30 minutes English lesson
3-5 years’ old
6th class together
1st open lesson
Only English during class time
What do we need?
- Box to keep
- Parachute
- Name sticks
- Five flashcards
- Five cups
- One “snowball”
- Two fly swatters
- Four hoops
- Gifts
1st STEP: Parachute
Make a circle. Also practice opposites: big & small
Count from 1 to 10 and catch the parachute
Move parachute up & down (opposites)
Shake it slow and fast (opposites)
Count to 10 and make it fly up high
2nd STEP: Self Introduction
3rd STEP: Who is Under?
Ask them: What can you do?
Reply should be: I can jump (run, walk, swim, fly etc.)
Make this movement around a circle
Let them pretend to sleep in the end
Cover one of them by parachute
Get up and Ask others: “Who is under?”
Reply should be: Marry (Nicole, Julia, Sonia, Miron, Vita) is under.
Try next action (run, walk, swim, fly etc.)
4th STEP: Vocabulary
Introduce: Santa, snowman, snowball, snowy, snowflake
Use flashcards & body language (pretend to catch Snowflake)
5th STEP: Practice in Games
What’s missing?
1.Put flashcards on a floor and review them
2. Cover them by parachute
3. Open it, but take one card with a parachute. Ask kids: What’s missing?
4. Put it back after correct answer. Play few times, don’t forget to review in the beginning.
Where is snowball?
1.Put five cards & cups on a floor with “snowball” (sheet of paper)
2. Place snowball inside of random cup and shuffle them all
3. Stop mixing and ask kids: where is snowball?
4.Ask kids to lift cup up if they pronounced theme related word.
Hit cards by fly swatter
6th STEP: Sticky Fingers
Sit on a chair
Ask kids hold your fingers and remind them rules
Sound out related words
They have to repeat after
If it’s not, kids have to runaway
7th STEP: Relay Race
Take 4 hoops
Review vocabulary, give them hoops as a reward.
Relay Race
In the middle of race kids have to recognize theme related word, hit card and come back.
8th STEP: Review and Gift giving
Kids have to sound out theme related word to get gift as reward.
Young English learners (3-5) are really easy to get bored, they are not going to repeat after you whenever you want.
That’s why always have to stimulate them.
Because of their age, most of steps length is around 3 minutes.
You can use different topics, just change vocabulary.