Date: 14th – 18th May 2012
Group 1
Profesor : Gemma Dingle
Topic: Present Continuous; verbs and adverbs.
Reviewed vocabulary: verbs (jump, hop, clap, dance, climb a tree, play baseball, ride a bicycle)
Questions: What is/are he/she/they doing?
Grammatical structures: He is/They are/I am verb+ing e.g. I am running. He is jumping.
Some of this week’s Learning Activities:
- Singing: Students listened to/helped to sing; Ring a ring a rosey, on the farm and pat-a-cake
- Speaking: Students closed their eyes and pictures were removed and then they had to say the full sentence of what was missing e.g. He is riding a bicycle.
- Drawing dictation: Students looked at a picture outside the classroom then told their partner what was missing and their partner drew it, e.g The cat is sleeping in the living room.
- Pictionary: Students looked at pictures being drawn and guessed what they were doing.
Group: 2
Profesor: Gemma Dingle
Topic – Weather
New vocabulary: sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy
Grammar: to have e.g. I have red car.
Question + structure: What’s the weather like? It’s rainy.
Learning activities:
- Listen and run: Students listen to a word and run to the correct picture.
- Singing: Students sang Ring a Rosy and listened to the Days of the Week Song.
- Craft: Students made a weather wheel. This can be used every day at home to revise the weather.
- Speaking/listening: Students picked a toy and used it to tell me what they have e.g. I have a car/ I have a green pen. (Students found this difficult to understand and it may need revision at home)
Date: 7th – 11th April 2012
Group 1
Profesor : Gemma Dingle
Topic: Adverbs of manner
Reviewed vocabulary: verbs (jump, hop, clap, dance); weather; royal vocabulary
New vocabulary: quickly, quietly, slowly, loudly, badly, beautifully, happily
Questions: Can you (run quickly)?
Grammatical structures: order of words: verb + adverb
Some of this week’s Learning Activities:
- Singing: Students listened to/helped to sing; Ring a ring a rosey and pat-a-cake
- Craft/Speaking: Students created a double-sided wheel to help them to create different combinations of verb + adverb e.g. drink slowly, dance beautifully.
- Colouring dictation: Students had to listen to instructions and colour: carefully, quickly, slowly etc.
- Speaking: Children whispered an instruction around the circle and the person at the end had to carry out the action.
- The wheel the students made can be used at home to keep practicing the language.
Group: 2
Profesor: Gemma Dingle
Topic – adverbs of manner, The Gingerbread Man
New vocabulary: quickly, quietly, slowly, loudly
Reviewed vocabulary: verbs; jump, hop, run, clap: animals; cow, sheep, horse, cat, rabbit, birds.
Learning activities:
- Listen and copy: Students were told an instruction e.g. “clap quietly”, they had to do it. Then the instruction was changed to “clap quickly”, and they had to change to that.
- Singing: Students sang Ring a Rosy, and listened to pat-a-cake, with hand actions.
- Listening: Students listened to a story about The Gingerbread Man, which helped to revise different animals, colours, verbs and adverbs.
Date: 23rd – 26th April 2012
Group 1
Profesor : Gemma Dingle
Topic: Dinosaurs
Reviewed vocabulary: colours; body parts – head; legs; feet; eyes; mouth
New vocabulary: tail; horn; spikes; teeth; oval;
Questions: What do dinosaurs eat? Grass/leaves; meat. Do you have a (tail)? No. What do dinosaurs have? They have (eyes/a tail) etc.
Grammatical structures: What shape is it? It’s a/an (oval). Where’s the (tail)? (Student points to the right part of the body).
Some of this week’s Learning Activities:
- Singing: Students listened to/helped to sing; Hockey cockey and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
- Craft/Speaking: Students created their own dinosaurs and then talked about them; their name, colour, age, what they eat, what they like doing etc.
- Colouring dictation: Students had to listen to instructions carefully and do what was asked, e.g. colour the feet red. Colour one horn blue.
- Writing: Students were given pictures of parts of a dinosaur and had to identify them, then write the letters in the correct order to spell the word.
Group 2
Profesor: Gemma Dingle
Topic – Actions
New vocabulary: wave; smile; shake hands; nod; throw, kick, catch (the ball).
Reviewed vocabulary: colours; parts of the body; numbers
Learning activities:
- Simon says: Students listened to instructions and had to complete the action e.g. simon says wave.
- Singing: Students sang Ring a Rosy and the hockey cockey.
- Listening: Students listened to a story about a little duck.
- Dot to dot: Students practiced recognizing written numbers by completing a dot to dot.
Date: 26th – 30th March 2012
Group 1
Profesor : Gemma Dingle
Topic: Phonics; Review
- Reviewed Vocabulary: weather; V and W (violin; watermelon; vest; vase; whale); Rooms of the house; Potato Pals “In Town”
New vocabulary: fox; box; six; yo-yo; yellow; yarn; zebra; zero; zipper
Actions used:
Grammatical structures: What is it? It’s a/an (yoyo). Where are you? I’m in the (kitchen)
Some of this week’s Learning Activities:
- Singing: Students listened to/helped to sing; “In Town”, “Honey Honey” and “In The House”
- Speaking: Students asked each other “What is it?” or “Where are you?” and then swapped pictures.
- Speaking/Drawing: Half of the girls looked at a picture in the hall, they told me what they could see e.g. A cat is in the bathroom. They then ran and told their partner who would draw a cat in the bathroom.
- Writing: Students practiced writing letters: V, W, X, Y and Z.
Data: 26th – 30th March 2012
Group: 2
Profesor: Gemma Dingle
Topic – In Town:
New vocabulary: museum; sweet shop; restaurant; school; potato; chocolate;
Reviewed vocabulary: pizza, sandwich, shoes; colours;
Learning activities:
- Duck duck goose: Students all sit in a circle and one walks round the circle and pats every student on the head and says “(duck)” until they call someone “(goose)” and then they have a small run round the circle back to their space. We used this game to practice the pronunciation of “potato” in particular.
- Singing: Students sang Ring a Rosy.
- Listening: Students listening to the song “In Town” and helped to find the right pictures for what we were doing in town.
- Recognition: Students had to listen to and then run to the correct picture.
