Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 4 minutes
Mystery Picture
Aims
Activate prior knowledge about places to live and prepare Ss for the lesson topic My home.
Content
T shows a picture of a house and a picture of a village. T asks: 'Where do you live?' and models 'I live in a house.' Ss review the question and the answer pattern from Grade 3.
Expected outcomes
Ss answer the question 'Where do you live?' with a full sentence, using the pattern 'I live in a ...'.
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T shows the mystery picture covered with a card and says: 'Guess where I live!' T slowly uncovers the picture and asks: 'Where do you live?'
Pupils
Ss look at the picture and listen carefully.
Teacher
T models the answer: 'I live in a house.' T asks several Ss: 'Where do you live?'
Pupils
Ss answer in full sentences, for example: 'I live in a house.' or 'I live in a town.'
Teacher
T writes the question 'Where do you live?' and the answer 'I live in a ...' on the board and asks Ss to repeat them chorally.
Pupils
Ss repeat the question and the answer chorally, then individually.
Teacher
T introduces the topic: 'Today we will learn new places to live: street, road, village and apartment.'
Pupils
Ss copy the title My home into their notebooks.