The Chinese New Year story.

The Chinese New Year story.

Activity 1 Work in pairs. Check your homework. 5 min,Objectives: to consolidate the learnt material; to give practice in reading.

Ask the pupils to check each other’s homework. Monitor work in pairs. Help with checking answers. Draw the pupils’ attention to the full and short answers.

Do you like fairy tales? Yes, I do. What’s your favourite fairy tale? My favourite fairy tale is ‘Susambil’.

Activity 2a Look and name the animals. 5 min

Objective: to revise animals’ vocabulary to give practice in speaking.

Play the DVD and ask the pupils to look at the animals. Tell the pupils to call the animals they know. Play the DVD once more to check the list of the animals.

The possible answers: tiger, monkey, rabbit, snake, horse, goat, rooster, dog, dragon. They can call a pig, cow, and a mouse. Elicit all the words and write them on the board.

Ask the pupils: ‘Why these 12 animals are together?’ Elicit all the ideas. Help, if it’s difficult for them to guess. Explain that they gave names to every New Year.

Activity 2b Listen and repeat. 5 min

Objective: to introduce the new words: Emperor, rat, ox, and boar to revise the animal’s vocabulary.

Ask the pupils to listen to the DVD and repeat the words. Play the DVD twice. Explain the meaning of ‘Emperor’. Now, return to the list of the animals and ask the pupils to call it with the new animals.

Note: It’s better to follow this order- Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and boar.

Activity 2c Watch and write numbers. 10 min

Objectives: to introduce the new cartoon ‘The great race’; to revise numbers.

STEP 1: Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to watch the cartoon.

STEP 2: Ask the pupils:

1. What’s the name of the cartoon? (At the beginning of the cartoon it will be written)

2. Who are the heroes of the cartoon?

The answer: Emperor, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and boar.

STEP 3: Now ask the pupils to open their Workbooks at Page 76. Say: ‘Take your pens, look at Activity 2c, and prepare to listen and write the numbers for each animal’.

STEP 4: Check that everybody understands what to do and ready to listen. Play the DVD again.

STEP 5: Ask the pupils to swap their Workbooks in pairs and check each other’s answers.

STEP 6: Then you can match the animals and numbers together.

The DVD script:

Chinese New Year story

One day the Chinese Emperor wanted to give a name to each year.

Twelve animals came. There was a big river.

The rat asked the ox, “I cannot swim. Can you help me?”

The ox said, “Yes, I can. Sit on me.”

They swam. The rat saw the land and jumped on it.

The Emperor said, “Well, the rat is the first. The year of the rat is number 1. The ox is the second. The year of the ox is number 2.”

Then he saw the tiger and the rabbit. “Look! Here are the tiger and the rabbit. The year of the tiger is number 3. The year of the rabbit is number 4.”

They saw the dragon. The Emperor said, “The year of the dragon is number 5.”

After that the snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and boar came to the Emperor.

Activity 3 Read and put in order. 5 min

Objective: to improve the pupils’ reading skills.

Ask the pupils to open their textbooks at Page 70 and look at Activity 3. Tell them to read the sentences and put them in order. Help with the first sentence as an example. Ask to open their Workbooks at Page 76 and write the answers in Activity 3. Ask the pupils in turns to read the sentences in the correct order.

Answer key: 1d, 2c, 3i, 4b, 5a, 6f, 7h, 8e, 9g

Activity 4 Play “The great race” 10 min

Objective: to improve the pupils’ writing skills; to have fun.

Tell the pupils that they will make a Chinese Zodiac now.

Divide the class into 2 teams. Make 2 lines. Say that they must run one by one to the board. Ask them to write one word only. When everybody is ready, say, ‘1, 2, 3, run and write!’ the pupils start their ‘great race’. It’s acceptable if the team members help each other.

Check the words together. The winner is the team with the correct order of the animals.

Note: It’s not necessary to assess their spelling, just the order of the animals.

Homework 5 min

Explain what to do in activity 1. Say they must remember the Chinese New Year story and complete the sentences. Then explain what to do in activity 2. Demonstrate the example. They must put the words in order to make a sentence.