Lesson 1 Do you like dancing? Date

Activity 1 Listen and repeat. 5 min Objective: to warm up
STEP 1: Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to "The planting song" and say what the song is about. Accept all reasonable answers.
STEP 2: Play the DVD again and ask the pupils to sing it together with the DVD.
DVD script:
The planting song
Working on the farm all day long
Everybody sings the planting song.
Working on the farm all day long
Everybody sings the planting song.
First you take a seed and put it in the ground, put it in the ground, put it in the ground. Then you get some water and pour it all around, pour it all around, pour it all around.
The first four lines are repeated.
When the sun comes out the light shines down, the light shines down, the light shines down. The leaves grow green and the stem grows brown, the stem grows brown, the stem grows brown._
The first four lines are repeated.
When the fruit is ripe, they'll be big and round, big and round, big and round. We'll pick the fruit and take it to town, take it to town, take it to town.
The first four lines are repeated.
Activity 2 Work in pairs. Play "Telephone". 10 min Objective: to consolidate the material of the previous unit
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to read the telephone conversation silently for a minute. Tell them that it is a joke.
STEP 2: Ask the pupils to work in pairs. Explain that now they will also do a similar joke telephone conversation. The pupils can use their own mobiles or pencil cases as phones.
Activity 3a Look, listen and repeat. 10 min Objectives: to introduce the topic of the unit;
to introduce the new vocabulary of the lesson.
In advance, bring to class a completed "My Plants" booklet (like the one the pupils did about family in Unit 1 and about birds and insects in Revision 3) for the pupils to see. Look at Unit 10 Lesson 2 Activity 4 for the instructions to make a booklet.
STEP 1: Draw the pupils' attention to the topic of the unit "Plants". Explain to them that they know the word "plant" as a verb. It can be a noun, too. Explain its meaning as a verb and noun in mother tongue. Tell the pupils that during this unit they will learn different habitats around the world where animals, fish, birds and plants live. Show the pupils the "My Plants" booklet completed by you. Explain that they will be making one of their own where they will draw a picture of what they learned or something interesting they remember for each lesson.
STEP 2: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and tell the meaning of the words in the mother tongue. Then have them repeat the words (a desert, a mountain, a forest, a water) after you/the DVD several times in chorus, rows and individually.