5 London weather! Receptive language What s the weather like? Is it (snowing)...?

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1 5 London weather! Unit objectives Identify and respond to new vocabulary. Listen to and join in with a song. Listen and respond to a story. Phonics: practise and respond to the /w/ sound. Identify and respond to the concepts of wet and dry. My world: natural environment the seasons. Recognise colours. Recognise and understand the concept of numbers. Emotional intelligence: understand how to dress and behave in bad weather. My English Dossier: show understanding of vocabulary through a sticker activity. Main criteria for evaluation Children should: recognise and respond to new vocabulary via mime, gesture, etc. demonstrate an understanding of the story. attempt to produce the /w/ sound correctly while saying the tongue twister. attempt to describe the weather in different seasons. identify colours. understand the concept of numbers. respond appropriately to activity instructions. understand the concepts of wet and dry. show confidence in the face of activities which require concentration. Language focus Key language Sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Wet, dry Spring, summer, autumn, winter Recycled language Hello / bye-bye Colours Numbers 1-10 Clothes Parts of the body Bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen Receptive language What s the weather like? Is it (snowing)...? It s Here s... Where are we? I can t / can see. What a horrible / lovely day! Bus We re in London. Let s see London. Put on your Jumper, trousers, coat, hat, t-shirt, shorts I m sad / happy. Dry your (arms). How many seasons are there? Classroom language Let s see / listen / sing / play / count / follow / go Listen Be quiet! Look! Point to Trace Show me Stand up! Sit down! Sit up! Tidy up! Line up! Very good! Well done! Try again! Circle My world Captain Jack s phonics! There are... What season is missing? Umbrella, towel Stand in order I spy... Circle, triangle, square, rectangle On the pirate ship Jumps aboard like this Listen to me! Is the boy / girl correctly dressed? Is the boy / girl behaving well? Let s clap a flashcard! What s number one? Match Draw Colour Touch Find Close your eyes! Arms out! Turn around! Hands up! That s right! Stick on What s? Where s? What colour is? How many? Do you want to? Shall we see? Phonics Practise and respond to the /w/ sound. My world Natural environment the seasons. emotional intelligence Emotional intelligence Understand how to dress and behave in bad weather. Basic competences key Competence in linguistic communication Mathematical competence Competence in knowledge of and interaction with the physical world Competence in processing information and use of ICT Competence in social skills and citizenship Artistic and cultural competence Learning to learn Autonomy and personal initiative 118 Unit 5 London weather!

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3 Unit 5 Lesson 1 5 London weather! Lesson 1 Learning objectives Identify and respond to weather vocabulary. Listen to and join in with The weather song. Language focus Key vocabulary Sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Receptive language What s the weather like? Is it (snowing)? It s Classroom materials Puppet CDs 1 & 2 Treasure chest Flashcards: cloudy, raining, windy, foggy, snowing, sunny White crayons At-a-glance lesson plan Getting ready Put the puppet and the weather flashcards in the treasure chest. 1 Sing the Hello song 3. (CD 2 track 27) 2 Play Abracadabra! What s in the treasure chest? 3 Play The pirate dance! (CD 2 track 29) 4 Play It s windy! (Optional activity) 5 Play Is it snowing? 6 Sing The weather song. (CD 2 track 30) 8 Trace the weather. (Pupil s Book page 53) 9 Play Let s listen and point! (CD 2 track 30) 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 32) 1 Sing the Hello song 3. (CD 2 track 27) Organise the children into a circle. Get the children to chant Captain Jack! Take the puppet from the treasure chest, put him on and get him to say Hello, pirates! Encourage the children to say Hello! Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. CD2 27 Hello song 3 Hello, children! (Wave.) Hello! Hello! Hello! (Point to the children around you.) How are you? I m fine, thank you! (Nod your head.) Hello, Captain Jack! (Wave to Captain Jack.) Hello! Hello! Hello! (Wave.) How are you? I m fine, thank you! 2 Play Abracadabra! What s in the treasure chest? Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to fly around in excitement. Mime waving a wand over the treasure chest and get Captain Jack to say Abracadabra, 1, 2, 3! What s in the treasure chest? Let s see! Take out the weather flashcards one by one and say the words. Encourage the children to repeat them. Name the flashcards again and encourage the children to repeat the words and copy your mimes: for snowing, mime looking up at the sky and wriggle your fingers like snow falling slowly; for raining, mime putting up an umbrella; for windy, mime flying a kite; for cloudy, draw a cloud in the air; for sunny, draw a big sun with outstretched arms; for foggy, wrinkle your forehead, put your hand over your brow and mime feeling your way. Repeat several times until the children are confident. 3 Play The pirate dance! (CD 2 track 29) Stick the weather flashcards around the class. Play the CD. Encourage the children to dance on the spot or around the class. Pause the CD when the children hear It s snowing and encourage them to mime holding a telescope as they focus on the snowing flashcard. Repeat with the rest of the weather flashcards. Play the CD again and encourage the children to mime each kind of weather when they hear the corresponding phrase. CD2 29 The pirate dance! It s snowing It s raining It s windy It s cloudy It s foggy It s sunny. It s snowing It s raining It s windy It s cloudy It s foggy It s sunny. 4 Play It s windy! Optional activity Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to say Pirates! Listen to me! Encourage the children to hold one hand to their ear. Say Do you want to play, 120 Unit 5 Lesson 1

