Main Aims
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Enable kids to give and receive suggestions about their health
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This plan is for Sem 1, grade 6, week 5
Subsidiary Aims
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Role play and have fun
Procedure (6-8 minutes)
Tell a story, with lots of miming. Obviously you can make your own but here's an example. Yesterday I had a big meal. I had rice, and beans, and chicken, and candy, and more candy, and more candy! After dinner my stomach hurt. I had a [gesture, try to elicit "stomachache" from the kids]. Yes, I had a huge stomachache. I asked my mom, "Mom, I have a stomachache. What should I do?" My mom said, [do an exaggeratedly high voice here] "You should take a walk." I went outside, and I was walking down the street, when I saw a big, mean dog. [woof woof!] I was scared, so I ran, and I ran, and I fell over! Ouch! My leg! I think I ... [mime, try to elicit "broke my leg"]. My mom came outside, and said, "You broke your leg! You need to go to the hospital!"
Mime, use pictures, anything to try to get the kids to say the words! Then have fun with drilling. Keep it exciting. Drill the whole sentences and not just the words so they get used to saying "a broken bone", "the dentist", etc. (rather than "I have broken bone.")
Give out the papers, and the kids have to put them together on the board. Give more than one sentence at a time so they have to use the vocab to understand. For example, "I have" does not go with "scratched me" but with "a stomachache", and "I have a stomachache" does not go with "You should go to a dentist." If you want to make it easier for them you can underline with highlighter, or in some other way color the parts so that every first segment is one color, every second is another, and so on. Help the kids by putting up on the board 1., 2., 3., 4., 5. (or however many sentences you gave them) so they know that it's not all one long sentence, but several parts.
Do a role play, using the last slide to point and mime. Do voices and role play one yourself so they can see how it's done. Mom or dad asks, "What's wrong?" and the kid explains, then mom or dad offers a suggestion, "You should..." Have a few groups of kids come up to the front and demo, then assign rows to be mom/dad or kid, and have the kids pair up to do it on their own.