STUDENTS: Class IV, 2nd level of English language learning

PROCEDURE

Teacher: " Ok children, are you ready? Let's have fun with English!"
The Teacher revises the vocabulary of the parts of the body using T.P.R. activities or playing "Simon says".

Teacher: " Today we are going to work in groups; so children, how many are you today? Let's count 1, 2, 3 . . . . . Right! You are twenty, so, how many groups can we make? Four groups of five children , well done ! Now we are going to name each group with a colour, ok?"
Each child takes a colour from the sack.

Teacher: " Who has got red/yellow/blue/green? Ok, so the red ones make a group, the yellow ones . . . Children with the same colour make a group.

Teacher: Now children, I'll give you some pieces of paper with words on them and you have to put them in order to describe a monster. Is it clear?
When the children have finished, a child of each group, in turn, reads a piece of their description so that all of them can participate to draw their monster.

When each group has finished drawing the monster, each of them can describe and show their monster to the others.

At the end, each group performs the monster with their body and the teacher takes photos as a SOUVENIR !

COMMENTS: children enjoy this activity very much. Moreover, I often realise that children understand much better and pay much more attention if the teacher speaks to them in L2, (making gestures of course!) maybe because the foreign language stimulates their curiosity.

What do you think?