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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Friday, January 25, 2008

The frog family

Lesson 1

AIMS
listening for gist, relating words and actions, family vocabulary.

MATERIALS
picture and word cards

1. Play a game to repeat family members:
"Stand up if you have a brother" "Sit down"
"Stand up if you have a baby sister" "Sit down"
"Stand up if you have one brother and two sisters" "Sit down"

2 Tell the children that you are going to tell them a story about the "Frog family"

3 Introduce the characters (Daddy frog, Mummy frog, Brother frog, Sister frog) and key words (leaf, pond) of the story with the support of picture and word cards

4 Repeat the words while holding up the picture cards. Let the children say the words after you in a chorus and let them put up the pictures on the board with the word card next to it



This is a story about Daddy frog,
Point to the pictures as you name the Mummy frog, Sister frog, Brother frogs and Baby frog

It was hot – very, very hot,
Wipe your forehead, and make "hot" gestures.
And Daddy frog
Point to the picture of Daddy frog and squat down beside the pond.
went jump, jump, jump and Jump three times sat on a leaf in the pond and
put the picture of Daddy frog on the picture of the leaf in the pond.
Mummy frog was hot – very, very hot.
Point to Mummy frog, squat by the pond and make "hot" gestures.
So Daddy frog said "Come here!"
Point to Daddy frog, return to the leaf, and beckon to Mummy frog
Mummy frog went jump, jump, jump,
Point to Mummy frog, squat by the and sat on the leaf in the pond. pond, and jump three times to put the picture of Mummy frog on the picture of the leaf by Daddy frog.
Do the same for the other characters....When ervybody is together...

And then – SPLASH – they all fell into the water!
Start to move backwards and forwards as if you were losing your balance and
let the frogs fall into the pond on the board.

5 Tell them the story using lots of gestures to make the meaning very clear


6 Ask the children in the foreign language what they understood of the story.

7 Tell the children that you are going to act out the story in the next English lesson.


Lesson 2

AIMS
Involve children in storytelling
MATERIALS
blue string or chalk to draw the pond on the floor, a big green paper for the leaf

1 Make an area of the classroom into a pond with string or chalk and put in
a large green paper for the leaf

2 Tell the children you are going to tell them the story again, but this time five
of them are going to be the Frog family. Ask for volunteers and line them up by the edge of the pond.

3 Tell the story again, and as each child hears their character they put up their hand. Encourage them to do the gestures with you as you tell the story. Also try to motivate them to tell the story with you. Tell the story with gaps and let the children fill these gaps. (e.g. "This is a story about Daddy frog, Mummy frog, Brother frog, Sister frog and little Baby frog. Daddy frog was hot - very, very hot. And Daddy frog went jump, jump, jump and sat on a leaf in the pond. Mummy frog was hot – very, very hot. So Daddy frog said " Come here"! and so on)

4 So the other children can act out the story, divide the classroom into several ponds and the kids in groups of five. Tell the story again, while the children act it out in their group.

5 Let the children create a picture book, in which they can draw the frogs and write what they have understood. Hand out phrases of the story for children which are not able to write anything. They can glue or copy the phrases.


Optional:
● create frog masks
● make a play for the other classes

Sunday, January 20, 2008

celebrate carnival...why not?


Make animals' masks and teach them the vocabulary