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Theme 3

  1. Clothing
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Name articles of clothing in target language
      2. Describe clothing using a variety of adjectives such as colors, opposites (long, short, clean, etc.) at the sentence level with teacher’s assistance.
    • Suggested Activities
      1. Teacher will name the word(s) in target language for each of the clothing terms. The students will recite after the teacher using good pronunciation.
      2. Crafts activity: (Materials: scissors, colored paper and glue stick). Teacher will give students paper people (paper dolls) and have the students make paper clothing for them. Students will come to the front of the class and do show and tell with their people using the new vocabulary.
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  2. Community Helpers and Places
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Name locations within their community.
      2. Name occupations that may be encountered within their community.
      3. Create sentences using the target vocabulary.
    • Suggested Activities
      1. Teacher will provide the names for places within the community in target language, and look at pictures on computer. Students will recite the names after the teacher. Teacher should have the students practice writing the words in target language next to their meaning in English.
      2. Teacher can provide the names/titles of jobs that people do. Students can recite the names after teacher’s models. They can learn to write these words in target language with teacher’s assistance.
      3. Students can talk about what their parents do at work by using complete sentences.
        4. e.g. My dad is a teacher at Vidyalaya school.
      4. My Mom is an engineer.
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  3. School Life and Daily Routine III
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Review verbs related to school life and daily routines
      2. Understand questions related to school
      3. Express sentences describing school life and daily routines using the pronoun “I”.
      4. Name common school subjects in target language.
      5. Understand and use subject-verb forms, negatives, familiar/polite forms of “you” and “we”.
    • Suggested Activities
      1. Charades game: Students will find a partner and will take turns acting out the verbs and guessing the action in target language.
      2. Teacher will ask the questions in target language and explain its meaning. Students will repeat after the teacher.
      3. Teacher will then present the responses in sentence form and students will recite the sentence forms after the teacher’s models.
      4. Students will find three classmates and ask them the learned questions. They will write the answers down and share the information with the teacher after.
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  4. Shopping
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Review food and drinks vocabulary from the previous years
      2. Use vocabulary related to shopping
      3. Use and understand questions and sentences to communicate shopping needs
    • Suggested Activities
      1. The week before have the students make 2 brown paper bag puppets of people (e.g. boy, girl, man, woman), and have them bring them in to class.
      2. Review: Teacher should bring in empty containers/plastic bags of food products (such as milk, orange juice, egg carton, bread, soda, cereal, etc.), and either real or fake fruit and vegetables.
      3. During class: The teacher will review food and drink vocabulary, by asking “What goes inside this?” and students will answer using nouns in target language.
      4. Role play shopping scenarios: The students will write a short shopping scenario in English on a piece of paper underlining all food and drink words. Teacher will demonstrate this.
        5. e.g. Customer: Hi, my name is Raj. I want to buy some soda and milk. Where can I find them?
      5. Helper: Soda is in aisle 5. Milk is in aisle 8. Or I don’t know where soda is kept. Let me find out for you.
      6. Students will use their paper bag puppets to play out the scenarios by themselves or with a group in the classroom. Teacher will guide them with grammar use and sentence production.
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  5. Birds and Insects
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Identify names of birds
      2. Identify names of insects
    • Suggested Activities
      1. Teacher will introduce the words with pictures.
      2. Students will play the Memory game using pairs of the same picture. The students will play in groups of 2 to 4 and take turns matching picture cards and naming the card as it is turned over.
      3. Play bingo-using picture bingo cards of birds and/or insects
      4. Students will compare birds and insects using vocabulary learned
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  6. Numbers 1-30
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Recite numbers 0 to 30
      2. Identify numbers from 21 to 30
      3. Express math function using complete sentence
      4. Use basic commands
      5. Name objects in the house
      6. Name fruits and vegetables
    • Suggested Activities
      1. Learn simple numbers and vocabulary of addition in the target language.
      2. Solve simple addition problems from zero to thirty in target language orally.
      3. Bingo with teacher as a lead: Teacher calls out numbers 21-30 and student pairs find them on their shared board. *need 10 boards
      4. Assign each student a number (multiple students can be assigned the same number). Students take turn calling out commands: Stand up if your number is ____.
      5. Teacher will show pictures of common household objects, fruits and vegetables. Students will name them and count how many items there are using target language.
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  7. Money
    • Proficiency / Objective
      1. Recite and name currency terms in target language
      2. Ask questions related to making a purchase
      3. Comment on the price in a sentence format using new adjectives
    • Suggested Activities
      1. Teacher will explain shopping scenarios in India. The class will discuss how shopping differs in India versus US.
      2. Students will role play a shopping experience in India.
      3. In preparation for this activity, the class should be divided into store owners and customers during the previous class. The store owners should bring in items that they want to sell. The customers should make fake rupees and coins and bring them in to class. The store owners will set up a store, and will sell particular goods they brought (clothes, groceries, flowers, etc.) The customers will go shopping using printed Indian currency.
      4. Half way through the class, the store owners and customers should exchange roles. The teacher should walk around the class supervising the conversations and providing correct models for sentences and questions.
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