Unit 1 Greetings

Activity 2 Look, listen and repeat.

Objective: to introduce a new poem

While reciting the poem, use some gestures to help the pupils understand the poem. Say “I can see” and translate the phrase into the pupils’ mother tongue.

After that, say that in spring we can see a lot of flowers in the streets, gardens and parks. And suggest them learn the following short and interesting poem about flowers with gestures.

Flowers here,

Flowers there.

I can see flowers

Everywhere.
Activity 3 Play “I can draw a cat”.

Objective: to introduce the structure “I can draw a cat.”

Explain to the pupils that you are going to draw a flower on the blackboard. Then say, “I can draw a flower”. Then do the same procedure with a picture of a cat and again say, “I can draw a cat”. Then elicit from the pupils the meaning of the phrase “I can draw a ...”. After that ask the pupils to look at complete the unfinished pictures of a flower and a cat on the right page of the book. Then they should learn to say

I can draw a flower.

I can draw a cat.

Ask the pupils to repeat the sentences after you in chorus and individually.

Explain to the pupils that there is a blank space for them to draw what they want.

When they have finished, ask some pupils to show their pictures and say about them like “I can draw a kite”, etc.