1st LESSON PLAN

Created by Niki Papaefstathiou (Cyprus)

UNIT: ENVIRONMENT

SUBUNIT: Animals

Age group 6 - 7 years old

Time: 40 minutes

Resources - Materials: Paper figures, Invitations and envelopes, Bingo cards, markers, whiteboard, PowerPoint presentation, classroom’s computers,

Recycled language: Colours

New language: Animals (cat, sheep, bird, duck, dog, horse, frog, fish, bear), Colours (black, white, brown)

Objectives:

Pupils should be able to:

identify the animals taught

name at least five animals (cat, sheep, bird, duck, horse,

frog, fish, bear)

comprehend basic classroom language

follow teacher’s instructions

Time Procedure

4’

8’

4’

IntroductionThe teacher presents the hero, Teddy the bear. Teddy says goodmorning to the children and asks from them to sing the “Goodmorning” song with him.

Teddy is having his birthday party and he is going to invite his friends to the party. He starts presenting his guests/animals. Pupils repeat the words after the teacher. The teacher uses different figures to show the way they will repeat the word (i.e. silently, loudly, in an angry way).

Teacher asks the pupils to identify the animals’ colours, thus recycling previously learned colours and introducting the three new colours (black, white, brown).

Note: We don’t expect the pupils to learn all the words in the first lesson. The animals will be repeated and revised in the next lesson.

Whole class

8’

8’

Practise

Activities

Activity 1: Disappearing pictures. Teddy presents again all his guests. Children say the words one by one. Then, one of them is disappeared. Teddy, asks from children to find the missing guest/animal. When they discover the missing guest/animal, it appears again.

Activity 2: Teddy informs the children that he has to send invitations to his guests. He asks for their help to find the envelope for each invitation. Each pair is given the envelopes and the invitations and when the teacher reads the word they repeat loudly the word and then they put the right invitation in the envelope.

Whole class

Whole classIn pairs

8’

Evaluation: Bingo (variation of the traditional Bingo game): Each pupil is given a Bingo card. Teddy calls out animals in different ways. Pupils repeat and cross out the animals accordingly. The winner is the pupil who has crossed out all of his/her animals first.

Teddy says goodbye to the children and asks from them to sing the “Goodbye” song with him.

Individual work

Whole class