The Birthday Child

Level-starter

Objectives:

-          to revise vocabulary on the topic;

-          to practise the structures I want / she wants / wanted;

-          to develop pupils’ critical creative thinking;

-          to broaden cultural outlook.

Equipment: a tape-recorder, envelopes with tasks, riddles, cards with jigsaw sentences, video film.

Set of pictures for the collage.

Source of information: 1. Журнал Професор Крейд.

     2. Magazine Poznayko.

Procedure

1. Warming up:

1. Greeting: Song “Good Morning”

Good morning, good morning

Good morning to you

Good morning, good morning

I am glad to see you

2. Watching Video

T: Now I want you to watch a video film.

(Children watch a scene from the animated cartoon “Maliuk and Karlson”

While they are watching, the teacher recites a poem.)

Yes, today is the boy’s birthday

And tomorrow is his birthday too.

His birthday is every day.

The topic of our lesson is “The Birthday Child”.

2. Making a collage.

1. Birthday Cake.

T: I saw a dream last night. What did I see?

Possible answers:

P1. You saw Winnie the Pooh.

P2. As for me it was Garfield.

P3. I think you saw the cat, so on.

T: You are wrong. It was a big cake and…you my dear pupils. When is your birthday? What is your favourite colour?

T: Irynka is a Birthday Child today.

It’s birthday time

Time for games and time for toys,

Time for happy girls and boys,

Time for a cake and presents too.

(Teacher is making a collage on the magnet board. The children are looking at it.)

T: How old is she today? Match, please, a word with a figure.

Key: She is eight.

T: Let’s say a greeting in chorus:

Hip, hip, hooray

It’s Ira’s birthday today

On her cake

She has eight candles

What a happy day!

2. Presents:

(Jazz Chant “What do you want for birthday?”)

T: So, let’s play a game. Take each of you an envelope. Here you are. Open it, please. Find a partner.

Ask a partner what you want for birthday.

Patterns:

P1. What do you want? –P2. I want a birthday cake.

(The children use set of pictures: a birthday party, guests, a present, a birthday cake, a candle, make a wish, a birthday hat, a birthday whistle, a balloon from the envelope.)

T: What does Irynka want? Ask your partner.

Samples    What does she want?

She wants a birthday present.

(Children stick set of pictures onto the collage)

T: In fact she wants many guests.

3. Guests.

T: Holiday without many guests is not a holiday. Take your evaluation cards to fill in and do the quiz “Who are the guests?”

 Keep in your mind the points: a) 1 point, b) 2 points, c) 3 points.

1. Whom do you want to come on birthday?

1.       Hag
2.      Bunny
3.       Robinson Crusoe

2.Is your guest a … ?

1.       Monster
2.      Gulliver
3.       Nut Cracker

3. Who wants to fly on birthday?

1.       Khotabych
2.      Little Muck
3.       Baron Munchausen

4. There are a lot of guests here. Who can swallow a piece of cake with you?

1.       Karabas Barabas
2.      Wizard of Oz
3.       Karlson

T:  4-5 points. Very bad guests hate to make presents.

8-10 points. Not bad guests don’t want to make presents for a Birthday child.

11-12 points. Great! Nice guests make the present for you.

4.             Reading for you to remember.

(The teacher shows the fairy-tales heroes to the pupil and add them onto the collage.)

T: Help them to be modern, remember and read the rules, please.

5.            
   Birthday Cards Games.

 Pair-work with jigsaw congratulation.

T: Children, you made the birthday cards at home. Change them, make up sentences and read.

Samples:

1.             you are/ Today/ eight!
2.             birthday / to /you/ Happy!
3.             a / birthday/ fine/Have!
4.             be bright/ your birthday/May!
5.             wish / best/ birthday,/ Merry!
6.             happy / Be/ birthday/ on your!
7.             Many/ returns/ happy/ of the day!

1.       Today you are eight!
2.       Happy birthday to you!
3.       Have a fine birthday!
4.       May your birthday be bright!
5.       Merry birthday, best wishes!
6.       Be happy on your birthday!
7.       Many happy returns of the day!

(Children stick birthday card onto the collage.)

6.             Relaxation –Rainbow Bridge to the Riddle Land.

T: Let’s make the Rainbow Bridge.

There is a great cloud over here

(Children form clouds with hands to right side of body)

And there is a great big cloud over there.

(Children form clouds with hands to left side of body)

The rain falls down and makes a path.

(Children make pretend falling rain with fingers)

A rainbow bridge up in the air!

(Children make a large ark from left to right with hands)

(They put hands down and sit down.)

7.             Riddle Land in a Birthday Hat.

T: The bridge was one second ago. Now it is in the words. How many words do you know that end with ”-ow”? Use the letters to help you finish the words, read and translate into Ukrainian.

T: The Birthday Child painted a portrait. (She shows it to the guests).

 Stand in a circle. The Birthday Child wants you to pick up papers of different colours from her hat. Those words are the answers to the riddles.

1.       It can be on top of a gift .
2.       A plant can do this.
3.       Your head is on it when you are sleeping.

                        4. You can ride a sled on it.

5.    It can be in the sky when there is both sun and rain.
6.    A cat makes this sound.
7.    A light can do this.
8.    People do this when they eat.

8.       Smile with pleasure

T: Well- done! It’s hot here. What’ll we drink? Make a word from three letters e, t, a.

Possible answers: eat, ate, tea.

      Remember that

Elephant красень слон

Ставить ... на вогонь

Для корови тітки cow

Буде .....або  какао.

Key: Чайник, чай.

T: Look at four pictures and translate into English.

The needed answers: -

 - A cup of tea, please.

 - Here you are. Take it please.

 - There is a dead fly in the cup. The fly is swimming.

 - Do you want it alive?

      T: It’s only the joke.

3. Summing-up.

T: We have been at birthday party. Look at our common collage and sing a song. “Happy Birthday to You!”

To sum up the lesson we’ll finish the chant. What did she want for her birthday?

-T: What did she want?

–She wanted…

-She wanted…

T: It’s a pity. Why? Watch this video.

(The children are watching and sing together with a teacher)

 I’m playing my garmoshka’

For all passers-by to hear.

It’s a pity, we have birthday

Only once a year.

T: It was birthday time

     Time to laugh and say “Thank you”

You were great. (The teacher says the results to the children.)

4. Home-task:

T: Finish the story, please. (The children are given cards with missed words to fill in the text.

Ira had her…. Her mother made her a ….The girl wanted…. Her friends made her… … The guests played…. It’s a pity, she has birthday only once a ….The party was….