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

Activity 1a Look and say in your mother tongue. 10 min

Objective: to raise awareness of the similarity of months in English and the mother tongue

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the word “months” and the balloons. Give them one or two minutes to try to read the months on the balloons silently for themselves.

STEP 2: Explain the word “months” in the mother tongue.

Then say that the words on the balloons are the months of the year. Then ask the pupils if they could notice any similarities between the months in English and the months in their mother tongue. elicit some answers.

STEP 3: Summarise that all the months in English are similar to those in the mother tongue except some differences in spelling and pronunciation. explain that it is very easy to learn and memorise them if they compare the months in English and the mother tongue. Write the months on the board in the order they are presented on the balloons (not like the order in the calendar!) and their equivalents in the mother tongue.

Language Note: here, explain that in English the months are written with capital letters everywhere in the sentence: at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. However, in the mother tongue they are written with small letters in the middle and at the end but with capital letters at the beginning of the sentence.

STEP 4: Read aloud what you have written on the board one

after another and have the pupils see how much similar and different they are.