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School objects
How to start
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Think back to the drawing of Ben and Amy’s first day at
school and elicit what has been studied so far (places, people,
subjects at school). Say:
What things did you like best?
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Track 4.
Review the unit song and do the actions. Sing
the karaoke version.
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Show the flashcards of the places at school. Encourage
children to name places and to talk about the activities we
do there.
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Ask children to take out their pencil cases and to work in
pairs naming as many objects as they can.
Activities: step-by-step guide
Activity 1
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Find the stickers for the page and place them in the correct
places.
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As children are placing their stickers in the correct place,
walk around the classroom pointing to different subjects
and asking
What’s this?
(a pencil).
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When they have finished, ask children to work in pairs or
groups of three and talk about the things they have, for
example:
I have scissors.
I have a pencil. It’s yellow.
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Read the sentence at the bottomof the page. Can they think
of any other things we use in class?
(blackboard, computer).
Extra ideas!
Review
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Ask children to draw the items in their pencil case and to
label them. Then they compare their drawings in pairs.
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Name different children to come to the front of the class.
Show them a flashcard of a classroom object. They mime
what it is used for. The rest of the class guesses.
Extensions
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Develop creative thinking by encouraging children to think
of imaginative/alternative uses for different classroom
objects. For example, two pencils can be used chopsticks or
scissors can be make-believe glasses or a magnifying glass.
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Sit with the children in a circle. Start them off with a chant
going around oneway inwhich they clap their hands and say a
classroomobject to the rhythmof the claps. In the first round
they just say the object – they have to say a different object
to the person before them. It doesn’t matter if the objects
are repeated in the group. When it comes to you again, say
a classroom object and its colour, such as ‘pink pencil case’.
Continue, gradually building up different combinations of
colours, objects and numbers of object every round.
Content objectives
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Identify different school objects.
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Describe and identify uses for different classroom
objects.
Vocabulary
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Book, crayons, glue, pencil, pencil case, pencil
sharpener, rubber, scissors
Structures
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We
use
scissors, glue and pencils in the classroom.
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I
have
a pencil sharpener.
It’s
blue.
Materials
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Stickers
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Flashcards
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Worksheet 1.3