Up and Away - National Council for Curriculum and Assessment

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Class organisation
Whole class.
Individual. Pairs
Theme
Use with different Units of
Work of the primary curriculum
– see next page.
Aims
Learn vocabulary of rooms and
objects in the house.
Talk about location.
Practise question forms ‘who’
and ‘where’.
Develop scan reading skills.
Write sentences using key
words as prompts.
Materials/preparation
One A3 copy and class set of A4
copies of the picture of the
house.
Write pupils’ names in the
blank word tabs on Sheet 1
and make a class set of copies.
Write names of pupils in the
spaces on Worksheet A and
make a class set of copies.
Word cards of pupils’ names.
Photocopy the sheet of blank
flash cards on page 191.
Scissors and blu-tack.
Notes
Sheet 1 – word tabs offers a
pool of vocabulary for names of
rooms. Decide which (and how
many) of these vocabulary items
to introduce taking into account
what your pupils know, what is
appropriate to their situation
and what they ask about.
Sheet 2 of the word tabs
contains vocabulary related to
household objects and ties in
with Worksheets E, F and G. In
both sheets use the blank tab
cards to write in vocabulary
which pupils produce.
In the house
Focus Time
Open.
Type of activity
Matching. Listening and reading
comprehension. Writing.
Approach
1. Talk about the picture of the house (A3 size) with the class. Write
the names of the rooms on the blank flash cards and do some
word recognition exercises. Pupils place the words in the
corresponding rooms in the picture.
2. Hand out A4 copies of the house and Sheet 1 – word tabs, one
each per pupil. Ask pupils to cut out the names of the rooms and
use BLU-TACK to stick them in the corresponding rooms in
their pictures. Pupils can check their work by referencing the
completed A3 picture.
3. Remove the words from the A3 picture and place flash cards
containing pupils’ names next to it. Call out sentences locating
pupils in different rooms – e.g. “Sylvain is in the kitchen”. Pupils
find their name cards and put them in the picture according to
the sentences.
4. When all pupils’ names are in the picture, do some oral practice
of ‘who’ and ‘where’ questions:
“Who is in the kitchen?” Sylvain (is in the kitchen).
“Where is Sylvain?” (Sylvain is) in the kitchen.
Worksheet A
1. Hand out Worksheet A containing the names of the pupils. Ask
simple questions to familiarise pupils with the sentences – e.g.
“Which sentence has toilet?” (number 7), “Which sentence has
Sylvain?”
2. Draw attention to the pupils’ names in the lower half of (the
now cut up) Sheet 1 – word tabs. Pupils cut out the names and
stick them in the rooms of their A4 pictures according to the
sentences in Worksheet A.
3. Pupils turn Worksheet A face down. Looking at their pictures
with the word cards for rooms and name tabs, the pupils write
what they see – so recreating the sentences on the worksheet.