4 Unit 5 Lesson 1 pirates? (Yes!) Stand up! Get Jack to say It s windy! Encourage the children to mime flying a kite. Repeat with all the flashcards and encourage the children to do the correct action each time. 5 Play Is it snowing? Put on the puppet. Take the weather flashcards, show them to the children and name them. Show the snowing flashcard and get Captain Jack to say Is it snowing? Encourage the children to say Yes! and mime the weather. Repeat with all the flashcards several times. Encourage the children to say No! if the weather on the flashcard doesn t match what Captain Jack says. 6 Sing The weather song. (CD 2 track 30) Say Let s sing a song! Let s sing The weather song! Stick the flashcards around the classroom. Play the CD and encourage the children to listen and point to the correct flashcards as they are mentioned. Play the song again and do the actions. Encourage the children to do the same. Play the song again. Encourage the children to sing along and do the actions. CD2 30 The weather song What s the weather like? (Raise your shoulders and point to the window.) It s sunny, sunny, sunny (Draw a big sun with outstretched arms.) It s sunny, sunny, sunny! What s the weather like? (Raise your shoulders and point to the window.) It s cloudy, cloudy, cloudy (Draw a cloud in the air.) It s cloudy, cloudy, cloudy! What s the weather like? (Raise your shoulders and point to the window.) It s windy, windy, windy (Mime flying a kite.) It s windy, windy, windy! What s the weather like? (Raise your shoulders and point to the window.) It s foggy, foggy, foggy (Wrinkle your forehead, put your hand over your brow and mime feeling your way.) It s foggy, foggy, foggy! What s the weather like? (Raise your shoulders and point to the window.) It s raining, raining, raining (Mime putting up an umbrella.) It s raining, raining, raining! What s the weather like? (Raise your shoulders and point to the window.) It s snowing, snowing, snowing (Mime looking up at the sky and wriggle your fingers like snow falling.) It s snowing, snowing, snowing! Put on the puppet. Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while Captain Jack leads the children to their tables in small groups. Encourage the children to join in. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 1, Activity 7 for the audio script.) 8 Trace the weather. (Pupil s Book page 53) Give out the pencils and white crayons. Give out the Pupil s Books and help the children find the worksheet, or give out the separate worksheets, depending on which you prefer. Point to the first small weather picture at the bottom of the page. Say What s the weather like? Look! It s sunny! Encourage the children to point to the sunny picture on their worksheet. Repeat It s sunny! and encourage the children to join in. Say Trace the sunny picture! Demonstrate this by tracing the picture with a pencil or your finger. Encourage the children to trace the sunny picture on their worksheet. Repeat with It s windy, It s snowing, It s foggy, It s cloudy and It s raining. Fast finishers Colour the fog white. 9 Play Let s listen and point! (CD 2 track 30) Say Let s listen to The weather song. Play the CD and encourage the children to join in and point to the weather pictures on their worksheet as they hear the weather phrases in the song. 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 32) Put on the puppet. Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. CD2 32 Bye-bye song 3 Bye-bye! Bye-bye! (Wave.) Tidy up! Tidy up! (Shut your book.) Sit up! Sit up! (Sit up.) Line up! Line up! (Stand up straight with your arms by your side.) Bye-bye! Bye-bye! (Wave to the puppet.) Extra activities 1 Play Guess the flashcard! Show the weather flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Put the flashcards face down on the board. Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to point to a flashcard and encourage the children to guess what it is. Repeat with the rest of the flashcards. Shuffle the flashcards and start the game again. 2 Play Captain Jack s mime game. Put the flashcards on the board. Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to point to the raining flashcard and say It s raining! Encourage the children to do the correct mime. Repeat with all the flashcards. Unit 5 Lesson 1 121

5 Unit 5 lesson 1 3 Play Pass the flashcards! (CD 1 track 16) Show the weather flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Play the pirate music and encourage the children to pass around the flashcards. Put on the puppet. Stop the music and get Captain Jack to say It s windy! Encourage the child with the windy flashcard to hold it up and encourage the class to say It s windy! Repeat with the remaining flashcards. 122 Unit 5 lesson 1

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7 Unit 5 Lesson 2 5 London weather! Lesson 2 Learning objectives Listen and respond to a story. Listen to and join in with The story song. Language focus Key vocabulary Sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Receptive language Where are we? I can t see. What a horrible / lovely day! Bus We re in London. Let s see London. I m sad. It s wet / dry. Classroom materials Puppet CDs 1 & 2 Treasure chest Flashcards: sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Captain Jack 2 Flip over Book At-a-glance lesson plan Getting ready Have the puppet and the weather flashcards ready. 2 Sing The weather song. (CD 2 track 31) 3 Play Pass the treasure chest! (CD 1 track 16) (Optional activity) 4 Play Let s go on a treasure hunt! (Flip over Book page 3) 5 Say The story time chant. (CD 1 track 22) 6 Listen to the London weather! story. (CD 2 tracks 34 & 35) (Flip over Book pages 52-63) 8 Circle the weather. (Pupil s Book page 55) 9 Listen and point. 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Organise the children into a circle. Put on the Captain Jack puppet and get him to say Hello, pirates! Encourage the children to say Hello! Play the karaoke version of the Hello song 3. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. (See Lesson 1, Activity 1 for the audio script.) 2 Sing The weather song. (CD 2 track 31) Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to say Let s sing The weather song! Stand up, pirates! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to do the actions and sing the song. Get Captain Jack to congratulate the children at the end of the song and say Very good, pirates! Well done! Then get him to say Sit down, pirates! (See Lesson 1, Activity 6 for the audio script.) 3 Play Pass the treasure chest! (CD 1 track 16) Optional activity Show the weather flashcards and put them in the treasure chest one by one, encouraging the children to name them as you do this. Play the pirate music and encourage the children to pass around the treasure chest. Stop the music and encourage the child with the treasure chest to take out a flashcard and show it to the class. Encourage all the children to name it and do the mime. Repeat with the remaining flashcards. 4 Play Let s go on a treasure hunt! (Flip over Book page 3) Put the foggy flashcard in the treasure chest. Put on the puppet. Point to the map at the beginning of the Flip over Book and say Look! It s Captain Jack s treasure hunt! Get Captain Jack to fly around in excitement. Say Let s follow the green path! Walk your fingers along the green path at the bottom. Stop at the six 124 Unit 5 Lesson 2

8 Unit 5 Lesson 2 weather pictures along the path and encourage the children to name them. Point to the treasure chest at the end of the path. Get Captain Jack to say I can see the treasure! Shall we see what the treasure is today? Get him to chant Abracadabra, 1, 2, 3! What s in the treasure chest? Let s see!, encouraging the children to join in. Take the foggy flashcard out of the treasure chest and say It s foggy for you and me! Point to the foggy flashcard. Say It s foggy! Encourage the children to repeat the phrase. Get Captain Jack to say Today the story is about the weather! 5 Say The story time chant. (CD 1 track 22) Say It s story time and open the palms of your hands as if opening a book. Say the chant and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. (See Unit 1 Lesson 2, Activity 5 for the audio script.) 6 Listen to the London weather! story. (CD 2 tracks 34 & 35) (Flip over Book pages 52-63) Say Let s listen to the story. Read the story aloud or play the CD. Point to the pictures in the Flip over Book and mime. Encourage the children to listen and look at the pictures. Then read the story aloud or play it on the CD a second time. Encourage the children to join in and do the actions. Encourage them to say foggy, cloudy, raining, windy and sunny when these words are mentioned in the story. At the end of the story, encourage the children to listen to The story song and move to the music. CD2 34 The London weather story Frame 1 Narrator: Here s Katie, Danny, Fluffy and Captain Jack. (Point to the characters.) Captain Jack: Where are we? I can t see. (Raise your shoulders questioningly and shake your head.) Danny: What a horrible day! It s foggy. (Mime feeling your way with your arms outstretched.) Frame 2 Captain Jack: Look! A big red bus! We re in London! (Mime driving a bus.) All: Wow! London! Let s see London on the bus! (Wave your arms in the air and mime driving a bus.) Frame 3 Narrator: Fluffy, Katie, Danny and Captain Jack are on the bus. (Mime driving a bus.) Captain Jack: Where are we? I can t see. (Raise your shoulders questioningly and shake your head.) Danny: What a horrible day! It s cloudy. (Draw a cloud in the air.) Katie: I m sad. I can t see London. (Draw a sad face on your mouth.) Frame 4 Captain Jack: Where are we? I can t see. (Raise your shoulders questioningly and shake your head.) Danny: What a horrible day! It s raining. It s wet. (Mime putting up an umbrella.) Katie: I m sad. I can t see London. (Draw a sad face on your mouth.) Frame 5 Danny & Katie: Captain Jack! Do your magic! Quick! Quick! (Point to Captain Jack puppet.) Captain Jack: Abracadabra! 1, 2, 3! (Mime waving a wand and point it three times.) Frame 6 Captain Jack: I can see! There s Big Ben! (Wave your arms in the air.) Katie & Danny: What a lovely day! It s windy and sunny. It s dry. (Draw a big sun with outstretched arms.) All: Let s see London! Hooray! (Wave your arms in the air.) CD2 35 The story song Where are we? We can t see! (Raise your shoulders questioningly and shake your head.) It s foggy, foggy, foggy. (Mime feeling your way with arms outstretched.) We can t see London! (Draw a sad face on your mouth.) Where are we? We can t see! (Raise your shoulders questioningly and shake your head.) It s cloudy, cloudy, cloudy. (Draw a cloud in the air.) We can t see London! (Draw a sad face on your mouth.) Where are we? We can t see! (Raise your shoulders questioningly and shake your head.) It s raining, raining, raining. (Mime putting up an umbrella.) We can t see London! (Draw a sad face on your mouth.) We can see! We can see! (Smile and nod your head.) It s sunny, sunny, sunny. (Draw a big sun with outstretched arms.) We can see London! (Wave your arms in the air.) Put on the puppet. Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while Captain Jack leads the children to their tables in small groups. Encourage the children to join in. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 1, Activity 7 for the audio script.) 8 Circle the weather. (Pupil s Book page 55) Give out the pencils. Give out the Pupil s Books and help the children find the worksheet, or give out the separate worksheets, depending on which you prefer. Point to the picture of the sun on your worksheet and say What s the weather like? Encourage the children to say It s sunny! and to point to the picture of the sun on their worksheet. Say Circle It s sunny and demonstrate this by tracing a circle with a pencil or your finger around the picture of the sun. Encourage the children to circle the picture of the sun on their worksheet. Repeat for It s windy! It s raining! and It s snowing! Unit 5 Lesson 2 125

9 Unit 5 Lesson 2 9 Listen and point. Say Listen and point to the weather! Say It s foggy! Encourage the children to point to the correct weather in the picture and repeat. Repeat with It s sunny / raining / windy / snowing. 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Put on the puppet. Play the karaoke version of the song. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. (See Lesson 1, Activity 10 for the audio script.) Extra activities 1 Play Musical weather. (CD 1 track 16) Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to say Pirates! Do you want to play? (Yes!) Play the pirate music and encourage the children to dance on the spot or around the class. Stop the music and say It s snowing! Encourage the children to stop dancing and do the mime. Repeat with the rest of the weather words. 2 Play Fan the flashcards! Hold up the weather flashcards. Encourage the children to name them. Fan a flashcard back and forth and let the children catch a glimpse. Encourage the children to name the flashcard. Repeat with all the flashcards several times. 3 Play Guess the flashcard! (CD 1 track 16) Show the weather flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Put the flashcards in the treasure chest. Play the pirate music. Pass around the treasure chest. Stop the music and encourage the child with the treasure chest to close their eyes, pick a flashcard and guess what it is without looking at it and say, for example, It s raining! Encourage the rest of the class to say Yes! or No! 126 Unit 5 Lesson 2

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11 Unit 5 Lesson 3 5 London weather! Lesson 3 Learning objectives Phonics: practise and respond to the /w/ sound. Language focus Key vocabulary Sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Receptive language Wet Is it? Put on your Jumper, trousers, coat, hat, t-shirt, shorts Classroom materials Puppet CDs 1 & 2 (and CD 1 from Captain Jack 1) Treasure chest Flashcards: sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining, wet (clothes flashcards from Captain Jack 1) Teacher s Notes Photocopiable Resources: Unit 5 phonics worksheet Crayons At-a-glance lesson plan Getting ready Have the puppet, the weather flashcards and the wet flashcard ready. 2 Play What s Captain Jack hiding? 3 Play Pass the secret! (Optional activity) 4 Sing The story song. (CD 2 track 35) 5 Play Captain Jack s phonics! (CD 2 tracks 36 & 37) 6 Say The transition chant. (CD 1 track 13) 7 Colour the correct picture. (Teacher s Notes page 242) 8 Play Let s listen and point! (CD 2 track 37) 9 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Organise the children into a circle. Put on the Captain Jack puppet and get him to say Hello, pirates! Encourage the children to say Hello! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. (See Lesson 1, Activity 1 for the audio script). 2 Play What s Captain Jack hiding? Put the weather flashcards on the board and encourage the children to name them. Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to say Close your eyes! Make Jack hide the raining flashcard by placing him in front of it. Ask the children to open their eyes. Say What s the weather like? Encourage the children to say It s raining! Say That s right! It s raining! Reveal the flashcard by making Jack fly off. Repeat with all the flashcards until the children are confident. 3 Play Pass the secret! Optional activity Put the weather flashcards in the treasure chest. Encourage a volunteer to choose a weather flashcard and look at it without letting the others see. Encourage the child to put the flashcard back into the treasure chest and to sit in the circle and whisper the weather phrase from the flashcard, e.g. It s windy, to the child at their side, who continues to pass the secret around the circle. The last child says It s windy! aloud and finds the correct flashcard in the treasure chest. Encourage all the children to say It s windy! and do the mime. Repeat with all the flashcards and different volunteers. 4 Sing The story song. (CD 2 track 35) Before singing The story song you may wish to revisit the story as outlined in Lesson 2, Activity 6. Play the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to copy you. Play the song again. Encourage the children to stand up, sing along and do the actions. (See Lesson 2, Activity 6 for the audio script.) 5 Play Captain Jack s phonics! (CD 2 tracks 36 & 37) Show the children the windy and wet flashcards and encourage them to name them. Flash the flashcards at the children and ask them to name them. Speed up the process as the children get more confident. Repeat the words after the children, exaggerating the /w/. Stick the flashcards on opposite sides of the board. Play Windy and wet. The children dance to the music. Pause the CD when either word is spoken. The children point to the correct flashcard for the word just spoken and do the relevant actions (for windy, mime flying a kite; for wet, mime shaking off drips). 128 Unit 5 Lesson 3

12 Unit 5 Lesson 3 CD2 36 Windy and wet! Windy wet windy wet windy wet windy wet Play The windy and wet tongue twister and encourage the children to listen. Play it a second time and say the tongue twister and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. CD2 37 The windy and wet tongue twister It s windy and wet, wet, wet. It s windy and wet, wet, wet. 6 Say The transition chant. (CD 1 track 13) Put on the puppet. Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while Captain Jack leads the children to their tables in small groups. Encourage the children to join in. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 1, Activity 7 for the audio script.) 7 Colour the correct picture. (Teacher s Notes page 242) Give out the photocopiable worksheets, pencils and crayons. Point to the first picture (windy and sunny) and say Is it windy and wet? Encourage the children to say No! It s windy and sunny! Encourage the children to find and point to the windy and sunny picture on their worksheet. Repeat for the second and third pictures (windy and cloudy, windy and snowing). Point to the final picture and elicit the tongue twister. Say Colour It s windy and wet! and demonstrate colouring the final picture. Encourage the children to find and colour the correct picture on their worksheet. Fast finishers Colour the other pictures on the worksheet. 8 Play Let s listen and point! (CD 2 track 37) Say Let s listen to the tongue twister! Play the CD. Encourage the children to say the tongue twister and point to the correct picture. 9 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Put on the puppet. Play the karaoke version of the song. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. (See Lesson 1, Activity 10 for the audio script.) Extra activities 1 Sing The weather song. (CD 2 track 31) Choose six children, using The hands up chant (see Introduction page 20), give them each a weather flashcard and encourage them to name the weather on them. Say Let s sing The weather song. Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. Encourage the children holding the flashcards to hold them up as each kind of weather is mentioned in the song. (See Lesson 1, Activity 6 for the audio script.) 2 Mime the weather. Show the weather flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Put the flashcards in the treasure chest. Pull out a flashcard without letting the children see, and mime the weather. Encourage the children to guess the weather. When the children say the correct weather, show them the flashcard and encourage them to repeat It s sunny! and do the action. When the children are confident, encourage volunteers to choose a flashcard from the treasure chest and mime the weather. 3 Sing The put on your jumper song. (Captain Jack 1 CD 1 track 34) Show the clothes flashcards from Captain Jack 1 and encourage the children to name them. When the children are confident, sing The clothes song from Unit 2 of Captain Jack 1. Encourage the children to sing along and do the actions. CD1 34 The put on your jumper song Put on your jumper (Mime putting on a jumper.) Put on your jumper Put on your jumper 1, 2, 3! (Count on your fingers.) Put on your trousers (Mime putting on trousers.) Put on your trousers Put on your trousers 1, 2, 3! (Count on your fingers) Put on your coat (Mime putting on a coat.)... Put on your hat (Mime putting on a hat.)... Put on your t-shirt (Mime putting on a t-shirt.)... Put on your shorts (Mime putting on shorts.)... Unit 5 Lesson 3 129

13 Unit 5 Lesson 4 5 London weather! Lesson 4 Learning objectives Identify and respond to the concept of wet and dry. Listen to and join in with the The wet and dry song. Language focus Key vocabulary Wet, dry Clothes Parts of the body Receptive language I m sad / happy. Dry your (arms). What s the weather like? Is it wet or dry? What colour is it? Put on your (coats). Classroom materials Puppet CDs 1 & 2 Treasure chest Flashcards: wet, dry, sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining (clothes flashcards from Captain Jack 1) Captain Jack 2 Flip over Book Blue and red crayons At-a-glance lesson plan Getting ready Put the wet and dry flashcards in the treasure chest. Have the puppet, the clothes flashcards and the weather flashcards ready. 2 Join in the story with the Flip over Book. (CD 2 tracks 34 & 35) (Flip over Book pages 52-63) 3 Introduce wet and dry. 4 Play Wet and dry clothes! 5 Play Wet arms! Dry arms! (Optional activity) 6 Sing The wet and dry song. (CD 2 track 38) 8 Match the weather to the clothes. Colour the clothes. (Pupil s Book page 57) 9 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Organise the children into a circle. Put on the Captain Jack puppet and get him to say Hello, pirates! Encourage the children to say Hello! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. (See Lesson 1, Activity 1 for the audio script). 2 Join in the story with the Flip over Book. (CD 2 tracks 34 & 35) (Flip over Book pages 52-63) Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to say Pirates! Listen to me! Encourage the children to hold one hand to their ear. Say Do you want to listen to the story? Encourage the children to say Yes! Say Listen to the story! Play the CD or read the story. Encourage the children to join in the story and do the actions. Encourage them to say key words: raining, windy, foggy, sunny, cloudy. At the end of the story, encourage the children to stand up and act out The story song. (See Lesson 2, Activity 6 for the audio scripts.) 3 Introduce wet and dry. Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to fly around in excitement. Mime waving a magic wand over the treasure chest and get Captain Jack to say Abracadabra, 1, 2, 3! What s in the treasure chest? Let s see! Take the wet and dry flashcards out of the treasure chest and show them in turn to the children. Name them several times. Encourage the children to repeat Wet! and Dry! Put one flashcard behind your back and gradually reveal it. Get the children to shout Wet! or Dry! Alternate the flashcards. Show the wet flashcard. Make Captain Jack say Wet! Mime shaking off dripping water. Encourage the children to say Wet! several times and to do the mime. Show the dry flashcard and make Captain Jack say Dry! Pretend to be wearing a big towel and put your arms round your shoulders as if giving yourself a hug. Stick the two flashcards on different walls. Say Wet! Encourage the children to point at the correct flashcard and do the mime. Repeat with Dry! Repeat several times. When the children are confident, speed up the activity. 4 Play Wet and dry clothes! Show the clothes flashcards from Captain Jack 1. Encourage the children to name them several times and mime putting on each item of clothing. Put the clothes flashcards on the board and encourage the children to name them as you do this. Put on the puppet. Say Close your eyes! Get Captain Jack to hide the wet flashcard behind the trousers flashcard. Ask the children to open their eyes. Encourage them to say Wet (hat / jumper, etc.)! When the correct answer is found, encourage a volunteer to hide the next flashcard. Repeat with the dry flashcard. 130 Unit 5 Lesson 4

