Unit 6
In my Town! Lesson 1 Language bookshop, restaurant, supermarket, fire station, outside, town, street. Where’s Pandy? Is he in the (bookshop)? No, he isn’t in the (bookshop). I’m in the (fire station) Where are you? Are you in the (restaurant)? Review: Colours
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Objectives Take part in a chant Learn how to name some buildings Review colours Develop gross motor skills and oral expression
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Materials panda puppet, Playhouse poster, CD audio, flashcards crayons, Activity Book (page 24)
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Warm up
Lesson
• Play the Hello Song (CD Track 04) and greet the children using Pandy. • Show the Panda puppet to the class and act out a
• Distribute the Class Books and help the children
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conversation Say: Hello, Pandy. How are you? The puppet answers: I’m fine, thank you. The puppet can then ask various children in the class how they are. Play The Weather Song (CD Track 08) and talk to the children about the weather that day. Draw the sun, a cloud and some rain drops on the board. Point to the sun and say: Is it sunny today? Encourage the children to look out of the classroom window to see what the weather is like. Do the same for cloudy and rainy, then ask if it’s hot or cold and do actions so the meaning of these words is clear. Introduce the flashcards for bookshop, restaurant, supermarket, fire station, town. Show the cards one at a time, and say the words to the class. In L1 talk about the buildings and elicit what they can do in each one.
Panda pointer
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find page 46. Talk about the picture with the pupils. Ask the children where each character is. Ask: Where’s (Gina)? (outside the bookshop). Then point to the characters and talk about what they are doing. (They are looking for Pandy). Ask the children to point to Pandy and say where he is. (In the fire station). Ask the children in L1 if they have ever visited a fire station. And what they can see there. Stick the following flashcards on different walls: town, bookshop, restaurant, supermarket and fire station. Play the chant Where’s Pandy? and do the actions. (CD Track 29)
Track 29 Speaker: Listen and say the chant. Children: In the town (Show flashcard) Where’s Pandy? Is he in the bookshop? (Show flashcard) Gina:
This activity draws upon the children’s general knowledge of the world around them.
• Hide different cards behind the door of the
playhouse. Knock on the table (as if knocking on the door of the Playhouse poster) and say: What is it? A restaurant? A bookshop? Open the door and check. Repeat with the other buildings. When finished, hold up the flashcards one by one and ask: What’s this? and elicit the vocabulary from the children.
No, No, No, He isn’t in the bookshop. (Show flashcard) Pandy isn’t in the bookshop. (Show flashcard)
Children: In the town (Show flashcard) Where’s Pandy? Is he in the restaurant? (Show flashcard) Ben:
No, No, No,