Get into Shape Lesson Plan

Music circles

Prepare a question structure (or a variety) that will generate a wide range of verb phrases. Or questions connected with a particular topic, vocabulary area. Get some lively music and a music player. 1) Divide the pupils into 2 groups. 2) Ask the students to stand in two circles, one inside the other. Tell the children they are going to dance/move in a circle and when the music stops that they should turn to a partner in the other circle and ask a question. 3) Play and stop the music, either saying the question for the pupils to repeat or pointing to it on the board. The inside circle of pupils should ask the question first. The outside circle of pupils should ask the question after giving their own answer. Ideas and adaptations: 1. What did you do the weekend? Inside partner likes dogs, outside partner likes cats. Persuade your partner to change their mind. Later ellicit other comparative pairs. E.g. sea, mountains, Iphone, android, McDonalds Burger King) Mime 5 activities you hate doing and your partner guesses them then swap and mime 5 activities you love doing and guess them. (this is great for natural use of gerund form) The Yes No Game. Where one person tries to force their partner to say YES or No. If they do they swap roles. Who can last the longest? I ellicit other phrases they can use instead of yes and no and highlight how this game is good for check questions.

Change places if..

Ask the children to sit (on their chairs) in a circle or several circles if you have a big class. 1) Stand in the middle of the circle. If there are several circles, ask a different pupil to stand in the middle of each circle. The person standing in the middle does not have a seat in the circle. 2) Start the activity by giving an instruction using the target language. For example, "Change places if you're wearing a watch." All the pupils wearing a watch stand up and sit down again in

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another seat. 3) The person standing in the middle of the circle tries to sit down in a free seat. 4) The person left without a seat now gives a new instruction. For example, "Change places if you're wearing white socks." This works well with grammar structures too, e.g. change places if you have ever. + present perfect. Discussion wheels Get a small coin for each pair of pupils in the class. Prepare a structure, word, topic or tense that you want to practise. Youll need eight items. For example, Make and Do expressions

Make a phone call, make arrangements, make a mistake, make an excuse Do housework, do shopping, do something interesting, do ones best
Past time markers

Yesterday, last night, at the weekend, last year, on Sunday, on my last birthday, last Christmas, an hour ago
1) Tell the children to draw a large circle with eight lines, so that it looks like a bicycle wheel. Either dictate the items that you want to practise, or ask the students to brainstorm them. Tell the pupils to write each item in one space on the wheel. 2) Hand out a coin to each pair of students. Tell pupils to take turns to spin a coin on the wheel and ask and answer questions. The pupil who spins the coin must ask a question using the language in the space that the coin lands on. Variations Instead of asking and answering questions, children can speak for a 30 seconds/a minute on a topic, or find words containing a particular sound to read out, or find collocations for the word. Discussion wheels can be swapped between pairs of pupils (good for fast finishers). Sentences in a hat. Cut up scrap paper into small squares so that there are three or four for each pupil in the class. Or . . . ask the children to do it! 1) Give three or four small blank pieces of paper to each pupil in the class and ask them to write one piece of information on each piece of paper. For example, to practise simple past forms: things you ate or drank yesterday / things you did at the weekend futures : three things you're going to do tonight or at the weekend the present perfect: places you have visited / books you have read in English / things youve always wanted to do, but havent yet! 2 @Lake School Email: enquiries@englishinoxford.com

Conditionals: things you would do if you won 1,000,000 Then ask them to fold up their pieces of paper and put them in a hat (or a box). 2) Mix up the folded bits of paper in the hat or box and ask the pupils to take one each, unfold it and find the person who wrote it by asking questions. Good, better, best. 1) Ask the pupils to write a noun on each of their four squares of paper. 2) Collect all the pieces of paper and shuffle them. 3) Ask the students to work in groups of 3 or 4 and share the pieces of paper out between the groups. 4) Ask each group to make two piles of words, face down and then take it in turns to turn up a word from each pile. They should use the words they have turned up to make a comparative sentence. You can make this activity more specific by asking the students to write words in a given category, e.g. animals, famous people, jobs, leisure activities, inventions , character traits, crimes etc. Variation Ask the pupils in pairs to rank their nouns in order, according to certain criteria and in their opinion, for example, from the smallest to the biggest the cheapest to the most expensive the most interesting to the least interesting the least important/serious to the most important/serious the earliest to the most recent (chronologically) This is great for low level and mixed ability classes. Shape personality test 1) Dictate or draw a single circle, a triangle, 3 circles, a rectangle and a straight line. 2) Then ask pupils to draw round the shapes to create something else. 3) Ask them to write 3 adjectives describing what they have drawn. 4) In pairs they explain their drawings. This was a circle, now its a sun. Its big, yellow and hot. If appropriate, give pupils an explanation of what each drawing means. 1 = how you see yourself 2 = what you think of your family 3 = what you think of your friends 4 = what you think of the opposite sex 5 = how you see your future Youre a Star because 3 @Lake School 1) Draw a star shape on the board for children to copy. 2) Give each pupil the name of another pupil in the class (and keep Email: enquiries@englishinoxford.com

it secret). 3) Give each pupil a piece of paper and ask them to draw a star (and cut it out). Brainstorm positive personal attributes. Tell the pupils to write a positive message for their secret friend. For example, Youre a star because you make me smile. Youre a star because you are kind. Youre a star because you are funny. Youre a star because you help me when I have a problem. Ask the students to give their sentence to the person (star) that they wrote it for, and say the sentence at the same time.

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