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

Activity 2cWork in groups. Play “Clock salad”. 10 min

Objectives: to develop listening skills;

to consolidate the time and the structure “It’s time to …”

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to make a circle. explain that they will play a game “Clock salad”. Ask them what “salad” is in the mother tongue and say it is very simple to make it. Just mix all the ingredients up.

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to take their chairs and sit down so that to make a circle. explain that after your command: e.g. ‘it’s six/seven/eleven thirty”, the pupils who have pictures with clocks and sentences ‘it’s six thirty”, “it’s seven thirty”, “it’s eleven thirty” must stand up and quickly change their seats.

Say that when you say e.g. ‘it’s 7 o’clock”. (or 8.00, 11.00), all pupils with 7.00, 8.00, 11.00 cards (both pictures and sentences) must stand up and quickly change their seats.say that when you say ‘it’s time to play!’, all pupils must stand up and quickly change their seats.

Practise several times before you start the game.

Note: if your class is strong, after a while you can take away one of the chairs so that there is one pupil without a place to sit.

This pupil will lead the game instead of you.

This pupil should try to take a seat after his/her turn. Next pupil without a place to sit will lead the game.

Homework 5 min

Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks on Page 71 and look at homework Activity 1. explain that they must complete the gaps with the suitable words in the cloud.

Draw the pupils’ attention to the second task. explain that they must complete the unfinished sentences using the vocabulary they learned during Unit 12.