Session+1+-+Literacy

 __Activity 1: Greetings __ Time: 1’ Materials: None Skills: oral interaction with the group  //The teacher begins with the daily routine, when the teacher enters through the door comes this dialogue: T(teacher) P (pupils) // // T: Hello everybody P: Hello ... T: How are you today? P: I'm fine thank you and you? T: I'm fine thanks //
 * // First session //**

__Activity 2: Setting the aims of the unit __ Time: 4’ Skills: oral interaction with the group and reading. Materials: blackboard and chock  //The teacher writes in the blackboard the aims of the unit for the students to familiarize with the topic in a very simple way. //   __<span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 3: My best table is... __<span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 3’ <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: None <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: Oral interaction with the group <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Before starting to explain the activity to be performed during class, the teacher says: My best table is ... and everybody goes to the table or in the case of being in it, they sit properly, cross their arms and stop talking. // //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> This is a method used by the teacher in order to get attention from the children. She chooses group by group to go to the carpet. //

<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 4: Vocabulary chart and flash cards __ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 15’ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: Identifying, listening and speaking. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: vocabulary sheet and flash cards <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The teacher shows them the flash cards, pronouncing it correctly and making them to repeat after her. She explains what each card with an easy vocabulary means. She will leave the flash cards in a visible place for the children. // //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">They go to the tables. // //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The teacher asks for the helpers of the tables to hand out the vocabulary charts and notebooks they are used to stick at the beginning of each lesson. // //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Teacher explains they have to repeat writing the words of the chart. // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 5: organizing information __ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 5’ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: Organizing and reading. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: notebooks, pencils, scissors and glue. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The teacher asks for two helpers to hand out the scissors and the glue. Meanwhile the teacher is giving the instructions. They have to cut the chart and stick it on their notebooks. // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 6: Guessing game __ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 15’ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: memorizing and practising simple structures like “is it ....?” <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: flash cards <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Now that they know some new words about plants and its life they could do a guessing game. The teacher asks one student to start. This student has to think in one of the flash cards which are stacked on the blackboard in order everybody could see them. The rest of the students have to ask him/her in a quiet way with simple structures like “What colour is it?”” is it long?””is it big”... Of course, they have to raise their hands and the student who is giving the clues is the responsible of choosing one person from each table turn by turn. Once that someone guess the word, he/she receives a sticker who has to stick in a grupal paper, changes placed with the other student and start to think about a new one. // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 7: Goodbye __ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 3’ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: Developing politeness. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: none <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If they are leaving the school or starting the break: The teacher counts back from 3 to zero in order to make the children be quiet and with the table tidy and clean. She decides which is the group that is more quiet, clean and tidy and she ask it to catch their coats and go to the corridor to make a row. They say good bye. // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">