008-LESSON1


 * __THE FIVE SENSES __**

__CONTENT OBJECTIVES __:

Understanding that our senses tell us about the world around us. Identifying the senses and sense organs. Recognising the importance of all the senses for perceiving the external environment.

__LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES __:


 * Responding ** physically to instructions: //Touch the teddy //
 * Using ** present simple tense of a variety of verbs: //I see… I hear… //

__VOCABULARY __: feel, hear, see, senses, skin smell taste, touch.

__CONTENT AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT__:

- Student close their eyes. Blow a whistle. Ask them: Did you see anything? Did you hear anything? Display three objects. Ask students to identify what they heard. Establish that we hear with our ears. - Cut out pictures featuring the senses and glue them onto card. Create a sentence for each picture and cut the sentence up into individual words. Create a pocket on the back of the card to store the words. Students have to make a sentence with the words to match the picture.

__SPECIAL ATTENTION__:

Associating senses and sense organs.

__HANDS ON __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:

What’s happening:

- Tell students to close their eyes. Do the following activities. They must guess what you are doing by listening to the noise you make. (walking, writing on the blackboard, turning pages of a book, opening and closing a window…) - While you are making this noises ask: What can you hear? What am I doing?

__ACTIVITIES__:

- Get students focus on their senses: - **Hear:** They move to music and when it stops, they stop. Ask: What body part do you hear with? (ears). - **See:** Describe what they can see from the window. Ask: What body part do you see with? (eyes). - **Smell:** Peel an orange and let students smell it. Ask: What body part do you use to smell with? (nose). - **Taste:** Prepare oranges for Students to taste. Ask: What body part do you taste with? (the tongue). - **Feel:** Students touch a jumper, miming as you ask: Is it soft or is it hard? Establish that we feel with our skin. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- All students say: these are our senses. How many are there? (five) - Check understanding by looking at the table. They draw and write the name ad the body part they use for this. - Students make a poster with all information and we put on the wall. This is their final display.