4th Grade Unit 3 My Family Grammar Activities

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EAKBALIKCI/Noticing part/PPT

Aim:

    The purpose in this activity is enable students to predict the new subject and see the basic people in a family. This activity focuses on speaking and writing skills. Watching a power point presentation about the family helps students to be aware of the subject and they can take notes of new vocabulary during the power point presentation process. The main purpose is to encourage students to anticipate the general meaning and to involve them actively and personally in the learning process for developing self-confidence.

Materials:

-          Power point presentation (teacher prepares it before and she brings it to the class)

-          Students’ notebook (students take notes while they are watching presentation.)

ppp: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2mI4xQGIBZEZkwyOTN1UTN2am8/edit?usp=sharing

Activity instructions:

-          Teacher prepare computer to show her power point presentation about the family to students

-          While she is preparing this, she asks some questions to student to draw their attention to the lesson. For example, she can ask whether they find a video or presentations on computer enjoyable or not.

-          Then, teacher tells students why they are going to learn this subject, where they can use them. In other words, teacher explains the aim of this activity to the students.

-          She starts showing her presentation.

-          While she is showing it, she sometimes stops to make students write down new vocabulary, such as mother, father, sister, and etc.

-          At the end of the power point presentation, teacher asks what their prediction is about the subject, how they find the presentation, whether they like it or not, and etc. to make students speak about the activity.

-          Then, teacher divides class into groups, she says to students to share their notes in each other, and then one student of each group stands up and tells their notes to the class.

                                                                                                    

EAKBALIKCI/Structuring part/Flash Cards and poster

Cards

Aim:

The purpose in this activity is to teach grammar rules to student implicitly.  Some of cards have pictures of family members and some of them are full of plural and singular nouns. Students have a choice to select cards which they like, and then they are asked to use these two cards in a sentence. So, they become aware of the grammar rules in this activity implicitly. They use their speaking and reading skills in this activity. At the end of this activity, students become more aware of how the language works.

Activity instruction:

-          Firstly, teacher shows a poster full of pictures about family members, numbers, and singular and plural nouns, such as a car, two cars, a ball, three balls and etc.

-          She puts it on the first desk, and she says to them come near the poster.

-          They all look at the pictures, and they try to read the name of family members, the numbers.

-          Teacher calls some students’ name and she makes them read example sentences which are written on the poster.

-          Then, all students sit down their places. Teacher starts to show cards one by one.

-          Students select cards and try to set a sentence by using them.

-          Teacher encourages students to participate the activity by saying ‘ good job, you are really good and etc.’

-          After all students set sentences by choosing cards, teacher asks how they find this activity.

-          Then, she gives more example sentences, and she tells something about her family members.

-          She again asks some questions to students, such as how many sister and brother they have, what their father and mother have, how many books they have and etc., in order to make the students speak about their family members with using numbers, plural and singular nouns.

Materials

-          Poster full of pictures about family members, numbers, and singular and plural nouns.

-          Cards of family members

Cards of singular and plural nouns, such as a car, two cars, a ball, two balls.

materials.:https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2mI4xQGIBZEM0ZiLXFrVGZSRWs/edit?usp=sharing

EAKBALIKCI/Proceduring part/ Role play        

       

Role-play

Aim:

The purpose in this activity is to stimulate students to write their own dialogs by using new vocabulary about the family, the numbers and the singular and plural nouns which consist of basic possessions such as car, ball, book, dress and etc.  They are supposed to do this activity in pairs. So, their social-affective strategies develop. They can learn how they study together. They also have an opportunity to develop their speaking skill in this activity. At the end of this activity, students learn the unit by their own efforts and take part in their learning process.

Activity instructions:

-          First of all, teacher tells the activity to students. Then, she divides them in pairs.

-          Students start to write their own dialog which should be about the family members, the numbers, and the singular and plural nouns they have learnt during the lesson.

-          While students are trying to write the dialog, teacher observes them.

-          When they finish writing, teacher asks volunteers to act their dialog. If there is a volunteer, they act first. If there is not any volunteer, teacher calls someone, and he comes with his friend on the board and acts the dialog.

-          After each group act their dialogs, teacher asks to students which group acts best.

-          They choose the best group together. And, teacher congratulates this group.

-          Teacher finishes her lesson.

References

1-English language curriculum for primary education (4,5,6,7 and 8)