UNIT 1 Lesson 4 Student's Book

Objective

To introduce the new (or recycled) vocabulary on colors. Flashcards from this unit, CD, small ball.

Materials

3 | Select a volunteer and provide them with all the flashcards. Then name the images so that this child places the cards on the floor following the order of the sequence you dictate.

Playful activities

1 | After having placed the flashcards of greetings and characters on the floor, mention two words for a volunteer. This child has to place each foot on one of those images. Continue naming students to play, but ask the previous ones no to move, otherwise they lose. This is a fun way to begin the lesson and to check the vocabulary you already taugh them.

2 | The children have to make a line on the floor, with their legs stretched. Provide the first one with a ball and show him/her a flashcard. This child must name the image, which will enable them to pass the ball to the classmate behind. The objective of the game is for the ball to go along until the end of the line. If any stuent should commit a mistake when naming the flashcard, the ball has to go back to the beginning.

Instead of showing cards to the children you could try this game making questions such as ‘How are you?’/ What’s your last name?’/’Are you a boy or a girl?’

Teacher: Good Afternoon, Hello, Good Bye, Good Morning…

4 | This is a good moment to teach or check the colors belonging to this unit with the children. Exposse the cards one by one while you name the colors. Repeat the activity but this time ask the children to touch objects in the classroom of these colors.

5 | Suggest playing Hot Potato. You will need a small and soft ball. At your signal, the children will pass the ball to one another; when you say ‘Stop!’ the child who has the ball (hot potato) must answer a question from you:

Teacher: (show the pupil a flashcard) What color is it?

Child: It’s blue.

Page 11 - Listen and number

Track 6 contains five phrases that correspond to the drawings on page 11. Indicate the children to write the numbers in the order they hear these phrases. If you want, you can also mention what is the color you want the pupils to use when drawing the numbers. Later on they can also color the pictures.

Audio Script

Listen and number:

Number 1- I’m fine, thank you!

Number 2- I’m a student.

Number 3- Good night, mummy!

Number 4- My name is John.

Number 5- Good morning, everybody!

Objective

the name of the color. Make sure you include colors with the adjectives light and dark.

Materials

Consolidation of the content learnt throughout this first unit. Flashcards from this unit, CD, small ball, paper tape, Memory Game Colors (extra material).

Playful activities

1 | For the first activity you will need to separate the children in two teams. Place the flashcards of colors on the floor and ask a pupil from the first group to arrange the cards following the order that either you or a member of the second team dictates.

2 | It is a good suggestion to teach the meaning of the adjectives dark and light. One way to accomplish it is to propose a game with a ball: ask the children to make a circle and place the cards of dark and light blue at its center. The students will throw the ball to one another, and whoever gets the ball will name one of the flashcards:

Child A: (throws the ball) Dark blue!

Child B: (gets the ball and throws it to another classmate) Light blue!

3 | Your students will be sitting on their chairs for the next suggestion. Name different colors for the children to look for pencils, markers or crayons from their pencil boxes. Once they find each item they have to repeat

4 | Play the game Secrets. Ask the children to make a line and think of a color. Tell it to the first pupil of the line as a secret. This child will repeat the same color to the person behind them, also whispering the word. The message will pass through all the students until it reaches the last boy or girl. This child has to reveal what the secret color was. Make sure they do it loudly.

5 | This time stick on the board all the flashcards but one. Choose a volunteer and stick this card on their back. The rest of the students will make a circle around the volunteer as the child infers what the color he/she is carrying is.

6 | One last suggestion you can consider is to play Memory Game with the children. Beforehand cut out all the pieces belonging to this game; back in the classroom place all these elements on the floor, with the image facing downwards. You and your students will be sitting around the pieces. Taking turns, each child will turn around two cards, seeking for a pair (that is, two pieces with the same color). The pupil who finds a pair can keep these cards until the game ends, otherwise the pieces go back to their former position. Once the game ends check who was able to find more pairs and announce the winner. In case you have a large group you can play the game as many times as you need.

Page 13 - Listen and color

As the children listen to track 7 they should color the crayons of the scene, following the instructions.

Audio Script

Listen and circle:

Number 2 - It’s red.

Number 3 - It’s orange.

Number 4 - It’s black.

Number 5 - It’s pink.

Number 6 - It’s dark blue.

Number 7 - It’s green.

Number 8 - It’s brown.

Number 9 - It’s purple.

Number 10 - It’s light blue.

Number 11 - It’s white.

Now, pay attention: New colors! It’s silver. It’s gold.

Extra Activities

Ask your students to indicate what there mood is, making use the masks of happy/sad boy/girl. Each volunteer that you choose will only place the mask in front of their face; it will be their classmates the ones who infer the information.

Teacher: Ana!

Child: (picks up the mask of the happy girl)

Children: Ana is a happy girl!

Next divide the board in four and on each space stick a mask. Select a boy at random and tell him a statement, making sure nobody else listens to you. This boy will go to the board and will touch the space where the mask corresponding to your sentence is. His classmates must identify the expression and say it aloud. Then choose a girl to continue the activity. For the next suggestion you will have to prepare beforehand pieces of paper in which you will either write down questions or making drawings, all of them related to this unit. On the other of these pieces of paper draw numbers. Back in the classroom put plastic rings on the floor, or else

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draw circles with chalk. The pieces of paper previously described will be on a table, with the numbers upwards. You will also draw a number inside each ring or circle. Taking turns the children will jump inside one of the circles. After they recognize its number they will have to look for a piece of paper with the same number. Help them understand what is it that they have to do.

