The Days of The Week! (Speaking Activity)
This is a three part activity to practice speaking in your young learner's classroom, focusing on the days of the week. First, use gestures and ask the students:
How many days are there in the week?
There are 7 days in the week!
Now, watch the video by Dream English, do the movements, and sing along together! 😄😄
What great singing! As a variation, have students practice in groups and then have them perform the song for the rest of the class. For the second part of the activity, have students practice questions 1-5 with a partner. Use the prompts on the right to help them answer the questions. As a follow up activity another day, do the activity again but cover/erase the prompts or the words in green and see if the students can remember them.
Have the days of the week on the board or written in the children's notebooks:
Finally, on the electronic whiteboard use this prompt to practice using the days of the week in questions and giving short answers. You can change the image or use flashcards to represent different activities:
Hello!
ResponderEliminarI find your blog so interesting, activities are so creative and it adjusts very well to the reality of a class, mixing the everyday with innovation.
In particular, I found this activity really interesting just because sing... Yes, sing! We tend to forget how much children, especially the little ones, like to sing and perform and this and this simple action can help children a lot at a speaking level, at an oral comprehension level... And not only that, but also to lose stage fright and the embarrassment that some of them usually have.
Thank you so much for share with us your activities.
Kind regards.
Paloma López.
Hi!
ResponderEliminarI enjoyed very much reading your activities. This is definitely my favourite as it involves different short activities to practice the same topic. I think it is very important for students to work through different way on the same topics so they can have a better comprehension of the contents. Moreover, you are using songs. Songs are a great source for our students to learn and practice listening and pronunciation.
Thank you for your ideas!
Laura López