Lesson 2 How old are you?

Objectives	Linguistic competence	Vocabulary and structure
Required equipment
Educational: to learn basic greetings; to learn how to ask and answer questions Developing: to enable pupils to ask and answer questions about objects; Sociolinguistic competence: to raise awareness of ways of asking and answering questions like in the press conference.	By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: ask and answer the question learnt in this and previous units in small situations; ask and answer a question about what something is; name some school things.	Recycling the vocabulary learnt in previous lessons.	Textbook, the DVD of the book, puppets, number flashcards, flashcards describing a pen, a pencil, a ruler, a crayon, a book, a

Activity 1 Listen and say.

Objective: to reinforce the greeting “Good morning”
Look at Unit 2, Lessons 3 for instructions.
Activity 2 Watch and do.
Objective: to recycle the questions and their answers
Say that the pupils will now play Press Conference. Explain to them that famous people are invited to the press conference. Journalists gather and ask them questions. You also need to tell the children that they already know much. Therefore, they may ask 4 questions:
What is your name? How old are you?
Where do you live? How are you?
Choose the “journalists” and “famous people” among the pupils for the game who will answer questions. Explain to the pupils that they must speak about themselves before asking questions in order to develop their speaking abilities: My name is Kamila. What is your name? etc.
Activity 3a Look, listen and repeat.
Objective: to recycle the numbers
Open one of your palms face up and with the help of the fingers of your other hand show the jumping monkeys on it. Translate the poem for children and explain that now there are 4 monkeys left because one of them fell down. Then 3, 2 and 1.
Five little monkeys Mama called the doctor
Are jumping on the bed And the doctor said
One fell down “That’s what you have
And bumped his head From jumping on the bed.”
Activity 3b Look, listen and play.
Objective: to recycle the numbers
Now you can ask the children to repeat the poem and finger movements after you.
Optional Activity 4 Play “What’s this?”