English Alphabet

 A teacher needs to find various appealing ways to teach young learners. When it comes to teaching the alphabet I always try to incorporate different tasks for students to memorize the letters more easily. One such activity is the following shown in the photos. Once the students are presented with the letters from the English alphabet, they receive a piece of paper on which they need to write the first letter of their name and also represent a word with a picture that begins on the same letter. This can be their favourite toy, animal, food etc. I love these type of activities where students can give their personal touch. It is especially useful to get to know the students better, to learn about their preferences and personalities. They can also see how much they have in common and learn more about each other. 

What is more you can put the papers on display in your English Corner, if you have one.

Presenting Gerund ( affirmative and negative)

The aim of the lesson is to present the gerund used in forming affirmative and negative sentences.

1. Warm-up activity: I gave the students flash cards showing the verbs that we studied in one of the previous lessons and that we are going to use throughout this lesson. Each student got a card and just named the verb/ activity on the card. ( run, jump, swim...)

2. Then as a lead in to the presentation of gerund we listened to a dialogue from the text book that I use in the fifth grade. We listened, read the dialogue and discussed. I used sentences from the dialogue to present the gerund. Make sure to elicit as much as possible from the students before giving them the full explanation.

3. After the students were presented with the way gerund is used I gave them the same cards from the beginning of the lesson for them to say simple sentences about themselves using I like and I don't like.

4. Finally I prepared these really simple speaking cards to help students practice the use of gerund for the third person singular.

You can find the speaking cards here:

http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=90770#thetop

Presenting - How much / How many and their use with countable and uncountable nouns

The aim of this lesson is to introduce how much and how many to the students and their use with countable and uncountable nouns. We are going to revise food vocabulary and discuss what ingredients are needed to make a cake and pizza.

1. As a lead in to the lesson I decided to buy some cupcakes and give to the students to taste so that I can elicit what ingredients are used in the preparation of this dessert. I showed flashcards with different kinds of food and asked the students to agree or disagree with what is used in the cupcakes. I put the food in two columns and the students realize that the other ingredients are used to make pizza.
I wrote examples on the board and asked students to copy in their notebooks.

2. As a next activity I used a dialogue from the textbook we use in class. The students had to listen and write down how many or how much of each ingredient is used in the pizza the children make in the dialogue.

3. As a finishing activity I used the story Timmy goes shopping. The students listen to the story carefully and choose the correct shopping basket. 

You can find the story here:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/200703834/Timmy-Goes-Shopping-story