Unit greetings Lesson Hello. My name is Zumrad

Activity 1 Listen and repeat.

Objective: to reinforce the greeting “Good morning”

Ask the pupils to remember the poem “Good morning” that they learnt in the previous lesson. Ask if anybody can say the poem by heart. If there is any, ask him/her to say it.

Then recite the poem, the pupils repeat after you.
Poem:

Good morning, good morning

Good morning to you

Good morning, good morning

I’m glad to see you.

Activity 2 Look and count.

Objective: to introduce the question “How old are you?” and the answer “I’m six/seven.”

STEP 1: Explain that in many countries it is traditional to put a certain number of candles on the cakes according to the age of the child on his/her birthday. Then ask the pupils to look at the pictures in the textbook and guess how old the puppets are. After hearing the answer, ask this pupil to tell the class how he/she knew it and praise him/her.

STEP 2: After that, offer the pupils to learn to ask the question “How old are you?” Tell them its meaning in their mother tongue (Yoshing nechada? / Сколько тебе лет?). Then have the pupils practise it in chorus and individually.

Further explain to the pupils that now they have learned to ask how old somebody is, and they need to learn how to respond to this question as well. Therefore, offer the pupils to answer the question together with the puppets: