After the Easter and Golden Week holidays let’s start off with a really simple lesson of the week to ease our way into things:
Judging by the comments from teachers this has proved to be really popular. My niece also really loves it!
You can also use it to teach ….
Simple Present Tense Game
You can also use the verb mini cards along with the pronoun mini cards to teach kids the simple present tense e.g. when you have to put an “s” after the verb.
1. Put the cards in two piles.
2. The kids pick one pronoun and one verb card.
3. They say the sentence, deciding if they need to add the “s” or not.
Simple, fun and very effective!
You can also add in the Superhero cards to make it more fun!
Over genki kids!
Plus of course the best part of this lesson is how you can use the “Stop!” part of the song to calm down even the most hyperactive of over-sugar eaters.
1. First do the song as usual with the 5 second countdown.
2. Then do more exercises and “Stop!” followed by a 10 second countdown (the kids have to freeze whilst you count!)
3. Then more exercise and a veeerrrryyyyyy slow countdown from 20. This will calm the heart rate of just about any over active kids and let you get on with the lesson!
It’s a great tool to have in your repetoire!
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A very good lesson which can be taught to all ages. We used it for our show last year, check it out on Youtube at kidsfunfrance! They still ask for the song this year, the 4 and the 10 year-olds, we also use it as a TPR. Another big success thanks to Richard!
It’s great, and I also use this lesson to revise present, past, present continuous and futur asking question in different ways and using different pictures in the interactive board or picking up one minicardeach child and answering according their card. OF COURSE, USING GENKI ENGLISH MATERIALS always, because they are the best.
What are you doing now?
What do you do everyday?
What did you do yesterday?
What are you going to do tomorrow?
Nice one Lines!
Great idea!
I like your ideas,nice