Sibel Serdaroğlu

10131065 3-B

GRAMMAR TEACHING

Textbook: Primary English Student’s Book

Grade: 4^th

Unit 12: Seasons / Weather Conditions

Language Point:  Let’s / Adjectives (rainy, cloudy, snowy, windy, sunny, hot, cold, cool, warm etc.)

Time: 30 min.

1) NOTICING

Material: The Seasons Songs , authentic materials (umbrella, hat, scarf etc.), poster about seasons

The teacher brings authentic materials to classroom such as umbrella, sunglasses, hat, scarf, raincoat, etc. and displays these materials. The teacher asks students if there is any guess about the topic that will be taught today. The teacher presents the poster that she prepared before. This poster includes the pictures of four seasons so that the teacher draws attention the seasons. After talking about seasons, the teacher asks some questions such as “What is your favorite season?” “Why do you like this season?” “What can we do in this season?” Later, the teacher shows a video related to four seasons so that the teacher can draw students’ attention. Students watch it eagerly because the video has a colorful visual and enjoyable song. This video includes “What is your favorite season?” expression and some adjectives such as beautiful, yummy and juicy. Children learn many words like adjectives, nouns and verbs. Students hear many sentences as :

“I like tulips in the spring, they are beautiful”

“I like cherries in the summer, they are juicy.”

“I like chestnuts in the fall, they are yummy.”

“I like snow in the winter, it is cold.”

Furthermore they can learn different kind of words such as chestnut, tulip, snow, cherry and ask question each other and give suggestions about seasons. For example;

A: What is your favorite season?

B: My favorite season is summer.

A: Can you give suggestions about your favorite season?

B: Let’s go swimming. Let’s drink cold orange juice.

2) STRUCTURE

Activity: Puppet Game

Materials: Two puppets, role play cards (These cards include many questions “What is your favorite season?” “What is the weather like in your favorite season?” “Please, give suggestions about your favorite season.”)

Aim of the activity: Students make dialogues so that their communicative skills develop easily

Students can use the language efficiently with the help of their creativity, they can generate different sentences.

1.      Procedure

Firstly, the teacher shows the puppet activity how to apply it by using role-play cards. There are two puppets called Jane and John. Then the teacher chooses two students to animate puppet show. One of the student chooses his or her favorite season and the other student asks these questions:

1)What is your favorite season?

2)What is the weather like in your favorite season?

3)What are the your favorite season months?

4)Please, give suggestions about your favorite season. ( For example; Let’s go swimming, let’s make a snowman, let’s drink cold orange juice, etc.)

Students change the roles and go on playing game so their communicative skills improve. They feel relaxed themselves, when they make a mistake they may think that this mistake belongs to puppet not to them. Students are not afraid of making mistakes and learn better in this relaxed atmosphere.

3) PROCEDURALIZATION

Activity: Role-play (Weather conversation)

Aim of the activity: Listening and speaking skills are improved thanks to this activity.

1.      Procedure

Firstly, students listen to the dialogue and then they start to converse each other. Students have a chance to ask certain questions and use lots of adjectives such as windy, cloudy, snowy, rainy, sunny, warm, cool, cold etc.

The teacher chooses two students and gives instructions to them.

For example: These students are from different cities, one student is in İzmir, the other is in Samsun. The teacher wants the students to talk about weather condition. “What is the weather like?”  and “What is your suggestion about current weather condition.?” are focused on this conversation. The one answering the questions ask questions later thus all students will be active during this process.

Each student represents a different city and conversation activity continues in this way. Student’s speaking skills develop as they interact with each other through the process. Asking questions, answering questions and mostly speaking skills develop.

REFERENCES

Kahraman, A.G, and Kahraman, B  İlköğretim English Student’s Book, Semih Eğitim ve Kültür Yayınları

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS9qBeInJ0U (four seasons video)