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

Activity 2 Look and say. 10 min

Objectives: to introduce the words for parts of a day: morning, afternoon, evening;

to introduce the question “What time is it?” and the answer “It is morning/afternoon/evening.”

As the pupils are still shaky on time concepts in Year 2, we found it best to start the first lesson of this unit with establishing morning, afternoon, and evening concepts.

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and say what time of a day they are in their mother tongue. After you get satisfactory answers, draw the pupils’ attention to the words under the pictures. Ask them to guess what ‘morning, afternoon, evening’ mean in the mother tongue. After that, work on the pronunciation of these words: first pronounce the sound [] and then have the pupils repeat it, then the word “morning” after you in chorus and individually. Do the same practice with the sounds [] and [] and the word “afternoon”. Finally, the sound [] and

the word “evening”.

STEP 2: Play the DVD. The pupils watch the scenes at first. When they finish, you may ask some pupils what the questions and the answers in the scenes might be in the mother tongue.

After that play the DVD the second time having the pupils repeat the questions and answers in chorus.

DVD: 1. A scene of a morning with birds singing. The sentence “What time is it?” appears and then its sound. Then the sentence “It is morning.” and its sound. 2. A scene of an afternoon with birds silent. The sentence “What time is it?” appears and then its sound. Then the sentence “It is afternoon.” and its sound. 3. A scene of an evening with birds singing. The sentence “What time is it?” appears and then its sound. Then the sentence “It is evening.” and its sound.