Aim: Children will learn to recognise and identify five
kinds of fruit, namely apple, strawberry, orange, banana and tomato. Children will learn to pronounce these vocabularies. Children are expected to use these vocabularies in short and simple conversations with their peers. Children will learn communicative skills, independent learning and collaboration skills. Level: CEFR Pre-A1 level of English
Context: There are about 30 children who are 6 year old. Last lesson these children learned colours in terms of meaning, pronunciation and spelling.
Time: 45 minutes in the classroom and about 20 minutes for
homework
Technical Children and the teacher can access computers at school.
Requirements: And the projector is available.
Preparation: The teacher designs teaching materials needed for
this lesson; The teacher makes an appointment of the computer room. The teacher talks to the parents so that the children get permission to use computers or tablets at home for the homework. Procedure: Pre-task activity (15 minutes) Step one: students do this pre-task activity Pedagogical goals: this activity, which links colours with fruit, aims to help students recall what they have learned in the previous lesson, and to introduce the topic of this lesson, which is fruit. Besides, children will get exposed to the five target vocabularies, especially in spoken forms. Step two: the teachers reflection on this activity. She demonstrates the pronunciation and students follow her. Pedagogical goals: the teacher raise students attention to the exact five vocabularies in the demo part. This is one more time of the input. And children have the chance to practice, which is also a reinforcement activity to make sure they could link the meanings with the pronunciation. During-task activity (15 minutes) Children do the during-task activity in pairs. Pedagogical goals: children are able to use the target vocabularies to produce a short sentence to answer the question asked by their partners. The grammatical structure of this conversation is fixed. The dominant aims are accuracy and fluency. Post-task activity (15 minutes) A public performance by the best pair and the teachers reflection. Pedagogical goals: this step aims to have the children focusing on language learning rather than on playing with computers. And the accuracy and fluency are shown so that other students know the pedagogical targets of this activity.
Homework Pedagogical goals: this enables children to get exposed to
the written forms of the target language, and allows for a second chance to understand vocabularies. More importantly, it links to the next lesson, which is the spelling of these vocabularies.