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April Fools Day
April Fools Day
April Fools Day
Teacher Instructions
1. Familiarise the learners with the vocabulary:
- Show each flashcard.
- Say the words.
- The learners repeat the words.
- Practise this until they are familiar.
2. Learners can also translate the sentences into their language on the lines below if they want.
3. Show the sentence flashcards to your learners and discuss the following questions:
-What can you see in the pictures?
-What is this news story about?
-Is this a real story? Why or why not?
4. Get your learners to practise talking about the news stories using the following sentence pattern: ‘This news
story is about...’. You can use the below sentence visual to help your learners with this language structure.
5. Expected language output: ‘This news story is about a tree made of spaghetti that has grown in the King’s
garden’, ‘This news story is about a tree made of spaghetti growing in the king’s garden’.
Extension: Discuss the meaning of the word ‘fictional’ and add it to the sentence pattern: ‘This fictional news story
is about…’. You can use the below sentence visual to help your learners with this language structure.
Breaking News!
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Reading
Word ordering
a found gold of A
bear A
Instructions
1. Make sure the learners are familiar with the vocabulary.
2. Print the words for each news story and arrange them into four piles.
3. Divide your class into four groups and hand out one pile of words to each group.
4. Ask them to work together in their group to put the flashcards in the right order to recreate their sentence.
Extension: Mix up the words from all four sentences to make it more difficult.
Moving into writing
Cloze procedure
This ................................................................ is about ............................................................
in Trafalgar ..........................................................................
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