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Plants
This topic is broken into 3 subtopics – click on a link to see the activities in each subtopic:
In each subtopic, students:
- listen, look, read and talk to establish familiarity with the context
- are introduced to 20 target words
- practise recognising and producing the written and spoken forms of each word
- relate form and meaning
- practise recognising the environment in which the words usually occur
- use the words in new contexts.
Topic objective
- Recognise and use specialist and general vocabulary relevant in the study of plants.
- Read and listen in order to understand and respond to simple texts about plants.
- Talk about plants.
- Write simple texts about plants.
- Recognise and respond to simple question forms.
What you need
- Audio player
- Scissors
- Felt pens or coloured pencils
- Glue
- Poster paper
- A quiet space where students feel comfortable listening and speaking
- A range of easy factual readers
- Bilingual dictionaries
- Grammars and dictionaries for teacher reference
Monitoring and recording student progress
You can monitor and record student progress using the examples of good assessment practice in the English language learning progressions.
Published on: 08 Jan 2018