14 Unit 5 Lesson 4 5 Play Wet arms! Dry arms! Optional activity Put the wet and dry flashcards on different walls. Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to say Wet arms! Encourage the children to point to the wet flashcard and mime wet arms by shaking off the water. Say Dry your arms with a towel! Encourage the children to mime drying their arms with a towel and say Show me your dry arms! Repeat with different parts of the body. 6 Sing The wet and dry song. (CD 2 track 38) Say Let s sing The wet and dry song! Stick the wet and dry flashcards on different walls. Play the CD. Encourage the children to point to the correct flashcards as they are mentioned in the song. Play the song again and do the actions. Encourage the children to copy you. Play the song again. Encourage the children to stand up, sing along and do the actions. CD2 38 The wet and dry song It s raining, raining, raining (Mime putting up an umbrella.) It s wet, wet, wet (Mime shaking off water.) My jumper and trousers are wet (Point to your clothes and shake yourself.) And my shoes, too (Point to your shoes.) I m sad. Boo hoo! (Draw a sad mouth with your finger.) It s sunny, sunny, sunny (Draw a big sun with outstretched arms.) It s dry, dry, dry (Pretend to be wearing a big towel and give yourself a hug.) My jumper and trousers are dry (Point to your clothes and smile.) And my shoes, too (Point to your shoes.) I m happy. Hurray! (Draw a smile with your finger on your mouth.) Put on the puppet. Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while Captain Jack leads the children to their tables in small groups. Encourage the children to join in. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 1, Activity 7 for the audio script.) 8 Match the weather to the clothes. Colour the clothes. (Pupil s Book page 57) Give out the pencils and blue and red crayons. Give out the Pupil s Books and help the children find the worksheet, or give out the separate worksheets, depending on which you prefer. Point to the sun on your worksheet and ask What s the weather like? Encourage the children to say It s sunny! and to point to the sun on their worksheet. Point to the picture of the rain and ask What s the weather like? Encourage the children to say It s raining! and to point to the rain picture on their worksheet. Point to the first jumper hanging on the line on your worksheet. Say Is it wet or dry? Encourage the children to say Dry! Point to the trousers hanging on the line and repeat the question. Encourage the children to say Wet! Repeat for the rest of the clothes on the line. Say Point to the sun and encourage the children to point to the sun on their worksheet. Say Match the sun to the dry clothes and demonstrate drawing a line from the sun to the first jumper with either your finger or a pencil. Encourage the children to do the same on their worksheet. Continue in the same way with the other dry clothes. Repeat the process with the rain and the wet clothes. Point to the first jumper and say Blue! Then point to the trousers and second jumper and say Red! Blue! Encourage the children to point to the clothes on their worksheet and say the colours. Point to the second trousers and ask What colour are the trousers? Encourage the children to say Red! Say Colour the trousers red and demonstrate on your worksheet. Repeat in the same way for the other clothes on the line. Fast finishers Do the extra activity on page 58 of the Pupil s Book. 9 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Put on the puppet. Play the karaoke version of the song. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. (See Lesson 1, Activity 10 for the audio script.) Extra activities 1 Play Put on your jumper! Show the children the clothes flashcards from Captain Jack 1. Encourage them to name the clothes several times and mime putting them on. Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to say It s raining! Put on your coats! Encourage the children to mime. Repeat with different weather and clothes words and encourage the children to follow Captain Jack s instructions. 2 Sing The weather song. (CD 2 track 31) Choose six volunteers using The hands up chant (see Introduction page 20) and give them the weather flashcards. Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. Encourage the children holding the flashcards to jump up when they hear their flashcard mentioned in the song. (See Lesson 1, Activity 6 for the audio script.) Unit 5 Lesson 4 131

15 Unit 5 Lesson 4 3 Play Musical bumps. (CD 1 track 16) Play the pirate music. Encourage the children to dance on the spot or around the class. Put on the puppet. Stop the music and get Captain Jack to say White, sit down! Encourage the children wearing white to sit down. Say Well done! Now stand up. Let s play again. Repeat with other colours (and clothes words). When you have finished playing the game, settle the children back in their seats using The calm down chant (see Introduction page 20). Tip: If the children are wearing overalls, ask them to lift these up to check the colour of their clothes each time you stop the music and say a colour. 132 Unit 5 Lesson 4

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17 Unit 5 Lesson 5 5 London weather! Lesson 5 Organise the children into a circle. Put on the Captain Jack puppet and get him to say Hello, pirates! Encourage the children to say Hello! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. (See Lesson 1, Activity 1 for the audio script). 2 Sing The wet and dry song. (CD 2 track 39) Show the wet and dry flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Say Let s sing The wet and dry song! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. (See Lesson 4, Activity 6 for the audio script.) Learning objectives Identify and respond to seasons vocabulary. My world: natural environment the seasons. Language focus Key vocabulary Spring, summer, autumn, winter Sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Receptive language Where s? How many seasons are there? What season is missing? What s the weather like? Classroom materials Puppet CDs 1 & 2 Treasure chest Flashcards: spring, summer, autumn, winter, sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining (clothes flashcards from Captain Jack 1) At-a-glance lesson plan Getting ready Put the spring, summer, autumn and winter flashcards in the treasure chest. Have the wet and dry, weather and clothes flashcards ready. 2 Sing The wet and dry song. (CD 2 track 39) 3 Play Wet or dry? 4 Play Look with your telescope! 5 Play Musical statues. (CD 1 track 16) (Optional activity) 6 Play What season is missing? 8 Match the seasons to the weather. (Pupil s Book page 59) 9 Listen and point. 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) 3 Play Wet or dry? Show the wet and dry flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Put the flashcards on the board face down. Say Where s wet? Encourage a volunteer to turn over a flashcard. If the answer is correct, say Well done! It s wet! Encourage the children to repeat It s wet! If the answer is incorrect, say Try again! Encourage the child to turn over the remaining flashcard and encourage all the children to name the flashcard. 4 Play Look with your telescope! Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to fly around in excitement. Mime waving a wand over the treasure chest and get Captain Jack to say Abracadabra, 1, 2, 3! What s in the treasure chest? Let s see! Take the spring, summer, autumn and winter flashcards from the treasure chest and name them one by one. Encourage the class to repeat the words after you several times. Show the flashcards, say the words and mime an appropriate action for each season: for spring, mime putting up an umbrella; for summer, fan yourself as if it s hot; for autumn, pretend your hand is a leaf blowing around in the wind; for winter, mime building a snowman. Encourage the class to repeat the words after you and do the mimes. Stick the flashcards around the room. Say Look with your telescopes 1, 2, 3! Spring! Encourage the children to pretend to look with a telescope and focus on the spring flashcard, repeat the word and do the mime. Repeat with all the flashcards several times. 5 Play Musical statues. (CD 1 track 16) Optional activity Play the pirate music. Encourage the children to dance on the spot or around the class. Put on the puppet. Pause the music and get Captain Jack to say Summer! Encourage the children to freeze on the spot, miming the action for summer. Repeat with all the flashcards several times. 134 Unit 5 Lesson 5

