Developing Speech and Language Skills - Noel's ESL eBook Library

‘Wendy house’ cooker or a ‘hob’ with electric rings made from paper; puppet with amouth that can openStoppingActivityExplain that the puppet is hungry and wants some food to be heated up in the pan. If itis too hot the fan is needed to cool the food down. The adult works the puppet thatgives a food item to the child and asks for a pan. The child pretends to heat up thefood and then puts it on a plate. The puppet starts to eat – but if the food is still cold,asks for the pan (and child reheats the food), and if too hot, asks for the fan, which thechild waves over the food. Sometimes the food is just right and gets eaten. More foodcan then be heated/cooled so the child has plenty of opportunities to hear the words‘fan’ and ‘pan’. The adult should avoid making facial expressions associated with ‘toohot’ or ‘too cold’ as this gives extra clues. Just sound annoyed and say ‘I need the pan’or ‘I need the fan’.Sorting gameTarget sound: ‘f’ word initialContrast: ‘p’Words: fort, portResources: a picture of a fort and seaside port from the CD (or models); pictures orobjects associated with each (e.g. fort – knights, horses, flagpoles, drawbridge, etc.;port – yachts, ships, cranes, fishing nets, seagulls, etc.)ActivityThe child has the fort and port pictures in front of them. The adult selects one of thesmaller objects secretly and tells the child where it goes. ‘This one goes with the port’or ‘This is for the fort’. The child indicates the picture or model they have heard andthe adult gives the child the item to add. Sometimes repeat the same word insuccessive turns, so the child has to keep listening. Repeat the word if the childindicates the wrong picture.Name game: witch storyTarget sound: ‘f’ word initialContrast: ‘p’Words: Fair bear, Pear bearResources: string; Fair Bear and Pear Bear (part of the Bear family) can be found on theCD (p. 64). Laminate the chosen characters or stick them on cardboard and cut themout so they can be attached to a piece of string.79