Part A: Growing up
| 1. | Inform pupils they are going to reflect on their development at three different stages (as a baby, a kindergarten child and a Primary 4 pupil) and write their own growth profiles.
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| 2. | Show pupils pictures of babies and invite them to talk about what babies can and cannot do to elicit learnt vocabulary to describe body movements.
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| 3. | Guide pupils to read the information text ‘Growing Up’ in the textbookPrimary Longman Express 4A (2005) Chapter 7 (p. 56) about the growth and development of a person. Ask pupils to locate information about what children can do at different ages (e.g. wash and dry their hands, do up buttons, eat their meals with a spoon).
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| 4. | Demonstrate how to construct a spider web to strengthen syntagmatic associations (e.g. do up zips / shoelaces / seatbelts). Draw pupils’ attention to word combinations.
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| 5. | Have pupils construct spider webs with other verbs (e.g. wash, dry, eat with) to develop their awareness of possible word combinations.
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6. | Introduce the use of tree diagrams and demonstrate how to organise vocabulary about self-care abilities into the following categories, namely ‘keep my body clean’, ‘get dressed’ and ‘eat properly’.
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| 7. | Guide pupils to complete the tree diagram (LT 5.1). Encourage them to draw on their own prior experience and add more words to the tree diagram.
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8. | Draw pupils’ attention to the compound words in the tree diagram. Develop word formation skills by highlighting that compound words are formed by putting two words together.
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| 9. | Engage pupils in a ‘Matching Game’ to find the compound words to consolidate their knowledge of word formation.
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