Teach English in Xinpu Zhen - Meizhou Shi

Target students: 5-6 year-old kindergarten students Engage: Bring fruit flashcards to class and plastic fruit if available. Ask students what their favorite fruit is. Show the flashcards or plastic fruit one at a time and have the students identify them. Elicit other kinds of fruit that are not covered. Study: Set up a small group activity using sets of small cards prepared beforehand. Have the students match the correct picture with the correct word. Put up the flashcards on the board and go over the correct pronunciation of each word. Have the students repeat after the teacher. Drill as a group and individually. Show one picture and ask the students ?Do you like apples?? Students answer with sentences like ?Yes, I do? or ?No, I don?t?. Check that the students are using the correct structure and pronouncing words correctly. Activate: Using a simplified worksheet with pictures and text, have the students do a survey. They go around the class and ask and answer questions about the fruit they like and dislike. In the end, have the students choose one of their classmates and tell the class what kind of fruit this person likes and dislikes. Task 5 ? What do students need to know about grammatical structures? Give examples to clarify your ideas. Meaning ? what the language means Use ? how and when it is used Forms and patterns ? how the language is formed or structured Spoken and written forms ? if there are any differences in the spoken and written forms. Ex: use of contractions ? in formal written English, we use ?I do not want to see a movie? and in spoken English, we usually say ?I don?t want ?? or ?I don?t wanna??