BATTLESHIPS

1.       Draw two ships on your map. Make sure that no one sees you drawing them. Each ship takes up one square.

2.       Students will work in pairs. The goal of the game is to guess where the ships from the other are to bomb them.

3.       One by one students will say the name of a square, using the adjectives and nouns that appear at the top and the side.

4.       Each player will have to say the complementary  adjectives and nouns from rows and columns to refer to a square. If it isn’t pronounced correctly the turn is missed.

5.       If there is a ship on the named squared, the second player will have to say HIT. If the bombed square is next to a ship, he or she will have to say NEAR.

The player who hit both boats from the enemy wins.

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We have designed some activities to practice listening skills.

PRE-LISTENING

We have chosen some pictures to work with before playing te song. This is going to be useful to learn and/or review the vocabulary that the song is going to include. The teacher is going to ask for the name of the actions that apear in the pictures. Pupils are going to review listening and pronunciation related to these words.

After having our vocabulary connected to the correct pictures, we are going to ask some questions to introduce our song such as: Does anybody knows what the song is going to be about? This is going to take students attention and foster motivation to listen to the song. 

WHILE LISTENING

The teacher will play the song three times. The first time the song is played, pupils should just listen to it. The second chance is to make students sing together. During the last time, pupils will have to sing the song making gestures to show what they are singing.

AFTER LISTENING

The teacher is going to ask students individually to make a gesture that represent some of the vocabulary that we have gone through. Classmates will have to guess the words and put hands up to answer. 

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The use of contractions is a difficulty for our students. It can make a sentence confusing for beginners; in this exercise in which students have to separate the words, the function of the apostrophe and it’s following  “s” would probably not be understood.

Because of this, I have designed my own activity using the same concepts and pictures.

1.       Write the words in the correct order:

A

Football / is / John/ playing/

Wearing / he/ his / clothes / school/ is

Dirty / is / very / he / getting

Johnny! Your mother’s coming!

B

Eating/ is / Mary / chocolate

Isn’t / She / now / hungry

Mary! Your dinner is ready!

C

Pictures / kids / are / drawing / the

Doing / aren’t / exercises / they / the

Kids! The teacher is looking!

FRANK SHEPARD FAIREY - OBAMA

         Fairey, who is called Obey, became more known in the 2008 US presidential election, when he was asked to make a Barak Obama “Hope” poster.

ACTIVITIES

WE HAVE MIXED SOME OF OBEY'S OBAMA DESIGNS:

1. Use the words that appear in the pictures to complete sentences

- If your body or part of your body does not _______ you, it does not work in the way it should.

- Daniel said he saw a flying ghost, but i don't _______ a word of it.

- I feel better and the doctor said that I am making a good ________.

- The result is a triumphant _______ for democracy.

- _______ has been chosen president of the USA twice.

2. From left to right, pictures 1,2 and 3 are on the top, and pictures 4,5 and 6 are down. We want to know the colours that pictures have. Write the numbers of the pictures in the correct columns.

MY HAIKU

THOSE TREES ARE VERY COLD 

THEIR DRY LEAFS ARE BROWN AND RED 

AUTUMN IS HERE ONCE AGAIN 

MICE

MICE

Pygmy mouse

The pygmy mouse is the smallest mouse. It lives for one year. It lives everywhere in the world except Antartica. It weighs six grams and is four and a half centimetres long and has a tail three centimetres long.

Jumping mouse

The jumping mouse has long back feet. The Woodland jumping mouse can jump three metres. Jumping mice sleep for six to nine months in the year. They eat seeds, worms and beetles.

House mouse

The house mouse lives with people. It eats anything it can find. It can eat soap and glue and electricity cables. They are popular pets.

Harvest mouse

The harvest mouse can climb very well. It climbs grass and corn and holds on with its tail. It makes its nest at the top of stalks of grass and corn.

Dormouse

Small dormice are six centimetres long and weigh fifteen grams, and big ones are nineteen centimetres long and weigh two hundred grams. They sleep for seven months every year. They live for about three years.

Dormice can hear very well and can make a lot of noises. They eat fruit, nuts, seeds, insects, spiders, worms and eggs. The Romans liked to eat dormice.

                                                                                                                              Storytelling with Children. Andrew Wright.

ACTIVITIES

The structure of the text is simple and well organizated, that makes it understandable. This is why, before reading, we are just going to ask some questions, to make pupils participate using speaking skills.

BEFORE READING

1.       Does anyone have a pet? What kind of pet?

2.       Has anybody got a mouse as a pet?

3.       Can you remember any story, film, comic or TV program in which the main character is a Mouse?

4.       Do you know the name of any famous and recognized mouse?

5.       Did you know that they are different kind of mice? Do you know the name of any of them?

WHILE READING

1.       Circle three of this words that are mice characteristics:

SMALL

 PAW

TAIL

WINGS

CHEESE

BIG

2.       Write the letter of the picture next to the kind of mouse we have read about.

Pygmy mouse

Jumping mouse

House mouse

Harvest mouse

Dormouse

A

B

C

D 

E 

AFTER READING

1. Follow the next steps to draw Mickey’s face.

2. Colour the following picture took from TOM&JERRY.

LITTLE GEORGE