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Thursday, March 28, 2013

4th Grade Unit 2 My Classroom Grammar Activities


                                                    FİRDEVS YÜKSEL  09131081  3-B

UNIT 2:MY CLASSROOM

GRADE:4th

Grammar point: This/that, a/an


Materials:Real school objects,video,powerpoint slide,puppets,scarf

Aim:To teach this/that/a/an by using real materials in an enjoyable atmosphere.

Pppt Presentations:
 


 
NOTICING

Grammar Point: This is a book/That is a ruler/This a board/that is a window(Vocabularies about school objects such as pen, pencil, book, ruler, eraser, sharpener and school bag and classroom instructions such as stand up, sit down, open your books, close your books, look at the board, listen to me, )

 Activity: Listening and watching a song and acting out the song with whole class by using body parts.

Question-Answer Activity: First introduce the objects with real materials. Then ask questions about them. (What is this/that? It is a ruler.)

   Aim: 1.In noticing part, it is important to draw the students’ attention to the course. So teacher enters the class by singing a song. Teacher aims to take their attention before teaching topic.

Song:

‘’This is a pencil, this is a book

This a rubber, this is a bag

Sit down, stand up

One two three

School, school, school for you and me

‘’That is a table, that is a desk

That is a window,  that is a board

Sit down, stand up

One two three

School, school, school for you and me’

 2.In noticing part, it is crucial to support meaning and form together therefore students listen and watch a song as a start. Moreover, they act out the song with body movements. The aim is to activate the students and increase their motivation and reduce their stress.

 2. Using a song is beneficial to start the course instead of using a textbook. Thanks to video and song students can see the form in a different and meaningful context. In addition, using a lovely song is appropriate for young learners. Young learners enjoy while learning in this kind of situation.  
       3. Showing real materials and doing question-answer activity aims to help the students to relate the form of language in a meaningful context.

 

Materials: Real school objects, PowerPoint slide show

 Procedure: Step 1. Students first listen and watch the teacher while she is singing and demonstrating school objects. Then they all listen and watch the song and they act out the song. While they are listening to the song they learn what the meaning of book is, because while listening, teacher does the same acting out with the whole class by using body movements. For example, the song starts with ‘this is a pencil, this is a book’. Teacher shows these objects to class while singing. There are also subtitles of this song.Students can follow the sentences easily.Thanks to these opportunities, they perceive the meaning and form together in a context.
       Step 2. Students enjoy doing things with computer so students watch a power point slide show. In the slides, there are lots of colourful school objects and instructions.Forms are obvious for students.First teacher shows the real materials and students can also follow the pictures in the slide show. For instance, in the first slide there is a picture of a book and the form is also given such as ‘What is this? This is a book. Then teacher says that open your books.Teacher helps them to understand the objects in meaningful context.To differentiate this and that teacher demonsrates the board and window.Also teacher uses some instructions such as look at the board, ın here teachers uses the board in a context to help her students so that they can grasp the meaning.

 STRUCTURING

Grammar Point: What is this/that? This/That is a ruler.

 Is this a book? Yes, this is/ No, this isn’t.

 Activity: Puppet Game

 Aim:  Using puppets is important for students to be able to remove their affective filter thanks to puppets they feel relaxed and they will be able to act out.They can easily manipulate the language with the help of puppets and they can express the form of grammar.They learn the grammar in communicative context and they interact with each other and perceive the meaningful points of grammar.

 Materials: Two hand puppets, PowerPoint slide show

 Procedure: Two students come to the board and ask each other some questions about the topic by looking at slide show. The questions are: What is this/that? This/That is a pen. Is it a book? Yes, it is/ No, it isn’t. In the slide show, the pictures of objects are given, so students look at the pictures and remember what they are. Thanks to this they do not memorize the vocabulary. Students do lots of practices in this part.

 PROCEDURALIZING

 Grammar Point:

Student A: Is this/that is a school bag?

Student B: No it isn’t

Student A: What is this?

Student B: This is a notebook

 Activity: Touch and Guess Game

 Aim: The aim is to make students produce sentences in a communicative context.They pay attention to both grammar and communication.They learn grammar points by interacting each other and in a funny enjoyable situation.

      Materials: Real school objects and a scarf
       Procedure: In this part students should do a lot of practicing and produce language, so they play ‘Touch and Guess Game’.For this game, teacher ties up a student’s eyes with a scarf so that he can not see anywhere and anything. The aim is to touch one of the classroom objects like a book and guess what it is. After touching it, he asks ‘Is this a book?’ and the other student who holds the book gives the answer. If the answer is not true, that student asks again like ‘What is this?’ and other student answers like ‘This is a notebook.’ They do it in pairs, so interaction will be inevitable.

  REFERENCES:
                                                                                                                                              
n  Cameron, Lynne (2001) Teaching Languages to Young Learners/ Learning Grammar.Cambridge University Press.


n  Kahraman, Ayşe and Bahattin (2012) English 4. Grades. Semih Ofset-S.E.K Press.


 



 

 

 

 


 
 

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