Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
This book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me. Activities are organized by topic and by level to make it easy to find appropriate activities for students. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book is suitable for both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.
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Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
This book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me. Activities are organized by topic and by level to make it easy to find appropriate activities for students. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book is suitable for both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.
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Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

by Penny McKay, Jenni Guse
Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

by Penny McKay, Jenni Guse

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This book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me. Activities are organized by topic and by level to make it easy to find appropriate activities for students. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book is suitable for both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521691345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/16/2007
Series: Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 170
Product dimensions: 5.94(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents


Introduction     1
Animals     9
What animals do you know?     9
Describing well-known animals     10
Animals moving about     11
Animal rhythms     12
Singing about animals     13
Writing an animal Haiku     14
Wild animals     15
What animal am I?     17
Guess the animal in 20 questions     18
Personal animal recount     19
Animal raps     20
Animal habitats     21
Animal information report     23
Human attributes of animals     24
Animal advertisements     25
Animal conversations     27
Animal escape     28
Which dog has a better life?     251
Journeys     31
A beach holiday     31
Describing what we can do on a beach holiday     32
Types of transport     33
Transport: odd one out     34
A travel sociogram     35
A beach holiday checklist     37
Travelling to school     38
About the weather     39
Advice for a visitor     41
How do you come to school?     43
Guess the local place     44
Writing a 'late note' for the teacher     45
Travel diary from space     46
Singing about journeys     47
UFO     48
Science fiction     49
Holidays in space     50
About Mars     52
Fantasy and adventure     54
The king and the dragon     54
The pirate     56
Adventurers and heroes     57
Witch's magic potion     58
Good king bad king     60
Draw a dinosaur     61
Wizard interview     63
Turned into a rabbit!     64
Queen's family     65
Fairy tale people     66
Contrasting fairies and witches     67
Three wishes     68
Jack and the beanstalk     69
Goldilocks     70
Fortune telling     72
House of horrors     73
The king's challenge     75
Create a fantasy tale     77
The world around us     78
Rivers of the world     78
Map making     79
Drawing my natural world     80
North, south, east and west     81
Geographical tongue twisters     82
Sphere shapes     83
New Year celebrations     85
New Year's Day emails     86
Loy Krathong Festival from Thailand     87
Pinocchio: an Italian story     89
Carnival in Brazil     90
Popular Asian game     91
Natural disasters     92
Pompeii     94
Safety guidelines     95
Current affairs recount     96
Earthquakes and floods     97
Emergency procedures     99
Healthy bodies     101
Grandma! What big eyes you've got!     101
Callisthenics     103
Create your own dance     104
Healthy morning routine     105
Staying clean and healthy     106
Footprints     107
Doctor! Doctor!     108
Safety     109
A healthy lifestyle     111
Our feelings     112
Absent from school     113
Unhealthy activities     114
The senses     116
An accident     117
Get well card     118
Personal affirmations      120
Healthy and unhealthy foods     121
Food pyramid     122
About me     124
My family     124
My classroom     125
My home     127
My school books     128
My free time     129
My mum's mobile phone     130
My friends     131
My birthday party     132
My school excursion     134
My sporting skills     135
My favourite TV show     136
My favourite party game     138
My computer class     139
My mathematics class     140
My science class     142
My social education class     143
My poetry class     145
My music class     146
Website appendix     148
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