Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Fantasy and adventure
3.1 The king and the dragon
Level
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Language focus
Description, simple present tense, prepositions of place
Skills focus
Listening for details
Thinking focus
Recalling
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Procedure
1 On the board, write the key vocabulary for this activity: dragon, tree,
king.
2 Check that the children know the meaning of these words and how they
are pronounced.
3 Now tell the class that you are going to read a small description. You
would like them to draw the picture as you read.
4 Read the dragon description from Box 46 and pause after each sentence
for the children to draw what they hear.
5 Check that the children have accurately represented the events of the
description.
6 Ask the children to share their pictures with their classmates.
Follow-up
Ask the children to write the dragon description in their own words under
their illustration.
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