FROM HEAD TO TOE

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            These activities are going to practice in a fun way with English. In this case we will practice with vocabulary about the parts of the body and with some grammar structures (yes/no questions) like: Can you…? Yes I can/ No I can´t.

            These activities are for Second Year of primary education.

ACTIVITY	TASK	TIME
Warm-up	Song: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”	5 minutes
Presentation	Read the story “From Head to Toe” and read it with the song	15 minutes
Controlled practice	Work with the story “From Head to Toe”	20 minutes
Free-practice	Work with flashcards and wordcards	15 minutes
Ending activity	Reproduce the movement	5 minutes

OBJETIVES

·      Improve listening and reading skills

·      Listening comprehension. Listen a story and pay attention to the story.

·      Reading comprehension. Read and understand words and phrases.

·      Sing and learn some songs and have fun with it.

·      Learn new vocabulary related to the body.

·      Learn grammar structures.

·      Cooperate with partners.

·      Participate in the development of the session.

·      Practise with the vocabulary that had been taught.

·      Provide a fun and motivating way for children to understand English.

·      Provide tasks that will motivate the children.

METHODS AND LEARNING TECHNIQUES

·      Total Physical Response method: we memorise better when it is related to movement

·      Natural method: learning words together with the objects they refer to.

·      Audio-lingual method: repeat words and sentences. Oral skills emphasised.

·   Communicative approach: emphasis on student ́s communication in the foreign language.

RESOURCES

            The resources needed are: blackboard and digital blackboard to watch some videos. We also need flashcards and wordcards, to do some exercises, and the story written by Eric Carle: “From head to toe”.

ACTIVITIES

WARM-UP

With the warm-up activity we try to remember vocabulary related to the body.

We start the session singing the song: “Head, shoulders, knees and toes”. At first time every body have to sing and do all the actions. After they don´t have sing the words but still to do the actions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_D-kBCmUew

After singing the song the teacher asks to some students: “Can you point to your (some part of the body)?”.  The kid has to answer: “Yes I can” and point to the part of the body. If the kid doesn´t know what part is he has to say: “No I can´t”.

PRESENTATION

We work with the book/song: “From head to toe” by Eric Carle.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDOBp9C2FmI

With this activity children listen, imagine, discover, feel and think, and they also be a part of the action.  Through a playful and rhythmic questions-and-answer word game, introduces that same child to the basic body parts and simple body movements.

Firstly the teacher has to read the story, children have to listen and read as the same time as the teacher. After read the story the teacher put the video with the song.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE

            The teacher has to read/sing the story a second time. Before you read, do a picture walk. Show children the pictures and ask them to guess what might be going on the story.

            As the teacher reads, invites children to say the line “I can do it1” and to act out the action. As the action gets longer “wave my arms” remind kids to make small movements. As you read the story, kids have to move the body part that the animal is moving.

            For example: The animal says: “I am a seal and I clap my hands. Can you do it?”

Kids have to say, “I can do it!” and clap their hands.

            After read the story make a list with the kids. You have to write the parts of the body that appeared on the book and the movement related.

Part of the body	Movement
Head -->	Turn my head
Neck -->	Bend my neck
Shoulders -->	Rise my shoulders
Arms -->	Wave my arms
Hands -->	Clap my hands
Chest -->	Thump my chest
Back -->	Arch my back
Hips -->	Wriggle my hips
Knees -->	Bend my knees
Legs -->	Kick my legs
Foot -->	Stomp my foot
Toe -->	Wiggle my toe

FRE-PRACTICE

In the free-practice kids work in groups of five members more or less.

They will play with wordcards and flashcards.

They have to join a flashcard with its corresponding wordcard.

____________________   KNEE

____________________ TOE

 

After that, they have to join the part of the body with the corresponding movement that appeared on the book. For example:

 Back -> Arch my back

ENDING ACTIVITY

To finish the session the teacher and the kids will play all together. The teacher has to say a part of the body and all kids have to reproduce the corresponding movement.