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FIRST
GRADE
UNIT
2
Action
in progress
Unit
purpose: The
purpose of this unit is to enable students to give and obtain information about
possessions and to describe actions that are in progress at the moment of speaking.
2.1.
Asking and answering questions about personal possessions
Sample
productions: It/this
is Ana`s/her skirt/sweater; These/those are mario`s/his jeans/glasses: Is that
my/your jacket/scarf?; Yes, it is; No, it isn`t; Are these/those your gloves/tennis
shoes?; Yes, they are; No, they aren`t.
2.2.
Describing what people are wearing and/or doing at the moment of speaking
Sample
productions: They`re
sitting/standing next to/in front of Mary; He/she is wearing boots/jeans; Are
they playing/eating?; Yes, they are; No, they aren`t; Is he /she wearing blue
jeans/a black jacket?; Yes, he/she is; No, he/she isn`t; What are you doing?
We`re watching TV/studying; What is he/she wearing?; (he/she is wearing) red
shorts/a white t-shirt.
GAMES
AND ACTIVITIES
1.-CLOTHES
BINGO
Function:
Describing what
people are wearing.
Material:
Clothes bingo.
(See IDEAS
FOR DIDACTIC
MATERIAL
first grade)
Procedure:
- Bingo game.
- Provide each student
with playing card.
- Shuffle cards and mention
the garments.
- The student who first
completes and shouts "Bingo" wins.
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2.-NAME
THE CLOUDS
Function:
Possessives.
Procedure:
- Allow
a student to leave the classroom.
- Ask
him/her to pick a cloud.
- After
that ask him/her to decide a name for that cloud.
- He/she
has to say the name of his/her cloud.
- Of
course students have to use "his" or " her".
- Example:
his name is Cloudy.
- You
could do it with any object, it is just for practicing possessive pronouns.
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3.-MY
FAVORITE MOVIE IS "THE MATRIX"
Function:
Possesives.
Material:
Sand clock (suggested of a minute)
Procedure:
- It
is a competition in rows.
- Ask
the student sitting in front of the row: What's your favorite movie?.
- Just
after asking, start the clock.
- The
student in front of the row has to answer the question. The student sitting
behind him/her has to say which is his/her favorite movie and then has to
say what was the favorite movie of the student in front of him/her.
- After
that the student sitting behind the second student of the row do the same
and repeat the favorite movies of the students in front of him/her and so
on until the student sitting at the end of the row has said his/her favorite
movie and all the favorite movies of his/her partners of the row.
- It
is something like this: (first student) My favorite movie is "The Matrix".
(2nd student) My favorite movie is "Amores perros", his/her favorite
movie is the matrix. (3rd student) My favorite movie is "Titanic",
his favorite movie is "The Matrix", her favorite movie is "Amores
perros". and so on until the student at the end says all their favorite
movies in the less amount of time as possible.
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4.-THIS
IS JUAN`S SCARF
Activity
which involves realia.
Function:
Asking and answering
about personal possesions.
Material:
Authentic
garments. Clock.
Procedure:
- Place the garments
on a table.
- It works better if
they are students' garments.
- Choose a student to
pass in front of the class.
- He/she has to say whom
the garments are, example: "this is Maria's sweater".
- Start the clock.
- The garments which
have been mentioned have to be taken out of the table.
- At the end, count how
many garments the student mentioned.
- The student who mentions
whose garments belong to in the few amount of time wins.
- It is recommended to
place at least ten garments on the table.
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5.-THIS
IS MY BOOK
Function:
Possesives.
Material:
A
book.
Procedure:
- A boy
and a girl have to pass to the front of the class.
- Hold
the book and say: "this is my book".
- After
that give the book to the boy and say:"this is his book".
- Then
give the book to the girl and say: "this is her book".
- Stand
up yourself between the students and say: "this is our
book".
- Next
both students stand up near from each other and you say: "this is their
book".
- After
students take notes, give the book to someone else and he/she has to say
whom the book belongs to.
- Stress
pronunciation on possesives and at the same time point at the person whom
the book belongs to.
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6.-JUST
A MINUTE
Function:
Describing what people are wearing.
