Level: 2nd year of study
Time: 50'
Subject of the lesson: Fruit and Vegetables. Let's Marry Said the Cherry – a Poem
Teaching aims:
- Learning aims: By the end of the lesson students will have
- Practiced and reinforced the vocabulary
- Personalized the information
- Develop plans for applying the new concepts
- Share the new concepts with others
Skills: listening, speaking, reading
Aids: the handouts
Procedure:
Warm – up: 7' How many can I say in one minute.
Aim: to help the students switch their mind to English and focus on the target vocabulary, another purpose is also that of releasing stress.
Intelligences addressed: linguistic, intrapersonal
Active learning: Dialogue with self. Experience of doing. Observing when others speak.
One student is timed whil
e s/he say as many fruit and vegetables he remembers.
Revision of the poem using Reader's Theatre: 25'
Intelligences addressed: intrapersonal, linguistic, visual, interpersonal
Active learning: Dialogue with self. Experience of doing. Observing when others speak.
The teacher divides the class into groups of five who are invited in font of the class to sit down on chairs and to act the poem using the technique of Reader's Theatre. They are timed.
Handout:
"Let's marry!"
Said the cherry
"Why me?"
Said the pea.
" ‘Cause you're sweet"
Said the beet.
"Say you will"
Said the dill.
"Think it over"
Said the clover.
"Don't rush"
Said the squash.
"Here's your dress"
Said the cress.
"White and green"
Said the bean.
"And your cape"
Said the grape.
"Trimmed with fur"
Said the burr.
"Won't that tickle"
Said the pickle.
"Who knows"
Said the rose.
"Where's the chapel"
Said the apple.
"In Greenwich"
Said the spinach.
"We'll be there"
said the pear.
"Wearing what?"
said the nut.
"Pants and coats"
said the oats.
"Shoes and socks"
said the phlox.
"Shirt and tie"
said the rye.
"You'll look jolly"
said the holly.
"You'll look silly"
said the lily.
"You're crazy"
said the daisy.
"Come, let's dine"
said the vine.
"Yeah – let's eat!"
said the wheat.
"And get stout"
said the sprout.
"Just wait"
said the date.
"Who will chime?"
said the lime.
"I'll chime"
said the thyme.
"Who will preach?"
said the peach.
"It's my turn"
said the fern.
"You would ramble"
said the bramble.
"Here they come"
cried the plum.
"Start the tune!"
cried the prune.
"All together!"
cried the heather.
"Here we go!"
said the sloe.
"Now - let's marry!"
said the cherry.
"Why me?"
said the pea.
"Oh, my gosh!"
said the squash.
"Start all over,"
said the clover.
"NO way!"
said the hay.
Consolidation: A domino game 10'
Intelligences addressed: intrerpersonal, linguistic, kinestesic
Active learning: Dialogue with self, others. Experince of doing.
Aim: The T gives each student a pair of words (fruit, vegetable, plant) from the poem. Each S must utter a sentence of the type: I have got a word 1, I want word 2. The S who has his first word the word mentioned as word 2 goes on saying I have got a word 2, I want word 3. And so on.
Homework: 5'
1. The Ss are given handouts with the following crossword puzzle to solve: They are given fruit and vegetables and plants from the poem
Intelligences addressed: intrapersonal, linguistic
Active learning: Dialogue with self. Experince of doing.
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Level: 2nd year of study