Syllabus Big English II - Children II

Third TEST - TEACHING POINTS

Coverage: Units 6 and 7
Not all the teaching points below will be tested.
IMPORTANT: SIMPLE PAST IS INCLUDED AS FROM THIS ROUND.
PLEASE GIVE STUDENTS PLENTY OF PRACTICE.
Grammar
1. To be (affirmative , interrogative)
2. Word order (adjective + noun)
3. What is it? / What are they?
4. What are you doing? What is he/she doing?
5. What’s the time?
6. Present continuous ( affirmative, negative and Interrogative with question words)
7. Have got ( affirmative, negative and interrogative with question words)
8. Simple Present (affirmative, negative, interrogative). The correct use of do and does in interrogative
form.
9. When does he (get up, go to bed, eat lunch, brush his teeth)?
10. When do you (get up, go to bed, eat lunch, brush your teeth)?
11. When does school /the film) start /finish?
12. Connectors (then)
13. When does / do he, she / you …………?
14. Do you like (bananas)?
15. Does______ like ________? Yes, he/she does. No, he/she doesn`t.
16. I like __________
17. SIMPLE PAST (affirmative, interrogative, negative) of the following verbs:
Verb TO BE, GET UP, EAT, GO, GO OUT, COME, COME BACK, SLEEP, DO, DO HOMEWORK, EAT,
SLEEP, GET DRESSED, GET TO SCHOOL, GET BACKPACK READY)
18. YESTERDAY / LAST WEEK/ LAST MONTH

Vocabulary
1. The time ( _____0`clock) midday, midnight
2. Everyday activities: (get dressed, stay in bed, brush my teeth, start school, eat breakfast, get my
books, finish school, do homework, go out, go to bed, watch TV, read a book, sleep)
3. Boring/great
4. Sundial, hourglass, waterclock, sand. Sun.
5. Quickly, on time, early, late
6. Food ( apples, bananas, burgers, cheese, mangoes, meat, oranges, potato(es) , sandwiches, snack,
strawberries, tomato(es) , yoghurt, avocado, biscuits, crisps, meat, kiwi, pineapple, vegetables,
watermelon, pie, fruit).
7. Healthy, unhealthy
8. Meals of the day including snack.

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Writing
Students should be able to:
1. Write about their day. (Write about your daily routine)
2. Write about their favourite food and the food they do not like.
3. Write about what they did the day before (yesterday).

Reminder:
You can find many extra activities in My English Lab.

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UNIT 6

Lesson 1
Warm up
Take a clock and ask students about the time.
Listen to the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eGkW3JnthI
What word repeats once and again?
Work with a handout the following one which may serve as an example.

Match
One o’clock
Three o’clock
Five o’clock
Six o’clock
Ten o’clock

Students may need to revise spelling so maybe another way to help them is by asking them to complete.
Complete (example)
What’s the time?

______________ ____________ ____________

Then go to the book and follow the T’s book. Then, work with the activity book.

You may play BINGO with your students.

You will need small cards with clocks and cards with the time (clocks)
You can either call out the time or you can ask one of your students to take a clock and call out the time.
If you have plenty of students, you may have clocks of different colours and so you call out: “red, three
o´clock” or “yellow three o’clock”.

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Lesson 2
Give students pictures of daily activities. They draw clocks with the time they carry out these activities.

Now listen to the song again. What time do these children do the different activities?

TPR activities can be carried out while they are singing the song.
Think Big: follow suggestions in the Teacher’s book.

Lesson 3
Look at the story.
Identify Max. You may use this as a reading activity instead of a listening activity.
Do the activities in the activity book (page 56)
Is your day different to Max’s day?
Work with the sts and come up with ideas together so that you can prepare them for the writing task.
WRITING TASK. You may present the writing task in the following way:

Write about your day

Use: get up, have breakfast, school, homework, watch TV
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In case your students are very weak you may want to include visual aids in order to offer your students
some guidance.

Write about your day

Use: get up, have breakfast, school, homework, watch TV

Lesson 4
Aim: students will be able to ask questions about other people’s daily routine.
Warm up:
Ask students to name daily routine activities.
You can write them on the board and match the phrases to flashcards.
Then give them clocks and they match the activity with the clocks.
(each student will probably choose different times)
Then, you call out the correct answers and see who has more matches.

Presentation
Ask the students who have chosen different times:
According to you: When does _______ get up?
PLACE THE QUESTION ON THE BOARD AS A MARKER SENTENCE.
Ask the rest of the student for further information
Carry out the same procedure for other activities.
Then, ask students to get information from other students.

Introduce two characters and do the same but asking

When do ______ and _______ get up?
Repeat with other activities.

Focus on the difference.

Go to the book (72) and follow T’s book. (T72)

You may want to work with the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CM3yza6pcc

Get students to work with questions and emphasize the correct use of do/does.
Go to the activity book and work on pages 57 and 58.

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Lesson 5
Revise all the vocabulary so that sts can work with questions and answers.
Once they feel confident enough, you should guide them in order to make them stick the clocks.

History content
If your students are fast learners, there is a video which talks about the history of clocks.
They may not understand everything but the animation may allow you to connect the video with the
Content Connection lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvRga_JqXw
Work with the lesson following the T’s book and the activity book.

This can be used to introduce simple past.

Lesson 6
Values.
Follow the book and perhaps you can design a poster with good habits.

Lesson 7
Phonics
Follow the teacher’s book but this is a really important lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__JP2QFLws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Op-AB1Xw8

Lesson 8
SIMPLE PAST
Start by asking: “What day is today?” Leave that on the board because it will be very helpful.
Revise the phrases related to routines
Now on the calendar show that you will be working with the day before (yesterday)

Yesterday was a mess!

Match
He did his homework
in the kitchen.

He went to bed at
10.00.

He got up at 6.00.

He had chicken for

dinner.

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Then, focus on the actions.
Make sure students understand that the sentences refer to the past.

Design different activities for students to work with the past of regular and irregular verbs related to
daily routines.

You can find games by going to the following sites:

https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/simple-past/simple-past

Check these free worksheets:

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/my_day_yesterday_past_simpl
e_and_daily_routines/past-simple-tense/84760#

www.pinterest.com/pin/559642691174870836/

UNIT 7

Lesson 1
Take realia or flashcards.
Ask students to group them.
Go through some of the names of the food elements, they may be too many for students to learn in one
lesson.

Play memory game matching game the pictures with the names.

yoghurt strawberries bananas mangoes

You can also play bingo.

Then, follow the t’s book and the activity book.

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Lesson 2
Work with the song following the T’s book and then, the activity book.
What are they saying?

With this activity you can introduce the interrogative form.

Lesson 3
Follow the T’s 86 and 87) book in order to work with the story.

Lesson 4
Language in action.
Introduce the questions through the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frN3nvhIHUk
Then, follow the T’s book.
As a follow up activity you can give students the chance to choose two lexical items and the rest ask the
classmates about their likes.

Lesson 5
Go through the vocabulary that students have been working with and do the Language in Action lesson
following the t’s book.

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WRITING TASK
Write about the food you like and the food you don`t like.
Use like, green, lunch, dinner, at school, don’t like, healthy. unhealthy

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Lesson 6
Use this lesson in order to develop sts’ reading skills and subskills.
Follow T’s book and do all the activities in the activity.

Lesson 7
Values. Follow the T’s book.
Then you can design a poster with healthy and unhealthy food.

Lesson 8
Do all the activities that have been designed in the book for revision.

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