4th Grade Unit 8 My Weekly Schedule Grammar Activities

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Grammar Lesson Plan

Grade: 4

Unit: 8, My Weekly Schedule

Language Point: have got/has got, how many

Material: Powerpoint presentation which contains pictures about lessons, a big dice which is made from cardboard, and the dice has some pictures and patterns about lessons on it, a paper, a pen

Noticing:

Activity : Showing pictures about lessons from Powerpoint presentation

Aim: The aim of this activity is that students can recognize the lessons they have and learn the names of lessons in English by associating them with the pictures. In addition, in this activity there are some sentences about pictures which contain “have/has got”; so the another aim is that students can recognize and understand how they can form sentences about lessons by using “have/has got”.

Materials: Powerpoint presentation which contains pictures about lessons

powerpoint presentation https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4R9U-keEd4kNUM5TVN3OVlXbjA/edit?usp=sharing

Structuring:

Activity: Team-game-tournament

Aim:The aim is that students can practice the related patterns much more in an enjoyable way. In this way, students’ attention can be drawn easily; so they can be motivated, because they like game activities very much; and this game can be really interesting for them. The another aim is that all students can attend the game, there will no student who sit passively.

Procedure: Students play a game by using a dice that includes some patterns about the topic on it.

Step 1: Firstly, I will divide students into groups, each group will consist of four or five students. Then, each group will choose a person from the group to go in front of the class to be asked.

Step 2: Then, each group will throw the dice which contains some patterns on it such as “on Monday” or “math”.

Step 3: The groups will ask a question to a student who does not belong to their own group. For example, if the pattern “on Monday” comes on the dice , the question must be in this way: “ What lessons have you got on Monday?” The groups will ask such kind of questions and other students will answer by looking at the weekly schedule which is drawn on the board.

Step 4:  In this activity, both the group must ask in a right way and the students must answer in the right way, so that they can take a plus for their groups. At the end, the group which takes more plus will win the game and take the prize.

Materials: A big dice which is made from cardboard, and the dice has some pictures and patterns about lessons on it

Proceduralizing:

Activity:  Walk and Speak

Aim : The aim is that students can interact with each other so that they can learn to communicate about the topic. In addition, students like this kind of activities because it requires to be physically active rather than sitting passively only, so they like and attend the activity eagerly. Moreover, the another aim is to increase students’ motivation.

Procedure:

Step 1: Students are asked to make a weekly schedule individually.

Step 2: After they make it, they will walk around the classroom and ask their friends about their favourite lessons and weekly schedules. They can ask such questions to each other: "Which lessons have you got on Monday?, What is your favorite lesson? How many English lesson have you got?" They will share information with each other. They can walk around about ten minutes and they talk each other.

Step 3: Then they will share the information with class that they get from their friends.

Materials: a paper and pen

REFERENCES:

• Cameron, Lynne (2001) Teaching Language to Young Learners/ Learning Grammar, Cambridge University Press
• Kahraman, Ayşe and Bahattin (2012) English 4.Grades, Semih Ofset-S.E.K Press