Part A: Super Mum
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Elicit from pupils adjectives or verb phrases for describing their mothers’ personalities and the good deeds that their mothers have done. Guide pupils to show appreciation for their mothers.
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Present the ideas in a spider web to show pupils the special qualities of different mums and what they do. The spider web helps pupils associate the verb phrases with the adjectives.
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Ask pupils the question ‘What are super mums like?’ to help them anticipate the content of the text to be read.
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Ask pupils to read some children’s descriptions of their super mums in the textbookPrimary Longman Express 4A (2005) Chapter 5 (pp. 33&34). Guide pupils to identify their special qualities (e.g. brave, smart, patient, good-tempered, humorous) and locate the examples in the text for illustrating these qualities.
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Demonstrate how to create a spider web (LT 4.1) to organise the new adjectives for describing the super mum and the verbs / verb phrases that are related to their qualities.
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Introduce the poem ‘Super Mum’ (LT 4.2 Part A). Highlight the features of a poem (e.g. rhyming words, lines and stanzas). Guide pupils to identify the main idea in each stanza to find out the qualities of the super mum (e.g. gentle, sociable, generous). Have pupils identify the verbs / verb phrases that illustrate these qualities and organise them in the form of spider webs.
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Draw pupils’ attention to word combinations (e.g. lose temper, do tricks, make funny faces, make friends, give away clothes).
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Highlight the synonyms of adjectives for describing people. Encourage pupils to use different synonyms in a piece of text to give lexical richness.
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Engage pupils in a ‘Pelmanism Game’ to help them revise the vocabulary learnt.
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Ask pupils to see if their mums share the same qualities. Have pupils add examples about what their mums do for others to further illustrate the meanings of the adjectives.
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| 11. | Modelling on the poem ‘Super Mum’, pupils write a poem to describe their mums (LT 4.2 Part B) using the adjectives and verbs / verb phrases they have learnt.
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Invite some pupils to read out their poems in front of the class and give feedback on the content and pronunciation, stress and intonation as well as their application of adjectives and verbs / verb phrases to describe the qualities of their mums.
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