Five-minute activities for young learners / Penny McKay and Jenni Guse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKay, Penny.

Contributor:

Guse, Jenni.

Series:

Cambridge handbooks for language teachers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Foreign speakers--Activity programs.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Foreign speakers.

Physical Description:

ix, 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners is full of short, topical, low-resource ideas for teachers of English to children. Activities are organised around six themes: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, About me.

These themes reflect the content covered in young learner English exams (for example the Cambridge Young Learner English Tests) and the curriculum in most primary classrooms. Each theme contains activities at three levels of difficulty: one star (*) represents the lowest level of difficulty, while three stars (***) represent the most challenging tasks. Teachers can use the activities to meet a specific learning objective, to reinforce a teaching point or simply to fill a gap in the lesson.

All activities are hands-on and designed to appeal to children's sense of fun. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book will be of interest to both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable, achievable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.

Contents:

1 Animals 9

1.1 What animals do you know? 9

1.2 Describing well-known animals 10

1.3 Animals moving about 11

1.4 Animal rhythms 12

1.5 Singing about animals 13

1.6 Writing an animal Haiku 14

1.7 Wild animals 15

1.8 What animal am I? 17

1.9 Guess the animal in 20 questions 18

1.10 Personal animal recount 19

1.11 Animal raps 20

1.12 Animal habitats 21

1.13 Animal information report 23

1.14 Human attributes of animals 24

1.15 Animal advertisements 25

1.16 Animal conversations 27

1.17 Animal escape 28

1.18 Which dog has a better life? 251

2 Journeys 31

2.1 A beach holiday 31

2.2 Describing what we can do on a beach holiday 32

2.3 Types of transport 33

2.4 Transport: odd one out 34

2.5 A travel sociogram 35

2.6 A beach holiday checklist 37

2.7 Travelling to school 38

2.8 About the weather 39

2.9 Advice for a visitor 41

2.10 How do you come to school? 43

2.11 Guess the local place 44

2.12 Writing a 'late note' for the teacher 45

2.13 Travel diary from space 46

2.14 Singing about journeys 47

2.15 UFO 48

2.16 Science fiction 49

2.17 Holidays in space 50

2.18 About Mars 52

3 Fantasy and adventure 54

3.1 The king and the dragon 54

3.2 The pirate 56

3.3 Adventurers and heroes 57

3.4 Witch's magic potion 58

3.5 Good king bad king 60

3.6 Draw a dinosaur 61

3.7 Wizard interview 63

3.8 Turned into a rabbit! 64

3.9 Queen's family 65

3.10 Fairy tale people 66

3.11 Contrasting fairies and witches 67

3.12 Three wishes 68

3.13 Jack and the beanstalk 69

3.14 Goldilocks 70

3.15 Fortune telling 72

3.16 House of horrors 73

3.17 The king's challenge 75

3.18 Create a fantasy tale 77

4 The world around us 78

4.1 Rivers of the world 78

4.2 Map making 79

4.3 Drawing my natural world 80

4.4 North, south, east and west 81

4.5 Geographical tongue twisters 82

4.6 Sphere shapes 83

4.7 New Year celebrations 85

4.8 New Year's Day emails 86

4.9 Loy Krathong Festival from Thailand 87

4.10 Pinocchio: an Italian story 89

4.11 Carnival in Brazil 90

4.12 Popular Asian game 91

4.13 Natural disasters 92

4.14 Pompeii 94

4.15 Safety guidelines 95

4.16 Current affairs recount 96

4.17 Earthquakes and floods 97

4.18 Emergency procedures 99

5 Healthy bodies 101

5.1 Grandma! What big eyes you've got! 101

5.2 Callisthenics 103

5.3 Create your own dance 104

5.4 Healthy morning routine 105

5.5 Staying clean and healthy 106

5.6 Footprints 107

5.7 Doctor! Doctor! 108

5.8 Safety 109

5.9 A healthy lifestyle 111

5.10 Our feelings 112

5.11 Absent from school 113

5.12 Unhealthy activities 114

5.13 The senses 116

5.14 An accident 117

5.15 Get well card 118

5.16 Personal affirmations 120

5.17 Healthy and unhealthy foods 121

5.18 Food pyramid 122

6 About me 124

6.1 My family 124

6.2 My classroom 125

6.3 My home 127

6.4 My school books 128

6.5 My free time 129

6.6 My mum's mobile phone 130

6.7 My friends 131

6.8 My birthday party 132

6.9 My school excursion 134

6.10 My sporting skills 135

6.11 My favourite TV show 136

6.12 My favourite party game 138

6.13 My computer class 139

6.14 My mathematics class 140

6.15 My science class 142

6.16 My social education class 143

6.17 My poetry class 145

6.18 My music class 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521691345

0521691346

OCLC:

77256922