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SAMPLE MATERIAL

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren (Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner)

Objectives

Present and practise winter clothes vocabulary: socks, boots, sweater, jacket, hat, mittens

Recognize and correctly respond to the instruction

Put on your …

Review colours, numbers and weather vocabulary Project: present and practise parts of the body vocabulary: legs, arms, body, head and investigate melting

Materials

Tex apron

Frankie, Dizzy and Spot puppets Routine clock Washing line Class Book Character flashcards

Unit 4 winter clothes flashcards Unit 4 storycards: Let’s make a snowman! Photocopy Masters 16, 26, 38 Reward stickers Audio CD1 DVD

Interactive Whiteboard Resources

About the unit

• In this unit, the children will be introduced to winter clothes vocabulary and learn about the clothes we wear when it’s cold outside.

• Even if you don’t usually do so, it is a good idea to include the Weather song in your Circle time routine throughout the unit, as the weather – particularly cold weather – is an important feature of it.

• Ensure the class understand that you will be focusing on cold weather in this unit by discussing in this in their L1 prior to starting the unit. Encourage them to talk about what sort of clothes they might wear when it’s winter and it’s cold outside. To help consolidate their understanding you may wish to bring in some suitable clothing items and / or ask parents to supply some of the children’s own.

About the project

• The project in this unit introduces new language for parts of the body in a similar wintery context to the rest of the unit. This is done predominantly through the use of a snowman’s body parts: his legs, arms, body and head.

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• The project also has a cross-curricular slant, offering you the opportunity to integrate science into your English lesson. Again this makes use of familiar themes (winter, snowmen and the weather) to help children investigate things like how a snowman melts and the difference between feeling cold and warm. As some of these experiments will require you to use a combination of English and the L1, you may wish to discuss and co-ordinate your plans for this project with your teaching colleagues.