4th Grade Unit 1 New Friends Grammar activities

Meryemana SOYUÇOK
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Grade: 4

Unit 1: New Friends

Grammar Point: “is”          

Activity: Structuralizing activity “Train game”

Aims:

·         involving pupils in manipulating forms and meaning in controlled practice

·         benefiting from their potential energies

·         enhancing to touch and interact with students each other

Materials: the lyrics “Hello, hello! What’s your name?” of the video in first section

Procedure:

Firstly, a huge area is created in the class to play game in a comfortable ways and a circle is determined in the middle of the class. In the second place, teacher asks the students to make an order in a line like a train and to hold their friends’ back.

Secondly, teacher as a participant in the game passes the ahead of the order runs slowly in a circle line and the students run at the same speed as their teacher. While the teacher is running, she says “Hello, hello!” in a rhythmic way.

Thirdly, after saying that, she turns the student in her back and says “My name is Meryem” by pointing herself. Next, she asks “What’s your name? What’s your name?” by pointing her student in her back.

Fourthly, after that, the student says her/his name “A”. Then the teacher wants the student A to turn back and to tell the student A’s own name to the student B “My name is A” by pointing herself/himself. In addition, the teacher wants to ask the same question “What’s your name?”  to the student B at the student A‘s back. The student A turns back and tells her/his name “My name is A” by pointing herself/himself and asks the question “What’s your name?” to the student B.  By the way, while the student A is asking question, the train acts slowly in the circle which is determined before. The train acts towards to the student A and the student A runs slowly back to back. The student B tells her/ his name “My name is B”. After the student B tells her/his name, the student A passes the back of the train and holds to her/his friend in the rearmost of the train.

Finally, the student B turns back and tells her/his name “ My name is B” by pointing herself/himself and asks the question “What’s your name?” to the student C.  By the way, while the student B is asking question, the train acts slowly in the circle which is determined before. The train acts towards to the student B and the student B runs slowly back to back. The student C tells her/ his name “My name is C”. After the student C tells her/his name, the student B passes the back of the train and holds to her/his friend in the rearmost of the train. The game continues in this way until the turn will be his/hers who is the student A.

References:

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