Toys
Grade 1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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• To provide clarification, review and practice of toys vocabulary. By the end of the lesson students will be able to use short sentences to talk about their own toys.
Subsidiary Aims
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• To provide clarification and practice of “This is my ________./ It’s _______.”
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
The teacher provides two toy boxes for students to sort them and match them with the corresponding word card. Two students from each team will take part in the activity, the first team to finish will get points.
The model sentences “This is my_______”. / “It’s _______.”, and some of the target vocabularies are shown in a short poem for students to read as a class. The teacher asks a student to read the sentences in a red (target structures).
The teacher reviews the pronunciation of the sentences “This is my _____ and “It’s ________”. The teacher reviews the pronunciation of the sentence “This is my _______” using isolated sentences from the poem used in the previous stage. Students are reminded of the meaning of “my” as a possessive adjective that is used to talk about things that belong to the speaker. Both models are known by students as they were learned in previous lessons. Teacher provides examples.
Activity 1: Where’s the cookie? The teacher hangs four toys’ flashcards on the board and writes the model sentences "This is my ____. It’s ______". Students play "Where’s the cookie?" in teams. The teacher places four pictures of cookie jars under the flashcards, only one of them has a cookie. Students choose the toy above the door and make a sentence, the teacher reveals the cookie jar, if they find the cookie they get points that are added to their team’s score. If the cookie jar is empty no points are added. Activity 2: Pass the ice cream The teacher hangs pictures of toys on the board. Two students from each team play the game, one asks the question (What’s this?) and the other one answers describing the toy of their choice. They come to the front, one of them passes three balls, one by one (simulating ice cream) to their teammate until this one collects all the balls in a basket. The first team to finish the task first, gets points. Activity 3: Musical Toy Each team starts with a toy. The teacher plays music, when the music begins, the team passes the toy around. When the music stops, the student holding the toy, and their seatmate ask and answer (What’s this? This is my ____. It’s ___.) The teacher shows some boxes with different point-values. The students playing the game choose one of the boxes and the teacher reveals the points and adds them to the team’s score.
As the final exercise, students will use the vocabulary and model reviewed during the lesson to talk about their own family, using family photos previously sent by the parents.