FUN WITH ENGLISH
TOPIC:FUN WITH ENGLISH DAY 1 –
GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER
Objectives
• To develop skills, attitudes
and values that enable
students to work together.
• To establish clear links with
the Curriculum for Excellence
and Learning for better future.
Success Criteria
• I can write about myself and
express my feelings
• I can collaborate and work
together with my peers.
• I can make links with the
Curriculum for Excellence and
Learning for better future.
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Starter:
• ‘VALUE OF MY NAME’
• Work out the value of your name in advance (A=1, B=2, C=3,…). Eg: My first
name, Eric, is
• 5-18-9-3. Start by telling the group that this number (5-18-9-3) somehow
represents the name of the teacher and ask for guesses about what it means.
• Teacher would say that these numbers represent her name. Once the group
figures out the trick, ask everyone to convert their name into numbers. Have
students write
• their numbers on chat and see if everyone in the class can convert
• them back into names. Thus looking at the chat box students should guess
each others’ name.
• UAE LINK: Convert one UAE feature into numbers.
• Mini Plenary: Define curriculum in one sentence.
Tasks:
• Group 1:
• Create a collage of five pictures or images that best describe
you. These can be pictures you have already taken or images
from other sources. You should also describe how the pictures
represent who they are.
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• Group 2: ‘ALL ABOUT ME’ GAME
• 1. First, take a paper and write your name vertically down the left side.
• 2. Next, choose a word that starts with each letter of your name. The
word should describe something about you. Write those words
horizontally across the paper, using the letters of your name as the
first letter of each descriptive word.
• 3. After you have listed your words, draw an accompanying picture to
illustrate each.
• 4. When you are finished, post your ‘ALL ABOUT ME’ in the teams
chat.
Group 3
• Story of My Life.
• You have just been given a contract to write your autobiography for a major
publishing company.
• 1. First, take an A4 size paper and fold it in half and then in half again to
form a book. Choose the title of a popular song for the name of your book.
Write that title on the front cover.
• 2. On the inside of the front cover (page two), list a table of contents.
• 3.Name of the place where you were born. Your favourite pass time.
• 4. On page three, draw a picture of your family.
• 5. On the back cover of the book, draw a picture of what you plan to do in
future, Where will you go?
Plenary:
• One word checkout (one word that sums up how you feel about
• today’s lesson).
• One thing you learned today
• Rate today’s class from 1-10. Explain your answer.
TOPIC: FUN WITH ENGLISH – Get to
know 4 skills
Objectives Success Criteria
• To demonstrate • I can demonstrate my
understanding of the 4 understanding on the 4
different skills and prior different skills.
knowledge • I can recall previously learnt
•  vocabulary and sentence
structures.
• I can confidently demonstrate
my understanding of skills
through various activities.
Starter:
• Teacher asks students, ‘If you could go back or forward in time,
where would you go?’ ‘Why?’ You can then follow up with
questions such as ‘Is there a person you would like to meet?’
• Ask participants to share the answers on chat.
Development:
• Teacher writes the longest word in English language and asks
students to derive a list of new words from the same. This is followed
by selecting one word from each list(per child) to create a word wall
for the day.
• Students may discuss meanings of unfamiliar or new vocabulary.
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• Rules:
• No three letter words are allowed.
• No repetition of words.
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• UAE LINK:Write the longest word related to UAE.
• 
• Mini Plenary:
• Which one is better according to you, listening to stories or
reading a story? Why?
Plenary
• Write a one sentence summary of the story ‘The Doomed
Prince’. Share it with the class.
Main task
• Listen to the audio story ‘The Doomed Prince’
• https://www.storynory.com/the-doomed-prince/
• Group 1:
• List the names of the characters in the story. Where is the story
set?
• What is the historical background of this story? What do you
know about ‘Pharaoh’?
Group 2
• Arrange the events of the story ‘The Doomed Prince’ in
chronological order. Use the given template.
•
Group 3
• ‘The Doomed Prince’ is a story which has no ending. Can you
predict the ending of the story? Create your own ending of the
story.
Plenary
• Write a one sentence summary of the story ‘The Doomed
Prince’. Share it with the class
TOPIC: PARTS OF SPEECH –DAY 1
Objectives
• Define different parts of
speech.
• Identify the parts of speech.
• Demonstrate the usage of
different parts of speech
Success Criteria
• I can define different parts of
speech.
• I can identify the parts of
speech.
• I can demonstrate the usage
of different parts of speech
• 
Starter:
• Frame 3 sentence based on the picture given below.
Development
• Students watch a video on the 8 parts of speech.
• https://youtu.be/ZqLeGm4k6CU
• 
• Discussion based on the parts of speech. Students give examples of each part of
speech. They will share the example.
• 
• UAE LINK:
• Describe your school in one sentence. Use as many parts of speech as possible.
• Mini Plenary:
• https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/parts_of_speech/quiz395.html
• Share your score in chat box.
• Group 1:
• Choose any 3 tasks from the given worksheet and complete.
Group 2:
• Choose any 4 tasks from the given worksheet and complete.
Group 3:
• Choose any 5 tasks from the given worksheet and complete.
Plenary
• Revisit the objectives and success criteria
• Peer/self evaluation.
AFL
• https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/parts_of_speech
/quiz395.html
TOPIC: PARTS OF SPEECH – DAY 2

Objectives Success Criteria

• To be able to identify the • I can define different parts of
parts of speech. speech.
• To learn to use adjectives and • I can identify the parts of
adverbs to make writing more speech.
interesting. • I can demonstrate the usage
•  of different parts of speech
Starter:
• https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5739f5da69b697caeb3db40f/8-p
arts-of-speech-quiz
• Mini Plenary:
• Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words.
• 1. A device was developed to detect disasters.
• a. verb b. noun c. adjective d. pronoun
• 2. Bill was behind the boycott of the foreign beverages.
• a. preposition b. adverb c. verb d. adjective
• 3. Dan discovered a dwarf star in a distant galaxy.
• a. adjective b. adverb c. conjunction d. pronoun
• 4. Daniel damaged the door with a drone.
• a. preposition b. adverb c. verb d. adjective
• 5. Edward essentially eats anything edible.
• a. adjective b. adverb c. conjunction d. pronoun
TASKS
• Group 1:
• Identify and colour each parts of speech given with different
colours. [Noun- red, verb- green, adjective – yellow, and
adverb- blue]
Group 2
• Group 3:
• Write a paragraph about ‘My first day of school’. Include
different parts of speech in your writing.
AFL
• Identify the parts of speech in the story below:
Noun _____________ Pronoun _____________ Verb
_____________
Adjective _____________ Adverb _____________ Preposition
_____________
Conjunction _____________ Interjection _____________