Topic: Y1

Objective

To explore the meaning of gender in nouns.

Nouns for people may refer to a man or to a male person like father or to a woman or to a female person like mother. There is a difference in gender.

Write down the noun of the opposite gender:

Objective

To explore the meaning of simple, everyday nouns and how they relate to your experience of the world.

Things like a chair, a fork, a dog, a horse, a house, a kennel, a girl, a nurse, a boy and a policeman are something that we can see and touch. They exist in reality and are observable. The names for them are concrete nouns.

Other nouns refer to things which we cannot see or touch like happiness or time. Such nouns are abstract nouns.

In this activity, students ask the question: what is a sentence? Then, they answer it using an interactive smart board sentence generator.

Goals

• Identify sentences and non-sentences.
• Create some examples of sentences and non-sentences using an interactive smart board sentence generator.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will answer the question: what is a sentence?

In this activity, students practise composing sentences with the word because.

Goals

• Identify the causal relationship that underlies use of because.
• Compose some reasonable sentences using because.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will practise using the word because.

In this activity, students practise composing sentences with the word if.

Goals

• Rehearse an implicit understanding of the conditional meaning of if.
• Practise composing sentences using if.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will practise writing sentences with the word if.

In this exercise, students reinforce their spelling skills with the help of colour coding.

Goals

• To increase student awareness of the sound sequences in one syllable words.
• To highlight that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and letters.
• To practise dividing words into syllables.

Lesson plan

In this lesson, students will work through three activities. The first two involve categorising words according to syllable structure and number of syllables, while the third activity is a class competition requiring students to draw on their vocabulary knowledge.

In this lesson, students select the correct verb to compose an acceptable sentence.

Goals

• Practise composing sentences with appropriate Subject-Verb agreement.
• Identify acceptable patterns in Standard English.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will select the correct verb on the smart board, to construct acceptable sentences.