Lesson 4: What can we do at the beach?
Vocab Taught: beach ball, swim, surfing, water-skiing, ice-cream, frisbee
Phonics taught: s-w-i-m
Preparation: Flashcards, “Ice-cream song” if desired, clothes (as many as you can).
Age/level: beginner about 5/6/7 years.
Time: About an hour, depending on class size.
Activity: Last student standing.
Other helpful language: Other types of clothes. For example, clothes for winter.
Possible sentence structures for this lesson:
1. What do you want to do? I want to eat an ice-cream.
2. What are they doing? They’re surfing.
3. What did you do at the beach? I went waterskiing.
4. What are you doing? I’m swimming.
You can also substitute “we” for he/she/they/I/you.
Warmer: Ice-cream song. 5 minutes.
Review: Put on/ take off your thongs. 5-7 minutes
Introduce and drill the new vocabulary. Use TPR to teach the actions. 10 minutes.
Follow-up with a game of
charades. 5-7 minutes
Today’s activity: Last student standing – You should make a pose for each action. When you say “let’s surf”, the students should all get into the surfing pose. They must sit down if they strike the wrong pose. The last student standing is the winner. 10 minutes.
Phonics: s-w-i-m
Drill phonic values. 5 minutes.
Run and slap with phonic values. 5-7 minutes.
Fun activity: Target throwing. Draw each action on the white board. Mime out the action and the students have to throw a ball at the action and say it as they throw the ball. 5-7 minutes.
