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97 Unit 6

Extension Lesson 6a (optional)

CROSS-CURRICULAR LEARNING AND PROJECTWORK

Lesson objectives

Describe the stages in the lifecycle of a tree. Explore the concept of a lifecycle.

Provide links with other areas of the curriculum and an opportunity for creative project work.

Language

Core: lemon, lime, apple, grape, pineapple, pear, banana, orange, mango, coconut, blossom, fruit, plant, fruit tree

Extra: seeds, leaves

Materials

Unit 6 flashcards Set 1 (fruit); Unit 6 wordcards; Unit 6 Cross-curricular poster; pictures or magazines and internet access; brown construction paper, marker pen, seeds and leaves; coloured paper, scissors, glue

Warmer

• Give out the fruit flashcards to ten children. Place the fruit wordcards face down on the desk.

• Invite a child to the front. He / She holds up a wordcard for the class to read aloud.

• The child with the corresponding flashcard comes to the front.

• Stick the flashcard and wordcard on the board.

• Repeat for the other fruit words.

Lead-in

• Display the Unit 6 Cross-curricular poster so all the children can see it.

• Invite different children to come to the poster and say something about the pictures, e.g. This is a tree. Here’s a plant.

• Ask the children some questions about the pictures in the poster, e.g. What colour is the …? Which comes first, the blossom or the fruit?

• Introduce two new vocabulary items, seeds and leaves.

• Show the children some different pictures of seeds and leaves from different trees. If possible, bring in real seeds and leaves. Talk about where they fit into the tree lifecycle, e.g. seed, plant, tree, leaves, blossom, fruit.

• Encourage the children to repeat the new words.

1 Name different stages of the tree lifecycle.

• Tell the children they are going to see pictures of different trees, leaves and blossom, Show the children how these all have different shapes and colours.

• Use books, pictures and the internet via an interactive whiteboard to display the pictures. Ask the children to say whether it is a leaf, blossom or tree as they watch.

2 Make a tree.

• Use the information about the most popular tree that you obtained from the optional activity in Lesson 6. If you did not do the optional activity in Lesson 6, do it here.

• Prepare the outline of the most popular tree with branches on a piece of brown construction paper. Stick this on a wall.

• Tell the children they are going to make the leaves and fruit to put on this tree.

• Give the children coloured paper, and scissors and glue.

• They make some leaves and fruit for the tree and stick them onto the branches of the tree on the construction paper.

3 Describe the tree.

• Encourage the children to write some sentences about the tree on a piece of coloured card, e.g. This is a coconut tree. It has big green leaves. The coconuts are brown. Then stick the cards on the wall around the tree.

Further practice

$ DVD, Unit 6 Cross-curricular video clip

$ Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM, DVD section, Unit 6, DVD Cross-curricular worksheet. Notes and answers on CD-ROM.