4th Grade Unit u7 Pets Speaking Activities

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Grade: 4

Unit: 7 Pets

Speking Points: numbers (11-20), pets’ names and qualifications.

Materials: a song about numbers, a song about pets, questionnaire papers

Aims:

ü  To improve students’ speaking skills

ü  To make students use numbers and pets in dialogs

ü  To decrease students’ willingness of speaking

 

PRESENTATION:

Activity: Listening to songs and repeat

Students first listen to the song about pets and listen again. After that teacher stops at question parts in the song and wants students to guess pets. Teacher says pets’ names after students and students repeat after teacher. Then, students listen to the song about numbers and repeat after the song.

Here are the songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGEEJLLKd8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPvoGv3XY6c

            PRACTICE:

            Activity 1: Questionnaires

            Teacher gives questionnaire papers to students and wants them to ask the questions on papers to their friends. Students write their friends’ names which are suitable for the questions. After that teacher says the questions and students say the names they can find.

           

           

 

 

           

 

            Activity 2: Memory games

            Teacher makes four-student groups and s/he asks everybody to listen to each other. Then s/he gives instructions to the groups one by one.  For example, teacher says “use pets’ names” and s/he starts the game by saying that “I have got a rabbit.” Then one student from the group says that “I have got a rabbit and a dog.” The others go on like that. Here are some instruction examples:

            For 2^nd group: Use numbers and cat.

            I have got eleven cats.

            I have got eleven cats and fifteen cats…

            For 3^rd group: Use pets and numbers.

            He has got two cats.

            He has got two cats and five parrots…

            For 4^th group: Use pets and colors.

            I have got a black cat.

            I have got a black cat and orange fish…

            For 5^th group: Use family members and hamster.

            Mother has got a hamster.

            Mother and father have got a hamster…

            For 6^th group: Use numbers and classroom objects.

            She has got twelve pencils.

            She has got twelve pencils and sixteen pens…

           

REFERENCES:

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