In case a pupil fails to answer the question they will a classmate helps them. We advise you to consider the following questions: How are you? / What´s your name? /What ´s your last name? / Are you happy or sad? / Are you a boy or a girl? / Are you a teacher or student? ). You could also make drawings of moments of the day or people for the children to name. Finally, we suggest you to draw stains; color them so that your students can name the colors they see.

Another alternative to this game might be to draw a sequence of numbers on the floor. Do it in the shape of a circle, and place the pieces of páper around them. Provide a volunteer with your decorated bottle and let them spin it. This child will pick up the paper with the number pointed by the bottle. The rest of the activity will be the same as described above.

Page 128 - Let’s draw and cut!

Your students will listen to your commands in order to mard the corresponding pictures with an X. You can also tell them what is the color you want them to use in each case.

Number 1 - It´s a school.

Number 2 - Good Morning!

Number 3 - I´m a student.

Number 4 - I´m a teacher.

Number 5 - Good Afternoon.

Page 129 - Let’s draw and cut!

The teacher will draw the unit vocabulary on each circle. Then they can play with a classmate naming the words

Templates

Pages 130, 131, 132 and 133

Students will color the teacher and student figures then you will help them cutting the puppets and glue a stick at their backs so students will hold them as puppets. Students will produce sentences.

Students: I am a student!

Page 134

Students will color the paint an as they wish and then they will present it to the whole class. Student: I have yellow paint.

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Tests

Once again you can make good use of the masks belonging to moments of the day to propose the following game. Leave the classroom for a moment and return with a mask in front of your face. The children will have to greet you as it corresponds, adding the word teacher to the expression.

You can also name first and last names at random. On each occasion the children will have to clasify this information. In order to make a nice revision of the colors you taught the children you can use the Memory Game, included in your book. Ask the pupils to sit in a circle on the floor. At the center, place a card from the game and keep the rest of the elements inside your magical bag. A volunteer will take a card from the bag, trying to make a pair with the one on the floor. Whoever does it scores, and in case the children fail the card goes back to the bag for another boy or girl to participate.

Another suggestion is to stick the cards on the children’s chests. Play the song of the unit and ask the children to dance around the classroom. When you keep the music on hold the students must look around for the classmate who carries the same color as they do. Later call them to go to the front in pairs to name their color. Also, consider sticking the cards

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from the game with the images inwards. In that case the students will gather based on guessing. Then you can check how they did. Do not forget to announce the winners.

Divide the class in two teams and provide each of them with half of the pieces of Memory Game (take into account that a team cannot have two cards with the same color). The teams will face each other and at your signal they will turn over a card (the idea is to come up with a pair). Continue the activity using different colors.

As a last option you can put half of the cards inside a bag and the remaining half in corners of the classroom (hidden, if possible). Ask a volunteer to take a card from the bag, so that after naming the color another student looks for the other card.

Teacher: The boy has got a dark blue bowl. The girl has got a purple bowl.

The boy has got a gray bowl. The girl has got a light green bowl. The boy has got a brown bowl

The girl has got an orange bowl.

Page 135 - Listen and color

Yor students will have to listen to listen to your commands in order to color the bowls.Teacher: Good Morning, teacher!

Page 136 - Let’s match!

Students will listen to the teacher and match the characters with the correct greetings.

Teacher: Good afternoon teacher.

Hello boy!

Good morning girl. The student is in the school.

UNIT 2 - School Objects

Vocabulary

Table, Chair, Pencil, Pencil Case, Pen, Blackboard, Glue, Scissors, Eraser, Sharpener, Ruler, Crayon, Computer, Classroom, Teacher, Student, School, Book, Notebook, School Bag.

Expressions

What is it?

It’s a/an…

Is it a/an…?

Yes, it is. /No, it isn’t.

What color is the…?

It’s + color

I have a/an + color + school object

I have a…

Project

On a poster draw a big backpack and ask your studetns to make drawings of different school objects. Then add the title ‘Look at my school objects’ and stick it on a wall.

Objectives for this unit

To learn and apply descriptive structures that include color.

To be able to answer Yes/No questions.

Evaluation criteria

Towards the end of this unit your students should be able to recognize scholl objects through their shape and image.

Materials

Flashcards from this unit, CD, markers or chalk, paper tape, big hands (extra material), shapes made in black construction paper, flashcards of colors, plastic rings, two bags, small rock, Bingo cards (extra material), beans, puppet of Mr Bird, big hands with the thumb up and down (extra material), drawings of school objects, balloons, sheets of paper, blindfold, poster.

Flashcards

Total: 20

Pencil, pen, eraser, sharpener, ruler, crayon, glue, scissors, book, notebook, pencil case, school bag, table, chair, computer, classroom, school, student, teacher, board

Games

Total: 6

Set 1: Back to school

Set 2: In my bag pack

Set 2: Thumbs up - Thumbs down

This is my classroom

Is it a table?

Yes, it is

Is it a chair?

Yes, it is

Is it a blackboard?

No, it isn’t

Then, what is it?

It’s a computer

Is it a ruler?

Yes, it is

Is it a pencil?

Yes, it is

Is it a book?

No, it isn’t

Then, what is it?

It’s a notebook

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