INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HCM

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

VISUAL AIDS DESIGN CONTEST

DESCRIPTION

Group’s members:
1. Canto Frejelene
2. Mai Nguyen Thanh Thanh
3. Luong Quoc Thuy Duong
4. Tran Le Cam Huyen
5. Nguyen Thanh Hai
 Ho Chi Minh City, December 2020
I. LESSON
Teacher uses one “stick and learn” poster to teach vocabulary and the different parts of the
body; head, ears, eyes, nose, teeth, lips, hands, arms, legs, foot. Focusing on the five
sense:see, smell, touch, taste and hear.

II. STUDENTS’ LEVEL AND CHARACTERISTICS

- Level: Primary
- Most of the students are active, enthusiastic and curious.

III. LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the lesson, students are able to:
- Remember the name of the different body parts; head, ears, eyes, nose, teeth, lips, hands,
arms, legs, and foot.
- Remember the five senses:see, smell, touch, taste and hear and their functions.
- To make a sentence by adding one picture of the five senses and a coordinating example
picture.

IV. DESCRIPTION
1. POSTER:
The poster is consist of 2 parts, one is the Parts of the Body with the detachable photos of the
coordinating body parts;head, ears, eyes, nose, teeth, lips, hands, arms, legs, foot.

The second part of the poster is about the five senses; see, smell, touch, taste and hear with
detachable picture of the five senses and its coordinating photos as example.
- The teacher can ask the students name the parts of their body just by looking the poster with
out the coordinating detachables photos. (lead-in)
- The teacher will then introduce the five body parts which are capable of the five senses:
eyes, ears, tongue, nose and hands.
- The teacher can divide the class into different teams, maximum 3 students each team. Each
team will take turns to match the detachable photos correctly to the coordinating body parts.
- After one turn, the teacher can leave the poster blank for a timed game. The fastest team
with the most correct answer will win.

V. REASONS FOR USING THESE VISUAL AIDS

- The poster offer students a better chance to visualize and remember the vocabulary about
the body parts and the five senses, as students can touch and change the positions of each
photos themselves.
- The poster is a helpful tool for the teacher to enhance students’ memories as the teacher can
organise a variety of activities for students to do.
- The poster is flexible, which means that it is suitable for different stages of teaching
vocabulary
- The poster is helpful for the teacher as it can stay for long time; in addition, it will also be
economical for the teacher.
- These visual aids can be used in either an English teaching class or a Science class whose
medium of instruction is English; this should benefit interdisciplinary courses.