Unit my Family Lesson Let’s play! Objectives

Required equipment
Textbook, the DVD of the book, 4 pictures of the seasons;
disposable syringes without needles, bandages, different beautiful empty cans, etc.; flashcards describing school things and toys; flashcards describing commands.
Activity 1 Listen and repeat.
Objectives: to introduce a poem;
to introduce a technique for memorisation
Jumping rope is full of fun
It’s a game for everyone.
Tell the children that this little poem is about how fun it is jumping with a skipping rope. Although the poem is more suitable for girls than boys, they also can learn it to tell their parents or sisters.
As the lines of the poem is quite long, it is better to start memorising it from the end of the first line, i.e. begin repeating from the last word and gradually adding other words to it one by one.
Activity 2 Play “What Season Is It?”
Objective: to consolidate the previously learnt vocabulary and structures
STEP 1: Divide the class into four groups. Each group is given a picture of a season which they must keep a secret. The task for each team is to ask questions from other teams and to guess the teams’ seasons in accordance with their responses.
Explain that the pupils need to ask questions at first about the weather. Each team is asked one question. The teams ask clockwise:
Is it sunny?
Is it cloudy?
Is it rainy?
Is it windy?
Is it snowy?
The teams’ answers can be “Yes.” or “No.”
You can help with gestures (as in the game “forecasters”) and hang the flashcards on the blackboard. The pupils will see there what questions to ask.
At first, it is better to work out all the questions in chorus and individually. Draw the pupils’ attention to the intonation of questions. Also ask the children to memorise the answers of each team.
STEP 2: When all the teams have finished asking each other questions, they will start guessing the season of each team. However, you should say that the pupils still have to ask questions about what they can do in their season (What can you do?).
Again, everybody repeats the question all together in chorus. Then the representatives of each team say what they can do, but they do not name their season. The children can give one or two responses at will.
I can swim. I can run.
I can play football. I can jump a rope.
I can ski. I can play snowballs.
I can fly a kite. I can jump.
Ask the children not to say another team’s season until they are completely sure, because if they make mistakes, they will lose. Therefore, recommend that they should ask the last question about colour.
Is it red?
Is it yellow?
Is it green?
Is it white?
The teams’ answers can be “Yes.” or “No.” If the answer is “No”, the question about the colour can be asked more than once.