Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 5 minutes
Warm-up: Chain game with favourite activities
Aims
Ss recall the vocabulary of school activities and the structure 'likes + V-ing' from previous lessons.
Content
T uses flashcards of the activities (reading books, solving problems, doing projects, playing games, drawing pictures). Ss play a chain game: each S says 'I like + V-ing' with one activity, then passes the turn to the next S.
Expected outcomes
Ss say at least five sentences with 'I like + V-ing' and recall the meaning of the activity words.
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T shows the flashcards one by one and asks: 'What do you do at school?' T models: 'I like reading books.' T explains the rules of the chain game.
Pupils
Ss look at the pictures and listen to the model. Ss repeat the words in chorus.
Teacher
T asks the first S to start the chain. T monitors and helps Ss who forget words by giving hints.
Pupils
Ss take turns: 'I like playing games.' - 'I like drawing pictures.' Possible answers: 'I like solving problems.' / 'I like doing projects.'
Teacher
T asks a few Ss to tell the class one activity their partner likes.
Pupils
Ss answer: 'Nam likes solving problems.' (or any other correct answer)
Teacher
T praises the group with the most correct sentences and introduces the lesson topic: Our favourite school activities.
Pupils
Ss write the title of the lesson in their notebooks.