5th Grade Unit 12 Health Problems Speaking Activities

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UNIT 12: Health problems

GRADE: 5th

SPEAKING FOCUSES: to talk about illnesses

 

MATERIALS: finger puppets, a boy and a doctor puppet

AIM:

 1- to improve their speaking abilities 

ACTIVITY: dialogues between the teacher and the two friends of the teacher (a puppet boy and a puppet doctor) 

 PROCEDURE: The teacher greets the students and asks them how they are and how they feel. After a small talk with the students, the teacher says to them that she has two friends for them that day.” she says.

THE DIALOGUES 

The teacher: Jimmy, jimmy. Let’s children call Jimmy.

Children: “Jimmy, Jimmy!” and finally Jimmy comes.

Jimmy: Hi everybody, I m sorry for being late.

The teacher: Why have you been late, Jimmy?

Jimmy: I couldn’t get up, I don’t feel good.

The teacher and the students asks : “What is the matter with you?”

Jimmy: “I don’t know but I have got a cough and headache. I have got a sneezing.”

The teacher: “I am sorry for you Jimmy, and my students are also sorry for you.”

Then the teacher asks her students: “Shall we call the doctor for Jimmy? Let’s call her. Her name is Sally.”

The students and the teacher: “Sally, Sally and finally Sally comes.

Sally: “Hello everybody!”

The teacher and the students: “Hello Sally, how are you?”

Sally: “I am fine. I am happy for being with you.”

The teacher: “Thank you Sally!”

The teacher introduces “Jimmy to Sally: “Jimmy is my friend. He is ill.”

Sally asks Jimmy: “what is the matter for you?”

Jimmy: “I feel bad. I have got a cough and headache. I have got a sneezing.”

Sally: “You have got the flu, Jimmy. You should take some medicines and you should rest.”

Jimmy: “Thank you Sally!”

The teacher ends the dialogues: “Thank you for coming to my class.”

The teacher and the students: “Good bye Jimmy, good bye Sally.

ACTIVITY:  making dialogues using finger puppets.

AIMS:

1-      to make the language on their own

2-      giving advices using “should/shouldn’t”

PROCEDURE: The teacher wants the students to draw a puppet on their fingers. Then they will be in peers and they will come up with a dialogue about illnesses with their partners by using their finger puppets. At last the volunteers will perform in front of the classroom.