Introducing adjectives

This is a lesson I did in the second grade. The lesson aim is introducing adjectives and their use in a sentence.

Lesson plan

Warm up activity:
1. Show students flash cards with the animals you have taught them previously and ask them to name the animals.
2. Give each student a flash card a ask them to say a whole sentence. ex. It's a bear / It's a lion
3. Put the flash cards on different walls in the classroom and play the game listen and point. Students listen to the word and they point to the correct picture.

Main part:
1. Put some pictures of animals on the board (bear, elephant, spider, snake and a giraffe). Show students cards with adjectives ( big, fat, tall, long, small) Try to elicit from the student which adjective best describes each animal. Repeat the words several times so that they practice the pronunciation and then make whole sentences. It's a big bear/ It's a fat elephant.

2. Use animal toys and give one toy to each student. Make cards with the adjectives written on them and put them around the classroom. Ask students to walk around the classroom and find one adjective that can be used to describe their animal. Make sure that you give them different animals now from the ones that are on the board. You can give them hippo-fat; rhino-fat; crocodile -long; bird/fish-small. etc. After they find the best adjective for their toy ask them to stand in a line and make a sentence with the adjective - It's a long crocodile. Help them out when necessary.

3. Write a sentence on the board- It's a big bear. Elicit the word order in the sentence and ask students to remember it. Prepare a poster with post it notes. Write jumbled up sentences and ask students to come to the board, one by one, and put the words in the correct order by re- arranging the post it notes. After they put them in the correct order, ask them to read the sentence out loud. Or if they find it too demanding help them out with the pronunciation.

End of class activity:
To finish the lesson in a positive note. sing the song The elephant walks like this and that...
Point out the adjectives in the song and make sure students remember them.
Enjoy your lesson!

Introducing the difference between present simple and present continuous

Warm up activity : start the lesson by showing some jobs flashcards and ask students to name them (doctor, policeman, chef..) Distribute the cards to the students and ask them to say a whole sentence introducing the person on the card: He is a chef. He works in a restaurant.

Man part of the lesson:
1. Tell them a short story about a person on one of the cards: This is Tom. He is 36 years old. He lives in Skopje. He is a doctor. He works in a hospital every day but he is working in the garden now. 
Divide the board in two columns and write a heading PRESENT SIMPLE / PRESENT CONTINUOUS in each respectively . Then write the two sentences in the appropriate column and explain the difference between the two sentences and between the two columns. Write few more examples and elicit the answers from the students. Make them draw a conclusion on how we use the two present tenses.
Ex. This is Masid. He is a chef. He makes pizza every day. He is making a pizza now.
This is Lucy. She is a footballer. She plays football everyday. She is playing tennis in the park now.

2. Put two pieces of paper with the names of the tenses on different walls in the classroom. Then give students large pieces of paper with sentences written on them. Ask students to move around the classroom and put their sentences under the correct heading - PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS. Once they identify the tense of their sentence ask them to read it out loud and explain what made them put the sentence in that category.

3. Prepare a poster with sentences in present simple and present continuous. Make small pieces of paper with the words every day and now. Ask students to come up to the board, read a sentence, finish it my adding one of the words and then talk about his/ her decision.

4. Make another poster with sentences but make sure that there is a mistake in each sentences. Ask students to come up to the board and correct the sentences and explain why the mistake needs to be corrected. 

End of class activity:

Finish the lesson by playing charade where one by one students act out a profession and the rest of the students guess the word. Or they can even form a whole sentence in the present continuous.

Ex,You are cooking / You are a doctor / You are running.

SHAPES SONG

You can teach or revise shapes vocabulary using a song. You can find the song on youtube -

Present the song to the students by writing and drawing the key vocabulary before you play the song. You will be amazed at how fast they will learn the lyrics.
https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/shapes_song/shapes-elementary-a1/19361

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2fXDDa8VD0&feature=youtu.be

Use realia to present some vocabulary or revise some words.

PARTS OF THE BODY - revision

This is how we revise parts of the body vocabulary in the second grade.

1. Give students piece of paper with a word on it and ask them to put it on the poster and name that part of the body.

2. Students work in two groups. Give them a face template and dice made of paper with the parts of the body. Students throw the dice and draw the parts of the body. Then tell them to colour and talk about the funny faces the have created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6EmhzDoUj4

3. Listen to a song, sing along and dance :)

SHAPES AND VEHICLES

To revise shapes and vehicles vocabulary we got down to some creativeness. We decided to create vehicles out of shapes and then describe them using there is / there are.

 

SONGS AND POSTERS - DIY poster

In the third grade we learn about verbs, the modal verb can and we love to sing:)

That's why I chose this song from an old cassette I found at home, I'm sorry I can't say where the song is from. You can follow this link to the song:

https://soundcloud.com/emilijana-1/i-can-song

This is how the lesson goes.

1. I write the lyrics of a the song a big flip chart paper. The lines of the song are in a mixed order and the last word of the line in the song is presented with a picture. Students guess the word, then come to the board and write the word and practice the sentences together with the teacher.

2. I distribute a handout with the lyrics of the song. The students write the missing words. Listen to the song and put the lines in the correct order. Then each student comes to the board to write the number next to each line and check whether the lines of the song are arranged in the correct order or not. 

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/i_can_song/modals-actions-elementary/17231

http://www.eslprintables.com/grammar_worksheets/modal_verbs/can_can_t/I_CAN_song_614616/#thetop

3. Finally we listen to the song, sing and act out the words :)