Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Procedure
1 Tell the children that although fairies and witches are both females with
magical powers, they are very different.
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2 Refer to the headings on the board and ask the children, in pairs, to help
you complete the grid. Encourage them to use their dictionaries and class
wallcharts to add a variety of descriptors.
Box 59
Fairies and witches
Type
Appearance
Clothes
Transport
Size
Tools Pets
of
for
magic
magic
Fairies
good,
beautiful, bright, wings
very 
wand
no 
kind
cute, pretty
colourful,
small
pets
pink dress
Witches
bad,
ugly, thin, 
black skirt
broomstick
same
spells
black
evil
large nose 
and shirt or
as a
cat
dress,
person
hat
Follow-up
• Ask the children to write sentences about how these two magical females
differ. Tell them that but is a good contrast word to join their ideas, e.g.
Fairies are kind and good, but witches are bad and evil.
• You could ask the children to tell you of stories they have read about bad
fairies and good witches. They could make a new grid and include
adjectives to describe these characters.