Games, Unit 12 Seasons

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TEACHING WITH GAMES

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Adjectives ( windy,sunny,rainy,cloudy, foggy and snowy)

                                  Nouns   ( summer, spring,fall and winter)

1)PRESENTATION

Watching  a videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTXtSGf1VdY

Materials

A selected video related to the topic

Aim of the activity

 Students’ attention is drawn and they remember vocabulary items related to the topic thanks to this video.

Stages:

ü  The teacher finds a video about 4 seasons and shows it in the classroom.

ü  The video also includes adjectives about seasons such as rainy, cold, hot, warm, cloudy, windy etc.

Games, unit12 seasons

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TEACHING GAME

Textbook: Primary English Student’s Book

Grade: 4^th

Unit 12: Seasons / Weather Conditions

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

Activity 1: Picture Dictation

Materials: paper and colorful pencils.

The Aim of the Activity:

To encourage students to participate the learning process

To encourage students to produce

To enhance students’ creativity.

To motivate students and create enjoyable atmosphere

teaching song unit 12 seasons

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TEACHING SONGS

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Let's / Adjectives ( windy,sunny,rainy,cloudy, foggy and snowy)

                                  Nouns   ( summer, spring,fall and winter)

teaching song unit 12 seasons

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TEACHING SONG

Grade: 4^th

Unit 12: Seasons / Weather Conditions

Language Point:  Let’s / Adjectives

The Aims of the Song Activity:

The song improves students’ listening skills.

The song also makes lesson entertaining and interesting for students and they can easily motivate.

The song reminds the names of the seasons and weather conditions.

The song creates a stress- free environment for young learners.

Students pay attention to word stress, sentence stress, intonation and pronunciation.

4th Grade Unit 12 Seasons Storytelling

Grade / Unit: 4th Grade Unit 12 Storytelling

Language Point: Telling about weather.

Aims:

- Main aim of the activity is to practice how to talk about weather conditions by using visual aids.

- To provide students a meaningful language resource through story so they can understand and then produce the language.

Materials: 4 Puppets, Pictures

4th Graders Storytelling Unit 12

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STORYTELLING FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Let’s

A short story: Lilly and the Four Seasons

1)      PRE-STORYTELLING

Activity: Watching a video

Materials: computer and the video

Aims of the activity:

ü  Students’attention will be drawn and they will have some information about the topic thanks to the video

ü  Students’ prior knowledge will be activated through visual support

4th Graders Teaching Speaking Unit 12

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TEACHING SPEAKING

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Let’s

1)      PRESENTATION

The teacher firstly talks about the related unit seasons. After doing this, she starts to speak her favourite season , her favourite season months , the weather condition of it and gives some suggestions about her favourite season.

ü  Aim of this:

ü  Teacher will form a background for students for the next practicing activity.

4th Graders Pronunciation Teaching Unit 12

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PRONUNCIATION TEACHING

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Adjectives ( sunny,rainy,cloudy and snowy)

                                

1)PRESENTATION

Materials

Colorful pictures of adjectives (weather conditions) to teach their pronunciation

Aim of the activity

 Students’ attention is drawn thanks to these pictures and students will know how to pronounce the adjectives given through pictures.

Stages:

•         The teacher firstly introduces weather conditions (adjectives) with the help of pictures.

•         She explains the meaning of the adjectives and then show how to pronounce these by repeating many times.

•         After she pronounce the words , she wants students to repeat after her to be sure adjectives are pronounce correctly.

4th Graders Vocabulary Activities Unit 12 Seasons

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VOCABULARY TEACHING

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Adjectives ( windy,sunny,rainy,cloudy, foggy and snowy)

                                  Nouns   ( summer, spring,fall and winter)

1)PRESENTATION

Materials

Colorful pictures of words to teach

Aim of the activity

 Students’ attention is drawn and they have some information about vocabulary items to be learned thanks to these pictures.

Stages:

ü  The teacher firstly introduces seasons (nouns) and weather conditions (adjectives) with the help of pictures.

