All Lesson Plan / Teacher's Notes articles – Page 59
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Predicting the contents of a book
In this lesson plan, pupils speculate about what kind of books four characters might like before choosing a book for them based on four book covers. They then complete a text with blurb for the back cover of a book.
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CLIL: Literature - Poetry appreciation
Nurture a passion for poetry and enhance the speaking abilities of your young learners with this lesson plan and worksheet.
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Literary appreciation
This is a lesson plan to help young learners acquire the basic skills they need to appreciate books: pupils classify books as fiction or non-fiction and identify the general contents of a book from its cover. Pupils put the lesson into practice through suggested follow-up activities for the classroom and ...
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J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter
In this lesson plan, pupils discuss their favourite books and learn about this author and her hugely popular series.
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Greek mythology
Which mythological Greek creature had the body of a horse and the head and torso of a man? Which had snakes for hair? Introduce young learners to the fascinating world of Greek mythology in this lesson plan. Pupils match descriptions to the correct character, and use their imagination to draw ...
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Finding out information from a book cover
You can judge a book by its cover! In this lesson plan, pupils compare storybook dragons using front and back book covers. Consolidates superlatives and adjectives such as ’clever’, ’beautiful’ and ’funny’. Teacher’s notes suggest additional classroom activities to engage pupils and encourage reading.
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Fantasy characters
Describing story characters is an important stage in the development of creative writing. In this worksheet, pupils match pictures and text descriptions to fairytale creature before writing their own description of a fantasy character.
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Pirates II
This lesson plan has a fun code-breaking exercise and other classroom activities to teach pupils about famous pirates in history.
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Famous explorers
In this lesson plan, students find out about the lives and amazing achievements of Captain James Cook (world famous explorer), Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space) and Roald Amundsen (first explorer to reach the South Pole).
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Weather symbols
This worksheet will reinforce pupils’ familiarity with common weather symbols and strengthen their ability to discuss the weather. Among the activities: pupils match weather symbols to the appropriate adjective and describe the weather in their own town. The teacher’s notes include suggestions for classroom activities to further enhance pupils’ understanding ...
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Weather and clothes
This lesson plan emphasises the influence of weather on the clothes we wear, while reinforcing clothing vocabulary. Activities include a fun drawing exercise to engage pupils’ creativity.
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The four seasons
In this lesson plan, pupils assemble a cut-out to revise the seasons and weather vocabulary.
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The water cycle
This lesson plan uses pictures and activities to teach the stages of the water cycle and related vocabulary words.
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Personal hygiene
This lesson plan helps pupils to learn about the role of water in personal hygiene and practise ‘Do you…?’ questions.
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Recognising symbols and abbreviations used in IT
This worksheet includes three matching and labelling activities to teach useful verbs and nouns often used when talking about computers e.g. ’cut’, ’copy’, ’paste’, ’screen’, ’printer’, ’keyboard’, etc. as well as the symbols that represent them.
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The Weather And The Four Seasons
A lesson plan for pupils to use the present continuous to describe the weather and practise vocabulary for the months, the seasons and clothes.
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Spain: Vegetation
A lesson plan with reading and writing activities on the many types of trees that grow in Spain and their impact on the environment and economy.