Level 1

Level Time 10

5

15

1

1-1

Topic Activity

Introductions Materials

Introductons - Make sure everybody is here and settled in Brainstorm introductions questions -

What’s your name?

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How old are you?

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T gives a sample introduction

Musical chairs introductions -

20

Class

Music

S left standing has to introduce him/herself

Make name cards -

Paper

Ss make nice name card

Crayons

Name memory game if time allows Level Time 10

1

Class

1-2

Topic Activity Show Ss a photo of my family - Elicit family vocabulary

Family 1 – “This is my ~” Materials Photo of T’s family

10

Watch Sesame Street – “Five in the Family”

Youtube clip

10

Review vocab with flashcards

Flashcards

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Model “This is my~” and “This is your~”

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What’s missing game Blank

20

games

Make a family board game -

In pairs, Ss draw pictures of their various family members Dice Crayons on a blank board game Ss then play the board game in pairs using the target language

Level

1

Class

1-3

Topic

Phonics 1 – Letter sounds

board

Time 15

Activity Play alphabet fling game - Throw all the alphabet cards around the room -

Say the sound of that letter

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Ss must try and find the appropriate alphabet card

Materials Alphabet cards

15

Watch Let’s Start Smart alphabet sounds videos

Website

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos? user=LetsStartSmart&p=r -

Practice letter sounds

15

Short text Practice alphabet -

S1 dictates a text to S2 letter by letter

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Time limit of 5 mins

Whichever team gets the farthest wins, then repeat 5

Word flashcards If time, show word flashcards - Ss should guess which letter the words begin/end with

Level Time 5 5

1

Topic Family 2 – “He has blue eyes” Activity Materials Review family vocabulary with board games from class 1-2 Board games

10

Flashcards

Eyes, mouth, ears, nose, hair, neck

Review adjectives -

10

2-1

Introduce facial vocabulary -

5

Class

Flashcards

Long, short, big small, colours

Model how to describe a person’s face with PP presentation -

“He/She has ~~”

Guess

-

Practice how to play Guess Who? with picture

picture

Ss draw a picture of a family member’s face, write their name Paper and who it is

15

Level

PP presentation

Crayons

T collects the pictures -

Divide the class into 2 teams

-

T thinks of one of the people in the pictures

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S1 has to make a sentence – “He has black hair”

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T answers yes or no and that team can guess who it is

1

Class

2-2

Topic

Phonics 2 – Beginning/Ending sounds

who?

Time 5

Activity Introduce beginning sounds for consonants - Show vocabulary flashcards -

10

Materials Word flashcards

Ss guess what letter the words begin with

Practice: Worksheets

Beginning sounds worksheets

5 10

Introduce ending sounds for consonants Practice: Worksheets

Ending

sounds

worksheets 20

Student compass activity -

T draws a compass on the board with a letter at each point

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2 teams, 2 Ss come to the front

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T says a word, and Ss must point their arms in the direction of the beginning letter

Level Time 10

1

Topic Food 1 – “I want chicken” Activity Materials Tell Ss that you are very hungry and that you want some food - Invite Ss to guess what it is that you want -

5

10

Class

2-3

Ss brainstorm various foods

Model the language with a chant -

What

do you

want?

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Chicken Chicken I want chicken

Practice the chant with different vocab -

Flashcards

Fish, chicken, cake, eggs, cheese, milk, juice, oranges, potatoes, carrots, apples, lettuce, soda, onions Mini cards

10

Play finding twins game

10

Charades -

+-5

Level Time

Ss pretend to eat a type of food from the vocab

Whisper relay -

Ss whisper a sentence to the front S1 who draws it

-

Front S2 has to guess what the picture is

1

Class

3-1

Topic Activity

Food 2 – “I want chicken” Materials

10

Review food vocabulary

20

Refrigerator cutout -

Refrigerator

Ss cut out and color food items

cutout

activity

sheet 20

Secret desires -

Scissors

Ss secretly glue 5 items that they want inside the Crayons refrigerator and close it over

+-5

Level Time 10

Glue

-

Ss have to guess what others want by asking them qns

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S that guess all 5 correctly first is the winner

Do a class survey of what most people want if time allows

1

Topic Activity Review beginning/ending sounds - Show S1 from each team a flashcard -

Class

3-2

Phonics 3 – Short a, e, i Materials Flashcards

First S to write the letter wins a point for his/her team

10

Introduce short a and complete worksheets

Worksheets

10

Introduce short e and complete worksheets

Worksheets

10

Introduce short i and complete worksheets

Worksheets

10

Play whisper game

Level Time

1

Class

3-3

Topic Activity

Time 1 - “It’s 4:30” Materials

5

Review numbers 1-12 - Counting forwards and backwards

5

Review how to tell times on the hour with big clock

Big clock

Time Bingo

3x3 bingo sheets

10

10

Ss write times on a 3x3 grid

Review multiples of ten 10-60 -

2 teams compete to see how far they can count without making a mistake

5 10

+-5

Model how to tell times with big clock

Big clock

Body Clock -

T makes a big circle on the floor with masking tape

-

Ss use their bodies to make whatever time the T says

Whisper relay - Ss draw the time on a big clock on the board

Level Time 10 10

1

Class

4-1

Topic Activity

Time 2 – “I get up at 7:30” Materials

Review how to tell times Elicit daily activities -

get up, wash my face, come to school, get home, do my homework, go to bed, have breakfast/lunch/dinner

5

Model how to talk about daily activities -

Explain that this is for things that we do everyday

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I ~ at ~

10

Charades with big clock

15

Ss complete their personal schedule -

When finished, Ss ask their friends about their day and write the times in the right hand column

Level Time

1

Class

4-2

Topic Activity

Phonics 4 – short o, u Materials

10

Review short a,e,i, with short game - Show teams a flashcard -

Flashcards

Whoever writes the correct vowel first gets a point

10

Introduce short o and complete worksheets

Worksheets

10

Introduce short u and complete worksheets

Worksheets

10

Letter cutouts game

Letter cutouts

10

Team that makes the word fastest gets a point

Review: Matching cards game -

Mini flashcards

Each team gets a set of 10 cards in which there are 5 pairs of short vowels – i.e. big-hit, dog-hot

Level Time 10

-

S1 lifts the first card, says the vowel and then lifts another

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If they are the same vowel, S1 can keep that pair

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If not, he/she must put them back and S2 repeats

1

Class

4-3

Topic Activity Play a short review jeopardy game

Awards and farewells Materials Jeopardy game

10

Give out awards for the best Ss

Awards

30

Watch a video

Video