teaching song unit 12 seasons

Sibel Serdaroğlu

10131065 3-B

TEACHING SONG

Grade: 4^th

Unit 12: Seasons / Weather Conditions

Language Point:  Let’s / Adjectives

The Aims of the Song Activity:

The song improves students’ listening skills.

The song also makes lesson entertaining and interesting for students and they can easily motivate.

The song reminds the names of the seasons and weather conditions.

The song creates a stress- free environment for young learners.

Students pay attention to word stress, sentence stress, intonation and pronunciation.

 

PRESENTATION

Materials: A song about seasons

Aim: The aim is to make students aware of the names of the seasons and remind some question type such as “What is your favorite season?”

1.      Procedure

The teacher asks the names of the seasons and talks about seasons. All students listen to song and then they sing the song all together. They repeat the song a few times.

PRACTICE

Materials: The worksheet and the song

Aim: One of the aims is to improve listening and pronunciation skills.

The other aim is to motivate students and provide enjoyable and relax environment.

Students focus on the pronunciation of words to understand the missing words.

The worksheet:

Fill in the blank by listening the song.

Hello! Do you know what four seasons are?

They are spring, summer, fall and winter.

Let’s sing a song about seasons.

Spring, summer, fall, winter (2)

What is your favorite season?

I like --------- in spring.

They are ---------------.

I like ------------- in summer.

They are ---------.

I like ---------------- in fall.

They are -------------.

I like ------ in winter.

It is --------.

Spring, summer, fall, winter (2)

What is your favorite season?

I like winter.

Procedure

The teacher hands out the worksheets related to song. Students listen the song one more time and try to find missing words.  Students fill in the blank and then the teacher checks whether it is true or not. After they fill in the blank, they listen the song last time.

PRODUCTION

Activity: Creating your own song

Aim: To produce new appropriate words and use the language properly.

To encourage students be more active.

Procedure

The teacher divides students into groups and wants them to create their own songs. Students can change some words and add some new words. Finally, they share the song each other.