ü  Shesuggests the meaning of the words and pronunciation.

ü  She gives the words in context in order to strength the information of vocabulary items.

4th Graders Grammar Teaching Activities - Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

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GRAMMAR TEACHING

Textbook:Primary School  English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 12: Seasons Weather Conditions

Language Point: Let’s

1)NOTICING

Watching  a video

Materials

computer and video (The Seasons Song)

Aim of the activity

 Students’ attention is drawn and they have some information about the topic thanks to this video.

Stages:

ü  The teacher finds a video about 4 seasons and shows it in the classroom.

ü  The video also includes adjectives about seasons such as rainy, cold, hot, warm, cloudy, windy etc.

ü  It also gives suggestions about each season by using Let’s.

ü  For example: Let’s go swimming in the summer.

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STORYTELLING

1.      Pre-storytelling Part

The Aim of the Storytelling:

The story is attractive and enjoyable for young learners.

The story helps to develop pupils’ cultural awareness and create positive attitudes towards learning.

The story increases pupils’ desire to continue learning much more.

The story improves pupils’ vocabulary knowledge and contributes to confidence building.

The story called The Seasons of the Year is authentic and has a universal theme so that the story provides information about real life in the target language.

The dialogues and some repetitions help pupils to understand the story.

The story motivates pupils to develop their imagination and appeals to their sense of humor.

The story also can enrich pupils’ language skills so that both grammar and vocabulary learning are completed.

The Material: Power-point presentation

Procedure

The teacher tells the story and uses the power point presentation. While the teacher tells the story, pupils listen to the teacher and also watch the power point presentation so that pupils can imagine the story easily.

4th grade, Teaching Speaking, Unit 12 Seasons,

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SPEAKING TEACHING

PRESENT

The Activity: Speaking Circle

The Aim of the Activity: Students try to express themselves orally so that their speaking ability improves highly.

The teacher starts talking about the weather condition. Today, the weather is sunny. What is your suggestion about? One student replies that “Let’s go for a walk.” Another student asks his friend “When is winter?” He replies that the weather is cold in winter. Children make a snowman and play snowball etc. Different student describe other seasons. Later, the teacher asks some questions such as “What is the weather like in fall?” “What do you wear in spring?” The students answer all questions and they continue to ask questions one another.

PRACTICE

The Activity: Define the weather

The Aim of the Activity: Revise vocabulary especially adjectives. Students’ description skills are improved. The main focus is fluency rather than language point. While students define the weather, they improve their narration techniques and creativity.

The Material: Cue-cards

1.      Procedure

The teacher groups all students and gives cue cards to students to use them for defining the weather. They can define it by using adjectives, adverbs etc. Moreover, the student can give suggestions about the weather. For instance, according to cue card the weather is snowy and student can suggest “Let’s make a snowman.” In respect of this suggestion, the whole class tries to predict the weather condition. Each group member defines the weather condition based on the cue-card. The rest of the student tries to predict correct answer.

PRODUCE

The Activity: Connect the pictures

The Aim of the Activity: The aim is improving fluency and introducing a theme or a story.

The Material: Pictures

1.      Procedure

The teacher puts the three pictures on the board, and give students five minutes to make up short stories in groups so that they are encouraged to be imaginative which must include the three pictures or words, feedback stories. Students generate different stories and share each other so that their speaking skills develop considerably.

Teaching Pronunciation, 4th grade, Unit 12 Seasons,

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PRONUNCIATION TEACHING

Textbook: Primary English Student’s Book

Grade: 4^th

Unit 12: Seasons / Weather Conditions

Language Point:  Let’s / Adjectives

PRESENTATION

Materials: The pictures

Firstly; the teacher shows nine pictures. These are ice-cream, raincoat, scarf, umbrella, hat, sunglasses, swimming, snowman, cloud. She pronounces all of them one by one and wants students to repeat these words.

The Activity: How do you say?