Preparation:
After
studying "he/she is wearing..." and clothing vocabulary.
Material:
Visuals
of people, clock.
(See
IDEAS FOR DIDACTIC
MATERIAL
first grade)
Procedure:
- Form teams.
- Provide each team with
a visual.
- Students must describe
what people are wearing according to the visual.
- They can describe a
garment and pass the visual to a partner. Example: First student: She is
wearing a blouse. Second student: she is wearing earrings, etc
- All the students have
to participate by saying at least one sentence.
- The objective is is
that the whole team speaks at least for a full minute.
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7.-PASSING
THINGS AROUND THE CLASSROOM
Function:
Asking and
answering about personal possesions.
Preparation:
After
studying "he/she is wearing..." and clothing vocabulary with "this
is". Example: "this is Juan's scarf"
Material:
Authentic
garments.
Procedure:
- Form two teams: Number
the students from the nearest row to the door. You have to count only one
and two until the last student of the last row. Note: Students with an even
number are team 1 and students with an odd number are team 2.
- Choose
a garment.
- Mention
the owner: "this is Mario's vest".
- Stand
yourself next to the student sitting in front of the row nearest to the
door.
- Give
him/her the garment by saying: this is Mario's vest.
- This
student has to tell his team partner who the garment belongs to.
- The
student sitting between them (from the other team) is in charge of checking
that the sentence is said correctly.
- The
garments are passed by from even to even numbers.
- Take
the time since the garment is passed from the first even number to the last
one.
- After
that, the other team has to do the same.
- The team which passes
the garments quicklier wins.
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8.-MIMIC
GAME
Activity
that involves movement.
Function:
Describing what
people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Material:
Pictionary.
(See IDEAS
FOR DIDACTIC
MATERIAL first grade)
Procedure:
- Provide
your students with pictionaries.
- Choose
a student to pass in front of the class.
- That
student has to act an action of the pictionary.
- His/her
partners have to guess the action he/she is performing. Example: he is writing,
she is drinking, etc.
- Try
to involve as many students as possible.
- It
could be also a competition on teams giving certain amount of time.
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9.-PICTURE
DICTATION
Function:
Describing what people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Procedure:
- This
activity is a dictation of pictures instead of words.
- Tell
your students that you are going to say sentences and they, instead of writing,
are going to draw the actions you are saying.
- Start
with easy phrases such as: "Juan is studying English".
- If
you want to raise the level include places, example: "Juan is studying
English at the school".
- Also
you can try to dictate an image of a place with many people doing things.
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10.-DESCRIBING
VISUALS
Function:
Describing what
people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Material:
Visuals
of people. (See
IDEAS FOR DIDACTIC
MATERIAL
first grade)
Procedure:
- Show a visual with
a clear action. Example: A basketball player in the court.
- Choose some students
using the popsticks (See No. 1 evaluation
).
- Ask "What's he/she
doing?" or "what are they doing?".
- Students have to describe
the actions.
- This activity can be
related to picture dictation or the miming game only to provide more opportunities
in a variety of forms.
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11.-TIC
TAC TOE
Function:
Describing what people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Procedure:
- Draw
tic tac toe charts on the whiteboard.
- Form
teams (suggested 6 or 4).
- Draw a chart for each
two teams.
- Write a word in each
space of the chart (reading, eating, playing, sitting, etc.)
- Two teams play on one
chart. Give turns to participate.
- If a team want to write
its cross or doughnut on a space, they must say a phrase, question, or sentence
mentioning the word written in that space.
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12.-VIDEO
TAPING A CLASS
Function:
Describing what
people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Material:
Videocamera.
Procedure:
- Make sentences which
include people doing something on small pieces of paper.
- Distribute the sentences
among the students.
- They pass to the front
of the class and read the sentence they will perform.
- Tape them performing
the actions. Include realia such as books, sodas, balls, a guitar, etc.
- Play the tape for feedback
(this part is very amusing)
- Ask questions such
as What's he/she doing?" as a feeedback.
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13.-WHAT
ARE THEY DOING
Function:
Describing what
people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Material:
Magazines
or newspapers. Scissors and glue.
Procedure:
- Form
teams.
- Provide
your students with magazines or newspapers.
