4th Grade Unit 6 Home Sweet Home Grammar Activities

Şahin SANCAR

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NOTICING

LANGUAGE POINT : There is/ There are

AIMS: Teaching basic words about parts of the house and furnitures. Teaching the usage of there is/ there are structure.

PROCEDURE

In noticing part teacher begins with the parts of the house and furniters, in order to prepare a background for there is/there are and prepositions. At the begining teacher asks students about their own house. He asks about the rooms and the furniters they have. After that teacher explains the goals they will reach at the end of the course and starts the course by using the video he has found before. The video shows the parts of the house. After the video teacher divides the clasrrom into four groups. He gives each group an envelope , in which there are little pictures of the furnitures. Then he continues with the powerpoint presentation he has prepared, which has the same pictures of furnitures with the little pictures he distributed at the begining. When teacher changed the picture on the presentation asks the student who has the same picture of the furniture and ask again “Is there a sofa/ TV/ bed… in your house?”  Teacher completes the part by doing the same thing until students understand the usage of there  is/ there are. Teacher tell the students keep the pictures until the end of the course.

 By using the same pictures both in the presentation and envelopes teacher teach the vocabulary of the unit. By asking questions during the presentation, teacher encourages the students to notice there is/ there are. At the and he ask about the misunderstood points and make the needed explanations.

MATERIALS:Video(showing the parts of the house),  Power point presentation, little pictures of furnitures and envelopes for each group

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parts of house video:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzoi4-X2El5Eb3FNY0xBbF9JcEU/edit?usp=sharing 

describing living room ppt:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzoi4-X2El5ERkJvcXBya1oyYVE/edit?usp=sharing

furnitures ppt:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzoi4-X2El5EenI1Q1pQXzhKajQ/edit?usp=sharing

in, on, under song:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzoi4-X2El5EMTIxQ1ljeWhKZzg/edit?usp=sharing

 

STRUCTURING

LANGUAGE POINT:  prepositions(in, on, under, next to)

AIMS: Teaching basic prepositions of place (in, on, under, next to) and how to use them.

PROCEDURE

            In this part teacher shows another video about prepositions and explains the prepositions very shortly . After that he uses the objects he has and asks students about the place of the object. ( he puts my book in/ on/ under  and next to my bag and expect students to identify the location of my book correctly.) If he notices any unclear part about prepositions, he makes explanations and continues until students tell the correct position of the object. Then teacher chooses a volunteer and  asks the class to give commands to their friend. (Stand next to door/ window,  on/ under the desk or table). As the last activity fort this part, he puts his hands on/ in/ under and next to desk and asks the students do the same thing at the same time with his orders. He continues the activity in a regular order, then he gives up doing and gives commands in a mixed order. In this part he activates students and lets them learn by doing with controlled activities.

MATERIALS: video( a song about prepositions)sual objects I have (my book,bag,pen), clasroom objects(desk,table, door, window)

PROCEDURALIZING

LANGUAGE POINT: Prepositions(in, on, under, next to), there is/ there are

AIMS: Students will be able to use prepositions and there is/there are in the contex.

PROCEDURE

            At the end of the course teacher puts a carton on the board, which has a picture of undesigned rooms. Then he gives each group name of a room (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room),  asks them come to the board in turn and stick the pictures of  related furnitures to the suitable room. Whicever come to the board, he asks there is/ there are questions and try to evaluate about their learning. As the final activity theteacher opens a picture of a living room, which he designed specially for the course, and asks some of the students to describe the room by using prepositions and the words they learnt. After these activites if he notices any unclear parts, makes corrections and explanations carefully and finishes the course.

MATERIALS: A carton that has the picture of a house, picture of a living room, little pictures of furnitures