Lesson Outline:
- Teach the morning routines verbs
- Practice the morning routines verbs
- Play «Flashcard touch» on the board
- Do «Morning Routines» Drawings
- Sing «The Morning Routines» song
- Read classroom reader «Monster Mornings»
- Do the «My Morning 1» worksheet
- Play charades
New Learning and Practice:
1. Teach the morning routines verbs
Start with a guessing game. Before class print out the flashcards for morning routines. Start with an easy one – «brush my teeth» – look at the card but don’t show it to anyone. Do the action for brushing your teeth and ask «What am I doing?». It’s ok if the students answer in their first language – whoever answers first is
the winner. For the next card, the winner can look at the card and do the action. Again, elicit / teach the English. Continue until all the cards / actions have been guessed.
2. Practice the morning routines verbs
Put the cards randomly on the board (stick on with tape) and draw a circle around each card. Start by chorusing each card quickly (T: «wake up», Ss: «Wake up»). Go through chorusing all the cards at least three times, getting quicker and quicker as you go. Next, point to a card and say «What’s this?». Get everyone to say the card together. Point t0 each card and get the class to shout out the verbs together as you touch each card. Finally, remove one card from the board – the circle it was in will still be there. Point to the empty circle and again say «What’s this?» – get everyone to shout out together the missing card. Point to other cards and elicit them, slowly removing all the cards from the board leaving just their circles. See if everyone can remember the words without any cards being there!
3. Play «Flashcard touch» on the board
Put the cards back on the board, at a height that everyone can
reach. Model the game first – select a student and say «Touch put
on my shoes». The student should go to the board and touch the
correct card. Then get the student to do the same for you. When
everyone has got the idea put them in pairs and get each pair to
stand at the other end of the room. In pairs, each student says a verb phrase as their partner runs to the board and touches the right card.
4. Do «Morning Routines» Drawings
Give out a large sheet of paper (e.g. A3) to each student and model the activity. Draw things you do in the morning (e.g. brush your teeth, eat toast, watch TV) – it doesn’t have to be just the activities from the flashcards / song, anything that you do is good. Then encourage each student to draw what they do. As they are drawing, go around the class asking questions (e.g. What’s this? Do you really eat chocolate for breakfast?, etc.). At the end, get everyone to stick their sheet of paper on the classroom walls. Pair up students and get them to try and guess what the pictures are.
5. Sing «The Morning Routines» song
Put the morning routine flashcards up on the board in the order of the song, or alternatively, use our song poster. Get everyone to stand up and teach the actions and gestures for the song (see Gestures and activities to use with «The Morning Routines Song» below). Then play the song and get everyone to sing and do the actions along with you. Play twice so everyone gets the hang of it.
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Lyrics for «The Morning Routines Song» Chorus: Good morning! Good Morning! It’s time to wake up. Verse 1: I wash my face (wash, wash, wash), Chorus: Good morning! Good Morning! It’s time to wake up. Verse 2: I eat my breakfast (eat, eat, eat), It’s time to go to school. |
Gestures for «The Morning Routines Song» As you sing the song, follow these actions:
«I wash my face (wash, wash, wash)» |
6. Read classroom reader «Monster Mornings»
This reader follows on perfectly from the song and helps to
reinforce the new vocab with a fun story. Before class, download
and print off the reader «Monster Mornings» from our website.
As you go through each page, point to the different actions that
each monster is doing and elicit what they are, for example:
Teacher: (point at page 2) What color is this monster?
Students: Blue!
Teacher: Yes, that’s right. What a funny color! And what does he do every morning? Students: Wash face!
Teacher: Yes, well done! (reading from page 2) “I wash my face”. Do you wash your face every morning (directing question to a student)?
Student: Yes!
etc.
Continue through the story, eliciting the key vocab. Get the students really involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. about the colors on the monsters, asking yes/no questions, counting arms and legs, etc.).
7. Do the «My Morning 1» worksheet
Give out the My Morning 1 worksheet to each student. Model the worksheet and then have everyone work on the sentences. As everyone is working on their worksheets go around the class and ask questions (e.g. What does that say? Do you take a shower in the morning?).
8. Play charades
To finish the class, get together the morning routines flashcards and also any other action verb flashcards you have used in previous lessons. Divide the class into 2 teams. One student comes to the front of the class and acts out the flashcard you show to him/her. The first person to shout out the correct answer wins a point for his/her team.
Wrap Up:
- Assign Homework: «My Morning 2» worksheet.
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