Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

Use your imagination

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Oxford Primary Skills 5 Unit 1 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
Tell the children that the sentences explain how to make 
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a simple frame for a photo. Read the example with them. 
Then let them work individually to read the sentences and 
circle the correct options.
Check the answers as a class by asking volunteers to read 
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out the sentences.
Key
1 
cardboard
 2 
sticky tape
 3 
brush; glue
 4 
scissors
 
5 
Decorate
Writing (page 7)
Read the title of the text and make sure the children 
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understand the meaning of 
mask 
(if not, let them look 
at the pictures and guess the meaning). Read the words 
in the box, and explain if necessary that 
paste 
is a kind of 
thin glue.
Ask the children to look at the pictures, and ask 
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Have you 
ever made a mask like this?
Read the text while the children follow it in their books. If 
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you like, you could ask the children to mime the stages of 
making a mask as you read.
8 Complete the sentences. Use 
to
 or 
with
.
Read the text in the blue box. Ask the children to 
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find examples of each kind of language in the model 
text above (i.e. a list of what you need, imperatives, 
sequencing words, 
to
and 
with
). (Make sure the children 
realize that not all the verbs are imperatives.)
Look at Exercise 8 and read the example. Let the children