Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me. Activities are organized by topic and by level to make it easy to find appropriate activities for students. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book is suitable for both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Animals (p. 9)
• 1.1 What animals do you know? (p. 9)
• 1.2 Describing well-known animals (p. 10)
• 1.3 Animals moving about (p. 11)
• 1.4 Animal rhythms (p. 12)
• 1.5 Singing about animals (p. 13)
• 1.6 Writing an animal Haiku (p. 14)
• 1.7 Wild animals (p. 15)
• 1.8 What animal am I? (p. 17)
• 1.9 Guess the animal in 20 questions (p. 18)
• 1.10 Personal animal recount (p. 19)
• 1.11 Animal raps (p. 20)
• 1.12 Animal habitats (p. 21)
• 1.13 Animal information report (p. 23)
• 1.14 Human attributes of animals (p. 24)
• 1.15 Animal advertisements (p. 25)
• 1.16 Animal conversations (p. 27)
• 1.17 Animal escape (p. 28)
• 1.18 Which dog has a better life? (p. 251)
• 2 Journeys (p. 31)
• 2.1 A beach holiday (p. 31)
• 2.2 Describing what we can do on a beach holiday (p. 32)
• 2.3 Types of transport (p. 33)
• 2.4 Transport: odd one out (p. 34)
• 2.5 A travel sociogram (p. 35)
• 2.6 A beach holiday checklist (p. 37)
• 2.7 Travelling to school (p. 38)
• 2.8 About the weather (p. 39)
• 2.9 Advice for a visitor (p. 41)
• 2.10 How do you come to school? (p. 43)
• 2.11 Guess the local place (p. 44)
• 2.12 Writing a 'late note' for the teacher (p. 45)
• 2.13 Travel diary from space (p. 46)
• 2.14 Singing about journeys (p. 47)
• 2.15 UFO (p. 48)
• 2.16 Science fiction (p. 49)
• 2.17 Holidays in space (p. 50)
• 2.18 About Mars (p. 52)
• 3 Fantasy and adventure (p. 54)
• 3.1 The king and the dragon (p. 54)
• 3.2 The pirate (p. 56)
• 3.3 Adventurers and heroes (p. 57)
• 3.4 Witch's magic potion (p. 58)
• 3.5 Good king bad king (p. 60)
• 3.6 Draw a dinosaur (p. 61)
• 3.7 Wizard interview (p. 63)
• 3.8 Turned into a rabbit! (p. 64)
• 3.9 Queen's family (p. 65)
• 3.10 Fairy tale people (p. 66)
• 3.11 Contrasting fairies and witches (p. 67)
• 3.12 Three wishes (p. 68)
• 3.13 Jack and the beanstalk (p. 69)
• 3.14 Goldilocks (p. 70)
• 3.15 Fortune telling (p. 72)
• 3.16 House of horrors (p. 73)
• 3.17 The king's challenge (p. 75)
• 3.18 Create a fantasy tale (p. 77)
• 4 The world around us (p. 78)
• 4.1 Rivers of the world (p. 78)
• 4.2 Map making (p. 79)
• 4.3 Drawing my natural world (p. 80)
• 4.4 North, south, east and west (p. 81)
• 4.5 Geographical tongue twisters (p. 82)
• 4.6 Sphere shapes (p. 83)
• 4.7 New Year celebrations (p. 85)
• 4.8 New Year's Day emails (p. 86)
• 4.9 Loy Krathong Festival from Thailand (p. 87)
• 4.10 Pinocchio: an Italian story (p. 89)
• 4.11 Carnival in Brazil (p. 90)
• 4.12 Popular Asian game (p. 91)
• 4.13 Natural disasters (p. 92)
• 4.14 Pompeii (p. 94)
• 4.15 Safety guidelines (p. 95)
• 4.16 Current affairs recount (p. 96)
• 4.17 Earthquakes and floods (p. 97)
• 4.18 Emergency procedures (p. 99)
• 5 Healthy bodies (p. 101)
• 5.1 Grandma! What big eyes you've got! (p. 101)
• 5.2 Callisthenics (p. 103)
• 5.3 Create your own dance (p. 104)
• 5.4 Healthy morning routine (p. 105)
• 5.5 Staying clean and healthy (p. 106)
• 5.6 Footprints (p. 107)
• 5.7 Doctor! Doctor! (p. 108)
• 5.8 Safety (p. 109)
• 5.9 A healthy lifestyle (p. 111)
• 5.10 Our feelings (p. 112)
• 5.11 Absent from school (p. 113)
• 5.12 Unhealthy activities (p. 114)
• 5.13 The senses (p. 116)
• 5.14 An accident (p. 117)
• 5.15 Get well card (p. 118)
• 5.16 Personal affirmations (p. 120)
• 5.17 Healthy and unhealthy foods (p. 121)
• 5.18 Food pyramid (p. 122)
• 6 About me (p. 124)
• 6.1 My family (p. 124)
• 6.2 My classroom (p. 125)
• 6.3 My home (p. 127)
• 6.4 My school books (p. 128)
• 6.5 My free time (p. 129)
• 6.6 My mum's mobile phone (p. 130)
• 6.7 My friends (p. 131)
• 6.8 My birthday party (p. 132)
• 6.9 My school excursion (p. 134)
• 6.10 My sporting skills (p. 135)
• 6.11 My favourite TV show (p. 136)
• 6.12 My favourite party game (p. 138)
• 6.13 My computer class (p. 139)
• 6.14 My mathematics class (p. 140)
• 6.15 My science class (p. 142)
• 6.16 My social education class (p. 143)
• 6.17 My poetry class (p. 145)
• 6.18 My music class (p. 146)
• Website appendix (p. 148)