18 Unit 5 Lesson 5 6 Play What season is missing? Put on the puppet. Show the season flashcards. Say How many seasons are there? Encourage the children to count One, two, three, four! as you tap each flashcard with Captain Jack. Say Very good! There are four seasons! Get Captain Jack to put the spring flashcard in his treasure chest. Show the remaining three flashcards and say What season is missing? Encourage the children to say Spring! Repeat several times with all the flashcards. Put on the puppet. Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while Captain Jack leads the children to their tables in small groups. Encourage the children to join in. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 1, Activity 7 for the audio script.) 8 Match the seasons to the weather. (Pupil s Book page 59) Give out the pencils. Give out the Pupil s Books and help the children find the worksheet, or give out the separate worksheets, depending on which you prefer. Point to the first photo on your worksheet and say What season is this? Encourage the children to say Winter! Say What s the weather like in winter? Encourage the children to say It s snowing! Hold up a pencil and say Draw a line! and demonstrate this by tracing a line with your finger or a pencil from the winter photo to the It s snowing picture. Repeat in the same way with the remaining photos. Fast finishers Do the extra activity on page 60 of the Pupil s Book. 9 Listen and point. Say Point to summer! Encourage the children to point to the correct picture. Repeat with all the photos several times. 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Put on the puppet. Play the karaoke version of the song. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. (See Lesson 1, Activity 10 for the audio script.) Extra activities 1 Play Musical flashcards. (CD 1 track 16) Play the pirate music and encourage the children to pass the clothes flashcards around the circle. Put on the puppet. Stop the music and get Captain Jack to say It s snowing! Encourage the child holding an appropriate item of clothing for snowy weather to stand up and show the flashcard to the rest of the class. Encourage all the children to say the clothes words. Repeat with all the weather words. 2 Play Flash the flashcard! Divide the class into two groups. Show the weather flashcards and encourage the children to name them. Put the flashcards behind your back and gradually reveal one of them. The group quickest to name the flashcard gets a point. Encourage the children to do the correct action before you reveal the whole flashcard. Speed up the activity as the children become confident. You may need to use The calm down chant if the children become too excited (see Introduction page 20). 3 Play Captain Jack s whispering game. Organise the children into a circle. Put on the puppet. Tell the children that Captain Jack has a secret that he wants to tell them. Put the spring, summer, autumn and winter flashcards in the centre of the circle. Get Captain Jack to whisper It s autumn! The child whispers this to the next child, who passes it on. This continues around the circle until it reaches the last child. This child stands up and picks up the correct flashcard from the middle of the circle. Encourage the child to show it to the rest of the class and ask them what the secret is. Encourage them to say Autumn! If they get it wrong, give them the correct answer and congratulate them for trying. Encourage the last child to come to the beginning of the circle and start the game again. Repeat with all the seasons. Unit 5 Lesson 5 135

