Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4.3 Drawing my natural world
Level
*
Language focus
Prepositions of place, present continuous tense
Skills focus
Reading and speaking
Thinking focus
Illustrating and interpreting
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Write the sentences from Box 72 onto separate pieces of
paper.
Procedure
1 Divide the class into groups with three children in each group.
2 Ask one child from each group to come to the front of the class, and
show them a sentence from Box 72. Each child should see the same
sentence clue.
3 They return to their groups and, without speaking, draw the information
you have shown them.
4 The first group to guess the answer and correctly say the sentence wins a
point.
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5 Then the next person in each group has a chance to read one of your
sentences and draw the information for their group.
6 Continue until all group members have had a chance to participate.