Unit 1 Greetings

Activity 3 Look and tick.

Objective: to recycle different topical vocabulary by using pictures

There are four rows of pictures (family, toys, seasons, weather) with five pictures on various themes. Four of them belong to the same group but one is not. It belongs to the other theme. The pupils must clarify which theme most of the pictures belong to and choose the odd one by putting a tick near it.

This is not a testing task, but it tests the pupils’ knowledge of the previous topics and teaches them to think logically. It enables the pupils to make their own decisions as well. As this kind of task is new for children, you have to spend much time to explain the concept of the task.

As an example, you must explain the task in detail and show the pupils how and what to do. Ask how many rows there are. Get the answer four. So there are four tasks.

In the first task the pupils should look only at the horizontal row. You must show where it is and ask the pupils to count how many pictures there are in the row. In total 5. Then say that one out of the 5 pictures is odd, and it must not be there. There is an odd picture in each row. How is it possible to find it? Let’s see what pictures there are in the first row. Then ask the pupils what is drawn in the first picture. Woman. Who can she be in the family? Of course, mother. Thus, the picture is connected with the topic “family”. Let’s look further. It is the picture of a balloon. What topic? True, “toys”. Let’s go on. A man, a girl and a boy. What topic do they belong to? “Family”. So, we have 4 pictures in total on the topic “family” and one picture on the topic “toys”. Which picture is odd? True, the balloon. Therefore, we will put a tick near the picture with the balloon.

In such manner, you should explain the second row. Each time give the pupils more opportunity to work independently. Each time keep asking the pupils to explain why they think so.

Next four pictures must be found out by pupils on them own. After finishing the task, make pupils to explain their answers.

Answer key:

1 woman	balloon	man	woman	boy
2 doll	kite	plane	child	train
3 warm	hot	cold	cool