Activity 2 – what am I?

Level:

Grade 2 and above.

Justification:

How can work?

Children sit in circle.

Each learner have piece of paper and pencil.

Each student write any word related to the subject

(mother, father) – without showing their friends

(should be secret).

Post the paper on her friend forehead who set next

her.

Work in pairs – one of these two learners should ask

other student closed questions (yes – no), ex. Am I

women?, am I old?

Each student have chance to ask any three questions

only.

I found this activity online.

I choose this activity because I want to help the learners to

interact with each other they acquire a lot of experience.

According to Vygotsky interaction theories which says

important for children to interact with each other while they

are learning to learn more from each other (Berk, 2009).

Objectives:

Wants the learners to improve their levels of pronunciation

the words.

Gives the student chance to listen carefully to other learners

what did they says to give right answers – and increase their

listening and speaking skills.

Try to improve the learners ability to ask questions.

Instructions:

Ask the learners to sit in circle - and be quite.

Ask the learners to write any one word on the piece of paper

– and closed then give it to her friend next her.

Ask the student to work in pairs – one of these student

should answer other student questions by says yes or no

only.

Ask the student after they found the answer play again with

other learner.

Resources:

Sticker papers and pencils.

Related (new parade or English for Emirati theme):

I think it is suitable for lesson: My family, grammar.

Interaction pattern:

In pairs.

FatherMother

Activity 1 – play telephone

Level:

Grade 1 and above.

Justification:

How can work?

The student sits on circle.

Choose one of the learners to be a speaker through the

phone.

Give the speaker a sentence.

Give first student other phone, let her to listen

carefully what the speaker said.

First student whisper what she heard from the speaker

through the phone to second student.

Second learner whisper what she heard from first

student.. etc, until arrived to last student.

Last student say the sentence in loud voice.

I found this activity online.

I choose this activity because I want to help the student to

improve their self esteem levels and to be more confidence

when they speak front of all and other learners listen

carefully to her and her voice are clearly. As Kyriacou

mentioned the teachers are most important for the fostering

pupils to build their self-esteem ( Kyriacou, 2007).

Objectives:

Gives the learners chance to interact with each other and

develop their listening skills.

Instructions:

Ask the learners to sit in circle – and be quite to listen clearly

what their friend whisper to them.

Ask last learner to say in loudly voice what the speaker said.

Resources:

2 Mobile phone and one of the learners to be a speaker

through the phone.

Related (new parade or English for Emirati theme):

Shapes, colors.

Interaction pattern:

Whole learners.

I have red circle

Activity 3 – tell your story

Level:

Grade 4 and above.

Justification:

How can work?

The student sits on circle.

Give the learners the title of the story – related to the

subject.

Ask first learner to begin the story with one sentence.

Second learner should repeat first student sentence

and add one more sentence…. Etc.

Until arrive to last student and should say whole story.

I found this activity online.

I choose this activity because I want the learners to improve

their listening and English skills by the repeating (Tiedt, Tiedt,

& Tiedt, 2001).

Objectives:

Try to help the student to develop their listening skills in

easy way.

Try to develop their communicate skills.

Instructions:

Tell first learner the topic of the story.

Ask first learners to start the story with one sentence.

Ask second learners to repeat first student sentence and add

one sentence… etc.

Resources:

No need.

Related (new parade or English for Emirati theme):

My home, my family.

Interaction pattern:

Whole learners.

My family

Activity 4 – techniques for practicing oral patterns

Level:

Grade 1 and above.

Justification:

How can work?

The learners sit in their seats.

Teacher tells the student to repeat the sentences after

she finished.

The teacher call one sentence, then the student repeat

it. Ex. Teacher: this is my cat. – Student: this is my cat.

I found this activity from book.

I choose this activity because I want to cover two or three

learning style of the learners and I want from them to learn

and understand the lesson, as you know you will found

different learning style learners and each child has different

learning style (Kyriacou, 2007).

Objectives:

Try to help the student to develop their listening and

speaking levels.

Try to help them to develop their English language.

Instructions:

Ask the learners to set quite to listen clearly to teacher

voice.

Ask them to repeat the sentence after the teacher call it.

Ask the learners to repeat the sentence for many time

together without teacher say it.

Resources:

No need.

Related (new parade or English for Emirati theme):

My family.

Interaction pattern:

Whole learners.

This is my cat

She is my sister

Activity 5 – auditory discrimination

Level:

Grade 3 and above.

Justification:

How can work?

The teacher explains the activity for the learners. (the

teacher read to the student a list of words and one of

the words are not fit), ex. Loaf cough bat. The

learners should found the word that doesn’t belong.

The teacher gives the student worksheets.

Ask the student to be quite to listen clearly.

Start the activity.

Chick their works.

I found this activity from book.

I choose this activity because I want from the learners to

know how to pronounce the sounds of the letters correctly

from the teacher then will try with them self (Harmer, 2001).

Objectives:

Try to improve learners listening skills.

Instructions:

Ask the learners to be quite.

Give the learners the structure of the activity.

Ask the learners if they understand or not.

Give the student the worksheets.

Do together one example.

Start the activity.

Chick the learners works.

Resources:

Worksheets.

Related (new parade or English for Emirati theme):

Sound of the words.

Interaction pattern:

Individual.

Whole learners.

Name: ………………………….., class: …………………

Worksheet Found one word in each exercise is not fit:

Ex. loaf cough bat

Exercise 1:

Pound long found

Exercise 2:

Seat sweet time

Exercise 3:

Sad man fan