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

Activity 2a Look, listen and repeat. 10 min

Objective: to introduce the structure “there is/are”

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the bees and read the sentence ‘There is one calendar.’ together with you. After that point to the door and say ‘There is one door in the room.’ The pupils repeat after you in chorus. help the pupils to guess the meaning of the sentences. if necessary translate the sentences. say some more examples pointing to objects in singular and have the pupils repeat your sentences after you in chorus.

STEP 2: Point to the 2nd bee and read the sentence ‘There are four pictures.’ together with the pupils in chorus. Ask the pupils to guess the meaning of the sentence. if necessary translate the sentence. After that point to the windows and say ‘There are three/two windows in the room.’ The pupils repeat after you in chorus. Ask them to translate the sentence. help them to start translating with “Xonada ...” in Uzbek/“Вкомнате ...” in Russian. say some more examples pointing to objects in plural and have the pupils repeat your sentences after you in chorus.

STEP 3: Ask the pupils to look at the picture again and make sentences about the objects on the table using “There is/are”.