Monday, April 13, 2015

Reading - ideas on how to organize a lesson

This is a lesson I did in the fifth grade. The unit deals with going to for expressing future and the topic of holidays and camping. I came up with two simple texts so that I can do some group work. This is what we did.

Warm up activity - revision of the vocabulary about sport. Put some flashcards on the board and ask students to work in two groups. Make sentences on pieces of paper and ask students to run to the board and stick the sentences on the correct pictures. You can measure the time and turn the activity into an amusing game. With this activity you revise sport, going to, plus you make students move around and have fun while learning.




Main activity - Students work in two groups. They need to read a text and replace the pictures in the text with words. Then they fill in another worksheet by answering some questions related to the text.




To check if the students in the groups understood the texts ask two representatives, one from each group to come to the board, answer the questions and fill in the Venn Diagram. The other members from the groups can also help if needed.



End of class activity - Ask students to work in  pairs. Give them a piece a paper, ask them to fold it in  half, then again, and again and again:) Then ask them to write a sentence using going to, by writing one word in each square. Then they cut the pieces, mix the pieces of paper and give them to another pair. They are expected to create a sentence. It saves teacher's time for preparing cards for the lesson and it's fun for the kids.





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