Unit all about me Lesson I can speak English Forms: Date

Activity 2 Play “Say in order”. 5 min

Objective: to reinforce saying the months in order

This is a usual Chain Drill activity. You can organise it in pairs, rows or the whole class according to your choice. Pupil A says a month, Pupil bsays the month next to that month in order.

Activity 3a Look and guess. 5 min

Objectives: to raise awareness of the short forms of the months;

to prepare for the next activity.explain to the pupils that sometimes they may meet some short forms as shown in their textbooks. They are the first three letters of the months so there should not be any problem to guess

what short forms are for what months.

Answer Key:Dec — December; Sep — September; Mar —

March; Jun — June; Aug — August; Oct — October; Jul — July;

May — May; Apr — April; Jan — January; Nov — November;

Feb — February

Homework 5 min

Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks on Page 59 and look at the table in homework 1. Explain that some months have 30 days and some have 31, and there is one which has even less than 30 days. The task is to find these months and write them in a relevant box.