4th Grade Unit 7 Pets Games

Ceyhan Tan

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TEACHING GAMES

 UNIT 7: PETS

GRADE: 4^th

Language point: Students learn to pronounce the names of pets in a correct way (fish, cat, dog, hamster, parrot, bird)  

Aims:

·         Children learn how to pronounce the words that they have learned.

·         Teacher raises children awareness of good pronunciation by playing an enjoyable game.

·         Thanks to an enjoyable environment, students learn how to pronounce the names of pets in a good way (rabbit, bird, cat, parrot, dog, hamster, and fish)

·         Children feel more confident thanks to the enjoyable environment.

·         Children have a chance to improve their listening and speaking skills.

Materials: Colorful cards for the tongue twisters.

                                             

PROCEDURE

1-Whisper game 

      Teacher has a whisper game for his/her students in this part. He/she comes to class with different enjoyable tongue twisters written on the colorful cards. He/she wants them to be three groups. Teacher writes the names of groups to the board like; A, B or C and sticks tongue twister cards under the group names by closing the sentences. Students create their groups and teacher wants them to stand up and create the shape of train by turning their backs to each other. Teacher comes to end of the train and whispers a tongue twister to a student. The tongue twister comes to the first student in front of the train. The student first tells the tongue twister and later comes to board, opens the tongue twister to check whether it’s correct or not. If it’s correct, the group gains the point and at the end of the game teacher declares the winner group.

 

 

REFERENCES

·         Cameron, L. (2001) Teaching Languages to Young Learners/ Learning Grammar. Cambridge University Press.