Week:  1

Period:  1                                                                                                         Teaching day: 

STARTER UNIT: WELCOME BACK

Lesson One

Objectives

• To recall the main characters of Family and Friends
• To understand a short story

Language

• Language focus: speaking, listening, reading
• Vocabulary: review
• Extra vocabulary: Welcome back, learning, end (v)
• Structure: review

Resources and materials

• Student Book p. 4
• Workbook p. 4
• Audio Tracks 1–2
• Starter story poster
• Worksheet 1: Classroom objects

Introduction                                                                                                                                                         

Weather report: Ask the class about today's weather.

Song: Play a warm-up song.

Warmer

• As children come into the class, smile and say Hello.
• Encourage children to say Hello back to you. Say It’s a new school year. Welcome back!
• Begin the class with some common greetings. Ask and answer the questions How are you? and What’s your name?

with individual students. Children then ask and answer the questions in groups of three to four students.

Course book introduction

• Ask students to look at their new books and tell you what there is. (Student Book and Workbook). Ask some questions to familiarize the students with the material. Who is in the picture on the cover? How many people are there? Who are they? Can you remember their names?
• Do a course book race. Ask students to find certain things in their books and hold them up for you to see. For example: a bus, some school children, an elephant. This will raise interest in the material and familiarize them with the books.

Lead-in

• Ask children to open their Student Books to p. 4 and look at the three children at the top of the page. Point to each one for children to tell you their names. (If it is the first time the class has seen these characters, point to them and say their names – Rosy, Billy and Tim. Children repeat their names after you.) Explain that they will see these characters all the way through the course book.
• Tell studentsthat they are going to begin the lesson with a song. If the children have studied Family and Friends

before, talk about the songs with the class. Ask Can you remember any songs from Family and Friends?

• Encourage students to tell you (or sing) any lines they can remember from the songs. If they remember one of the songs well, sing it with the class. If they want to sing, but they can’t remember any of the songs, write the words to Hello, Hello! on the board and sing (or chant) it with the class.

Presentation                                                                                                                                                         

Listen and sing. (Exercise 1)