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1 Oxford Primary Skills 4 Unit 10 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
More words (page 48) children to tell you how they will start. Encourage the rest
• In a stronger class, use the More words section to learn or of the class to offer feedback and ideas.
revise some verbs that can be used as alternatives to say • When you think the children are ready, tell them to write
(said). their stories, thinking carefully about punctuation and
• Ask the class to turn to page 48 and look at the pictures making sure they use the past simple and continuous.
in the vocabulary panel. Model and drill the new words. Monitor and help as necessary.
Then say the words in a different order and let the • When they have finished writing, ask them to swap books
children point to the pictures. and check each others’ work. You might also want to let
volunteers read out their stories.
Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
• Say each word from the vocabulary panel again and ask Writing (optional extension activity)
the children to find the corresponding past form in the • Explain that you are going to practise writing dialogue.
box below. • Ask a confident volunteer to come to the front of the
• Look at the incomplete sentences and draw the children’s class, and improvise a dialogue with him/her. To make it
attention to the speech marks. Explain that we sometimes more interesting, you could imagine a scenario and make
use single speech marks like this, but it is more usual to it a role play.
use double speech marks in stories. • Repeat with another volunteer.
• The children write the correct past form in each gap. Tell • Now ask the children to write a dialogue, several lines
them to read all the sentences before they write anything, long, in their books. They can imagine their own, or use
as they should only use each verb once. They can use the ideas from the improvised dialogues. Remind them to
pictures in the vocabulary panel to help them decide. use speech marks, and said (or alternative verbs such as
Key whispered, shouted, asked). Write a few example lines on
1 whispered 2 laughed 3 thought 4 asked the board to help them, e.g.
5 shouted “Hello,” said the teacher.
“Hello,” said Ben.
Writing (page 43) “Where are you going?” asked the teacher.
“I’m going swimming,” said Ben.
• Explain that you are going to read another story.
• Read the text while the children follow it in their books.
Then ask some questions to check understanding, e.g.
What is Mum’s/Ben’s safe place? What did Mum find under
Ben’s bed? See if the children can explain in L1 why Mum
laughs.
2 Oxford Primary Skills 4 Unit 10 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press