19 Unit 5 Lesson 6 5 London weather! Lesson 6 Organise the children into a circle. Put on the Captain Jack puppet and get him to say Hello, pirates! Encourage the children to say Hello! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. (See Lesson 1, Activity 1 for the audio script). 2 Sing the wet and dry song. (CD 2 track 39) Optional activity Say Let s sing The wet and dry song. Play the karaoke version of the song and encourage the children to join in and do the actions. (See Lesson 4, Activity 6 for the audio script.) Learning objectives Recognise colours. Recognise and understand the concept of numbers. Listen to and join in with The colours song. Language focus Key vocabulary Colours Numbers 1-10 Receptive language Umbrella What colour is it? How many? Classroom materials Puppet CDs 1 & 2 Treasure chest Flashcards: colours, spring, summer, autumn, winter, sunny, windy, snowing, foggy, cloudy, raining Teacher s Notes Photocopiable Resources: flashcards numbers 1-10 Red, yellow, pink, green, orange, purple, blue, white, brown and black crayons At-a-glance lesson plan Getting ready Have the puppet, and the number, colour, weather and seasons flashcards ready. 2 Sing The wet and dry song. (CD 2 track 39) (Optional activity) 3 Play Everybody do this! 4 Sing The colours song. (CD 1 track 18) 5 Play Musical numbers! (CD 1 track 16) 6 Play I spy with colours. 8 Trace and colour the umbrella. (Pupil s Book page 61) 9 Listen and point. (CD1 track 17) 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) 3 Play Everybody do this! Show the number flashcards and encourage the children to name the numbers several times. Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to say Pirates! Do you want to play? (Yes!) Come on! Let s play! Everybody do this! Show the number four flashcard and encourage the children to name it. Get Captain Jack to say Clap four times! Count each time you clap and encourage the children to join in. Repeat with different numbers and instructions, e.g. Touch your legs (get the children to slap their legs), touch your toes, touch your ears, tap your nose, jump up and down! 4 Sing The colours song. (CD 1 track 18) Put the colour flashcards on the board in order of the song (see audio script) and encourage the children to name them. Say Let s sing The colours song! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to stand up, sing and do the actions. Choose a willing, confident volunteer using The hands up chant (see Introduction page 20) to point with Captain Jack to the colours as they are mentioned. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 2, Activity 5 for the audio script.) 5 Play Musical numbers! (CD 1 track 16) Organise the children into a circle. Play the pirate music and encourage the children to pass around the number flashcards. Stop the music and encourage the children holding flashcards to stand up. Put on the puppet and get Captain Jack to say Stand in order, please! One! Encourage the child holding the number one flashcard to stand at the beginning on the left. Get Captain Jack to say the numbers to 10 and encourage all the children to join in while the children holding the flashcards arrange themselves in order. When the numbers are in the correct order, get Jack to say Well done, pirates! Let s count to ten again! Get Captain Jack to point to each flashcard in turn and encourage the children to count. 136 Unit 5 Lesson 6

20 Unit 5 Lesson 6 6 Play I spy with colours. Put on the puppet. Put the colour flashcards on the board and encourage the children to name them as you do this. (Red, yellow, green, blue, pink, brown, orange, purple, black, white) Get Captain Jack to point to the colour flashcards in turn and say Abracadabra, 1, 2, 3! What colour can you see? each time. Encourage the children to join in the spell and to name each colour. Put on the puppet. Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while Captain Jack leads the children to their tables in small groups. Encourage the children to join in. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 1, Activity 7 for the audio script.) 8 Trace and colour the umbrella. (Pupil s Book page 61) Give out the pencils and crayons. Give out the Pupil s Books and help the children find the worksheet, or give out the separate worksheets, depending on which you prefer. Point to the picture on your worksheet and say Look! It s raining! Jack s dry under the umbrella! Point to the red dot on the umbrella and say What colour is it? Encourage the children to say Red! Encourage the children to point to the red dot on their worksheet and say Red! Repeat for the rest of the coloured dots. Say Trace the umbrella! and demonstrate this by tracing a line with your finger or a pencil on your worksheet. Encourage the children to do the same on their worksheet. Point to the red dot in the first section of the umbrella and say again What colour is it? Encourage the children to say Red! Hold up a red crayon and say Colour it red! Demonstrate this by pretending to colour the section of the umbrella with your finger or a red crayon. Encourage the children to do the same on their worksheets. Repeat with the rest of the umbrella. Fast finishers Do the extra activity on page 62 of the Pupil s Book. Extra activities 1 Sing The numbers song. (CD 1 track 30) Say Let s sing The numbers song! Play the karaoke version of the song. Encourage the children to sing and do the actions. If you wish, put the number flashcards on the board and encourage a volunteer to point to the numbers with Captain Jack as they are mentioned in the song. (See Unit 1, Lesson 6, Activity 5 for the audio script.) 2 Play Circles and triangles. (Based on the game Noughts and crosses) Divide the class into two groups: Circles and Triangles. Put nine flashcards (from the weather, season and colour flashcards) face down on the board in three rows. Put a number flashcard on each flashcard in order 1-9. (Or write the numbers big on Post-its and stick a Post-it on each flashcard.) Then encourage one member of the Circles to choose a number. Reveal the flashcard and encourage them to name it. If they name it correctly, take down the flashcard and draw a circle in its place. If the flashcard is not correctly named, return it to its place face down with the number showing again. Encourage the Triangles to choose a number. Repeat until one team has three circles or triangles in a row. Divide the class into two different groups: Squares and Rectangles, and play again as outlined above. 3 Play Count with Captain Jack! Put on the puppet. Get Captain Jack to go around the class counting things and get the children to join in. Count books, flashcards, crayons, coats, bags, pencils and toys. Get him to say Pirates! Let s count the bags! (One, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight, nine, ten!) How many bags? (Ten!) Well done, pirates! If you would like to increase this unit s lexical set, please use the Extra vocabulary flashcards, Extra vocabulary Teacher s Notes and Extra vocabulary worksheets on the Photocopiable Resources CD. This gives your class the opportunity to learn and practise an additional four words. 9 Listen and point. (CD 1 track 17) Say Let s listen to The colours song! Play the CD and encourage the children to join in and point to the colours on the umbrella as they hear them in the song. (See Abracadabra! Lesson 2, Activity 5 for the audio script.) 10 Sing the Bye-bye song 3. (CD 2 track 33) Put on the puppet. Play the karaoke version of the song. Sing the song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join in. (See Lesson 1, Activity 10 for the audio script.) Unit 5 Lesson 6 137