TYPICAL ENGLISH LESSON -ITALY

TYPICAL   ENGLISH  LESSON - ITALY

 Unit 1

Words                                                Structures                                                            Functions

Greetings                                  What's your name / surname ?                                 introduce
school objects                                       My name is ...
 parts of the day                                     This is ...
                                                               How are you?

                                                                 I've got .. .                                         recognizing and naming
                                                                  Good ...                                                some school objects

 1. Listen.

Begin the lesson by listening to the introductory song . Explain in Italian the function “ English is fun”. They  have listen to the song a few times .

Song:

English  is fun . English is fun .
Englis is fun with Spooky and friends .
It's time to sing and work together .
English is fun with Spooky and friends .

2 . Listen, point and repeat .

Introduce yourself to the class saying: My name is ... and to do the same to each student .

If you want, can be attributed to each student an English name, translating his name if you can, otherwise choosing a similar name.

W hen everyone has had a chance to tell  your name, introduce the question: What's your name ? To listen to the recording and invite pupils to repeat the names of the characters .

Rhime

Hello , boys and girls . My name is Spooky .
Hello , my name is Minny .
Hello children ! My name is Charlie .
Hello everybody! My name is Lilly .
Hello! My name is Roger .

At a later time you can teach: What's your surname ? My surname is ... Make sure that everyone understands the difference between name and surname . List both the names and surnames of the children and invite them to say name if they hear a name and surname if they feel a surname.

3. Draw yourself.

Point out to students that on a space everyone can draw with its own directory.
Explain that folder in English we say schoolbag.

4. Listen and answer.

Explain to the students that have to listen to the two questions and answer in chorus .
You can repeat the exercise several times indicating the pupils who have to respond. Invite pupils to ask questions to each other.

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What's your name ?
What's your surname ?

5. Listen and repeat.

Make simple drawings on the blackboard for introduce the names of the parts of the day : morning , afternoon , evening , night . To repeat together with the registration .

If you believe appropriate and if the class is at a good level, you can teach you the actions depicted for each part of the day : I get up in the morning , I play in the afternoon . I have dinner in the evening .

Next, teach greetings: good morning , good afternoon , good evening ,good night .
Use the appropriate greetings at the beginning of each lesson and encourage pupils to do equally .

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listen
morning – afternoon- evening- night

6. Draw yourself .

Point out to students that everyone can  draw what it normally does in this part of the day . If you want, you can I teach go to bed  or I sleep at night .

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Ask the question to the students . In a later , have the class into pairs and invite students to contact each other , the three questions they have learned : What's yourname ? What's your surname ? How are you?

8. Listen, repeat and do the actions.

Teaching the following expressions: sit down, stand up, touch your toes / nose. Fostering sentences with relative actions to facilitate understanding . impart commands to individual pupils and invite them to perform actions. When they learned of these expressions invite them to accompany the rhyme with actions .

Tapescript

Stand up ! Sit down! Touch your toes!
Stand up ! Sit down! Touch your nose !

 Listen , point and repeat .

Presenting the six school items shown using real objects. Arrange the chair a pen, a pencil, a book, a ruler  an exercise-book, to rubber. To repeat the names in English, both with registration without both.

Ask the students to place on the bench the same objects and to display them as they repeat the recorded words .

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Invite one child at a time to list the names objects just learned. In a second time give the command ... Touch! , that children already know, and invite them to touch the named objects .

Sing and draw on the blackboard .

Prior to listen to the song , teach the expression pick up with practical examples.

Give commands such as Pick up your pen  and invite pupils to run them. In a second time , teach put down following the same procedure . To listen to the song and ask pupils to say the name of the object,pencil , which they hear the name , then invite them to illustrate the object drawn on the blackboard book.

To repeat the song a couple of times for easy storage .
When the children will be able to repeatwithout hesitation, invite them to stand up and to place a pencil on the desk. Later, to perform the actions that accompany each line .

Tapescript

Pick up your pencil.
Put down your pencil.
Pick up your pencil and shake it all around.
Now do the classroom twist.
And then sit down.
Now, you're ready for school.
(lifting the pencil)
(put the pencil on the counter)
(lifting the pencil and shake)
(dance the twist)
(to sit at your place)

Propose replacing the song with pencil other school items . Give the possibility to pupils to choose the object.

Listen and draw.

Teach Put the command ... in your ... and invite pupils to run it. Then invite a student to time to issue the command .

REINFORCEMENT MATERIAL

SONG The Hello / Goodbye Song

Teach the following song to the tune of "Frère Jacques" . The children can sing when they meet in the morning and when they take their leave at the end of the day.

Hello friend ! Hello friend!
How are you? How are you?
How are you, today? How are you, today?
Fine, thank you! Fine, thank you!
It's time to go! It's time to go!
I'll see you tomorrow! I'll see you tomorrow!
Here at school ! Here at school !

WORKSHEET

Explain to the students that need to cut out the greetings and place them under the illustrations .
If you want to start the kids to the first approach to writing , encourage them to copy the greetings in the spaces instead of paste . Do color the card at will.