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

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or in pairs to complete the sentences.
Check the answers as a class by asking volunteers to 
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read out the sentences. Pay attention to the children’s 
pronunciation of the target vocabulary.
Key
1 
medals
 2 
trophy
 3 
race
 4 
competition
 5 
certificate
 
6 
loser
Writing (page 47)
Ask the children to look at the text and ask 
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What kind of 
text is this?
Read the poem while the children follow it 
in their books. Try to read it rhythmically, stressing the 
appropriate syllables.
Ask some questions to check understanding, e.g. 
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What 
kind of competition did the girl win? What did she paint? 
Where was the ceremony? How did she feel?
8 Complete the poem. Find and write the lines 
with rhyming words. Then think of a title for the 
poem.
Read the text in the blue box, and let the children answer 
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the questions.
Look at Exercise 8. Explain that this is another rhyming 
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poem, but that this time the rhyme scheme is different: 
the first and second lines rhyme, and the third and 
fourth, etc. Ask the children to work in pairs to find the 
appropriate line for each gap, making sure each line 
ends with a word that rhymes with the preceding line. 
Encourage them to read the poem and the words aloud, 
as this will help them to identify the words that rhyme. (In 
a weaker class, you may prefer to do the activity orally as a 
class before the children write anything.)
Check the answers as a class by asking individual children 
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to read out pairs of lines.
Finally, ask the children to think of a title for the poem.