandma! What big eyes you’ve got! (*)
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5.2 Callisthenics (*)
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5.3 Create your own dance (*)
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5.4 Healthy morning routine (*)
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5.5 Staying clean and healthy (*)
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5.6 Footprints (*)
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5.7 Doctor! Doctor! (**)
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5.8 Safety (**)
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5.9 A healthy lifestyle (**)
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5.10 Our feelings (**)
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5.11 Absent from school (**)
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5.12 Unhealthy activities (**)
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5.13 The senses (***)
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5.14 An accident (***)
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5.15 Get well card (***)
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5.16 Personal affirmations (***)
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5.17 Healthy and unhealthy foods (***)
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5.18 Food pyramid (***)
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6 About me
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6.1 My family (*)
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6.2 My classroom (*)
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6.3 My home (*)
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6.4 My school books (*)
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6.5 My free time (*)
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6.6 My mum’s mobile phone (*)
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6.7 My friends (**)
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6.8 My birthday party (**)
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6.9 My school excursion (**)
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6.10 My sporting skills (**)
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6.11 My favourite TV show (**)
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6.12 My favourite party game (**)
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6.13 My computer class (***)
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6.14 My mathematics class (***)
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6.15 My science class (***)
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6.16 My social education class (***)
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6.17 My poetry class (***)
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6.18 My music class (***)
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