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My Birthday - Beginner level

My Birthday
Beginner level

Description

In this lesson students will understand and act out a picture strip story and revise the vocabulary they learnt in the previous class such as "birthday card" and "cake". Firstly, the characters in the story are intorduced to the students. Next, the students draw a picture of themselves and write their names on a piece of paper. This is followed by a pre-reading activity where the students are exposed to the new words in the story. During the story, they listen to the text and repeat the sentences they hear. Finally there is some controlled practice through a role play activity and semi-controlled practice via a final drawing activity.

Materials

Hand out

Hand out

Main Aims

To understand and act out episode 1 of the story "My Birthday"

Subsidiary Aims

To provide clarification and review of birthday words in the context of birthday celebration

Procedure (43-55 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Show a picture of a birthday party. Ask the students what the kids in the picture are doing? "What is it?" "What are the children doing?" "Do you like birthday parties?" "When's you birthday?

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

Introduce the characters in the story. Put the cards on the board and also introduce the new words in the stroy such as footprints, treasure, rainbow. Tell them to look at the pictures of the story and ask whose bithday is it and what is in the cake.

During the story (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

Tell them to listen to the story and find out. Explain to them that they will hear a beep noise on the CD to tell tehm when to move to the next picture in the story. Play the CD and tell them to listen and read the story. Ask the students again the same questions that you asked about the story in the beginning of the class such as "Whose birthday is it?" "What is it in the cake?" Then stop the CD and have them repeat whay they have heard.

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Ask questions about each picture as follows 1) Where are Alex and Katie? (in Fairyland) 2) What do they follow? (the footprints) 3) Who do Alex and Katie meet? (Pip and Squeak) 4) Whose birthday is it? (Squeak's) 5) How old is Squeak? (seven) 6) Who falls in the cake?(Pip) 7) What's in the cake? (a treasure clue)

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for the less controlled activity

Assign a role to each group. Read the story speech bubbles on the Pupil's Book page. Point to each group and join in miming and sayin their parts. The children act out their parts either with or without their books, depending on how confident and familiar they are with this episode.

Semi-controlled practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the target language

Read the words at the top of the activity. Say "Here's a.... for you" for each picture and the children say the missing word. Then they write the missing words as in the example. Then ask them again how old they are. Say draw as many candles as your age and color your birthday cake.