COMMUNICATING IN ENGLISH: SAMPLE UNIT FOR PRIMARY

COMMUNICATING IN ENGLISH

TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: Wild animals.
LEVEL AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS: Primary Education 2nd cycle, a class with eight students.
It´s a single and whole class activity.
MATERIALS:A photocopy with wild animals, the note book, scissors and glue.
AIMS:
-To develop oral and written skills using “HAS GOT”
-To review vocabulary related to wild animals.
-To build a fantastic animal chanching different body parts of wild animals.
-To describe the fantastic animal.

DURATION:About 20 minutes.
WARM – UP:
They have been working with verb “To have got “, previously, so we´ll start with an oral activity reviewing all vocabulary related to wild animals and body parts, then they say some short sentences using “have got”.
ACTIVITY:
When they are ready I´ll give then the photocopy and they have to cut it out and form a fantastic animal,then they write about this animal and then they have to read it aloud to the rest of the class.
POSSIBLE VARIATIONS:
They can start describing themselves, or real wild animals.
In two groups A / B: Group A can describe a given animal and group B has to guess it.

SKILLS DEVELOPED:Listening, writing, speaking and reading.




COMMUNICATING IN ENGLISH

TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: Who´s got what?
LEVEL AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 2ND Cycle of Primary Education, a class with eight students.
MATERIALS:A photocopy per child, cassette, scissors, crayons and some picture flashcards with the following words: moustache, beard, glasses.
AIMS:
-To practise asking questions.
-To practise using formal forms of address.
-To identify people from oral descriptions.
DURATION: 30 Minutes.
DEVELOPMENT:
1-Review vocabulary related to body parts and teach the unknown words such as moustache, beard...
2-Show the students the photocopy.
3-Explain that they´ll listen to each person describing himself / herself and saying a name which is based upon a color, for example: Miss Blue, the students can indicate the name by coloring the box in each picture.
4-The students listen to and color the features as specified.
5-Then they cut out the faces and spread them out the tables, they take away each face as you read aloud the descriptions one by one , read them all except one, the fist student to identify the missing person wins.
6-You can ask about one face: who´s got big, round, red glasses?

POSSIBLE VARIATIONS: They can choose a photo and describe it in a written form and then read it aloud to the rest of the class.

SKILLS DEVELOPED:Listening, speaking, reading and writing.