Archive for: 2nd grade videos

• Topic: Food & Drinks Lesson Dialogue
• Communication Objectives: The goal of this lesson is to teach English learners how to order food in a restaurant and to express want.
• Language Objectives: To learn to use the expressions ‘I want’ and ‘I would like’ to make a request. The lesson will focus on food and drinks vocabulary. The lesson will also teach students to use the modal verb ‘would’ to make a polite request.

• Dialogue Story:  Freddie and Lisa are out playing at a park. Lisa feels hungry and they decide to grab a bite. A conversation about food begins in the fast food restaurant.
• Sentence Structures:
  • I’m starving.
  • Let’s get something to eat.
  • What would you like to eat?
  • I’d like an ice cream and a burger.
  • I’d like a glass of coke, please.

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• Topic: Clothes & Weather Dialogue
• Communication Objectives: This English lesson will teacher learners expressions used when giving advice about clothes and the weather.
• Language Objectives:  To learn to give weather and dressing advice using the modal verb 'should'. The lesson will also focus on common phrasal verbs and verbs used when describing clothes.

• Dialogue Story:  Freddie and Lisa are about to head out to the park when Mom notices they are not wearing the right clothes for the weather. She asks them to change their clothes and dress correctly for the weather.
• Sentence Structures:
  • It's hot and sunny outside.
  • Put on your T-shirt.
  • Take off your sweater.
  • I'm wearing my yellow T-shirt.
  • You should put on your sunglasses.

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• Topic: Art Class, School Supplies
• Communication Objectives: This lesson teaches learners how to make basic requests and how to make polite requests in English.
• Language Objectives: For low levels, this lesson will teach kids how to use the imperative form to make simple requests and also how to use modal verbs to make requests more polite. Kids will also learn to associate school supplies with action verbs they are often used with. For higher levels, teachers may also focus on 'going to do' to talk about future events which are certain.

• Dialogue Story:  Freddie, Sally and Bob are in an Art lesson with Miss Sue. Freddie has forgotten his pencil box and needs to borrow these school materials to draw, color and stick his shark on the board.
• Sentence Structures:
  • What picture are we going to draw?
  • We are going to draw a big shark.
  • I forgot my pencil box.
  • I have an extra pencil.
  • Pass me the crayons please.
  • Cut out your sharks and stick them on the board.
  • Draw your shark's head again, Bob.
  • Can I use your crayons, please?

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• Topic: Shapes & Adjectives
• Communication Objectives: In this lesson, children will learn the names of shapes and how to describe them.
• Language Objectives: Learn to use basic adjectives to describe things and also learn to use adverbs of sequence to talk about a process - first, next, then, finally.



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• Dialogue Story:  Lisa and Freddie are in their room looking at a book about shapes. Lisa asks Freddie to teach her the names of shapes. She wonders what we can do with shapes. Freddie shows her how to draw a clown using shapes of different sizes and color.
• Sentence Structures:
  • It's a circle. A circle is round.
  • It's an oval.
  • A square has four equal sides.
  • We draw things with shapes.
• Grammar:  Though not the main focus for low levels, this lesson also introduces adverbs of sequence which is using for describing a process.
  • First draw a big circle.
  • Next draw an oval for his mouth.
  • Finally, draw a big rectangle.

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• Vocabulary:  square, rectangle, oval, triangle, circle

• Topic: Action verbs with can and can't, Words, Sentences
• Vocabulary:  action verbs, swim, jump, read, write, fly, walk
• Grammar:  This lesson will focus on using the present simple tense with modal verbs 'can' and 'can't ' to express abilities.  The lesson will also focus on using these verbs with pronouns - I, they.

• Dolphins can swim.
• Dolphins can't fly.

Contractions:

• Dolphins can't fly. / Dolphins cannot fly.

Pronoun 'they' for a

• I can't fly.
• They can't fly.

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