Ігровий урок "Time to play"

Lesson plan        by Olha Beshleha

• Class: 2

• Level: beginner

• Topic: Time to play

Subtopic: complex activities related to a poem “A new house”

• Overview: This flipped lesson will help students develop their listening, reading, speaking and writing skills, expand and practice vocabulary.

• Aim:

-       Revise the vocabulary related to animals and food.

- Revise action verbs.

-  Revise the Present Simple.

- Develop communicative skills working in pairs/groups

- Develop students’ listening, reading, speaking and writing skills, expand and practice vocabulary.

• Outcomes:        By the end of the lesson students will:

-         be able to name wild animals, food and colours;

-    be able to recognize, read and repeat key action verbs;

-   create a collage „A new house”.

• Digital literacy : communication, information, production, collaboration.

• Autonomy: do the given tasks before and during the lesson; divide roles in groups/pairs; do their own collages „Welcome to a new house”.

• Time: 40 min

• Resources:

- Audiotrack

- Presentation PPT

- Wordwall exercises

- Whatman paper

• Pre-lesson task:

Listening: Listen to the audiotrack of the poem and practice reading.

- Remember the names of the given animals

• Procedure:

Warm up:

- Reciting the poem “Good morning to you” including also “good afternoon” and “good evening”.

- Discuss and show emoji: “If you are happy - clap your hands. If you are sad - show your tears”, etc.

Main part of the lesson:

 Checking home assignment: Children do the Wordwall quizes. They work in two teams earning points.

Pre-reading:

1.              Children see the pictures of the animals that they will meet in the poem and answer alternative questions: Is it a dog or a frog?..
2.              Children play “This or that” game with some more characters and objects from the poem.

Reading

Children read the poem in turns and answer some questions for comprehension and critical thinking, e.g.:

What animal comes first? Second?

What does the fox bring? Why is the plate empty?

What do the animals cook with the cabbage and carrots?

Why do animals have the party?

Post-reading group activities

1. Children break out into groups: birds, mice, rabbits, foxes
2. Children get puzzles of main episodes of the poem and put them together
3. Children get pictures of other episodes and order them according to the course of the story. They stick the pictures on the Whatman paper

Speaking

4. Answer questions earning points for their group:

- What is red?  What is blue?  What is green?..

5. As plan B. Children work vice versa: they tell the colours of different animals, for exmple:

- What colour is the cabbage?  What colour is the plate?

What colour is the mouse?

Writing

Teacher spreads sheets for writing. Children copy the key words and drow small pictures to them.

Game “Guess the object?”

A leading student comes to the front of the classroom and silently thinks of an animal or an object from the poem. Other students guess what that is. As an option this game may be used as a warm-up activity at the next lesson.

- Is it red? Is it big? Is it small? Is it a fox?

- Yes, it is.

- No, it isn’t.

Homework

Describe three animals from the poem, for example:

“It is a frog. It is green. It is small. It can jump.”

Feedback

Children see emoji card and show their feelings at the moment.