The Aim of the Activity: One of the most important matters is focusing on difficult sounds’ pronunciation. This activity helps students to work in a fun and collaborative way on how to pronounce the words properly

1.       Procedure

The teacher put the students in groups of five or six. Each student has a number according to number of the letters. The teacher spells out a word, e.g. R-A-I-N-C-O-A-T. Each group works together to pronounce it well. The teacher asks one student in each group to say the word. Pick the student number at random, e.g. number five goes first. The student says the word loudly and clearly, but does not shout it. The teacher keeps a score on a piece of paper for each group and each good pronunciation gets a point. A few students pronounce the word and get the whole class to practice the pronunciation a few times. Later, move on to next word, each time the teacher asks the students to say the word for you, appoint to another team member by their number. The teacher can also ask the students to prepare words for each other and play the game in groups.

PRACTICE

The Activity: Sound Bingo

The Aim of Activity: Students try to predict the words by looking at the first letter sound so that they both learn the words and pronounce them correctly. They will be more conscious about pronunciation and develop their predicting skills.

The Material: Pictures ( that are used in presentation part) 

1.      Procedure

The teacher sticks the pictures on the board and writes the beginning letter sounds of words. For example, the teacher writes “u” letter sound near the umbrella picture and wants the students to predict the word as a whole. Later the student who completes the sound letter pronounces the words a few times. For instance another student tries to predict by looking at the letter sound list. There is the picture of swimming and “s” sound is given to students so that students complete letters and match the picture. This activity goes on until it lasts.

PRODUCE

The Activity: Whisper Game

The Aim of the Activity: This activity is a good way to practice pronunciation, and it is really enjoyed by young learners. Students can also improve their listening and speaking skills.

1.      Procedure

The teacher puts the students in groups of four and tells the four different sentences to a student from each group. These sentences are given below.
Group A: The weather was very cloudy yesterday.
Group B: The weather is sunny, let’s have a picnic.
Group C: What is the weather like today?
Group D: It is raining now. Take your umbrella.

All groups try to transmit the sentence correctly what they hear. At the end of the game, the teacher wants the last person to tell the sentence loudly so that they can learn whether it is correct sentence or not. Students have fun by learning and pay attention to follow the sentence.

Teaching Vocabulary, Unit 12 Seasons, 4th grade,

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VOCABULARY TEACHING

Textbook: Primary English Student’s Book

Grade: 4^th

Unit 12: Seasons / Weather Conditions

Language Point:  Let’s / Adjectives

PRESENT

The Material: Power-point presentation

The teacher presents the words with power point presentation. These words are umbrella, snowman, ice cream, raincoat, cloud, scarf, swimming, hat, sunglasses. The teacher gives the meanings of words. Later, the teacher pronounces these words correctly. The teacher sorts out these words like noun, verb, adjective, adverb etc. Later the teacher wants students to repeat the words correctly.

PRACTICE

Matching Activity:

The Aim of the Activity:  Students can develop their matching skills and relate the words with new vocabulary.

The Material: Word box, worksheet, pictures

1.      Procedure:

The teacher shows the pictures and repeats the meanings. She also makes short sentences related to objects. Some students choose a piece of paper from box and they try to places the word suitable place in the sentences. Students put the words suitable place and then this cycle goes on in this way until all sentences are completed.

Students learn new words such as scarf, sunglasses, swimming etc. and use these words in a sentence. Moreover they make their own sentences at the end of the lesson. Students learn much more vocabulary permanently thanks to pictures and sentences.

PRODUCE

The Activity: Giving Instructions

The Aim of the Activity: Students improve their schemata thanks to this activity by learning new vocabulary. They foster their creativity by generating different sentences.

The Material: Pictures

1.      Procedure:

There are pictures about weather condition and the paper written the name of the weather conditions. The teacher gives an instruction, focusing on specific vocabulary. For example; show me” rainy day”, and then students find the correct picture among jumbled pictures and stick to the board. The teacher wants the student to make a sentence about “rainy” so that the student can produce own sentence with his or her imagination. They can easily transfer the vocabulary to new sentences. Students complete the activity with different adjectives such as sunny, foggy, cloudy, windy etc.

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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)