Section I – Lesson 6

LESSON 6

BABIES &
CHILDREN
Suggested lesson plan
Time Activities Teachers’ notes

10 minutes Icebreaker Check students’ homework and correct all of it.

Present on the board, elicit as much as possible:

30 minutes Vocabulary • Babies & Children
Practice in-class exercises.

10 minutes Games Intellectual & team-building games

10 minutes Break Teachers remain in the classroom during break time

Present on the board, elicit as much as possible:
• Vowels: /ɒ/ & /əʊ/
Speaking and
30 minutes • Talk about your childhood memories
Pronunciation
Group practice – teacher monitors group work and notes
down common mistakes for class review.
20 minutes Reading Read about Blaise Pascal - A mathematical prodigy
Ask concept checking questions and summarize the
10 minutes Review
important points learnt in the lesson.

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Read and match the numbers with the pictures

1. School-age 2. Preschool 3. Infancy

4. Neonatal 5. Prenatal 6. Toddler

Complete the crosswords

Across
3. the period of a person’s life when they become capable of having
children
6. the time when a person develops from a child into an adult
7. relating to the medical care given to pregnant women
Down
1. relating to children who are between about three and five years old
and have not yet gone to school
2. a baby that crawls and have not yet learned to walk
4. a child who has only recently learnt to walk
5. relating to a child that has just been born

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Look and write what he can and cannot do

1 month: cry – smile

________________________________________________________
3 months: drink milk – eat ice cream
________________________________________________________
4 months: swim – float
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5 months: crawl – walk
________________________________________________________
12 months: walk – run
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B. Speaking and Pronunciation:

Listen and tick the words you hear
Cost Road
Kite Wrote
Known Grow
Kneed Soap
Odd Stock
Ode Toast
Wide Woke
Listen again and put the words in the correct column
/ɒ/ /əʊ/

Talk about your childhood memories

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C. Reading: Blaise Pascal - A mathematical prodigy

As a child, Blaise Pascal wasn’t taught math at all. He was educated privately
by his father, Étienne, a mathematician and tax collector, who had decided
that it was best for children to master Greek and Latin first and move on to
math and science later. However, Blaise ended up excelling in mathematics
without any instruction at all. Realizing that his son had a talent, Étienne
began introducing mathematical concepts. At age 15 Blaise published his first
original mathematical work, Essai pour les coniques. It was so impressive that
people thought it was Étienne who wrote the paper. Two years later Blaise
invented a mechanical calculator. It was the first calculating machine to be
manufactured in large numbers and the first to be used for business. In the
1640s and ’50s, Pascal established himself as one of Europe’s greatest
mathematical and scientific minds, while also writing on religious and
philosophical subjects.

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Are these statements True, False or Not given?

1. Blaise Pascal excelled in Greek and Latin.

2. Blaise Pascal excelled in mathematics without any instruction

from his father.

3. People thought Blaise was the author of Essai pour les

coniques.

4. Blaise invented the first calculator in the world.

5. Blaise also wrote on religious and philosophical subjects other

than mathematical and scientific subjects.

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D. Review & Homework

Babies & Children and Blaise Pascal
1. Finish the timeline

1. _____________ 2. _____________ 3. _____________

4. _____________ 5. _____________ 6. _____________
2. Look and match
a. a baby that crawls and have not yet
learned to walk
b. relating to a child that has just been born
1. Neonatal
c. the time when a person develops from a
2. Toddler
child into an adult
3. Preschool
d. a child who has only recently learnt to
4. Crawler
walk
5. Adolescence
e. relating to children who are between
about three and five years old and have not
yet gone to school
3. Answer the questions
a. Who was Blaise Pascal?
_________________________________________________________
b. What did he invent?
_________________________________________________________
c. Was his calculator manufactured in large numbers?
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