Lesson 3: Who’s that giant?
New Words: Hips, legs, knees, ankles, feet, toes
Preparation: Colour crayons, BIG sheets of cardboard – for drawing BIG students (one per group of four). Song – Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
Time: About an hour, depending on class size.
Warmer: Song – Heads, shoulders, knees and toes. 5 minutes.
Review:
Run and draw – following the same rules as in lesson 1, this time adding the words from lesson 2, as well. 5-7 minutes
Introduce and drill the new words using your own body parts. You could even draw a person on the board and elicit the words that way. Be sure to use adjectives like big, small, long, short and colours. 15 minutes.
Follow-up with another game of
teacher says - they never get bored of this one! Get students to be teachers, and make sure they are all saying the words. 10 minutes.
Giant!
Divide the students into groups of four or so. Explain that the each have contributed their own features to the giant-to-be-drawn. Give each group a sheet of cardboard. Depending on the ability of the students, you may want to draw an outline for them. Get the students to add colour and detail. 20 – 25 minutes.
