Part A: Making a birthday card and a gift box
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Show pupils several birthday cards and invite them to talk about the shapes on the cards.
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| 2. | Guide pupils to create paradigmatic associations by introducing the superordinate (i.e. shapes) and showing them how to organise the vocabulary in a tree diagram.
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| 3. | After reading a passage about a birthday card (LT 2.1), introduce the derived forms of the names of shapes. Highlight that some of the adjectives are formed by adding the suffix –ar (e.g. triangular, rectangular) to the nouns while some nouns and adjectives have the same forms (e.g. oval, square).
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4. | Revise the names of shapes by asking pupils to solve some riddles (LT 2.2).
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| 5. | Engage pupils in an ‘Information Gap’ activity to practise the vocabulary of shapes.
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| 6. | Have pupils read a set of instructions (LT 2.3) on how to make a birthday card. Draw pupils’ attention to the stationery and materials needed. Guide them to organise the words into these two categories using tree diagrams.
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| 7. | Demonstrate how to make the birthday card and highlight the action verbs (e.g. fold, draw, colour, glue, decorate). Introduce the use of imperatives to give instructions.
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| 8. | Have pupils complete the activity sheet (LT 2.4) to identify the parts of speech (e.g. noun / verb) of the words. Draw pupils’ attention to the conversion patterns of words, i.e. the same word can be used as a noun or a verb (e.g. glue, colour).
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| 9. | Show pupils instructions for making other gifts and ask them to identify the action verbs, the stationery and materials needed (LT 2.5 Part A). Encourage pupils to think of other stationery and materials that could be used to make gifts (LT 2.5 Part B).
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| 10. | Draw pupils’ attention to the word combinations, i.e. verb phrases followed by prepositional phrases.
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11. | Revisit and learn more names of stationery, materials and action verbs by watching a video You Can Make It! – A Gift Box on the Campus TV. While watching the show, have pupils complete the activity sheet (LT 2.6).
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| 12. | Introduce the sentence structure ‘I need , and to make .’ Engage pupils in a ‘Board Game’ to practise the newly learnt sentence structure and vocabulary items in a fun way.
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