- Describe
an action in progress. Example: A man who is watching TV.
- Students
search for a picture related to that action in the magazines or newspapers.
- The
first team who finds the picture has to shout "Found" and stick
it on a sheet. Then they write the sentence besides the picture.
- Say
as many actions as possible.
- The
team which finds more actions wins.
14.-WATCHING
VIDEOS
Function:
Describing what
people are doing.
Preparation:
After
studying "ing verbs".
Material:
Video,
sketch or short movie with lots of action.
Procedure:
- Students
have to stand up back to back in pairs. They will need paper and a pen.
- One
student will be the watcher and will say to his/her partner what he/she
is watching. The partner has to write what his/her partner is saying (note:
only one of them can see the video).
- The
row of watchers has to describe what is happening in the video and the
row of writers will try to take notes of what they are listening to.
- Change
roles and play another video.
- After
seeing the videos they can share notes and create their own story.
- At
the end play both videos for them to notice what really happened and check
if their stories are similar or different.
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15.-VENN
DIAGRAM
Format
to improve vocabulary.
Function:
Personal possesions
(clothing)
Material:
Venn's diagram. (See
IDEAS FOR DIDACTIC
MATERIAL
first grade)
Procedure:
- Draw two interlaced
circles.
- Write, above the
left circle, "men's clothes". Above the right one"women's
clothes". Write "both" above the interlaced.
- Students have to
write garments which men wear in the first space and garments which women
wear in the corresponding space. Garments that both wear in the interlaced
space.
Binational Program
of Migrant education.
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16.-A-B
DICTATION
Strategy
for practicing speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Function:
Descrbing
actions in progress.
Preparation:
Write
two different texts on two cardboards. One in red color and another in black
which include descriptions of actions in progress.
Material:
Cardboards.
Procedure:
- Form pairs. Students
must decide who is "A" and who "B".
- Stick the cardboard
in red on the whiteboard and the one in black on the opposite wall.
- Student "A"
has to run and read the text in red and then go back where his/her partner
is and dictate the text. Student "B" has to write it down.
- Then student "B"
stands up and run to the text in black, read it and go back to dictate
it to his/her partner who has to write it down.
- The pairs who first
write the whole texts win..
Sent by teacher Janet
García Martinez, Esc. Sec. Gral 165 from Chalcatongo, Tlaxiaco,
Oaxaca, Mex.
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17.-16
WOMEN
Juego
para hablar y adivinar.
Function:
Descrbing actions in progress.
Preparation:
After studying: standing, holding, wearing, box, flower, hat, dress, black,
white..
Material:
16
women worksheet.
(See
IDEAS FOR
DIDACTIC
MATERIAL
first grade)
Procedure:
- Provide each
student with a worksheet.
- Each
student has to choose one of the 16 women available and describe her
as following:
- 1)She is (verb)
+ ing (+direct object) or (on_________). "She is wearing a black
dress".
- 2)She is not
(verb) + ing (+direct object) or (on_________). "She is not standing
on a box".
- 3)She is not
(verb) + ing. "She is not wearing a hat".
- One student has
to read aloud his/her description.
- The rest of the
class has to guess whom he/she is talking about.
- The student who
guesses, passes to the front of the class and read his/her description.
- Also, some questions
can be asked:
- 1)Is she (verb)
+ ing (+direct object) or (on_________)? "Is she wearing a hat?".
- 2)Yes, she is.
- 3)No, she isn't.
No, she is not.
- If questions
are going to be asked, one student passes to the front of the class
and he/she is interviewed about the woman he/she chose by answering
"yes" or "no".
- Again, the student
who guesses, passes to the front and so on.
Taken
from: ESL TEACHER'S ACTIVTY KIT
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18.-SKAANES'
FORMAT
Function: Talking
about personal possesions (clothing).
Material:
Copies
of Skaane's format
(See
IDEAS
FOR DIDACTIC
MATERIAL
first grade)
Procedure:
- Provide each
a student with a format.
- In the space"Español",
Students write in that language the name of the garment. In the
space "English", The english word.
- In the space
"Picture", students have to draw the garment or stick
a cutout.
- This format
is ideal for homework.
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