Family and Friends Special Edition Grade 5 Selective LessonPlan Week 28 Periods 107 108 Unit10 Lesson One Words

Family and Friends Special Edition Grade 5 – Unit 10: In the park

Week: 28
Periods: 107-108
Date:
Lesson One Words
Objectives
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To identify different things in a park
To understand a short story

Language
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Language focus: listening, reading
Vocabulary: path, grass, flowers, garbage can, trees, fountain, litter  Extra vocabulary: pick, catch

Resources and materials
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Student Book p. 74
Workbook p. 68
Audio Tracks 89–90

In the park Flashcards 114–120
Paper and colored pencils
Worksheet 1: Must and mustn’t (one copy for each child)

Introduction
Weather report: Ask the class about today's weather.
Warmer
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Mime some action verbs and elicit the words from the children.
Include some mimes that recycle the vocabulary from Unit 9, e.g., walk on the beach (mime walking), climb
the mountain (mime climbing), swim in the lake (mime swimming).
Ask the children to follow you. They copy your actions and call out the words or phrases.
Go faster and faster until children can’t keep up.

Lead-in
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Tell children they are going to learn the names of some places in a park.
Use the In the park Flashcards 114–120 to elicit the vocabulary for this lesson. Hold the flashcards up one at
a time and model any words children don’t know.
Say all the words again for children to repeat.
Hold the flashcards up in a different order and repeat.

Family and Friends Special Edition Grade 5 – Unit 10: In the park

Presentation
Listen, point, and repeat. (Exercise 1)
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Ask children to open their Student Books and look at the pictures of the places in a park.
Play the first part of the recording (Track 89) for children to listen and point to the appropriate picture.
Play the second part of the recording for children to repeat.
Play the recording all the way through for children to listen and point, and then repeat the words in chorus.

Transcript (Track 89) Listen and point. path,
grass, flowers, garbage can, trees, fountain,
litter flowers, garbage can, grass, litter,
fountain, trees, path Listen and repeat. path,
grass, flowers, garbage can, trees, fountain,
litter
My local park
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Tell children to think about a local park and write things they can see there, using the words from Exercise 1.

Ask children if they can remember any other things in a park. Ask them to think about the playground, and
elicit swing, slide, seesaw, and pool from previous levels.
Write My park is… and My park has a / some… on the board, and say a few things about your park.
Ask children to write three sentences about their local park. Monitor and help where necessary.
Ask some children to read their sentences aloud.
If children write their sentences on a separate piece of paper rather than in their notebooks, they can add
illustrations to make a poster to be displayed in class.

Development
Listen and read. (Exercise 2)
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Focus children’s attention on the story. Talk about each frame with the class and ask questions, e.g., Where
are the children? What does Leo / Max have? What is Holly looking at? Who is on the grass? Who is playing
with a ball? Where is Max? Encourage predictions about the story.
Play the recording (Track 90) for children to listen and follow the words of the story in their books.
Ask questions to check comprehension, e.g., What does Holly want to pick? Where does Amy want to go?
Who falls into the fountain?
Check that children understand the phrase pick flowers by miming the action.
Play the recording a second time for children to follow again in their books.
Ask children to find the words from Exercise 1 that appear in the story (flowers, trees, grass, path,
playground, fountain).

Disappearing dialogue

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Write the dialogue from frame 2 on the board and read it together with the class.
Erase the words must and mustn’t and ask children to read the dialogue again, saying the missing words.
Continue to erase parts of the dialogue and repeat until children are saying Holly and Max’s lines from
memory.

Consolidation
Worksheet 1: Must and mustn’t
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Give out the worksheet to children, one copy for each child. Ask children to close their Student Books.
Look at the first sentence with the children. Ask them to call out the words in the correct order and write
them on the board, e.g., You mustn’t pick the flowers.
Ask the children to work individually to complete the rest of the sentences.


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Family and Friends Special Edition Grade 5 – Unit 10: In the park
When they have finished, tell them they can check their answers by finding the sentences in the story on p.
74 of their Student Books.
Ask the children to work in pairs and think of some more rules for the park. Tell them to use the same
structure as the sentences they unscrambled and to write the rules on their worksheet.

Put the children into small groups to share their rules. Ask them to choose the best rule and come to the
front of the class and write it on the board.

Exercises: Workbook p. 68
Story time: A reader of your choice
Teacher