Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners 2 Refer to the headings on the board and ask the children, in pairs, to help you complete the grid. Encourage them to use their dictionaries and class wallcharts to add a variety of descriptors.
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Fairies and witches Type Appearance of magic
Clothes
Transport
Size
Tools for magic
Pets
Fairies
good, kind
beautiful, cute, pretty
wings
very small
wand
no pets
Witches
bad, evil
ugly, thin, large nose
bright, colourful, pink dress black skirt and shirt or dress, hat
broomstick
same as a person
spells
black cat
Follow-up • Ask the children to write sentences about how these two magical females differ. Tell them that but is a good contrast word to join their ideas, e.g. Fairies are kind and good, but witches are bad and evil. • You could ask the children to tell you of stories they have read about bad fairies and good witches. They could make a new grid and include adjectives to describe these characters.
3.12 Three wishes Level Language focus Skills focus Thinking focus Teaching approach Interaction
** Using hypothetical would Speaking Making judgments Promote creativity – accept errors Individual work, pairwork and group work, suitable for large classes
Procedure 1 Tell the children that they have been granted three wishes. 2 Ask each child to write down three things that they would wish for, using the sentence stem I would like . . . or I would like to . . . Write these sentence stems on the board. 68