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MEG and MOG Lesson Planning
MEG and MOG Lesson Planning
To consider:
• Theme suitable for Halloween
• You can work with the book in class 3 as well as in class 4.
Class 3:
Introduction of main characters and keywords (see Step 1), reading, pictures and gestures explain
basic story line, ask for things they remember (breakfast, animals)
Vocabulary/themes to work on: clothes, colours
Class 4:
Vocabulary/themes to work on: rooms and basic furniture, clothes, cooking breakfast (food),
animals, colours, time, morning procedures (wake up, get out of bed, dress, put on …, go down/up
the stairs, take out of the cupboard, cook/eat breakfast, meet friends)
• Possible to work with more Meg and Mog stories
Story:
Meg and Mog
Once upon a time there was a witch called Meg.
At midnight the owl hooted 3 times and woke her up.
She got out of bed to dress for the spell party.
She put on her black stockings, her big black shoes, her long black cloak, and her tall black hat.
She went down the stairs to cook breakfast.
In the kitchen lay her big striped cat Mog. He was fast asleep.
She trod on Mog’s tail.
She took out of her cupboard 3 eggs, bread, cocoa, milk, a kipper and jam.
She put it all in her cauldron and stirred it up.
There was plenty of breakfast for everyone.
At 1 o’clock she got her broomstick, her cauldron, and a spider.
She flew up the chimney with Mog.
Up in the sky she met her friends going to the party. Bess, Jess, Tess and Cress
They landed on a hill in the moonlight to make the spell.
Each of them had brought something to put in the cauldron.
This is what they put in: a frog, a beetle, a worm, a bat, a spider
They all stirred the cauldron as they chanted their spell.
“Abracadabra - Frog in a bog, Bat in a hat, Snap crackle pop,
And fancy that”
Boom! There was a flesh and a bang.
Something had gone wrong.
Bess, Jess, Tess and Cress all changed into mice and Mog chased them.
“I’ll have to change them back, next Hallowe`en.”
Step 5:
• Vocabulary work:
• Game: Bingo - groups of 5, worksheet with pictures (breakfast and animals from story), group
chooses 5 pictures and puts them upside down, they should remember which picture is where,
teacher says one item, a group member (rotation) decides whether and which card to turn around
• Let children draw picture of new words into “treasure book” (a personal vocabulary book), they
have to write the English word next to it - possible homework: drawing pictures.
• Picture-dictation of witch and typical items, self correction with overhead version drawn by
teacher - use new words, colours, sizes (tall, big, ..)
• Children have their own spell party: “Draw a picture of your witch/es, create a spell, design a
cauldron and choose ingredients and think about how to break the spell.”
Children should present their witch-picture to a partner (describing clothes, ingredients, spell, …),
volunteers can present their spell party to class.
• Work with morning procedures presented in story: wake up, get out of bed, dress, put on …, go
down/up the stairs, take out of the cupboard, cook/eat breakfast, meet friends, …, transfer to
children’s life - go to school by bike, study, do homework, have lunch, do sports, … . Children can
describe their morning habits/rituals and maybe free time activities. (use of speech, write down
important phrases in “treasure book”)
Differentiation/project:
• In groups make up own story book, Meg and Mog book as example (colour copy should be still
on the wall), discuss direct speech – less difficult.