4th Grade Unit 7 Pets Vocabulary Activities

                                                             Ceyhan Tan

                                                             09131065- 3/B

UNIT 7: PETS

GRADE: 4^th

Language point: Students learn the names of pets (hamster, fish, rabbit, dog, cat, parrot, and bird)

Aims:

·         Students can easily understand the words when they see them in the written form.

·         Students  can easily focus on the topic thanks to the song, pictures and PowerPoint presentation

·         Students learn to share their knowledge with each other; they learn to work collaboratively through the teams.

 

Materials: A song: http://supersimplelHYPERLINK "http://supersimplelearning.com/songs/themes-series/animals/i-have-a-pet/"eHYPERLINK "http://supersimplelearning.com/songs/themes-series/animals/i-have-a-pet/"arning.com/songs/themes-series/animals/i-have-a-pet/

PowerPoint presentation, Colorful pictures of pets.

Ppt: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzefU-f5Bl-oM0p2eDA3VFBqX2M/edit?usp=sharing

 

1-    ) PRESENTATION PART

                              PROCEDURE 

Listening a song

 Teacher comes to class with different pictures that belong to pets and begins to stick them on the board. While sticking them on the board, he/she also asks them some questions like: How are you today? Do you know these pets? Can you tell me the names of these pets?  He/she wants them try to predict the names of these pets (cat, rabbit, hamster, bird, fish, dog, and parrot) and after they have tried, teacher opens a song which is named as “Do you have a pet?” and they all listen to it two times by trying to say all together. After the song, the teacher begins to tell the names of pets one by one and opens the presentation that he/she has prepared before, and later through presentation, students both see the pictures of pets and the names of them in written form.  

 

2-    ) PRACTICE PART

  PROCEDURE

A-What’s missing?

     In this part teacher has a game named as “What is missing?” Teacher sticks pictures on the board randomly, and wants them to make three groups to play the game in an enjoyable way. He/she asks students to look at the pictures carefully then tell them to close their eyes. Firstly, the first group’s members close their eyes and the other groups watch them in a silent. Teacher removes a picture from the board and the first group predicts the missing picture. Teacher asks the other groups, is the first group right? This goes on like this and at the end of the game; the teacher announces the group that wins the game. The group with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.    

B- Guess the word

     In this part teacher places students back to back on chairs in front of the classroom and gives each one picture of the pets, student A gives a definition but doesn’t say the target word. Student B has to guess what the word is and the rest of the class also try to predict the word in a silent. Once they get it right, everybody applauds them and different students come to board to continue the game. This game goes on like this.

REFERENCES

·         Brewster, J.& Ellis, G. (2002). The Primary English Teacher’s Guide. England: Penguin English.

·         Harmer, J. (2007). The Practice of English Language Teaching. England: Pearson Longman.

·                   http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/lesson-share/extras/team/team-games-vocabulary-guessing-game/145342.article

·                 http://www.readingresource.net/vocabularyactivities.html