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28 January 2007
Good Habits - idea for a lesson plan!
HI there!
I've been teaching about Good Habits this week to my beginner level. I'm afraid I can't post the lesson plan for copyright reasons. The lesson is based on a document taken from a school book so I don't want to have any problems with them by reproducing it.
Basically, they are several pictures representing a little monkey doing everyday actions (focusing on good habits): wash your hand before meals, brush your teeth after meals, make your bed after getting up, etc.
You can create such a document with pictures found on Google images, it shouldn't be too hard.
It allows you to teach "always, never, sometimes, often". I tried to find flahscards representing those adverbs but it's difficult. How to you want to represent "always"? My pupils never guessed so I have to translate into French. If you have any tips about that, you're welcome.
Anyway. You introduce the vocbulary of Good Habits then you give an example: "I always wash my hand before meals"... "What about you?" (I introduced "what about you?" recently, they love it!). Then it's their turn to talk about their good habits. Have them talk as much as possible (mine talked about it for nearly 30 minutes!!!).
Then you can do a kind of survey. You need to introduce the question: "do you often...?". Then make them choose three questions, write them down in a grid. Then they stand up, go and ask their friends about their good habits. Pupils should answer Yes I do, No I don't. Then we report: X never makeS his/her bed, Y always doES his/her homework, etc.
I have then a oral comprehension about a little girl having bad habits. But it's taken from the book again, sorry.
Hope it gave you some ideas still.
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hi there!
pour les adverbes de fréquence, je fais des camemberts: entier: always. 3/4: often. 1/4: sometimes. vide: never.
S'ils ne comprennent pas, je récite les jours de la semaine en comptant sur mes mains:
always? On monday, tuesday, wed, thurs, fri, sat, sun
often? one Tues, Wed, Friday, Sat, Sun
sometimes? on Monday, Wed and Sat
never? poing fermé, et signe pour indiquer rien, fini.
as simple as pie ;+)
Posted by: la prof parmi d'autres | 30 January 2007