All Reading articles – Page 27
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Warmer/FillerCLIL: 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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ArticleGreek 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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Warmer/FillerFantasy 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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ArticlePrehistory
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about how prehistoric people lived and what they ate.
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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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ArticleFamous 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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ArticleThe 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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ArticlePeople and their environment: Rivers
A lesson plan with matching and true/false exercises to teach about the course of a river and review the present simple tense.
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Human habitats
By meeting children from Mongolia, Greenland, Shanghai and Chile, pupils learn how the houses we live in reveal key information about our environment in this lesson plan. Key vocabulary includes: igloo, ger, skyscraper and farmhouse.
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Time zones around the world
This lesson plan has a challenging activity in which pupils label pictures of the Earth according to which parts are in sunlight at midday. They then examine a map and answer questions about different time zones in different parts of the USA. Includes step-by-step teacher guidance and project ideas.
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The UK and capital cities in Europe
Through engaging map-labelling activities pupils name the major capital cities of the European Union and the countries and cities that make up the United Kingdom.
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Experiments: Keeping an ice cube alive
In this experiment, pupils try to prevent an ice cube from melting by insulating it. Students predict the outcome of the experiments and then record their results in a table. Gap-fill activities help students revise related vocabulary and question words. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.