Creating a poster - revising body parts

I like to engage my students as much as possible both in the learning process and in the creation of the learning/ teaching materials.
On this lesson we did some revision and created a poster with parts of the body that can be used on other lessons in the future that deal with the same set of words.

1. Warm up:  To start the lesson I decided to do a quick TPR activity - listen and do. The teacher names the part of the body and the students point to it. Or the teacher can include some verbs together with the body parts and ask the students to move.

2. Main part: I prepared one poster big enough for a student to lie on. I gave the instructions to the students how to draw a boy on the poster. Then we colored it and decorated it.
2.1 I gave the students some pieces of paper with parts of the body vocabulary written on them. There was one letter missing in each word. The students had to guess the word on the piece of paper, complete the spelling, then put the word on the correct place on the poster and spell the word.

3. End of class activity - It's always good to finish the lesson on a positive note. Young learners love music and dancing. I played some music in the background but I asked the students to dance according to what I said. They had to follow the rhythm of the music but dance "head to head" or "arm to arm" with their partner. 

Presenting has got/ hasn't got

The lesson aim is presenting has got and hasn't got and their use in sentences. Also, revision of body parts. This is a lesson I did in the third grade.
1. As a warm-up activity and a revision from the previous lesson I did a body parts domino. I printed the pictures and words on pieces of paper and I asked the students to arrange the domino on the floor. I asked them to read the words and then perform some activities connected to the body parts ( shake your head, touch your toes etc.)

2. Then, to introduce the use of has got/ hasn't got I put drawings of monsters on the board and created a gallery in the classroom. I gave the instructions to the students and asked them to listen and stand next to the drawing/ monster being described. I recorded some of the students from the other grades describing the monsters and I asked them to make the drawings for me. Not all the work needs to be done by the teacher, students can help too.

3. I the next activity I distribute sentences to students and their task is to look at the pictures and match the sentences with the correct picture. Make sure that you help the students when necessary. Read and explain the sentences and elicit the use of has got/ hasn't got from the students. Ask them to copy one example in their notebooks and then ask them to draw a monster as a group and describe it using the target grammar points and vocabulary.

Introduction of new vocabulary - Body parts - fourth grade

This is just an idea on how a lesson on introducing body parts can be organized.

Warm - up : Start the lesson by showing some flash cards of body parts to the students. Try to elicit the words from the students and present the new ones by asking them to repeat after you several times. Put the pictures on a wall in the classroom, point to each picture in the order they are arranged and ask students to name the picture. Help them when necessary.
To practice the pronunciation of the words further you can ask students to repeat the word according to its position. For example if the picture "eyes" is on the first place in the line they are going to say the word only once. If for example the picture "shoulders" is fifth in the row then they should say the word five times, and so on. After you have practiced the words enough you can point to the pictures in a mixed order and ask students to name them.

- You can make your own flash cards by simply printing out some coloring pages, color them, use a marker to write the words and you are ready to go :)

Main part: Ask the students to copy the words from the pictures in their notebooks and write down their meaning.

Then put a poster on the board. Make sure to prepare some paper puppets, cut them in separate pieces, distribute the pieces to the students and ask them to come to the board to put the pieces together and solve the puzzle. While putting the pieces together they should name the parts of the body.

Once they have the paper puppets together, give the students cards with the parts of the body. Ask them to come up to the board and put the word next to the correct part of the body.

It's easy as one, two, three and you have your own interactive poster. You can put it on the wall and use it again when you need to revise the parts of the body, or simply students can refer to it when they have a difficulty remembering some of the vocabulary.

End of class activity: It is always important to end the lesson in a  positive note. That's why we prepared a game and a song to wrap things up. It takes some preparation on part of the teacher for the next game, but also you can ask students to make their own cards. Make cards for every student of the body parts you want to include in the game. Give each student one cards and ask them to put the cards on the desk in front of them. I laminated mine and I have used them for several years now.

The game is as follows: The teacher says the words in a quick manner and the students need to show that card. The students who make a mistake are out of the game and you choose a winner in the end- the person who made the least mistakes.

After this you can play the game Simon says, by telling students: Touch your knees, touch your toes....Touch your friend's nose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWsD26om-e4

Finally, play a song for the students. I used a song from the book Let's go, let's begin. Ask students to come to the board in pairs. Make them stand next to each other without looking at each other. They should listen to the song and touch the part of the body they listen. It's a fun way to practice the words and students enjoy when you turn the activity into a competition. At least my students enjoy it. The person who doesn't make a mistake is the winner:)

TOYS - games and ideas - Learning can be fun!

I gave my students Mr. Potato head parts of the body. They worked in groups, put the pieces together and described the toy using parts of the body and have got/ has got.

Face vocabulary - Learning can be fun!

I use English Adventure B, with the second grade students. When we learn about the parts of the face and the body this is how we usually do it.
1.  I play the song from the CD that goes with the book and students work in pairs so that they need to show the part of the face they hear but on their partner's face.
2. Then I put pictures on the board with the target vocabulary and I play a CD ( you can say the words yourself) and the students need to point to the correct picture.
3. Next, I read them the story Is this my nose? ( A lovely storybook you can order here, they don't charge delivery : http://www.bookdepository.com/Is-This-My-Nose-/9780764161537) , and we use the mirror at the end of the book. Look in the mirror and name the parts of the face.
4. Finally, we use some toys - Mr. and Mrs Potato head - students create their faces and then describe them.