Practical N° 7: Puppets

LESSON PLAN

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

§  To revise prepositions, verb to be, like / don’t like and have got.

§  To practice the listening, speaking, reading and writing macro-skills.

WARM UP

Introduction:

-          Story telling: The teachers perform the story “Where is Rex” by Paul Shipton using puppets.

Materials: Puppets.

Macro skills: Listening.

Kind of interaction: Whole group.

Time: 10 minutes.

Development:

Activity 1:

-          Grouping: The teachers give the students a flashcard with a part of a dialogue. The students will have to find their partners. Once they find their partners, they will group with those with the same phrases so as to make four big groups.

Materials: Flashcards.

Macro skills: Speaking.

Kind of interaction: In groups.

Time: 3 minutes.

Activity 2:

-          The teachers will give each group a die with sentences such as: “Rex is under Dippy”; “Rex is on the rocks”. Each group will throw the die once, and will have to draw in a paper the sentence they got in luck. They will repeat the same process three or four times.

Materials: Dice and papers.

Macro skills: Reading.

Kind of interaction: In groups.

Time: 8 minutes.

Activity 3:

-          Then they will show their drawings to the class and the rest of the class will have to guess which sentence they represented.

Materials: Papers.

Macro skills: Speaking.

Kind of interaction: Whole class.

Time: 5 minutes.

Activity 4:

-          Game: The teachers will place some images on the board so as to play a memory game. Each group will choose 2 cards so as to find the coincidences.

Materials: Blackboard and pictures.

Macro skills: Speaking.

Kind of interaction: Whole class.

Time: 8 minutes.

Activity 5:

-          After 8 or 9 coincidences, the students will have to use the words that will come out from the game (Rex, Plants, Woods, etc) and produce some short sentences (guided by the teachers).

Materials: Pictures.

Macro skills: Writing.

Kind of interaction: In groups.

Time: 6 minutes.