My young learners fond of reading folk fairy tales. After reading the tale ( I suggest to my students
to read one by one, they will be able to read, correct pronunciation, to
participate actively in reading) they discuss about goodies and baddies of the
tale. There are some of the books we read in our classroom. One of them that we
recently received as gift from www.davrbooks.uz
. Fairies can lead young readers to the magic world where they meet wisdom for
the future.
I conduct some activities to check reading comprehension.
Activity 1.
“Enchanting wonders of fairy tale”
I ask my students how many enchanting wonders they could
find from the fairy. They count wonders and explain why they think its wonder.
It’s good activity to improve students’ critical and creative thinking.
Activity 2.
“True or False”
I give my students written facts of fairy that they’ve just
read. They should tick true and false facts.
Activity 3.
“Drawing fairy” This activity is my learners’ favorite one.
They work creatively using their imagination. I divide class into groups, they
draw fairy heroes and display on the classroom wall.
Activity 4.
“ Put in order”
This activity is also for group work. I mix paragraphs and
suggest to students to put paragraphs in order.
I start with a word. One by one I go around the class and ask my
students to say another English word that they know. Start with word sorting
game. ( if a teacher say “ car” students should continue one by one “bus”, “train”
) Have you ever used “Boggle” board or game? This game helps students to
improve their creativity and logical thinking. It’s easy to display Boggle
board and involve your students to play with words. I just love this cute Boggle board :)
There are a lot of word games we can conduct in our classroom to help
students to memorize words and increase vocabulary:“Scrambled
word”, “ Odd word out”, “Crossword”, “ Family – words”, “ Magic pencil”,
“Hidden picture word game”,
“Word search”,
“Rhyming words- Rhyme Time”, “ Word building”, “Silent letter – shshshsh” and many
others.
Bottle cap
word game
What do
you think about word games that do not
require special preparations. What are convenient and “right now” tools? I use
bottle caps to prepare word games. They
are useless after drinking content of
the bottle but useful to write on them little “magic “words. Another “helpers” are matchers’ boxes that people drop away after emptying
them.
Matches “magic” words. Just
ask your students to find antonym pairs(or other parts of speech)
Thank you very much for
the….. I……a great birthday. I…..a computer, a bike, a…., a……and …I very happy. I.. a big birthday party. I….
very happy because I…a big chocolate birthday cake. My friends and I…..12 Coco
Colas from my mother.
Bye bye.
Write soon.
Love
...
Write about your birthday
begin with:
My birthday was ...
Make a birthday card to your friend
Note: My students adore crafting and drawing. The best visual resources are my students' creative works.You can see them on facebook.
I
– Work in pairs. Write five things you know about the USA
e.g.
50 States
White House
The
Statue of Liberty
Hollywood
Hawaiian Islands
II – Read the two texts. Say
what places they are about.
Do
you know where the Hawaiian Islands are? Do you what country they belong to?
They are I the central part of the Pacific Ocean and belong to the United
States of America. Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA in 1959.
Captain Cook found these islands just a few years after he discovered
Australia. He put these islands on the map and gave a name.
The
famous Rocky Mountains in the USA begin near Denver in Colorado and go up into
Canada. South of the Rocky Mountains there are many beautiful canyons. Do you
know what a canyon is? It is a deep narrow valley. On of the biggest canyons in
the world is the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
a)Millions of
years ago, in the times of the dinosaurs, the Colorado River was much bigger.
Today, in the Grand Canyon you can see how big it really was. The word ‘grand’
means ‘very big’.
b)He called them the Sandwich Islands. Why this name? it
was not because he stopped there to have a sandwich. The Earl of Sandwich was
paying for Captain Cook’s expedition and this was how the Captain thanked the
Earl.
c)When tourists take part in Hawaiian feast, a luau,
they have fish, selfish, coconut pudding, and pineapple, music and hula
dancing. The hula dancing is one of the, most beautiful dances in the Islands.
Some Hawaiian children learn to dance it when they are two years old and it is
part of the school lessons
d)The Canyon is over 349km long and more than 1.5rm wide
in places.
e)May 1st is a lei day. A lei is a garland of
flowers which people wear round their necks. It symbolizes Hawaiian
hospitality.
f)The Canyon has many beautiful colours that change
during the day such as red, green, yellow and deep blue. A lot of tourists come
to Arizona to see this wonder of the world.
Hula dancing
IV – Read and answer the
questions
Where will Mr. Green go for
his holidays: Hawaii or Arizona? Why?
Mr. Green like travelling
very much. He has visited a lot of different countries. Every year he chooses a
new country to visit. This year he would like to go to a warm place and try
some new food, for example, some seafood. He would like to learn more about
people’s traditions, and take photos.
One day, the tortoise set out to Mebenga-land;
there, he wanted to ask for the hand of Zameo's daughter. When he arrived
after several days' travelling, he learned that Zameo had died. He called at
the men's hall and met Zameo's brothers and sons. They told him, "You
may marry our niece, on condition that you get Zameo's personal
consent." That was an impossible condition, as they well knew, but few
men are keen to marry their nieces and sisters to foreigners. Nevertheless,
tortoise accepted but asked for three days' delay.
He went to
his expert diviner, Nzozoli, who told him, "Brother tortoise, whenever
on your trip someone comes up to you, give him food." The tortoise
started out and soon he came to a forest. There, he met a rat. "What are
you doing in this lonely forest, brother rat?"
"Brother tortoise, how can you ask such a
question. Since yesterday, I have had nothing to eat." The tortoise
picked the rat up and put him in his travel bag, which he had filled with
bread before he left. "There, you stay in there, and eat what you find
in it." The tortoise walked on, while the rat was busy nibbling in his
food-bag.
On a branch
he saw a swallow and asked her what she was doing there.
"Dear
brother tortoise, I have had nothing to eat all day."
"Here,
come and sit in my food-bag. You may eat what you find in it." The
swallow joined the rat inside the bag. After a long journey they arrived in
the land of Mebenga. There, the clansmen of Zameo took the tortoise to the
old chief's grave.
"Now
make chief Zameo speak to us," they said. The tortoise had previously
released the rat from his bag, and given him detailed instructions. The rat
ran in front, invisible in the tall grass, and hid in a hole which a
fellow-rat had dug into the chief's grave. "Chief Zameo," the
tortoise called out aloud. "Do I have your permission to marry your
daughter?" From the grave there came a soft voice, "Yes, brother
tortoise. I, Zameo, give you my daughter."
All the men
were astonished, but they concealed their surprise. "You must pass one
further test," they said. "Take a piece of earth and throw it up
into the air. If it falls down, you may not marry Zameo's daughter."
Another impossible task, of course, but the tortoise was prepared for it. He
took the swallow out of his food-bag, then knelt down and pretended to scrape
up some earth from the ground. Meanwhile, he whispered to the swallow,
"Fly up and don't come down again." With that he released her. The
swallow rose up into the air until she was well out of sight.
The clansmen
finally consented, and the tortoise was allowed to take his bride home with
him. Alas! On the way, the leopard found them .....
(can you guess what's going to happen?) Ask students to complete the story. Let them to create their own story.You can give them original ending after their work.
.....and picking up the bride he ran
away with her to his compound. The tortoise followed him, quickly surveyed
the situation, dug a trap, and waited. In a few moments, the leopard
appeared, tied his door carefully, and walked along the path. He fell into
the trap. Why? Because the tortoise had dug it on the path to the latrine.
Learn from
this. Always be prepared for adversity.
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